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My children only exist because of....

137 replies

nojellybabies · 14/01/2019 20:19

Swan Lake. My children didn’t know I liked it till tonight so I told them it’s the reason they exist.

It’s like this:

Lonely musical little girl spends a decade dancing to the record
Is intrigued by the romance and mystery of Russia
Tries to go there
Gets as far as Prague
Meets man
Has babes

You?

OP posts:
Pyjamaface · 14/01/2019 20:41

Jagerbombs. Vast amounts of jagerbombs

MakeItAmazing · 14/01/2019 20:42

A stamp.

We both separately joined a pen club. We're old! He wrote to me, I wrote back. Spoke on phone and met. Been together 23 years.

DarkArts · 14/01/2019 20:42

A hostel for the homeless, we were project workers.

Sewrainbow · 14/01/2019 20:42

I didn't do so well as I wanted at a level, went to different university met dh, then pill failure several years later!

londonmummy2 · 14/01/2019 20:44

Boring version: My previous job where I met DH.

Longer version: for my love of extravagance and money and living in London which led me to do the job I was doing!

MissMacaron · 14/01/2019 20:45

Wanting to explore my kink. Met DH on a website dedicated to meeting like minded people, thought we’d occasionally fuck, no strings attached. Turned out he was the kindest, loveliest man I’d ever met, as well as the filthiest.

[everyone thinks we met through work]

KickBishopBrennanUpTheArse · 14/01/2019 20:45

Vodka and red bull.

CrochetBug · 14/01/2019 20:46

Because I agreed to go on a date with a guy to stop her cousin trying to get her to date him.

Procrastinatingpeacock · 14/01/2019 20:47

DS1 only exists because we decided to try for a baby sooner rather than later after my mum was diagnosed with terminal cancer.

I then waited to try for baby number 2 until after she died as I knew I wouldn't manage juggling a toddler, pregnancy/ baby, and caring for her.

It sounds depressing when written down, but actually the happiness that they brought to our lives during dark times has been a blessing to our whole family.

TwllBach · 14/01/2019 20:48

Pill failure!

RLABC · 14/01/2019 20:50

Because I was able to fight off his father when he was trying to punch the fetus out of me.

Gotstuckwiththisname · 14/01/2019 20:50

DH finding me on internet dating. My search area was smaller than his, so I'd never have found him.

RLABC · 14/01/2019 20:51

Sorry to be such a downer but that was honestly the first thing that came to mind.

BillywilliamV · 14/01/2019 20:52

DH shaving off his moustache 2 weeks before we met, I wouldn’t have gone near him if he’d still had it.

MrsMoastyToasty · 14/01/2019 20:56

Because I was wingman for my friend.
She gets her bloke. Months later I invite both of them to my birthday night out. Her bloke asks if he can bring his mate.

willowmelangell · 14/01/2019 20:56

The night before my DF went to hospital for his vasectomy , DM seduced him and afterwards lay on her tummy.
She had heard it was the best way to conceive...she had twins.

BitchQueen90 · 14/01/2019 20:56

My ex.

DS's father is friends with my ex and we started dating a few months after me and ex split up (ex was fine with it!) Grin

TheMadGardener · 14/01/2019 20:56

At the start of my second year at university, I was moving off campus and had been offered a room in a student house where a friend was living, but flaky friend let me down by giving the room to someone else. I was miffed and at short notice managed to find a room in another nearby student house. I lived there for two years. During the second year one of the students upstairs there moved out and a Ph.D student I'd never met moved in. Reader, I married him. And if my flaky friend hadn't been flaky, I wouldn't have been living in the house that DH moved into, I might not have met him and DCs might not exist. Hoorah for flaky friends!

Fairylightfurore · 14/01/2019 20:57

Because of modern medicine and the NHS. My first pregnancy was eptopic. Without the above I wouldn't have survived to have them.

Walnutwhipster · 14/01/2019 20:57

My best friend surprised me with Billy Connolly tickets and we went to a club afterwards on a Monday night, a day we'd never go clubbing. I was introduced to her brother's friend... 24 years and three DC later.

AmmoniteMum · 14/01/2019 20:58

The UK being in the EU! Dh arrived here 25 years ago to work for a British engineering company.

ItCanOnlyBeBarrysTea · 14/01/2019 20:58

Bright blue alcopops in Fresher's Week I suppose Grin

Anothermothersusername · 14/01/2019 20:59

Science

LisaSimpsonsbff · 14/01/2019 21:00

The beer DH and I drank the first night we slept together after a decade of friendship!

Then, seven years later, either progesterone suppositories or just plain luck, depending on which recurrent miscarriage expert you listen to

minipie · 14/01/2019 21:01

Thyroxine. I tried for ages to get pregnant, no luck, GP found me to be “borderline” hypothyroid and I twisted her arm into prescribing medication. A few weeks later boom.

Also modern medicine as DC1 was born not breathing and had to be resuscitated (fun times) and DC2 wouldn’t have been possible if I hadn’t had anti-D jabs during and after DC1.