Lingering rumours about baby won’t go away
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 16/12/2015 (3568 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: I’m at a loss as to how I can clear my name over gossip my aunt started about me. My aunt, whom I lived with for a short time in Winnipeg, said I had a baby, which was not true. When I first heard this gossip, I went to her and told her I did not have a baby. Around that time the gossip started, I had left my aunt’s house and gone to live with my sister and brother-in-law and worked at a food outlet. The food was plentiful there and I put on some weight, but I soon missed my parents, and moved back home to the town I grew up in.
That was a big mistake. The gossip has been spread to so many people I don’t go out now. I would like to know how to clear my name. My aunt passed away five years ago, but that baby gossip will not go away. I have no idea where I can go for help.
— Got To Stop It, Manitoba
Dear Got To Stop it: It sounds like your aunt was offended when you moved out of her house, so she made up this story about your weight gain and a pregnancy as an excuse for you leaving her. It’s time to stop bowing to this nonsense and stand up for yourself. Talk about the old pregnancy gossip openly, expressing how annoying and hurtful it was that your aunt generated this lie. Keeping quiet makes you look guilty. Speaking out takes the power out of the tale-telling, although there are always a few nasty people who will believe it because they just love gossip.
I understand how you feel. When I was single and in my early 20s, I heard gossip about myself saying that I was “knocked up with twins.” I have yet to deliver those made-up twins. The story was so absurd I laughed about it on the outside, but it still hurt underneath to know that people I knew were being mean-spirited and gossiping about me. You have the advantage of knowing who started that lie, and you can speak out.
Please send your questions and comments to lovecoach@hotmail.com or Miss Lonelyhearts c/o the Winnipeg Free Press, 1355 Mountain Ave., Winnipeg, MB, R2X 3B6.
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