stinkysleeveless 🔞

for the last year i've been the executor of my boyfriend's mother's estate (try saying that ten times real fast). the end's finally starting to come into sight because her house has a few offers on it.

then out of nowhere, the property agent got a mysterious phone call from someone "tipping them off" that i wasn't allowed to sell the house and that they should investigate me more thoroughly before working with me.

i assumed it was my boyfriend's niece (or, rather, that she'd convinced her husband to do it). she's always been weird about me, and she's even weirder when it comes to this cursed house.

i knew it wouldn't actually amount to anything because i do have the legal authority, but it still really upset me. not even because of the extra paperwork (although there was that too—the agent understandably wasn't about to sell a house for someone who supposedly wasn't allowed to, so they had to go back through all my documents again), but because it's such an embarrassing feeling knowing someone dislikes you enough to anonymously try to cause problems for you. it led to a lot of really humiliating conversations with a complete stranger while i tried to reassure them that i was, in fact, allowed to do the thing i've spent the last year doing.

my boyfriend's been pretty dismissive of it all, and kind of just kept using it as an excuse to criticize me for taking too long to sell the house. i was feeling pretty guilty for stressing him out about it and implying it could've been his family member who did it, so i just tried to move past it.

anyway... i've just found out that it was actually my boyfriend who made the call to the agent........................

i'm trying not to spiral too much or completely embarrass myself, but i'm just so exhausted. there's just so much going on right now, and i don't really have anyone to talk to about it. i don't think anyone would even believe me.

selling the house is so stressful, and i've been so paranoid since my own house got broken into a couple of weeks ago. and then on top of that i'm a freelancer with a list of people ghosting my invoices. i'm trying to just have some semblance of good humor about it all, but it's really difficult to add this haze of total hurt and confusion on top of all that.