No ill will intended, but I don't want to be good friends with them...just good neighbors.
It sounds like the author of this article might come on a little too strong.
No ill will intended, but I don't want to be good friends with them...just good neighbors.
It sounds like the author of this article might come on a little too strong.
I had a neighbors behind us that came on a little too strong but were very very friendly, wanting to do things, go places with us.
When we first move into our new home she commented on the fact I worked 12-14 hours a day 6 days a week. Her comment to my wife was, "are you sure he's really at his job, not at a girl friends?"
Then, within days of that remark, she said, "she likes to cut her husband's hair AND he likes her to be topless when she cuts it. This comment was made in front of my 17 YO son!!
On another occasion, one evening, I was sorting some slide pictures in our dinning room. The house this neighbor lived in had a window that looked toward my dinning room window. The very next day she ask my wife what was I doing in the dining room last night!! As if it was any of HER business.
On another occasion, she told us she and her husband were concerned that our big bedroom window would look into her bedroom. So, while our house was being built she came into our unfinished house, stood by the big window, pulled her top off to expose herself, while her husband looked from her bedroom window. She said she was afraid we could look at her at night. However, HER BR window was a single double hung pane at an angle to our window and their house's elevation was about 5 ft higher than ours. NO way could we look into their BR.
She also had little ankle biter dogs, that would stand at my fence, barking incessantly but when we ask her to not let them bark for hours she stopped speaking to us. She was like a Mrs Kravis neighbor who was always in our business. They have thankfully moved but the replacement neighbors also have barking dogs. In fact she came to our door with her huge dog to introduce herself and attempted to bring her dog into my home. I refused to let her in and now they don't speak to us (don't care a lick). I'd like to have a dog but our yard is too small but my dogs have always been outside dogs and I would never bring a dog I owned into a neighbors house uninvited!!!!
In my opinion the definition of a good neighbor is: one that lives about a half mile away.
I agree. You can be great neighbors without the need to be friends. I go home at night to be alone or with loved ones. Many people mean well, but some come on too strong or are too needy.