Decade later, still being stalked, looking for advice
Long story but high school gf of 4 years has been stalking me and on and off for 13 years or so. We’re both married. She lives in Germany, myself in Canada. She unblocked me to show me her wedding photos… I said congrats thinking she’s normal again and we could move on amicably, but it soon started into daily texts trying to start a fight. After 5 days of ignoring her, eventually that fight happened… she ended up texting my wife she knew was visiting family in vietnam (stalking her too) and told her I killed myself over her and was just so upset about our past relationship). Just to give you an idea of how crazy Raven is.
I’m a scientist and every few weeks she’ll read my papers just so I get a notification that she was reading them (even though it’s an option to not show, she wants me to see). Christmas? Stalker. Valentine’s Day? Stalker. Last year I got a restraining order but they can’t help because online stalking public info and profiles is apparently all cool with the police (which I get, it’s not criminal)…. but making fake links to my papers with my full legal name to porn websites… that was my limit. Called the cops and they explained she might get deported and then my problems only get worse. They called her and said they had a complaint about revenge porn and all the websites were taken down 6-8 hours later the investigator said. He explained the timing was enough to get a warrant for her electronics but that’s when the cops pumped the brakes because they realized I was dealing with a real sick one. Oh also, we’re both phd’s (myself in neuroscience, studying depression… she studies psychology and her expertise is “subjective well being” so she seems to have good knowledge on how to break people down and destroy any semblance of subjective well being).
Other instances… one of the guys she used to cheat on me with killed himself a few days after she contacted my then gf I was living with, he crashed his car in front of her old home. I still never found out what she said but that girl left me the very next day after whatever Raven said… didn’t find out for 7 years that it was because of this stalker. I always felt guilty for Aaron’s suicide, knowing we went through the same abuse and I hated him for being “the other guy”… now I realize we were both just objects for her games. Anyways, she had a tendency to post celebratory comments on twitter on the anniversary of his suicide … stupid things like “yay paper submitted!” It crushed me every year. First year it stopped (she got banned from twitter).
Anyways, as you can see I’m still struggling with all of this, and hope someone else with experience can provide some insight on course of action. She recently unblocked me just to show off some travel photos or something … meanwhile I have a kid and loving wife and we’re happily moved on from her dramatic incursion into our life together. It’s not like she can do much with the restraining order in place, but it’s just the relentlessness of her presence. Simply it won’t stop, it’s almost comical how reliable she is at trying to stay present somehow in my life.
Unfortunately part of being a scientist is having your papers available online, so I can’t remove my work from the internet so she can’t stalk. I don’t really know what else I can do to be rid of this from my life for the long term.
Thanks in advance folks, and sorry for the probably too long to read post (needed to vent on it I guess).
Posted Sep 20, 2024, 5:42 AM UTC