Mumsnet threads you can't stop thinking about

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Happy New Year!

I'm still off work and getting bored. Looking for some good threads to waste a morning diving into.

What threads have stuck with you since you read them on here? Any with particular good advice? Funny or just plain scandalous also welcomed!

Didn't she apologise for not replying as she was off having sex with her husband?

Thank you @REP22 🙏 Gosh yes so do I. That poor woman. I think about her & her son regularly. I admired her strength and stoicism, she's inspiring

Re: the post about the woman whose husband was using escorts - It might not be the same thread I am thinking of, but if it is, it was someone I know and yes, she did get out safely eventually. No money from the divorce unfortunately, and life hasn’t been all roses for her on a couple of other fronts, but she is safe and has a great network of friends now.

This is at least 10 yrs old and I came across it in the dead of night while feeding a newborn. It was so horrific it's never left me and I've wondered about her for years.

Poster was Sahm mother of a newborn and at least one toddler possibly two. I think the baby was about 2 weeks old. Her husband had been pestering her for sex ina really aggressive way since she'd been discharged from hospital. She'd quite rightly told him that she was in no position to have sex yet. She posted after he anally raped her by pinning her down while she slept. The baby in a cot beside the bed.

When urged to go to the police asap she said he was a serving police officer and she wouldn't be believed. She had nowhere to go and described behaviours, rape aside to serious coercive control/threat of violence in her marriage that had gone on for some time. She eventually stopped responding and the thread maxed out with concerned posters trying to get her to ask for help.

ThenAgain - yes that name looks very familiar! I feel like I haven't seen that username around very much recently but I really appreciated the advice I received at the time!

There was a poster who was homeless and spend the nights riding the buses for warmth and safety.

Against all mumsnet sense I offered to transfer her money and she very graciously refused

She had a daughter that she was desperate to see. I'm sure her user name had spotty socks in it.

I hope she's OK.

There was one about the husband or partner who wouldn’t let her see what was in the garage - I still wonder what he was trying to hide.

The lady in Jersey (I think she was a musician) with a really awful husband. She had left him and posted regularly for a long time, she stopped posting very abruptly and I always thought she had gone back to him.

There was also one where I can only remember the vague details of. It was a husband with some sort of memory loss, his family were taking over all aspects of his life and pushing the OP out. I can’t remember how it ended.

Was that Odd Socks?

@AmytheDancingBrick wasn't that one a woman whose father had sonething in the garage? It was a locked room or something?

@AmytheDancingBrick yes, I think you're right. OddSocksHighHeels perhaps.

The thread "you're a man now" where women are now men and what our privileges are
It was the reason I joined mumsnet and have it saved to I can read it from time to time

I read a thread quite recently called something along the lines of 50 and pregnant? I can't find the thread at all now and would love to know if the test she was going to do in the following week was actually positive - no idea why it sticks in my brain, just would love to know the outcome.

@AmytheDancingBrick that what OddSocksHighHeels. Or maybe StripeySocksHighHeels. I remember her threads though, where she spent the nights on nightbuses.

LottieJenkins' threads about Wilf. So gorgeous. He must be very grown up by now. I think I saw her on here recently under a different name.

She is still here and Wilf posts occasionally too.

There was a real high flyer who lived in NY who used to post frequently. Wanttobeasupermom or something. She was a force to be reckoned with!

More lighthearted for me, the one about crows recently. Something I've never thought about, made me laugh a lot at people's experiences 🤣

An OP and her husband were artists working together on projects, and had a home by the sea. Friends liked to invite themselves to stay in this home by the sea as it made for an inexpensive holiday.

CF invited herself to stay whilst OP and DH were working full-on in order to complete a project by a set deadline. They said, 'no, CF, get lost'.

CF turned up anyway, arriving in a taxi and trundling a suitcase down the path. OP and DH hear her leaning on the bell and ignore her, ploughing on with the project.

They receive an influx of texts from CF telling them they'd 'ruined' her expected holiday, which they also ignored.

I'd love to know how that situation eventually panned out!

I'm astonished how often this comes up on MN - people thinking they are entitled to invite themselves to use someone else's house as a free holiday home. And the OPs often worry that they're BU to say no, or even suggest a less inconvenient time! Sometimes the CF visitors announce rather than ask. Incredible.

There was one (a few years ago now) where an OP had had the chance to take her daughters on an exotic holiday (perhaps Australia?) but her ex husband had said no as it would cut into his contact time with them and he wouldn't move it. Then, a year or so later he was going to Australia with his new wife and her son but wasn't going to take the daughters (because the wife was paying half). They were furious with him and he kept sending self pitying texts to the OP about it.

Another was where an OP's ex had asked her to give him an itemised list of everything he spent to "salve the wound" of him having to pay child support.

Troll thread.

Sorry haven't RTFT but I have two threads on my Watching list that never were updated. One was more recent, an OP who went to A&E with an awful long-lasting headache but was worried she was being a hypochondriac. Another much older thread was from someone calling herself SecretJob - she was in a very controlling relationship (it sounded like) and she had found a new place to live and a new job but her H had found out about the job and was really angry. She nearly managed to leave him but returned home at the last minute. Her last post was December 2021 and I still keep that old thread on my watchlist just in case she ever comes back.

Do you know that for sure???

There was a poster with Karen in her user name who wrote about her abusive and vile STBXH who she called "the Toad". God, I hope she's free of him.

I remember that! The OP wrote very well and it was an amusing read