How do I (31 F) get rid of this woman (60 F) from my life (aunt)?

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Please I can’t post anuwhere else. I (31 F), live alone. Don’t have contact with family except my parents and siblings. Aunts, uncles, cousins all know the score. Nobody tries to contact me because they know I won’t bother. Reasons are too long to get into but I live a different life to extended family and never see them, nor do I want to. I cannot make that clear enough.

Every birthday, one aunt (60 F) messages happy birthday and I do not reply. I have made it clear I want nothing to do with her before anyone asks if I have told her. She doesn’t care. She will use my birthday as the opportunity to cause drama when I don’t reply. She phones up my parents, gets them to tell me I need to explain AGAIN, says she’s “hurt.” I know she’s lying, she’s just trying to get back in my life. She’s that person who can’t accept you’re different, been like this my whole life. Loud, drinks a lot, interferes in your relationships, embarrassed me in front of previous partners. I tell her nothing and told my parents not to. I stay away from her in every way and even live 3 hours away. I never see her.

I have blocked her in EVERY way on every platform. She uses her boyfriend’s phone to text me. I blocked that number. A year later she used her son’s phone to text me.

I simply refused to text thank you and my parents said why don’t you just say thank you once a year, and it’ll sort the problem out? I’m now not talking to my parents. No one understands, I don’t WANT TO. Nobody else hounds me this much, why should the rule be different for her. And I know she won’t leave it at that, she will use it to get in my life again. What do I do?

TL; DR Aunt (60 F) won’t leave me (31 F) alone and uses other people’s phones to wish me happy birthday every year, even though I blocked her on everything. Parents said I should say thank you, but I want zero contact.

Comments

  1. CaptainBoltagon Avatar

    Kinda seems like you’re caring too much. There’s nothing you can do against her getting more numbers, and when your parents bug you about it just say “You know why, so stop asking me about it.” Then don’t give them anything else. If they keep talking about it, hang up on them until the next time they wanna talk. If they bring it up again, just hang up and go do something else.

    Annoying people ain’t worth getting this worked over. If she’s getting under your skin, she’s winning.