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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
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I'm the aunt. And I feel entitled because my brother complains about his daughter having so little family. Well, knock knock! I'm here, and I'm reaching out, and you're always too busy for me to spend time with her.

So I'll keep asking. And when she's older and can read, I will send my niece letters that include "I hope we can get together this month - ask Daddy to call me!" to prompt her to ask to play with me.

Ok creepy. Sounds like your brother doesn’t like you or doesn’t trust you with the kid. The fact that you would even think of writing that letter to a child is a red flag

My sister does stuff like this. Drives me batty. And when she asks the kids directly if they would like to do something g they always say yes but more often then not they later tell me they would rather not. They just don’t like being put on the spot.[/quote]

I deal with this and my great aunt in-law. She is constantly demanding access and the kids want nothing to do with her. She will go directly to them. They'll try saying that they have to ask their mom or dad. Her response is oh we'll go over together and tell mommy how much you want to do XYZ with me. Now make sure to sound super excited. I will be RIGHT next to you. It freaks them out. They are not good liars and I can always tell when something is up because they are trying to make eye and hand movements that I will see and she won't. They aren't very subtle or good at this so its quite obvious and we tell her no. In the car, they are always profusely grateful for us saving them from aunt crazy pants. We've started having to practice what do want crazy pants corners them and how to politely say no and stand their ground or come find us. The funniest is one time when she was pulling this again with my youngest. One of the getaway tricks is to say I have to go to the bathroom. I see my youngest DS all of sudden yell I have to poop NOW and run out of the room. It was hysterical because some relatives knew what was going on and others just thought well when you have to go, you have to go.

Her behavior has really made DH, myself and now our kids intensely dislike her. At some point, I think we'll just forego trying to be polite and civil with her and use some well chosen four letter words. [/quote]

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