to ask would you like your partner on MN

[McHappyPants2012]

i wouldn't mind, but i wouldn't want him to know my user name.

I wouldn't mind at all

He knows my user name and lurks sometimes if I leave it up on the screen

I'm not sure how MN would react to his piss taking humour though

I thought you meant would I like him as a poster. Probably not! He knows my user name and we have turned to the MN jury on occasion.

I wouldn't mind, but I'd be surprised. He likes hearing my accounts of interesting threads, and he knows my username, but I can't see him joining. I wouldn't be worried if he did, because I've never whinged about him, or been much different to my usual self.

NO! MN is like my dirty secret. He has no idea!

He wouldn't 'get' that most of the women on here are intelligent, well educated and that I have actually changed my opinion on/become educated about things I previously had no experience of as a result.

Although I have found myself sharing the wisdom of MN/MNers in certain debates.

DH would consider it as little more than a bunch of women with nothing better to do with their lives having a gossip/talking about the children at the school gates and think that I was letting myself down by being on here!

Good to know your DH's opinion of us.

It's not an opinion he has expressed. We've never discussed MN. I'm not sure if he even knows about it.

But I think that's how he'd regard it without looking a bit more closely.

I could share the details of my day with him, including coming home from work, having to 'rod out' the toilet; take washing out of machine; put more in. Make dinner. Get kids to archery lesson (younger son has Chrohn's so can only do low-key sports).
Take washing out of machine; help elder son gather materials for project. Locate games kit x2. Give advice to friend of friend re party wall agreement. Do online booking for parents' eve appts. Put more washing in machine on time-delay so that I can hang it out as soon as I get up & so prevent need for ironing. All the above is done with Kindle in other hand so that I can discuss Orwell in my spare time.

Let him have a go! My 2x teens find snippets quite fascinating; tho' have to admit that they got hooked in in the era of The Poo Troll.

Oops, which probably just add grist to his mill. Tell him I'm a member of the National Trust. That might make feel better!

It might (as are we ) but he knows nothing of MN!

Don't take it personally! He's just made the mistake of catching the odd episode of Loose Women. I think he would think MN is no different.

This is only what I think his opinion would be, he's not expressed one. But he's aware of the PTA mum cliques, the school gate mum cliques in RL and I think he'd just think that MN was a big one of those!

he is already on mumsnet

Mines had a look around, mainly the bereavement threads as he knows talking to people in similar situations to us has helped me ( late pg loss) but I can't imagen him ever posting.

I'm not sure I'd want him too having read some replies male posters get, well not in AIBU anyway

Hell no, it would terrify him, poor love. Large groups of women, discussing things? Stuff of nightmares for him.

I'm trying to get mine on. He'll happily sit and read over my shoulder at his slowest reading setting! but won't join himself! Yesterday I got so fed up of him reading the pregnancy 'advice' thread (we haven't got kids or trying for them anytime soon!) that I told him to fuck off and read it on his own laptop He did though! And lurked on a few other threads!

He also knows my username and many of my past ones. He also 'knows' when I post about him and usually about what. Or generally when I've been on MN because I usually start a conversation about something so completely random that the only place I could have got it from was MN He finds MN hilarious though.

But he won't join MN

DH is a dinosaur. He can just about make a phone call/send a text from his mobile phone. If he attempts to type anything on a computer it usually follows this pattern

1. Hunt the keyboard for the required letter
2. Press the key with index finger
3. Pause
4. Look at screen, hunt for the letter on the screen
5. Satisfy himself that the letter that he singularly pressed with index finger IS indeed, miraculously there.

6 REPEAT ALL OF THE ABOVE FOR EACH.SODDING.LETTER

by the time he'd completed a post, the thread would have been archived.

What FolkGirl said. Dirty secret in a big way. We've not even discussed TTC or if we even want kids. He'd FREAK out if he saw what I confess to on the Waiting to TTC thread.

MN is also my PiL bashing venting outlet. He agrees with me re: them, but I don't think he'd be too impressed to know it was all out there on the internet.

He's also incredibly private and hates anyone knowing our business. Which is pretty much how we keep it IRL, but it means I have a load of pent up stuff to tell people that all comes out on here.

No.

He likes to hear about the odd thread that makes him laugh but he wouldn't sign up or come on here of his own accord.

Anyway, even though we adore each other there is many a day I want to shake him till his head pops off and I need here -----> this space

It wouldn't bother me in the least, and other people would probably prefer him to me. He is all that is kind and patient and thoughtful and pleasant and nice to talk to, and I'm a bit of a complete cow when something pisses me off. I tend to be blunt and tell people exactly what I think without benefit of any tact or diplomacy sometimes, whereas DH is the opposite and would never hurt someone's feelings or be rude by bluntness iyswim. I still have no idea why he puts up with me! but am eternally thankful he does