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[quote=Anonymous]We hired my 19-year-old cousin to watch our kids over the summer and we want to extend the arrangement part-time into the fall because it looks like our schedules will mesh this semester.

My cousin attends the same university my wife works at and so she’s been watching our kids occasionally her freshman year and we hired her full time over the summer while our kids are out of school.  We also have her staying with us until dorms reopen in about a week.   It works out perfectly.  She’s incredibly mature and great with our kids.  She also is able to stay in town and avoid going back home for the summer which is definitely a win for her as well.

My only issue is her mother (my aunt).  She has always been an absolutely impossible person to be around for more than an hour and it seems like even her own daughter can’t stand her.

They had a rocky relationship her entire childhood and it got worse once she became a teenager but I wasn’t aware of until I got closer to my younger cousin.

But my aunt will not stop contacting me asking about her daughter or calling my parents to have them call me and ask me about her daughter.  I don’t get into their relationship but this woman is so unbelievably controlling she can’t handle not knowing what her 19-year-old is doing every second of the day.  She has tracked her phone since she was 10 and had software installed that made it possible for her to read her texts and see what websites she visited.  My cousin was able to purchase her own phone and plan back in May so now her mother is losing it because she can no longer invade her child’s privacy so she’s trying to use me as the spy and gets angry when I don’t oblige.

The arrangement we have works great for everyone and we’re all happy but I hate dealing with my aunt.  I’ve told her numerous times I won’t play spy or meddle in their relationship but then she just goes and harassed my much older parents.

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