What's some --more-- juicy gossip that you can't share irl but can share with nosy strangers on mumsnet?

How would she work it out

assume they used the same blood group for donor sperm

My SIL realised that her dad wasn’t her biological father through a school project on blood. She asked her parents what blood group they were, and years later when she was pregnant found her blood group matched neither of them.

So is the Dad. Takes 2.

@WhatTheHellsGoingOn

Weirdly this conjures up images of a colossal disembodied vulva approaching through the urban landscape and ppl fleeing for their lives!

🤣🤣🤣

Brilliant!!

😆

I would hate to know that! I do not think I could live with the guilt of the pain for the child and who he thinks his father is.

If you ever seem him out exercising, do you have the temptation to shout "Domino-ooh-ooh"?

My colleague's father is not his father. The father was affair partner and the colleague as a child was regularly wheeled out to be shown off. AP also paid all private school fees. Not sure how the mother explained that away!

I work in a role that requires me to monitor and audit ICT use and storage etc. I was drafted in to do some searches related to an HR investigation about bullying by a director.

I didn't find evidence of bullying, but I did find the director's creative writing that he was doing on work time.

Is that in the US, since you mention the 4th July holiday?

Mormon?
Ignore this. Seen the update.

No - my friend temped at a place HE worked last summer, when he was trying it on. He has a very unusual name, his daughter also. He will not be aware that my friend is starting work at the Dagis on Monday.

Oh you would be surprised what some folk get up to 😅😅

Sorry this one just doesn’t sound plausible to me. An ostensibly straight guy had an outdoor trans-threesome at a garden party?

Yes I think you are right. I have known a couple of men, both ladies man types, who have confided that they enjoy a bit of "fun with the boys" 😆

My husbands ex girlfriends SIL lied about the paternity of her eldest, the biological Dad is actually my friends cousin not the ex girlfriends brother, the ex girlfriend, her brother and their family don't know.

A guy like that would give me the absolute ick 🤢. The sister thing is also too weird - it gives new meaning to the term sibling rivalry 😂.

Totally off-topic, but in my very limited knowledge of polyamorous relationships, it never seems to be a situation of one woman and multiple husbands - it’s always the other way. Funny that.

Many years ago a close friend's husband had an affair with a work colleague. He was disciplined and moved to another location for sexting her while on duty and on a work phone.

The affair couple were both police officers. I found out through a reliable source in that police force - it was obvious that their marriage was under strain at the time too.

We're still friends with the married couple and neither of them has any idea we know this. I don't think the wife even knew it happened.

My husband has a half sibling he has never met and none of his other siblings know about. He has two older half siblings on his Mum's side, two on his Dad's and a twin. His dad fathered a child between marriages and hasn't ever acknowledged them, as far as I know. Which I quietly judge him for.

MIL told me this once, I don't really know why, she was a bit drunk. She asked me not to tell DH! After a while, I told him because it seemed wrong to know it when he doesn't. He doesn't seem to care at all! His sister would definitely care... I'm expecting it all to come out one day when someone does an ancestry DNA thing. I don't know if MIL told FIL that she'd told me, she's dead now.

She could be Peppermilks husbands sister.

One of my workmates goes to Turkey for 2 weeks with her female friend every year. Not to be mean, but they are both just normal looking women in their 50’s, neither of them go to the gym or have any work done. They both sleep with multiple young men who work around the hotel. The young men pay for a hotel room elsewhere as they can’t be seen to be doing it at work.
I also know a woman who is very unhappy at home (children in boarding school at fathers insistence) but stays for the lifestyle. She goes to Morocco every year on a girls holiday, where she sleeps with the pool boy. She says he’s her boyfriend, but he’s obviously a lot of women’s boyfriend.

If shes your SIL doesnt that mean her husbands brother is another sibling of your DH? How on earth could you manage to keep quiet?!

These stories can’t stay secret forever

not now we have 23 and Me / Ancestry websites

A colleague is having an affair with someone at a different workplace at the other end of the country (but we all know him). Her desk is full of love letters. I knew something had changed when she got her hair dyed blonde (it looks beautiful and she should have done it sooner) and took up running. Then I saw her leaving his hotel room after a work do. Lots of other people at work found out independently although she's never admitted it.

She also lives just round the corner from me, and I've run into the man she's having an affair with at the bus stop nearest our houses. I also see her husband, kids and different combinations of them regularly. It's so, so awkward.