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A mother has been praised after her blunt response to a request to look after her husband's ex's child.  Sharing her story with Mumsnet the woman explained that her husband and his

ex share an eight-year-old child, but his ex also has a five-year-old with another partner.  The frustrated mum shared her hope that the two women would get along when she began her

relationship with her now husband, but the ex was "very hostile" and can be an "absolute horror". Asking users 'Am I being Unreasonable" also shared under the

headline 'AIBU' on the site, the woman detailed how she has refused to look after the five-year-old because she doesn't "feel like doing this woman any favours". She

told users that she is looking after her stepchild but said no to looking after her husband's ex's child who she has "only met a brief handful of times".  She said:

"Anyway onto the AIBU... her childcare has fallen through tomorrow for her five-year-old, DH [husband] is working, I'm not. "She's asking me to watch her child so she can

go to work and I've said no basically because I just don't feel like doing this woman any favours. "I'm having DSS [Stepson] because it's our normal day to have him

(week on week off) and I probably would even if it wasn't because he's my stepchild but her other child I've only met a brief handful of times and I put bluntly I just

don't want to do her any favours because she's an awful human being." Commenting on her husband's relationship with his ex she said: "The way she speaks to him

sometimes it's atrocious and because of this I do not like her as a person at all. "I never get involved and I'm always polite when I see her but I think she's just a

selfish person in general." Users were quick to praise the mum, applauding her for saying no.  One user commented: "Don’t think you’re being unreasonable. I wouldn’t help my DP’s

[partner's] ex or their kids. "They’ve gone out of their way to make life difficult, many times, why should I be the bigger person, and go out of my way to help them? What goes

around comes around." Another said: "Why would you want to be responsible for a child that is nothing to do with yourself or your partner? "My stepkids mum has two younger

children and I could never imagine her asking this quite rightly too. "Well done for keeping boundaries."