Hi guys,
There is this woman, whom I met at my parish last year. She's from Columbia. There are many Columbians in my town and more are coming each year.
I do pity her, she's widowed and maybe not even 30 and has two small boys, aged 5 and 7. Her husband was murdered in the cold war in Columbia. Like I said, my husband and I do pity her a lot. She's widowed and has been tragically so. She's had to leave her country as a refugee, things are going sooo bad in Columbia. She has to get adapted to our mentality, culture, style of living and weather.
My husband and I have been helping her a lot. We helped her often.
A few months ago, she moved on our street. She lives in the appartment building besides ours.
Now she's extremely harrassing. When she calls us, it's to ask us to help her with this or that. She even comes to our appartment without noticing to come and ask us things because she often loses our phone number.
We know she needs help at times, she doesn't have a car, etc. However, she knows many other people than us too. But she's always calling or coming here. Ahhhhhhh!
We're up to a point where we're extremely exhausted of her. We pity her, but she takes advantage of us too much, she's too demanding. She never calls just to call and be friends, it's always to ask. Same with her visits. She calls early in the morning or during the evening, when we need our intimacy and rest.
We have a call display machine (right word?) and we check whenever the phone rings now. If we see her name we don't answer anymore. Even if we don't answer and leaves us messages and we don't call her back, she still calls and leaves other messages.
We don't mind helping people, and we do very often, but when someone invades your life like that, you have to cut the contact. It's driving us crazy!
Has anyone ever been in a situation like that? If yes, what did you do?
We don't want to be unChristlike and uncharitable, but this woman really invades our life and now we're exhausted. 
There is this woman, whom I met at my parish last year. She's from Columbia. There are many Columbians in my town and more are coming each year.
I do pity her, she's widowed and maybe not even 30 and has two small boys, aged 5 and 7. Her husband was murdered in the cold war in Columbia. Like I said, my husband and I do pity her a lot. She's widowed and has been tragically so. She's had to leave her country as a refugee, things are going sooo bad in Columbia. She has to get adapted to our mentality, culture, style of living and weather.
My husband and I have been helping her a lot. We helped her often.
A few months ago, she moved on our street. She lives in the appartment building besides ours.
Now she's extremely harrassing. When she calls us, it's to ask us to help her with this or that. She even comes to our appartment without noticing to come and ask us things because she often loses our phone number.
We know she needs help at times, she doesn't have a car, etc. However, she knows many other people than us too. But she's always calling or coming here. Ahhhhhhh!
We're up to a point where we're extremely exhausted of her. We pity her, but she takes advantage of us too much, she's too demanding. She never calls just to call and be friends, it's always to ask. Same with her visits. She calls early in the morning or during the evening, when we need our intimacy and rest.
We have a call display machine (right word?) and we check whenever the phone rings now. If we see her name we don't answer anymore. Even if we don't answer and leaves us messages and we don't call her back, she still calls and leaves other messages.
We don't mind helping people, and we do very often, but when someone invades your life like that, you have to cut the contact. It's driving us crazy!
Has anyone ever been in a situation like that? If yes, what did you do?
We don't want to be unChristlike and uncharitable, but this woman really invades our life and now we're exhausted. 
