Threads that have stayed with you

Yes, I was very invested in the saga of Twittlebee Woods. I hope she is OK now.

There was also another bizarre one where the OP bought a house with a lovely big garden to the side, and the neighbour had been hoping to acquire it for a song from the elderly lady who had owned the house before she died. He ended up sending her a series of completely bonkers 'solicitor's' letters using fake-Latin mumbo-jumbo to try to 'prove' that she was 'legally bound' to let him have it for next to nothing!

The school raffle where OP won a laptop, but the organiser told her endless lies and just kept it. I can't remember if that one was resolved or if it maybe got deleted for being outing.

An outrageous, heart-breaking one: the disgusting, vile husband who forced his wife to eat paper on which she'd poured out all of her distress (caused by him, of course) when he found it - in front of his own parents, who were visiting. One particularly sad part was the fact that his own mother urged her DIL to obey him, as she too was scared of her own son.

I wonder if that is the one I'm thinking of? I think she was going to confront the parkers but then bottled it and was very polite and low key.

The poster this past spring who had small children and an abusive partner and was pregnant. She was leaving the partner and seemed to think she “should” have an abortion, but was extremely conflicted and couldn’t bring herself to take the pills. Eventually she took one, regretted it, and had a scan which determined that her baby’s heart was still beating. But then she was planning to have a second-trimester surgical abortion.

I felt like her resistance to having an abortion was her mind telling her that no matter what the “logical” solution was, having an abortion wasn’t a decision she could felt she could peacefully live with. It was like she was tormenting herself by trying over and over to make herself have an abortion. She didn’t update after posting that she was having the second-trimester surgical abortion, and I really wonder what she ended up doing.

I think about chopinandchampagne quite often, and the dreadful lobster boy. Also a poster called Johnlearnstoadult (I think) and another from a few years ago called worldupsidedown - both split up with shitty husbands, I often wonder how they are doing now.

The Olivers Army threads. It was a troll who posted her son's leukaemia journey- with a load of Mumsnet cheerleaders being 'Oliver's Army'. It was all massively suspicious- he was diagnosed within about 45 minutes or admission to a&e and the story had so many holes. The hysteria was insane.

Yes! Auntie Tantrums! Here it is:
Well. That went well, didnt it....... | Mumsnet

@80smonster https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/922821-drug-dependant-baby-advice-needed?page=1

There was a fantastic parking one maybe a couple of years ago that went on all weekend. I think the poster lived in quite a rural location and someone had parked and gone off for a walk blocking her (and her horsebox???) in. Sounds dull in the retelling but it got more and more mysterious and complex and I ended up sitting up with a glass of wine enjoying myself tremendously as more updates came in. I think there were diagrams and everything.

A poster from autumn 2021ish. She had been told by her landlord she had six months to leave as he was selling the house. Her boyfriend of 4 years invited her to move in with him and his 15 year old daughter. Her own 18 year old was about to go to university. So there was about a week to go, and either the 15 year old or the dad changed their mind, and she had a week to find somewhere else for herself, plus her 8 year old in the holidays.

I was seething reading it. It seemed that the relationship would not recover, but I want to know she was ok and found a place for her and her daughter. Plus a dog.

Not a typo! I remember at the time it was thought to be a typo but OP clarified that she had tummy issues and had indeed snapped and farted.

The hilarious thread about the adorable toddler who slept in the dogs bed...
I remember she called the op Auntie Tantrums, perhaps someone with more resources than my reluctant and obstinate phone could find a link, please?

I've been on mn from around 10 years and ones that stuck with me from my early days:
A woman in her 20s diagnosed with terminal cancer who had a young son. The thread was titled "to want to run away"

A woman in an abusive relationship whose husband was tracking her ovulation to try to get her pregnant. I think about her a lot.

A woman about to return to work after maternity leave and her husband refused to have anything to do with organising childcare. She had one day not covered and he refused to even discuss him taking the day off work.

I wondered if that was the same poster too.

Everything that happened in this thread and with the OP had me emotional.

Just to say: raging temperature, shivering with the chills, resting pulse rate far higher than usual, swollen skin that's mottled or darkening over time, shallow breathing, confusion - get yourself to A&E as quickly as you can.
Despite signs on police cars, ambulances, buses and fire engines and posters all over A&E, it's not always taken seriously by hospitals but it's the only place to get help.
I've been very poorly twice (more than a week as an in-patient on a drip each time) it is serious.

I think she posted again just recently

I think she created a follow up thread, they got back together, I don't remember the mention of another woman though
www.mumsnet.com/talk/relationships/2082047-Recoverying-from-a-huge-rocky-patch?postsby=canttypefortears

The one where the OP was pregnant with twins. She felt the movement had changed and wanted reassurance that it was fine. Everyone persuaded her to go and get checked and turned out one of the babies had died. The other died a few days later.

Another one where the OP posted a long rant about the new owners of her house being there before she had moved out. She even posted about stopping to have lunch and didn’t seem to realise it was no longer her house so she should have already moved out.

Finally, there was a poster in her 60s maybe whose husband left her. She posted a few times about how it came out of the blue and will he change his mind. In each thread it turned out he had wanted her to return to work for years, they only holidayed in places she wanted and their social life was based around her. It was sad because she was blindsided but the signs were there for a long time, and even after posters told her, she refused to see it. I wonder how she’s doing.

Please could someone link to the foster carer/premmie baby story? I can’t seem to find in classics.

The Pamela threads were strange though. People were posting as if they were her husband but they apparently weren't her husband but they wrote exactly the same. Then the real husband can't along within minutes of the fake husband, to say the other one was fake, all whilst he had just lost his wife??? And Pamela and her husband wrote very similarly too, as did others on the thread who said they were Pamela friends. It was all very odd.

Threads by a lady with Coats in her username.

Started off wondering if her husband was cheating then turned into an amazingly cool as a cucumber account of how she got all her ducks in a row and left him. Throughout there was always the possibility she would be discovered and he would be volatile.
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I followed it live and hope she has a lovely life now, she deserves to. I often think about her, what a character.

Her posts could be made into a how to get your ducks in a row instruction booklet.

Lady who started a thread AIBU not to return fur coat to friend that I borrowed years ago. Turned out that the original coat had been lost and the current one was a replacement. It was one of the first threads that I enjoyed.

happylandspaceman always comes to mind when this question is asked.

There was a glorious one where the OP had made
some fat balls for the birds with her kids and her husband thought they were a snack and ate them.
It made me proper snort laugh and turned into a bit of a thread about stupid things partners/hpus mates had done.

@Cherryana I came on to say Birdie Friend too, I couldn't wait for each instalment!

Someone is having sex in my hedge.

That was hilarious! Wasn't there a comment about someone suggesting it was badgers or foxes and the reply was that they wouldn't have asked for a finger up the bum?