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Elfingbell · 23/11/2020 15:06

Last year I felt I had it all - loved my job, bought my first home with the man I loved and had dd, then:
We get hit with astronomical fees for 24hr fire watch in our apartment block. My partner left me for another woman when dd was a few months old. Covid saw me working from home and looking after DD I wasn’t performing at my best and have now lost my job.
I’ve spent 90% of my savings and this week will move back to my hometown and move in with my mentally ill mother.
I’m returning the keys to my apartment to the bank which means I’ve lost my deposit money but frees me from the mortgage, repossession wasn’t far off anyway.
I know I’m lucky having somewhere safe to go and some savings but I’m just so sad that It’s come to this.
I’m not looking for sympathy or advice I just needed to write it down.

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HopeMumsnet · 02/12/2020 11:52

Hi everyone,

We're sorry to break in here because we can see how involved and supportive so many of you have been but we have just in the last short while been able to establish to our satisfaction that this has been a trolling exercise. Of course we have banned this poster.

There is some discussion in the office as to what to do next. Of course there's the standard deletion option, but this has been such an exercise in creative writing that we wondered if you'd like to have a bit of time to yourselves to fume/express disappointment/come up with our endings to this absolute fiction - we have rather brought the curtain down before the final act.

We'll check back in on the thread shortly. Sincere apologies to those who feel that their time has been wasted and many thanks to those who reported and kept their powder dry on the thread itself. It does allow us to be unequivocal.

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HebeMumsnet · 02/12/2020 20:49

@SleepingStandingUp It's kind-hearted and engaged posters like you that make Mumsnet the brilliant place it is. It would be such a horrible place if we all started from a position of assuming everyone was lying. And it's a rarer thing than it seems.

We also believe in giving the benefit of the doubt; it's always the best way until you're sure, and we couldn't be sure ourselves without some pretty extensive behind-the-scenes work here.

Honestly, you shouldn't feel taken in at all. These people are good at what they do. It's just a shame they don't channel their energies into something useful and positive, the way you do. and

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