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mumofoneAloneandwell · 15/08/2025 19:39

Animated GIF

To improve an otherwise boring friday night in front of the TV, with my slightly poorly DD x

👀👀

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 16/08/2025 13:08

WillyWonkasPurpleHat · 16/08/2025 09:19

That is a very specific and odd reply

😄 I dont know him! Just hazarding a guess as to the many other men

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ThreeLocusts · 16/08/2025 12:49

curiositydidnotkillthecatisaid · 15/08/2025 20:03

My DH ex girlfriend (who he has children with) moved some cocklodger in and my stepchildren kept on saying how horrible he was. I brushed it off as the kids just having loyalty to their dad as they are very close to my DH and myself UNTIL one day I popped by to drop a surprise off for the kids and while I knocked on the front door I could hear him screaming calling the kids ungrateful cunts and then opened the door all smiles to me. I was so damn angry but kept my cool.

I made a plan with one of my friends to take her car down to his car garage and flirt with him and try and get him to go on a date with her. She did. The dirty abusive “man” was happy to cheat on the woman who was letting him live in her house for free and treating my step children like crap. My friend took video recordings and pictures of their date and sent them to my DH Ex. Needless to say she was heartbroken but she did kick his butt to the curb and the kids are so much happier that he has gone

edit for spelling and to add the ex has no idea it was a set up

Edited

nicely done

mumofoneAloneandwell · 16/08/2025 12:40

Phoebesparrow · 16/08/2025 12:14

Normally I would,but I have to protect my children

It's a long story but as soon as my youngest is 18,he'll be getting that message

What he does with that information is up to him

The whole family have kept it a secret from him-they all know

Poor guy 😬

Some people are just bullies. It doesn't stop at school, they live their lives like that 🤢🤢

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 16/08/2025 12:38

ConnieHeart · 16/08/2025 12:23

To be fair to him, he & his wife split up a couple of years ago

Oh, no i know, i was talking about the husband in my last sentence

But before they split, i feel like he was the same to christine

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ConnieHeart · 16/08/2025 12:23

mumofoneAloneandwell · 16/08/2025 12:13

I never trust the 'nice guys' on tv, you just know that they are the biggest pricks going!

Paddy mcguinnes is this guy for me

I think his wife must know and is just there for the kids 😬😬

To be fair to him, he & his wife split up a couple of years ago

Phoebesparrow · 16/08/2025 12:14

JudgeJ · 16/08/2025 11:32

I would have no hesitation in telling the boyfriend to get a DNA test, why should he be stuck with the financial burden of someone else's child and a feckless partner while he is working hard?

Normally I would,but I have to protect my children

It's a long story but as soon as my youngest is 18,he'll be getting that message

What he does with that information is up to him

The whole family have kept it a secret from him-they all know

mumofoneAloneandwell · 16/08/2025 12:13

NNforthispost · 16/08/2025 11:18

New name for this as its outing.

ex boss tried it on with me. He is living with long term partner and teens, after they met at work (she was still married at time and was his secretary). After he’d admitted he’d not been faithful in the 19 years they’ve been together. He’s gone from one affair to another with short gaps in between.

Hes shagged everyone from receptionists to other senior partners at the firm.

He does generally choose people in a lower position so he has leverage 🤢.

He will ‘work’ until 1am some days but he’s actually sexting people (no not me - but not sure why he told me all this shit).

He’s currently shagging another team manager and they go on ‘work trips’ with clients so everyone must know.

Absolutely disgusted with him and he used the excuse that he’s just like roommates with his partner and they’ve not had sex since 2019. Am not surprised - I bet she knows and is just worn down.

Unfortunately she’s not working (been SAHM since they had their first) and he’s on over 170k so I bet she feels stuck.

Occasionally I see them out as a family and I’m always so tempted to say something but I don’t. He’s such a deceitful unpleasant man but has a very good ‘nice guy’ mask.

I never trust the 'nice guys' on tv, you just know that they are the biggest pricks going!

Paddy mcguinnes is this guy for me

I think his wife must know and is just there for the kids 😬😬

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InBetweenTheLines · 16/08/2025 12:11

mumofoneAloneandwell · 16/08/2025 08:36

Omg 😄

Imagine being caught like that 😭, he probably thanks you for his freedom!

How did he see it before his wife?

mumofoneAloneandwell · 16/08/2025 12:09

Upsidedownyourturningme · 16/08/2025 12:05

I was recently the subject of a real life indecent proposal situation. Haven't told anyone irl.

I know the person irl and know they are pretty wealthy so don't doubt they meant it.

Ooo 👀

Were you tempted? Was he hot?

I'll share this secret - if I recieved such a proposal as a single woman now, I'd go for it 🙈🤭

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PauliesWalnuts · 16/08/2025 12:09

Local builder fancies himself as a property developer and buys probate houses (usually bungalows) in decent areas owned by pensioners for a song, and then extends, renovates, puts v high end fixtures and fittings in. He then lives in them for a bit and then sells them. He has several sons in early twenties who he pays cash hand to help, ditto undocumented immigrants. He’s done one on my road, and lives there now. He has been pretty open with the neighbour about flipping things to avoid paying capital gains tax etc. He’s pissed off everyone with out of hours noisy working, parking issues, deliveries at the crack of dawn etc. He is not well liked.

What he doesn’t know is that the neighbour’s son works for Border Force and her DIL works for HMRC fraud. They’ve been compiling a dossier of information to take to their respective employers and are pretty confident that they’ll catch him for several million pounds worth of tax evasion.

mumofoneAloneandwell · 16/08/2025 12:08

CelineDijon · 16/08/2025 11:17

I'm so sorry OP 💐

Thank you 🥺 x

Its fine honestly, I only remember him telling me off for my adhd traits as a kid.

And i'm free ☀️ - got my dd away from them all and we're making it on our own in a different part of london 🥰

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InBetweenTheLines · 16/08/2025 12:06

Kingsleadhat · 16/08/2025 11:53

I've no idea who any of these initials are. Enlighten me?

Sting from The Police married to Trudie Styer

Upsidedownyourturningme · 16/08/2025 12:05

I was recently the subject of a real life indecent proposal situation. Haven't told anyone irl.

I know the person irl and know they are pretty wealthy so don't doubt they meant it.

ConnieHeart · 16/08/2025 12:05

SeasalterSadie · 16/08/2025 11:46

SLB DD?

Pp has already said no. The wife isn't famous

InBetweenTheLines · 16/08/2025 12:04

Boulevard88 · 15/08/2025 23:00

So… a guy was telling me his unfortunate adventures after his divorce with dating. How he felt lonely etc. The divorce seemed quite amicable and I even suggested that maybe they should get back together with his ex wife, as he said at first that they divorced because the spark was gone and they weren’t attracted to each other anymore. I knew both of them and I always thought they match. I suggested maybe they could still work on their issues.
He then proceeded to tell me that things weren’t as good as they looked, the marriage was truly toxic and he wasn’t going to to bash his wife and said a few things she did who hurt him but also and also a few of the mistakes he had done. One of them was an affair with a married woman named X (rare name) who was originally from Y country (small country with not too many around from there) and that he got really invested with that affair. The cheated husband went after him, it was full on drama and then they stopped. I remember asking oh wow he took her back? And he said “yes” and that she actually had lots of time as she was child free then.
We live in an area that I have met lots of mums and friends and when I met X (a rare name) who originally comes from same Y country around the park at first I didn't connected the dots. We became mum friends and I really like her. I’m 99% she's the lady the guy was talking about to me , really his style, slim body/sexy face. The year she had her child also suits the hypothesis, as she would have been child free around the time the acquaintance had the affair. I would never tell her even that I know said man especially since that divorced man went after me too 😅
The guy still walks his dog around the same big park I meet very occasionally my friend but it never happened to be with her when I see him. I also avoid him like the plague, he found love though which is similar to my friend and me, slim build. The guy clearly had a particular type and also he didn’t stop even if the woman was married or in relationship.
moral of the story: no affairs with silly guys who don’t keep their mouth shut 😅. I’m a a nice person and I wouldn’t even mention to my partner or my best friend what I highly suspect about this other friend had happened prior to meet her.

You lost me at 'sexy face'

Kingsleadhat · 16/08/2025 11:53

CelineDijon · 16/08/2025 11:19

Took me ages to figure out who this is, but no.

I've no idea who any of these initials are. Enlighten me?

JackJarvisEsq · 16/08/2025 11:52

I’m convinced me ex is the secret child of a former footballer. I know his mum and the player were “friends” as she used to say way back.

my ex looks so much like him it’s scary.

I’ve only ever told my thoughts to my mother who agrees it’s possible

SeasalterSadie · 16/08/2025 11:46

ConnieHeart · 16/08/2025 11:43

They're not really an 80s band, they were formed in early 70s

SLB DD?

Dippythedino · 16/08/2025 11:44

JudgeJ · 16/08/2025 11:32

I would have no hesitation in telling the boyfriend to get a DNA test, why should he be stuck with the financial burden of someone else's child and a feckless partner while he is working hard?

@Phoebesparrow
Send an anonymous letter to the boyfriend and his family ASAP as well as to the family of the actual father so there's no way for her to wriggle out of it.

ConnieHeart · 16/08/2025 11:43

They're not really an 80s band, they were formed in early 70s

JudgeJ · 16/08/2025 11:41

Lucyweeks · 16/08/2025 10:48

They're all at it.
I had a shop selling luxury items. I learnt not to ask if the wife liked her gift!

Years ago my late OH and I went into a posh shop and he chose some silk boxers. I went to pay and I could see Miss Smug's mind whirring as she took the payment so I said to OH 'How will you smuggle them into the house without Name knowing?', I think she almost wet herself at the intrigue.

JudgeJ · 16/08/2025 11:32

Phoebesparrow · 16/08/2025 08:50

My ex was a nasty piece of work

He'd beat me up and tried to control every move I made while telling everyone I was shagging someone new every single day (not true-i was either at work or at home with the kids)

Of course when we broke up,he rewrote history and he was the perfect boyfriend and I was an utter slag

Anyway,the one one person who really ran with this was his younger sister

She was the spoilt rotten baby of the family and told so many lies about me

She got pregnant to her utter sap of a boyfriend (to be fair to him,he's a nice lad who works hard while she sits at home all day,baby is at nursery 8-6 as she finds it 'too hard')

Or so she claims

When the baby was conceived,it was at another sisters birthday party

Sappy but nice boyfriend was passed out pissed on the sofa and she was around the back of the garden shed with another fella

9 months later,baby pops out and is the spitting image of the other bloke

She opens her mouth one more time to slag me off and paint her brother as the poor victim and I'm telling her boyfriend

Best laugh is,my ex is insanely jealous of her for being the spoilt baby sister and would drop her under a bus himself but he's too scared of their mother to do it

I would have no hesitation in telling the boyfriend to get a DNA test, why should he be stuck with the financial burden of someone else's child and a feckless partner while he is working hard?

JudgeJ · 16/08/2025 11:23

LittleBitButthurt · 16/08/2025 00:05

No he honestly had no idea! My mum is pretty pissed off that my DGM went to her grave (nearly 20 years after my DGF) not letting him know the truth. I guess when she died in 1993 she could never had foreseen Ancestry being a thing.

I think there might be a lot of 80 years olds in the same position! My mother would describe many of her contemporaries as 'No better than she ought to be' or 'Selling it to Burtonwood' during the war when their husbands were away! Burtonwood was a large US base, (near Ikea).

CelineDijon · 16/08/2025 11:19

xSideshowAuntSallyXx · 16/08/2025 09:27

S from TP married to TS?

Took me ages to figure out who this is, but no.

NNforthispost · 16/08/2025 11:18

New name for this as its outing.

ex boss tried it on with me. He is living with long term partner and teens, after they met at work (she was still married at time and was his secretary). After he’d admitted he’d not been faithful in the 19 years they’ve been together. He’s gone from one affair to another with short gaps in between.

Hes shagged everyone from receptionists to other senior partners at the firm.

He does generally choose people in a lower position so he has leverage 🤢.

He will ‘work’ until 1am some days but he’s actually sexting people (no not me - but not sure why he told me all this shit).

He’s currently shagging another team manager and they go on ‘work trips’ with clients so everyone must know.

Absolutely disgusted with him and he used the excuse that he’s just like roommates with his partner and they’ve not had sex since 2019. Am not surprised - I bet she knows and is just worn down.

Unfortunately she’s not working (been SAHM since they had their first) and he’s on over 170k so I bet she feels stuck.

Occasionally I see them out as a family and I’m always so tempted to say something but I don’t. He’s such a deceitful unpleasant man but has a very good ‘nice guy’ mask.