Conflict with boyfriend’s family

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So recently my friend, we’ll call her Jane, who happens to be dating my boyfriend’s brother had a conflict with me. Basically she assumed, wrongly, that I made a post about her on social media and began attacking me online and via text because of it. The argument escalated and then she began texting my boyfriend trying to make me look like a bad person and telling him that I’m a child. He knew about the argument already because I had cried about it on his shoulder and shown him all of my messages with her and what she had said about me. Once she began texting him I told him he would be better off deleting her off of social media and blocking her like I did. He did block Jane. His parents are now upset and think that Jane and I are in a dumb argument and that I forced him to delete her and will make him cut out family members if they ever get upset with me (i would never ask him to do that) and they think it’s my fault that drama is happening between Jane and I and that I caused drama for Jane and her boyfriend, their other son. While I acknowledge I didn’t handle everything with Jane well, I certainly did not try to bring strife into their other sons life and did not force my boyfriend to delete and block her on social media. My question is how do I handle this situation and how do I handle the topic of my boyfriend’s family brings it up? Also as a side note my boyfriend tried to explain why he deleted her to his parents but they didn’t understand.

Category: asked September 15, 2015

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Perhaps you should speak to your boyfriend's parents yourself. Explain the situation, and that by blocking her, you were trying to prevent drama, not cause more. After all, they can only make a judgment on the information that they have, and having all of the sides of the story will allow them to make an informed decision on the situation. Be calm, clear, direct and honest. Then accept their decision on the matter and move on. As for the girl in question, if she brings drama to your life, then don't interact with her. If interaction is unavoidable, be civil and leave it at that. It's about having respect for your boyfriend's family, not her. And most importantly, if you feel you have done nothing wrong, then stand by your convictions, and don't let yourself be made to feel bad for that. Hold your head up and be comfortable that you have tried to handle this situation with dignity and respect. If you ever need someone to talk to, feel free to message anytime :)
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Okay, it sounds like you're definitely in a pickle. I would hope that your boyfriends family would just stay out of the situation, because it isn't really wany of their business unless they become directly involved. I think you should talk to Jane and try to mellow things out, seems like she was being a drama queen by the sounds of it. Maybe she was just having a bad day? I would unblock her and try to understand her a little more and why she thought you were talking about her. I would try to put it all in the past and remain acquainted with one another. You don't have to be friends with someone if you don't want to, but I would definitely make an effort to be on good terms with her so you guys don't have problems in the future.
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@catyyroxx, I would try that but she's told me not to speak to her again and has started spreading some fairly vicious rumors about me. I had to block her because she sent me 17 messages in a row about how petty she thought I was. I tried to clarify that I wasn't posting about her but she called me a liar and won't say to anyone why she thinks that I did that.