One can't make this stuff up!!!

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Do you all remember that DH's ex took his name back, after divorcing another man? Not her maiden name! Oh no! Our name!

She has one upped her previous weird behavior. She moved into our neighborhood! Wait, there's more...right on our street, and very close.

What is she thinking?

She made a mistake

Divorcing her X. He '''''your SO''' actually was a good guy. Better then she w as doing with the losers

And I just thought she was dimmer than I thought! This may make some sense. My husband divorced her about 20 years ago; at one time she did try to get back together with him. He was not interested. I'm not threatened, I'm annoyed. However, as Rags would advise I will be radiant on DH's arm, etc.

DH actually mentioned her getting married again and then she'd move. I don't envision that happening.... She marries for money and I'm not so sure she brings anything to the table? She really let herself go physically. She is unemployed. She has issues with depression and alcohol. Objectively, she is not a prize. She ran in shame when she went bankrupt years ago, after blowing through her divorce settlement. Her reputation and motives likely proceed her.

Be prepared. And be careful.

Sounds like she may be thinking she can glom on to your DH for support and assistance as she ages, therefore she figured she'd move closer to the source.

Be prepared that she will probably use every victim trick in the book to try and pull this off. It may start off small, "Oh, [your dh] can you please come over and help me move such and such - it will only take a minute and I can't do it myself."

It will then escalate to the point she is calling daily and expecting him to be her handy man, step-n-fetchit, shoulder to cry on, and hand-holding at doctor/medical appointments.

Yuck!

That is just yuck! I could potentially see this happening; she is a 2nd generation 'moocher' and OSD is 3rd generation. DH himself has identified this trend.

The main problem I have with her is that she supports OSD's abuse and dysfunction towards me...publicly! I have social media receipts to verify. However, she is nice to my face...words and actions are not in alignment. Again, yuck! Because of this, DH has blocked her some time ago.

I am left wondering why she doesn't want to advocate for OSD to be the best she can be? Instead of supporting her behavior, why is she not teaching her right from wrong? Yuck. Not really my problem though. I have a good reputation; those who know me know it's rubbish. Those that don't know me, or who are doubters don't matter. Some are just there for the show. I don't get involved in the show.

Sounds to me that a move is in order.

Somewhere she can't follow considering her lack of resources.

A gated community, or a Co-op building, etc.......

Not that we have had to deal with this crap. Ever. We had no interest in being anywhere near SpermLand. Even now, SS-32 has forbidden his mom and me from ever living in that state. He had a very direct talk with his mom, I was present, that in the future when I am gone (1'm 12yrs older than his mom) she cannot move near her family. Not only is SpermLand the homeland of the SpermClan, it is also the Mecca of my IL clan who all life in the same small town they have been in for generations. All three of DW's younger sibs have left. Both of her brothers for years in the Army, and SIL when DW took guardianship of her at 17 and we payed for her college education for a year. All three went screaming back to their home town at the first possible moment and never left. It is like a really bad episode of Green Acres with my ILs without the humour or indications of success.

No Way!

Our custom built home will be finished soon, it is beautiful and our dream home...we are not going anywhere.

She does not live alone, she is mooching. I hope she wears out her welcome. Sooner rather than later.

I get it. Our last home was our custom "final home".

At least we intended for it to be our final home.

2200 square feet, open concept, large rooms. Two BR, 2.5 baths with a huge study. The master was an amazing luxury suite, a spa bathroom and massive closet for my bride's fashionista problem. I got my part of the closet. But only about 20% of it.

The home had a gourmet kitchen, a massive pantry with expansive custom spice racks. The thing we missed was not putting a 220V circuit in the kitchen so we could easily use the appliances we obtained over seas. I did buy a crazy heavy transformer to step p the 110V service to 220V in the butlers pantry..

The guest room was nice, had its own ensuite, but was smallish on purpose so guests could be comfortable, have their privacy, but not comfortable enough to stay too long.

Then, COVID. We moved for work 3yrs after we built it and sold it two years after that. We returned for a couple of weeks a couple of times a year My bride still has not forgiven me for us deciding to sell our dream home.

Is your new home small enough to not accommodate Klingons?

Keep your new house your sanctuary and congratulations on a beautiful new home.

I can see...

...why your wife would be sad, your home sounds beautiful!

I am laughing because I have a friend who grooms pets, in her world a Klingon is poo stuck to the fur by their hind end! Haha! Back to homes.... One good thing is that DH and I share the same view on guests, we like our privacy and prefer not to have them. Our guest room is modest enought to prevent long-term Klingons.

Thank you, we can't wait to move in!

Yep, that is what I reference with the term Klingon (Cling-on).

We would have loved to remain in our home. However, careers had different ideas. We were fortunate. We increased value by 50% in 5yrs so we did well when we sold it.

A close call was that in our gated community there was a wave of attempts by title thieves to steal homes and invade with squaters. Neighbors advised to not have a for sale sign put in our yard. We didn't for several weeks after we listed. We then approved a sign when our listing agent had an open house over a week +. As soon as that occurred we started getting credit card applications, bank statements, etc... in other people's names to our address. We sold before there was any success in the attempted deed theft.

When we renewed our auto insurance the following Jan, our auto insurance went through the roof. A title thief had gotton on our insurance so when the policy renewed we had an extra driver insured for driving our vehicles. That was fun trying to get them off of our insurance. It took our agent going nuclear on the insurance company to get that corrected. We were on with the insuranc company several times to no avail. One call to or long time agent, pooof. Fixed.

We do miss our home. But, we have a home. My mom and dad are giving us their at my brothers request. My brother and SIL are very well off and have no interest in the family home. So, mom and dad want it to remain in the family which makes DW and I the next owners. Though I home it is a very long time before that occurs.

So for now, we rent. Though we do live in a nice gated golf course community and our condo is on the 9th T-box overlooking the lake and beautiful mountain views. A little small, but plenty for the two of us and occassional guests. It is 1000 square feet smaller than house. 2BR, 2BA, 2 car garage. Not nearly as spacious as what we sold a year+ ago.

That's pretty creepy. If your

That's pretty creepy. If your DH wasn't already turned off, her moving in down the street has to be a wake up call. My DH's ex used to cause us trouble, but she has stopped for the most part. I'm kind of waiting though for the other shoe to drop because of how she has tried to triangulate and sabotage us in the past. She's a narcissist, and I think what happened was that she was mrotified one too many times, and gave up on trying to hoover and triangulate DH. For example, she used to try and keep him as long as possible over at her place when dh would drop off SS. DH would come back home and complain to me that whenever he drops off, BM wants to talk about "everything under the sun". But he started to cut her off and eventually didn't have to even drive SS back anymore after SS started to ride a bike. But when she has the opportunity though, I still see her trying to charm and sway DH. They were married, had a kid, and have a history together, so to some extent, I kind of accept that dh still has a spot in his heart for her though he wouldn't admit it to me.

Yes!

It is creepy for sure! I am just realizing something...I wonder if she is using her dysfunctional adult daughter the same way your DH's ex was using her child? The nonsense is not coming from her directly, but I know she supports it. This may be why she does not try to counsel her daughter on her over the top behavior? She doesn't have to get her hands dirty? Who know? I just know the situation is sick and unhealthy, I want no part of it.

Yes, she has a history with DH. He has always been polite to her, because she is the mother of his children. I honestly don't think there is anything beyond that. I think he was so relieved when they got divorced he never looked back. The longer I know him, the more detailed the picture he paints. HIs comments come out of nowhere...maybe we are watching t.v. and something will trigger a memory. These details are said very matter-of-factly and with no malice. I think he has surpressed a lot, he often acts like it's a revelation that just hit him. The picture he has painted isn't pretty.

It's very possible the BM is

It's very possible the BM is using OSD to triangulate. I didn't think of that until much later too, but I learned last year that my dh's ex had a falling out with her sister. To get SS on her side, BM told SS all of the bad things that her sister said about him, leading SS to hate his aunt. He calls her "slut" and refuses to be in the same room. Anyway, after I heard that, I started to think that BM was capable of stoking hatred for me too. She knows very little about me, so I don't what that could be, but there are so many insinuations she could make that would fuel SS's already hair trigger anger.

Ugh!

Not a nice way to treat your sister, that's for sure. I would guess that if she would do that to 'family', she would do it to you too. Even if she doesn't know things about you, she may have no problem making things up. I'm also bothered that SS uses that language in front of polite company! OSD really knows nothing about me, other than the fact that I employ the word "No", but that has not stopped her from coming up with some real doozies. Maybe someday I will be able to laugh about it.

The name thing was one thing

The name thing was one thing but moving to the same street that you guys live on? That is just weird.

I don't have any ex-husbands but I can't imagine wanting to live on the same street as one of my ex-boyfriends and his current partner. It just seems kind of... pathetic. And stalkerish.

Yes!

Exactly!!!

Time for cameras. No telling

Time for cameras. No telling what you might record her doing.

Yes!

We've got them!

Jesus. There's just no end to

Jesus. There's just no end to the ball-and-chain-parasitism when your DH has bred with a substandard and crazy woman. I'm dealing with similar but not to that extent. My SO's BM2 has glommed on to his entire family. She's best friends with his brother, SIL, all his female cousins, and some aunts and uncles, and has been laying it on thick with his 2 daughters from BM1, inviting them to dinners and being "Johnny on the Spot" with a$$-kissing comments to facebook posts and the like. It's to the point that i want to be done with them all. They are "infected" to me. Infected by a woman who is hell-bent on running me off for daring to help with her kids when i was told there was nobody else to do it. I have my own kids, and i don't need to "steal" someone else's. These b's stick around longer and more virulently than any STD ever could. I'm sorry you are being haunted by this infectious ghoul.

Ugh!

Yes, there doesn't seem to be an end to the nonsense....

I, too, am sorry that you are being haunted by an infectious ghoul! Why are there so many of them out there? (I really want to know!) I can not imagine having to deal with BM2 as you do. I think that would be too much. What is also too much is that 'the family' fails to see things through the lens of current SO/Wife. They are not interested in how we feel. Or, maybe they are able to identify the dysfunction but are not strong enough to stand up and say, "This isn't right." Either way, not people I would choose to associate with. I am learning to navigate step life. However, I am left wondering why this is something we have to learn? Why can people not just act with common courtesy? It really isn't that hard.

I seriously can't imagine

I seriously can't imagine having to be neighbors with BM2. I would lose my shite.

Yes!

This is all new to me. My emotions are all over the board...in addition to being appalled at her lack of EQ, I am amazed at her chutzpah! It's actually pathetic. I will continue to be cordial when I encounter her and be radiant on DH's arm. We are not playing in the same league...and she knows it.