Neighbor from hell

What would you do??? My neighbor - triggers me. So, I completely stopped talking to her. I say hello and bye when I see her- to be polite ... that's it. I don't want her child playing with my child. So I avoid them as best as I can. She feels bothered about this so she says offensive things sometimes - Indirectly throwing shade. It's never direct. Here is why- when I first meet her We spoke... 1. She trauma dumps: confessing she is a 'recovering' drug addict. ** I still think drugs are holding on to her. She just recovered custody of her daughter... She just came from jail. 2. She talks to her 5 y/o in a extreme way. Always cursing and threatening to 'whip her ass' all the time. She is always screaming at her baby. (I hate that). Not to mention when she was in jail- she had no clue - where her daughter actually was or who was watching her. Recently. We got into an argument - She asked me--- why I abruptly stopped talking to her. I said - we have nothing in common. She says people who act like me are 'uppity' Instead of her going back to her own life and leaving me alone. She now wants to beef with me , like I'm her enemy. What???? Is this about.

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People who haven’t healed will always blame other people for any problems. Ignore, keep prioritizing your family.

To be honest, an addict will always be an addict recovering or not. I have my experiences with addicts as I have a couple family members who are. They always look for someone to blame for their problems either the ones that are already existing or the ones that they create. If you don't fall in line with their views of the world you're the "weird" one which explains the uppity comment. You and her have absolutely nothing in common continue to do you and let her make her little snide remarks, trust me when I say with people like her you have to take everything with a grain of salt. I'm not saying all addicts are like her because that's false but addicts like her create the stereotype addicts have. Ugh! I hate trauma dumping! I don't know you from a hole in the wall I don't want to hear your life's story! 😒 Also I'd stop all communication even the hello and leave it at goodbye! To be honest when it comes to her daughter I would say something because that's not okay...

Just continue being nice and cordial and it will die out as long as you don’t feed it

Or listen to @Hannah because I'm petty as fuck and I'd be wanting to make her mad on purpose 🤷🏽‍♀️🤣 @Hannah has better advice

She's not right, her behavior isn't weird for her situation, but that being said, she's an addict. I worked with recovering addicts for years, and that behavior is definitely typical in early recovery. I'd just let it die out like @Hannah said and know that any aggression or manipulation has nothing to do with you, and everything to do with the disease.

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