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Do you ever wonder the outcome of some threads?

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Pechanga · 31/12/2020 14:11

I often follow threads that never reach a conclusion and do sometimes wonder...

Like the one where the woman had a terrible fallout with her DH...he then spent the entire weekend lying on the floor of their walk in wardrobe - in the dark- refusing to eat, drink or communicate with anyone. Every few hours someone would ask 'is he still in the wardrobe?'...and yes he was despite her sending the DC in to try to get him out etc. So strange and just such a desperate situation for her.

There was one a few years ago where a sister was telephoned by the school as an emergency contact to pick up her poorly niece, and when she took her home she discovered a lot of neglect, filthy home, unhygienic with no food etc. and began trying to get temporary custody of niece....I became so invested and then it ended up to be a troll apparently!

Which threads have stuck with you they you still
wonder about?

OP posts:
DramaAlpaca · 31/12/2020 21:16

I think some of you shouldn't believe everything you read Grin

I'm probably a cynical old thing, but I don't get over invested in threads. I take the view that if it sounds too good/bad to be true it usually is.

looselegs · 31/12/2020 21:42

@WingingItSince1973 turns out it was made up.
I watched it for weeks!

BettyOBarley · 31/12/2020 21:49

There was one a few years ago, well I think it was a few threads actually, about a lady who's husband had a brain tumour (was it Tunnocks or something?) I have wondered how she got on.

WeatherwaxOn · 31/12/2020 22:03

I remember one since time back. The OP was in an abusive marriage and had written hey thoughts down. Her DH found the paper and was making her eat it. I think they lived with his parents.
Often wonder if she got out.

Hawkins001 · 31/12/2020 22:18

The one where they had brought the house but then the neighbors trimmed the trees at the bottom of the garden to then discover there was a tree house

m0use · 31/12/2020 22:20

I'd say 50% of threads are lighthearted (or disinteresting/irrelevant to me), and 45% are absolute bollocks -- so I can't say I give them much after thought!

Drbrowns · 31/12/2020 22:22

There was one about 18months ago, a women who’s friend used her spare room constantly even though she had her own house, and she wouldn’t leave even though she’d been asked as they needed the room for a baby that was due. And their mutual friends expected the pregnant lady to just keep looking after the friend who wouldn’t leave and got pissed off with pregnant lady.

Soutiner · 31/12/2020 22:23

What happened in the thread where the woman found some huge framed pictures under her bed which she hadn’t put there and neither had her husband?

BogRollBOGOF · 31/12/2020 22:43

There was one a couple of years ago that started as a AIBU over OP wanting a brand of detergent, starting a row with "DH" and it unearthed a horrible catalogue of financial abuse and coercive control. OP was so ground down and just wasn't expecting 20 odd pages of being told that she was being abused and advice on LTB and got the thread pulled. She just genuinely couldn't tell anymore if it was reasonable to pick a different brand costing a few pence difference as she had so little autonomy in her life.

There's been so many threads where it has been something so trivial that you can't call anymore that have revealed a catalogue of abuse, but that one was particularly chilling.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 31/12/2020 22:57

I was wondering about Twittlebee Woods as well - but I think the OP had some very upsetting life events that were obviously way more important.

Did we ever have a resolution about the pregnant woman who kept stealing her colleague's can of pop because she "needed" it, the woman who kept ordering from the informal workplace lunch club (OP had a discount card) but never paying for her order or the couple who bought a house that came with a lovely big piece of land and the neighbour kept trying to convince them that they were legally required to sell it to them for a pittance (and sent highly dubious 'legal' letters using obviously pretendy Latin)?

HyggeTygge · 31/12/2020 23:30

@WeatherwaxOn

I remember one since time back. The OP was in an abusive marriage and had written hey thoughts down. Her DH found the paper and was making her eat it. I think they lived with his parents. Often wonder if she got out.
That was this one, I remember it too www.mumsnet.com/Talk/relationships/3290749-He-made-me-eat-paper
Oldbutstillgotit · 31/12/2020 23:49

@ HyggeTygge
I also remember this one and have often wondered how OP is .
I also wonder about the ones where the OP is desperate for a proposal and it hasn’t happened.

Nikhedonia · 01/01/2021 12:26

I rarely remember threads.

I've just read the one about the poster falling for her builder... Hmm

PrincessFiorimonde · 01/01/2021 12:58

@SpiderGwen

The AIBU poster about calling her husband “Brian” (his nitpicking brother’s name) and him going nuts about it. Then it all came out he was coercively controlling her, had been since her late teens and with MN posters’ help was putting together an escape plan.

She’d got a uni place, too. I think about her often and hope she got out ok.

IIRC the poster had both a uni place (wanted to be a teacher) and somewhere to live, but was waiting for some money before she could leave. A maturing endowment or something? Anyway, the money was late and her husband discovered her plans, or maybe she told him. And he persuaded her that her plans were unrealistic; she would never cope with uni/teaching and she was better off staying put. Sadly, I think that's how the thread ended.
Keyra · 01/01/2021 14:29

@Nikhedonia

I rarely remember threads.

I've just read the one about the poster falling for her builder... Hmm

@Nikhedonia that was my thread - all true I promise:).

I remember a really sad one from years ago and sometimes wonder how the poster and her family are doing.

The poster had a disabled child who wasn't invited to a party that their next door neighbour's child was having. The two children were in the same class at school, and every other child in the class had been invited. The poster's child was able to see all the other children turning up for the party :(. Bad enough as it was, but the kicker was that the next door neighbour was a vicar. I remember crying when reading that thread.

Deadringer · 01/01/2021 15:05

Keyra please put me out of my misery, did you end up with any of the builders?

IfTheSockFits · 01/01/2021 15:22

I've got to admit that when a thread grows wings and takes off into the high hundreds of posts really quickly, followed by another thread, and another, I am usually fairly sceptical. Some of them are full of totes hilaire comments with various posters all trying to outdo themselves, some are full of drama, but I take the whole lot with a pinch of salt now.

Nikhedonia · 01/01/2021 15:37

I find the long "hilarious" threads where the OP buggers off and doesn't tell anyone the outcome really hard to believe. I'm sure some are true, but largely they just seem like a complete tease.

UpShutTheFuck · 01/01/2021 15:59

@Lulalulabelle

There are some updates here

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/4121954-InTheShadowOfTheMushroomCloud?

Keyra · 01/01/2021 16:07

@Deadringer

Keyra please put me out of my misery, did you end up with any of the builders?
@Deadringer CG and I did get together briefly round about this time two years ago, but it didn't last long as a proper relationship. We ended up in a FWB situation for a while and now he's with someone else. But we're still good friends, and he has been really helpful and supportive to me!

CB (who's the one I originally had a crush on) has also become a friend, despite the age gap, and we text pretty regularly. We've been out for drinks a couple of time's (when it was allowed, and not just the two of us)! He and my Dd had a couple of dates but that didn't go anywhere. Earlier this year, one of my ds's was furloughed and ended up doing some labouring on the site where CG is now working!

CustardySergeant · 01/01/2021 16:19

I want to know what happened about the BIL who stole the OP's raffle prize of a new computer by lying that she hadn't won anything in the raffle.

Cattenberg · 01/01/2021 16:35

I hope CoatsProtectionLeague’s thorough planning paid off. Please say it did.

Also, there was once a thread by a 14-year-old girl who was heavily pregnant and hadn’t told her parents. Mumsnet locked the the thread just as the girl was about to tell her friend’s Mum. It would be nice to have known that she had support from an adult IRL.

Deadringer · 01/01/2021 16:54

Keyra that sounds like a happy ending to me.

spiderlight · 01/01/2021 16:59

The one I always wonder about was called something like 'Am I going to die on the train?' and was started by a poster who was suddenly struck down with agonising abdominal pain on a long train journey and didn't know what to do. People found out where the nearest hospital to her next stop was (someone famously directed her to a specialist eye hospital), she stopped a ticket collector and I think he was going to help her to get off the train and into a taxi to hospital, and then she never updated :( I can't find the thread now at all - it was a couple of years ago at least.

TodgerStrunk · 01/01/2021 17:08

There's a few that stick- and which don't come up on the troll watch list, which narrows it down.

Waves, who had a baby with a horrible ex in possibly the Channel islands. Things seemed to have turned a corner but the baby is probably all grown now.

And a poster who was married to a policeman, who raped her while her baby was in the room and her MIL was in the room next door. She needed a scan for the injuries sustained and he insisted on going with her to hold her hand. I'd love to hear she was away from him and thriving and/or that something very horrible had happened to him.

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