My ex-husband is our neighbor, and I’m getting fed up with his behavior
DEAR ABBY: My ex-husband, “Hal,” and I have been friendly for years, and he also gets along with my current husband. He lives just two doors down from us.
We’ve treated him kindly, especially since his son—and mine—passed away a year ago.
Hal can drive, but whenever we go visit family, he always asks for a ride. We don’t mind driving him in the dark, since he has trouble with night vision, but we don’t want to become his personal chauffeur—or be seen as part of a “throuple.”
Even more frustrating, he constantly interrupts me and contradicts me: “That’s not true,” “It wasn’t that day,” “It didn’t happen that way,” and so on. I suspect he gets jealous whenever I receive attention. The last straw was when I was sharing a memory of my son asking my opinion, and Hal jumped in to say, “I don’t think our son would have followed your advice.”
How can we remain friendly with Hal without putting up with this behavior—or losing our tempers?
—CLOSE TO LOSING IT
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