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!

The lady whose husband of 25 years had an affair with someone, she pretty much just asked him to leave, which he did and then never contacted him again. Total class act, the dh was close to her adult son and he ghosted the exdh too. Lily007 I think the op was. I always think this is how I'd like to have been when I found out my ex was cheating. Even though she was distraught and hurt she never ever gave him the satisfaction of knowing how he'd made her feel, I often wonder if he ever tried to come back to her

It wasn't fake. Someone right at the end posted that she had died from a fake account. It was then updated and ended by her husband posting photos of her.

I often think of Pamela and her family
She was so brave

A long long time ago, a MNetter who was raped by her policeman DH while her baby was in the room and her MIL was next door. She managed to get to the GP alone who sent her for a scan because he'd given her third degree anal tearing- and he insisted on going to the scan with her. I hope she got away.

And the Channel Islander musician with an utter knob of a ex husband.

I remember this.... I wonder too what happened and hope she's now happy.

Oh and Brian from Hull's yoni massage proposition turned poetry slam thread ... sometimes think I imagined that but nope it's in classics!

That is truly horrific.😡

There was one years ago (10 plus) that I think about. It was where the OP’s husband had poured petrol on a bonfire causing an explosion where he and their young daughter were horribly burnt. I wonder if her daughter is ok and if she was able to forgive her DH.

I remember a post from a few years ago - a woman with several small children. It seemed she was from the Travelling community. Asking for help to escape her abusive husband.

She could only message sporadically as was terrified of being caught. She sounded so desperately scared and I often think of her and her young children. I hope she's ok.

I haven’t read the whole thread, suspect this has been mentioned.

The one where the poster bought her friends a posh lunch in New York, and then they charged champagne and other stuff up to her room when she had left. She never came back to update! Still seething.

I always think about the poster MoreLegsThanMe.

Her husband left her suddenly one Christmas for an OW. She was so dignified in her response. Her grief and eventual growing strength really shone through in her threads. They lasted for 12 months and then sadly, suddenly stopped one day.

this was the last one

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/relationships/4442137-More-Legs-chapter-four-the-one-where-life-begins-again-There-s-a-whole-world-out-there?page=18&reply=129828412

I wonder about this one too.

Also there was an MNer whose toddler son died when the husband took him out of the car in a carpark, didn't put the reins on him, went to get his twin sister out, and he was knocked down and killed. She posted a lot on threads about using reins, warning people about what had happened to her, and I think of her often.

I think a lot about the thread last year from a poster whose adult daughter was very ill in hospital (sepsis I think) and she and her husband lived abroad and were desperately trying to get to her bedside in time. They did, but the daughter died a while later. There was HUGE controversy over whether it was a troll thread or not, but MNHQ verified it. The poor mother started by getting so much support and ended by being vilified by posters. It was the complete best and very worst of MN in one thread!

Was this the one where, I think it was 2 threads but the same person. One where she had to go to bed at half 9 or something because he did. And the other where she'd rented a flat to escape to and was having trouble actually going through with it? I wonder what happened if so.

People always say it was a troll on these sorts of threads but I don't think mnhq ever confirmed it as such. So maybe or maybe not.

They didn’t verify it, they just asked posters to not troll hunt.
it had all the hallmarks.

I’m the mums cousin, the one who realised when reading the thread that the Op was my cousin who I hadn’t seen for about 50 years. I had however kept up on her life via family over the years.

The family are doing as well as can be expected under the circumstances and me and my cousin are going to plan our next trip back to Scotland around each other.

I think about her often too. I hope she is ok now.

it had all the hallmarks

it was very real.

Chopin is still around

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/relationships/4887355-at-chopinandchampagne-at-chopinanchampagne?reply=131506766

OMG this one. I still cant believe it.

Oh my god yes! This was middle of last year! I remember that

I always remember TrickyTreeLou whose husband was having an affair, got OW pregnant, and left for OW - then Lou found out she was also pregnant - she had a little boy called Adam who must be about 11 now!

Oh and when the XH left he took all the chutney from the fridge.

The Stately Homes threads always affect me - I am amazed at the strength and courage of the mumsnetters on those threads. Very courageous posts about what has gone on behind closed doors. I am in awe of the posters on that thread.