to ask what do you want to thank mumsnet for ?

[bojo7]

Ok . long-time lurker and would not be posting except for extended liquid lunch...

I am in the final stage of divorce and although marriage was over before discovered mumsnet, you gave me the strength to say to STBXH that he had to leave. I have got lovely house (and mortgage) and 4 kids in settlement so am grateful compared to many but know that if I am worried at 3am , mumsnet will make laugh and someone will have a similar problem to me that I can read about.

Lots of other stuff too. If I had to pick one it would be that I don't have bad breath anymore. It is the tongue! You need a tongue brush. Now have sweet breath. What is your biggest thing?

For the SN boards and all of the fantastic posters, who haves educated me, picked me up, made me laugh, introduced me to "caring carrots and goose mythology" . I remember the day my ds got his diagnosis and I felt like a death sentence, I was so low and thought I'd always feel that way. The MNSN posters rallied and I started to feel hope, the sky hasn't fallen and the world wasn't over and no one was going to die......

Also grateful for the following:
Gentlemans vegetables
Fanjo
Foof

Oh ffs - preview Frizzcat, preview

For teaching me the word "cocklodger", thus helping me let go of the guilt I felt over leaving my first husband.

For installing a permanent AIBU moral compass in my head.

For teaching me about parenting journeys and experiences very different from my own.

For helping me get my second book deal.

Love you all!

For helping get mine and DH's sex life back on track when I thought I was alone in the problems we were having.

For the support I received when I felt like a failure as a mother due to having breast feeding issues.

For making me see how much genuine support and compassion can be offered just through the written word and what kind hearts most MN's have.

What a really lovely thread and I hope MN HQ see it do they know just how invaluable this website is

For the amazing support while going through 2nd hyperemesis gravidarum preg

For beign an english language community, robust and honest and harsh and like a breath of fresh air sometimes.

As soon as I joined and read the relationships forum I realised just how emotionally abusive my ex was which really helps me not view the past through rose tinted glasses.

Style and beauty for some pretty things although my bank account definitely doesn't agree.

For opening my eyes to the trials and tribulations of other people. For making me think outside my own little box and realising there is no 'one size fits all' solution.

For helping me understand the two children in my DDs class with SNs, and for helping me to help DD understand them.

For helping me to challenge unacceptable practices and views with cold hard facts - be it on benefits, sexism, disablism et al.

For giving me some good laughs, good friends and companionship.

For educating me and teaching me to think more deeply.

For telling me it's not my fault.

For making me laugh widely at things like cutter up pear and painted pigeon

For teaching me the 'bedding in a pillowcase' idea.

For just being there...support, friends, and a lot of laughter! How can forget penisbeaker or penguingate!

Who not how!

for the sn boards where I have found friendship, support and advice since having ds.

for the misery lit title 2 bob for a gob job on shite street, I can't remember who made it up, but I think of it every time I see the 'tragic lives' section in WHSmiths - it will stay with me forever.