Old threads you followed that you would love to know what happened afterwards

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I remember an old thread where a group of friends basically denied themselves treats on holidays and days out for years because one couple in the group were supposedly hard up and they didn’t want the other couple to struggle. It turned out that they actually had saved a substantial amount to put their son through Uni . I wonder what happened next as the OP and friends were absolutely outraged and were going to confront hard up couple, but the thread had reached maximum posts so never knew what happened next . What is the thread that you remember and would love an update on ?

Not that long ago. There was a poster who was distraught because doctors were ignoring some really worrying symptoms in her son. Son ended up in hospital and it turned out he had a brain tumour. She said the doctor looked at her in a way she never wanted anyone to look at her again. I think about her often. I so hope her son had his op, recovered and is OK.

The lady who bought a house and it had an allotment as part of the sale- but the seller had not told the current person who was tending it. She had an operation and her husband was delighted to start work on the allotment but the squatter threated to sue him. Allotment drama. Original seller pretended to not know anything about the squatter lady.

The hilarious one about a spoiled SIL (and I think MIL) and OP was just such a brilliant writer, she had us all falling about. She was amazing, and I wish she’d come back!

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/childrens_health/5289280-out-of-my-mind-with-worry-part-2?page=1

Was she the one whose abusive husband pressured her to have violent sex every night? And sometimes she enjoyed it, and so didn’t think that it was rape? That is the most unsettling threat I have ever read on here and I’ve always hoped she got her and her lovely kids away from him. I think he had a Big Job and she just couldn’t see how to get away

Yes, I’ve often wondered about Morelegsthanyou

I sometimes wonder about this one, too.
She was desperately worried for her son.

My missing person is Somerville. She has name changed I believe but is possibly still here. Such a wonderful woman with such a tragic backstory. I hope her life is perfect as it’s no less than she deserves. She was also an epic support to me during my bloody awful divorce. I think of her often.

I was once mentioned in a thread like this and it’s really lovely and comforting to know that so many are rooting for you!

Two I recall , one was a woman. Who had an alert on her phone alerting her to a tracker nearby she was fearing it was an ex I can't remember all the details but everyone was telling her to take her car to a shop to have it inspected but she never came back with an update , another one was a woman who asked if this was worrying her partner kept telling her how easy it is to hold her breath and kept holding her neck and had been doing for a while with increasing pressure it was begining to scare her again lots of people telling her how unsafe it was and how much danger she was in but she never came back .

Not long or complicated, but I really wish we could get some closure on yesterday's thread where "Mr Shark" was coming to look at OP's car.......was actually a bit concerned for a while.....

I believe there was an update and she got it back, either the original still working or a replacement. I want to say it was left on her doorstep but might have made that bit up.

Secret banking?

I would love to know if the Sistine Chapel screamer has been overcome by such emotion again since.

Many years ago, late 2000s/early 2010s, there was a poster called DollyDownUnder who'd relocated to Australia with her husband, who then left her for another woman and refused to let her take their young children back to the UK. She was finding things really difficult financially as well as emotionally and practically, and knew she was stuck there if she wanted any contact with her children. I think the husband went on to have a new family with the other woman and he was very much the Disney dad with the big house, spending money etc while DollyDownUnder was struggling financially to look after the children (poor income, no emotiinal or practical support locally.) It was really sad.

The one where the OP and her husband bought a house in a village and really odd things kept happening, frustratingly I can't remember what they were now! Someone following OP whilst walking the dog? Someone kept turning up in their garden or something? I'm sure in the end they were essentially being hounded out of the village- there was a couple of locals who had wanted to buy the house or something? So they were all playing tricks on OP to scare her and get her to leave. I'm sure it escalated to the police and she was advised not to comment anymore on here as they believed someone in the village was following the thread.. it must have been 5 years ago or so, I'm sure it was over Christmas time. I always wonder what happened in the end and hope OP was okay as it got a bit sinister feeling!

I remember this one. Their kid had no student loans. Wonder what happened

The woman who married a banker and became a SAHM and thought she was set for life until she discovered he had run up hundreds of thousands of pounds of debt through a secret gambling addiction.

I am mainly interested in what happens when one party runs up huge debts in a marriage - are the couple truly both liable or is there some sort of legal loophole that protects the innocent party? It’s just such an awful situation.

Oh, and there was the really troubled young woman who compulsively lied and the lies got weirder and weirder. Something about finding her much older husband irresistible and shagging him 4-5 times a day 3 weeks after giving birth. I hope she has found some peace in her life. It really was like reading psychiatrist’s notes on a patient who subsequently killed themselves.

Love your username!

Yes, he made her have sex every day and she said he wasn't exactly gentle. She didn't really say she enjoyed it, just that it was okay and she didn't want to talk more about it. So so awful.

On the advice of MNers she went and got the morning after pill, then a coil and got the strings snipped as he'd previously said he could feel them. It was really hard for her as he called her from work constantly all day and she was worried her kids would tell him if she went to the doctors.

There was an update thread. She'd got a job- she'd applied for and interviewed for it in secret and he'd had a vasectomy. She said the fallout from that lasted a year.

She was such an intelligent woman and didn't have good support, it sounded like she wasn't really in contact with her family. So sad 😥

This was only last Christmas. Of only we found out what happened

Another one who was hugely invested in the allotment squatter / house sale. The allotment squatter’s allotment neighbour kept glaring at OP’s DH over the fence. It was springtime and there was a lot of chat about uprooting plants, moving sheds etc. Possibly someone was called Babs? There was a side drama about a garage?

Not quite the same but for years there was a poster on here called BigChocFrenzy who led the 5:2/Intermittent Fasting boards. Predating Michael Mosley iirc! Hugely knowledgeable and just lovely. Lived in Germany, described her lovely riverside walks. She left MN after, I think, some sort of issue on the FWB board. I often think of her and wonder how she is doing.

Can someone explain the lobster boy thread? It's been mentioned too many times not to know.

Also, about Kateandthegirls or if anyone has a link to it?

The one where a lady in France I think was divorcing a sulking partner and was so strong but he then was in hospital with mental health issues. She was so amazing and I hope she's ok now

There was also a poster who'd been married to a man for decades, brought up the family while he swanned off with his Big, Important Job. He treated her with no respect. The usual.
While sending her photos about home improvements he added one that let her know he was living a sleazy double life. While he was off on his next business trip she started looking after herself and getting ready financially to leave him. I hope she did.