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Need Advice - Possibly Mentally or Socially Challenged Adult Involvment w/Skid

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Ok, I need advice on this situation. My DH & I recently started attending a new church. At a church Christmas party we met a nice young woman, who we later found out is approx. our age (early 30's). She seemed to be a little attention hungry, immature and we questioned if she was possibly a little mentally slow, but not enough to interfere with normal adult responsibilities (job, driving, etc.). At that same party she started rubbing her hands down my husbands arm while bragging to a friend of hers about how he was the funniest, nicest guy she had met that night. This was not a singles party, it was a church wide event. It was odd, especially since he had met her before I did and had already introduced me to her as his wife. I kinda laughed about the situation at that time. I'm not the jealous type and I have no reason to feel threatened by another girl.

Fast forward a month or so. She always makes sure to pat my husband on the arm, back or shoulder and says hi. She at times would acknowledge my presence and say hi to me as well, other times it was as if I wasn't even there next to his side. We found out that she is helping teach children's church, but skid thought she was a student in the class based on behavior. He said she's always answering all the questions. This concerns me a little.

Fast forward to today. We had a pot luck at church. Skid asks his dad if he can go outside to the parking lot w/a couple other kids and this girl. DH said no, stay inside. A couple mins later the girl is hovering over & between my DH & I and interrupting conversation we were having w/others. She begins rubbing her hands over DH's back. In the process of doing so her plate of food bumps into my back. My DH checks to make sure nothing is on me, which it's not. She proceeds to describe her truck to DH and tries to make sure he knows which truck is hers. He finally just pretends to know what truck she's talking about. She then asks DH if skid can go with her & the other 2 kids to see her truck. DH told her that skid needs to stay where we can see him.

DH & I are both irritated and concerned, but don't really know what to do. If she was a touchy person who behaved as she does towards my DH to everyone, it would not be of any concern, but she seems to only be this way towards him. I do not want to imply or assume that she has any ill intentions with the kids, but I find it very inappropriate for a 30 yr w/o kids to hang out w/preteen & teen kids.

DH does not think she's mentally slow, he thinks she's socially damaged by her mom and doesn't know how to interact w/others. I still question if that's the only problem or if maybe she's mentally slow as well to a small extent. Her mom seems to be very odd and unintentionally rude & controlling. She still lives at home w/her mom. She says she has a degree in physical therapy from a trade school that is almost joke. Even though this particular school is not reputable, I don't know that she would get through it if she were not mentally all there. Thank goodness she hasn't been able to get an actual job in physical therapy.

How would you handle this? She hasn't done anything blatantly wrong. She hasn't crossed any definite lines. She's just raising red flags and making us uncomfortable.

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oneoffour's picture

DH should always stand with his back to the wall. If he sees her comning he can striaght-line it to the bathroom.

Also approach the pastor and tell him how concerned you are about this woman and her inappropriate touching. How it embarrasses both of you and that you find it insulting but you don't know how to tell her to back off.

If the pastor cannot help, look at either being extrmeley rude to her and drop a drink all over her clothing, get in her face and tell her to stop touching your husband as he is married. Or you can tell the pastor you are looking at changing churches due to this woman's behaviour. Someone needs to stop her inapporiate touching.

It also sets a bad example for your children. It is OK for another woman to paw your husband?

If she has a drivers licence and drives a truck she isn't THAT dense and p[robably socially inept.