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What post would you have posted exactly 15 years ago tonight?

163 replies

ShadowoftheFall · 03/12/2022 23:17

That’s December 2007. I would have posted something dull about work, and being bullied under the guise of “managed out”. All worked out well, in a better place now. You?

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IncessantNameChanger · 05/12/2022 00:16

I had a newborn and a four year old..we was in a travelodge going to York Christmas Market. I think I was over the moon loved up with my baby. But secretly shocked I'd two sons and not two daughters 😄 I always thought I'd have two girls just like my mum. Would love to go back and do it all again

IncessantNameChanger · 05/12/2022 00:21

I was all cosyed up in a little nock at Bath's bath breastfeeding descretly when a tour group of Chinese tourists turned up and then I was being filmed by the masses.

Blocked · 05/12/2022 00:57

I was having a torrid time, had just gone to uni and was working in the student bar, left my long term boyfriend at home (was in my early twenties) I really really fancied a bloke I worked with and we were texting each other a lot but I felt bad about my boyfriend. It was an immature version of an emotional affair I guess.

(I broke up with my boyfriend, spent the next two years seeing the other bloke on and off (and other people too) and didn't end up with either of them by the time all was said and done!)

SleepingStandingUp · 05/12/2022 01:01

I was 28 coming 29 so a year off from meeting DH so still heavily crushing on a guy from a hobby. So probably about him. He said this or did this, when we sit next to each other our legs will end up touching etc. does he really like me and should I tell him?

I did tell him drunkenly later the following year, he turned me down, I accepted a OLD date from a guy and married him! Still friends with the crush. Realised he still treats me pretty much the same way so it def wasn't reciprocated!

SleepingStandingUp · 05/12/2022 01:04

Oh no I can't read. 15 not 12. I was only 25!! Oh god, it prob would have been about the guy i met through a different hobby who was 15 years older than me, we broke up when I was 24 but it was messy for a while after. We'd camp at the hobby and share a tent, flirt all weekend, the odd snog but it was massively unhealthy from the start

crisisofconfidence · 05/12/2022 01:06

ShadowoftheFall · 03/12/2022 23:17

That’s December 2007. I would have posted something dull about work, and being bullied under the guise of “managed out”. All worked out well, in a better place now. You?

I have been here that long
I could prob go and look
Mine was probs about the house we didn't buy

Ciri · 05/12/2022 01:18

I was on May leave with ds2. I wish I could go back. No stresses just nice times with my baby boy. In comparison life now is horribly stressful and I do t seem to be able to get on top of it.

Ciri · 05/12/2022 01:19

I was also probably MNing

echt · 05/12/2022 05:13

I would have posted about my second year in Australia, going well, and thought about my DB and SIL who died on that date, though some years apart.

InTheFourthAtMalloryTowers · 05/12/2022 05:26

i had spent the week in intensive care with 7 year old DS (millennium baby) whilst my useless ex husband was off gallivanting and 3 year old DS was with ex MIL.

DS was very sick at the time and we nearly lost him a few times during his childhood.

I probably posted that I was scared of DS1 and was sleep deprived. And at how useless ex was. And I how I missed my mischievous lively 3 year old.

DS1 is now 22, outgrew the medical condition (against the odds) and plays sport at international level and works in London. Having the time of his life.

DS2 is in his first year at uni so I am now empty nesting in term time.

ex is long gone and I have a lovely new husband who is the kindest best guy ever.

I miss having small kids but love my life.

louderthan · 05/12/2022 09:20

I believe I was on stage in one of my assessed performances final year drama school so I wouldn't have been online.

Marmite0nToast · 05/12/2022 09:24

I was struggling to adjust to being a mum, suffering from severe PND and had a horrible suspicion that I was already pregnant again......fast forward to 2022 and here I am with two teens (yep, suspicion was correct!) and thankfully in a lot better place mentally!

trytopullyoursocksup · 05/12/2022 09:25

I would have posted something about having to get a LLETZ thing done which was really freaking me out. I felt very lonely with it, my P at the time (of about 3 years) was pretty useless, I was really struggling with life and dreading Christmas and new year. P was pretty isolating for me, I had lost all my old friends because he'd insulted them and my ex's new gf had turned them against me too, and I hadn't gelled with his friends and in fact, at a NY party the year before he had alienated them all by getting obscenely embarrassingly drunk and I felt really bleak about the fact that we literally were invited to no NY parties between the two of us. I had tried to make new friends as a couple but it wasn't working because he didn't think I was producing cool enough people for us to befriend. I was really lonely and lost and thought I was getting cancer. We went out to dinner on NYE and I was kind of keeping my mood up ok but for some reason around pudding time he decided to take the piss out of some things I had said when we met. Over 3 years before. I was still attached to those memories at the time and I found it really hurtful when he did that, which he was going through a phase of doing. I was just plunged into the despair I had been holding at arms' length all night. I felt like I had nothing. I had a shit job, no friends, and a man who thought I was a joke, who I'd moved in with because he had nowhere else to go, and my mum was upset about that, and he didn't even love me properly to make it worth it - and an uncertain medical future (I know LLETZ is nothing but I didn't know that then).

In the new year I went for the procedure and in the waiting room there was a video of baby massage. I decided to have a baby at that moment. When I went back for the check up 6 months later I was pregnant. Now I have two brilliant daughters, plus the best friends a woman could have, and that man is a speck in the rear view mirror.

mamabear715 · 05/12/2022 10:01

Probably wrapping youngest DS's star wars christmas presents & wondering whether to write just Mummy or Mummy & Daddy on the gift tag.. DH had died in May 2007 so it was our first Christmas without him. :-(
Little DS is 21 now & we all made it through. :-)

CleopatrasBeautifulNose · 05/12/2022 11:02

I was unmarried but in relationship with now dh and was leaving a job that saw me travel round the UK living out of a suitcase most of the time and had just accepted a great new job closer to home and was working my notice. .. So I'd have posted something like 'yay got offered the great new job and my boss is lovely'. Only to find once I started they'd had a staff reshuffle and my new boss was a horrid bully who spent the next year dismantling my sanity until I had to leave. Which was the catalyst for a big rethink where I scrapped the lot and went back to uni, qualified in something totally different and am now living a completly different life in a different part of the country, not quite sorted the career still yet as I got diverted into kids+major life project... But I'm much happier and making the best of my opportunities backed by my lovely dh and kids.

CleopatrasBeautifulNose · 05/12/2022 11:04

@mamabear715 💐 that must have been heartbreaking. So pleased you and your ds have got through it, you must be an incredible mum and I bet your dh would be proud. Xx

caroleanboneparte · 05/12/2022 11:06

I'd have been posting about whether I should let dp move into my flat.

If I'd had Mumsnet from 18-28 my life would be irreconcilable!

But I had no one to advise me back then!

Bbq1 · 05/12/2022 11:13

I would have said how much I was looking forward to Christmas with my 2 year old, husband of 8 years and my mum and dad and il's. Still looking forward to Christmas with now 17 year old ds, husband of 22 years and just my mum - as sadly my lovely dad and greats il's have now passed away. Wish they were all still here.

lovelypidgeon · 05/12/2022 11:49

I would have posted about feeling trapped between work and family expectations where I wasn't able to do anything for myself and just felt like I was on a constant treadmill that I wanted to get off. I was working long hours in a job that I'd initially loved but due to changes in the culture/people etc at work and changes in my own priorities now that I had a small child I hated every minute of it, but felt I had no choice but to carry on as we depended on my income and I knew from friends in the industry that other companies were just the same. I spent December wishing for the few days off I had over Xmas but then PIL insisted that we must stay with them for most of it, on the basis that DH's gran quite old and FIL had a long term illness so it could be our last chance for a family Christmas with them. I felt it would be too selfish to put my foot down and say we must stay at home. By boxing day I ended up quite ill with flu but felt an overwhelming sense of relief (despite feeling very ill) that I'd have to go home and have a few days in bed. This pushed me to the realisation that I needed to change things at work and at home.

If I'd posted that in Dec 2007, I could have done a follow up post 5/10 years later to say that it had taken a while but DH and I had both changed our careers so that we could pay the bills but both have some time at home. Every Christmas since then had been at our place, with DH family invited for Xmas dinner. Despite MIL's protests every year that this could be the last one for DH's Gran and Dad they both lived for many more years and enjoyed plenty of visits. When they they did pass away, MIL moved on to claiming that every year could be her last so if we'd done as she asked from 2007 we would currently be our 15th year of 'last' extended Xmases at her place (despite her being fit and well, and decades younger than her mum was when she passed away).

PlateUpTheTofurkey · 05/12/2022 12:09

Was 25. Had just met who would become DH a month before that. Was having great fun living in a big city with a bunch of friends who were also all starting into what would be long-term relationships. Cooked our first proper pre-Christmas dinner, complete with turkey, for friends. Great memory that

mamabear715 · 05/12/2022 12:59

Thank you so much, @CleopatrasBeautifulNose , I was happy to read that you got away from the bully & life moved on! :-)

BertieBotts · 05/12/2022 13:05

Something about how much I loooooooooved my DP and/or how he had upset me that week. MNers would have spotted the red flags and pointed them out, I would have flounced. (I wasn't on MN at that time).

Trudiu8 · 05/12/2022 13:07

I was 30 and had young kids... I think I would have been focusing on my FIL, and how difficult he was. I wish I had posted - I put up with his bullying behaviour for too many years before finally saying enough was enough.

BertieBotts · 05/12/2022 13:08

Oh, I did later find MN and ditch him but too late - I got pregnant approx NYE 2007. DS1 is currently just leaving for afternoon school. I married someone lovely, moved abroad and had two more children. I am much less

TeenDivided · 05/12/2022 13:09

Looking forward to our first Christmas with our 2 new adopted girls, aged 8 and 3. Our long, long awaited family.