Post by Hardi on Jan 16, 2014 18:21:47 GMT -5
Hello JustUs,
My husband and I have ran into some difficult times with the economy, my husband was laid off and right when his unemployment benefits ran out I lost my job, we were both out of work for about two months. My mother helped us out with all of our bills, (as best as she could, which is more than we wanted) until we were both employed. We are still in the phase of “catching up” but we are slowly on our way to getting our finances under control.
Our cell phones are under my sister in laws’ account. This month we are going to be two weeks late paying our portion of the cell phone bill, we called the phone company and let them know when we would be able to pay the bill and we tried to call my sister in-law but she never answered her phone or returned our calls.
So a couple of days ago she went on Facebook and made a post about how “we are choosing not to pay our bill and expect her to pay it for us” and stated that we didn’t even provide her the courtesy of a phone call, all on a public post on facebook, for all of our family and friends to see.
We have tried to call her two times per day since she made the post (and continues to post) and she never answers or returns our calls.
I completely understand why she is upset and I would be too, but I feel that it is completely tasteless for her to post all of this information on facebook, I’m not really sure how to proceed with this, I think that the only way she will reply is if I respond to her nasty posts on facebook, but I do not want to participate in a public facebook fight, we care about our relationship with her and at this point we are not sure how to respond to her especially when she won’t respond to us. We haven’t seen her in two years and are going to see her next month, I don’t want for us to be so mad at each other that it is a miserable trip, but at the same time, I don’t want to just apologize to her especially because she’s put all of this on facebook. Any suggestions on how to proceed in a tasteful manner?
My husband and I have ran into some difficult times with the economy, my husband was laid off and right when his unemployment benefits ran out I lost my job, we were both out of work for about two months. My mother helped us out with all of our bills, (as best as she could, which is more than we wanted) until we were both employed. We are still in the phase of “catching up” but we are slowly on our way to getting our finances under control.
Our cell phones are under my sister in laws’ account. This month we are going to be two weeks late paying our portion of the cell phone bill, we called the phone company and let them know when we would be able to pay the bill and we tried to call my sister in-law but she never answered her phone or returned our calls.
So a couple of days ago she went on Facebook and made a post about how “we are choosing not to pay our bill and expect her to pay it for us” and stated that we didn’t even provide her the courtesy of a phone call, all on a public post on facebook, for all of our family and friends to see.
We have tried to call her two times per day since she made the post (and continues to post) and she never answers or returns our calls.
I completely understand why she is upset and I would be too, but I feel that it is completely tasteless for her to post all of this information on facebook, I’m not really sure how to proceed with this, I think that the only way she will reply is if I respond to her nasty posts on facebook, but I do not want to participate in a public facebook fight, we care about our relationship with her and at this point we are not sure how to respond to her especially when she won’t respond to us. We haven’t seen her in two years and are going to see her next month, I don’t want for us to be so mad at each other that it is a miserable trip, but at the same time, I don’t want to just apologize to her especially because she’s put all of this on facebook. Any suggestions on how to proceed in a tasteful manner?
