Dear Snowpea
99.9999% of people aren't like the gangstalkers.
There is a phrase for what you describe. It's called, "pointing the bone." I suggest you google it. People can mentally project negative thoughts that can have an impact on others. It's a form of social ostracism. If you're feeling it, whether or not other people believe you, it's real. My ex-husband once bought an old timber home for removal and restoration. He's a carpenter. We bought a block of land in a seaside suburb and attempted to move this exquisitely elaborate old authentic timber home with carved balustrades and intricate timber fretwork, holus bolus. The small community banded together and got up a petition to try to prevent us doing this, fearing it would bring down the value of their homes. It was a hard slog. In the end, at great cost, we took the house apart and rebuilt it, without the need for any extra approvals. I lived there for three years before any of my neighbours would acknowledge me. By the time they decided to "accept" me and my kids, I no longer wanted to be accepted by them. All up, I lived there for six years. It was hell. I know what it's like to be ostracised for no real reason by neighbours and community. They don't remember any of this now, but I remember pushing a stroller with my son, a baby, down the street and having neighbours cross the road rather than have to walk past me and say hello. It was a reflection on them, not me. I've never forgotten it, and it makes me more sympathetic to outsiders. Later, I saw them do it to others. When we sold the home, by then fully restored, it was a mansion. I would happily have foregone the dubious pleasure of living in that mansion, just to have kind, compassionate neighbours. As I said, in time, they were fine, and accepted us - but by then, it was too late, because I'd experienced their other side. I even had people apologise and admit they were wrong, but they can't take back their ridiculous behaviour, or the years they tried to make me feel the impact of their negativity. They didn't do it to my husband. They picked on the weaker person. Perhaps these gangstalkers are jealous of your husband in some way? I'm thinking, in some way you've aroused their jealousy and envy. You're probably very attractive - and they are just jealous. I don't know you, obviously, but hold your head up and don't let them bring you down. KC