Schadenfreude: Cruel pleasure in my pain

I was trying to think of the word when I wrote my previous post on my so called godmothers delight in belittling me. This is the word.

Here's an article that tries to describe it in more detail, but doesn't quite describe what happened to me. So I'm not quite sure if it can be called Schadenfreude or maybe a combination of belittlement, condescension and Schadenfreude. Basically bullying.

The worst thing about it was it came from nowhere. I only spoke a few words to this godmother on a few occasions before, no real conversation.

I answered the phone today, and she was on the other end again wanting to talk to my dad. She always gets me and my mum mixed up (apparently we have the same voice?). Once she realised it was me, her tone completely changed from jovial to cold in a second. No conversation.

I gave her the cold shoulder last time she came and didn't eat dinner with them. I was replaced at the dinner table by my half cousin (from my uncles affair - he has 9 children). She randomly turned up that night having realised how shit our family is (especially the men). Lots of empathy and home truths.