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To ask what threads you wish you'd had an update for

328 replies

Fairy13 · 28/04/2015 13:00

For me it was the woman who's DH used to withdraw food from her as punishment and she had to eat pizza out of the bin.
I often think of her and whether she managed to leave him. Marvinishungry I think her name was. If you are reading this, I hope you are safe and happy now.

What have been the threads that stayed with you that you wish you had updates for?

OP posts:
JaniceJoplin · 01/05/2015 16:44

Does anyone remember the one where the OP found a load of dressing up / bondage stuff in her loft and her DH denied all knowledge, then dreamt up all sorts of scenarios where it was the next door neighbours, the builders, the previous owners, her In-Laws etc. I often wonder about that one.

Ratherworriedmum · 01/05/2015 16:50

There was a pregnant lady posting a while ago who was trying to avoid her inlaws coming to stay for weeks around her due date. They had been thoroughly unpleasant about her in the run up to their wedding and were very overbearing. I often wonder if her baby has arrived and if she was able to assert herself and get her needs met.

Stringmeupscotty · 01/05/2015 16:50

This was about three years ago. A poster's DH's friend had stayed the night in their DC's bedroom and thrown up everywhere. He'd left the next morning without saying a work and left vomit all over the floor.

I think the OP was pregnant and had to clear it all up.

I really can't remember much more than that but several posters encouraged her to take photos and send them to the bastard's mum to show what a disgrace the spewer was.

I'm not sure if the thread was ever updated or if it was me being lazy and not checking back.

It wasn't a particularly emotional or funny or upsetting thread but for some reason I do think of that lady often and what a fucking shit day she must have had.

If you're reading this, hope you're well Smile

Stringmeupscotty · 01/05/2015 16:51

^Without saying a word clearly

DuchessofNorks · 01/05/2015 17:03

Years ago....

The outcome of a thread in which the OP had been asked by a colleague to borrow her wedding dress for her daughter?

And another where another mother of her daughters friend kept berratting her gor doing special things for her own DD, like writing a letter from the tooth fairy and making her a nice packed lunch etc, nd the other mother kept, very seriously, having a go at the OP for "making her look bad".

NerrSnerr · 01/05/2015 17:19

Sansayra- on yes I remember that thread. I have wondered if she's had her baby yet and how her white babygrowed baby is.

Blueandwhitelover · 01/05/2015 17:49

was there an update from the lady who had been going into work late for months and the company were threatening her with cctv and wanted to talk to her this week?

wannaBe · 01/05/2015 17:57

not so much a thread but a poster. Years ago when I was on the ttc boards there was a poster called coggy I think it was who had ttc for five years before falling pg. She had a textbook pregnancy but when she went into labour the chord became wrapped around the baby's neck and he was stillborn. Sad she had been ttc again for a couple of years by the time she joined mn, she went through some treatments, IUI and one IVF cycle, although initially was told that she couldn't have nhs funded treatment due to having a child Shock Angry when she left the ttc boards she had just had a failed IVF attempt. I often wonder what happened to her.

Also years ago a poster who discovered that her live-in partner was actually married to someone else. He worked away a lot so he was living a double life in different parts of the country. Iirc she was pregnant or had a child.

Justusemyname · 01/05/2015 18:03

ShockAndAwe's thread never had a resolution.

IggyStrop · 01/05/2015 18:13

I'd also like to send Tunnocks my love, if she's reading. I think about her and her family often.

wannaBe · 01/05/2015 18:19

was ShockAndAwe the immaculate conception one?

Pipbin · 01/05/2015 18:30

Wonder if that poster ever found her NOVEL about TONGA?

I'd forgotten about that one. Why did people keep suggesting books she had searched for before! How stupid were they? I don't think anyone was taking it seriously. Grin

catsrus · 01/05/2015 18:51

The OP whose DH was a pillar of the community / local church and abusive to her. She took the dc back to her home in N Ireland and there was some issue over whether this counted as taking them out of the country without his consent and whether she would be forced to bring them back. All she wanted was to be 'at home' with the support of her family and keep the dc safe. I often think about her.

MollieCoddler · 01/05/2015 18:56

Gosh I remember the pillar of the community one, I think he was a vicar

TaliZorahVasNormandy · 01/05/2015 19:07

The OP who told her friends she was TTC, the friend has also been TTC and went mental. I think the woman's boyfriend text the OP's partner to tell him, "Get your missus on the pill"

The friend and her fella went to the OP's house and OP's partner got kicked in the knackers.

I wonder if she managed to conceive.

Justusemyname · 01/05/2015 19:09

Yes, Wannabe. She was going for an immediate private scan and then she never posted again.

snowglobemouse · 01/05/2015 19:10

Is hatespiders with the African husband with the botfly still around? I didn't see it but I heard it all kicked off and she was accused of racism?

lucjam · 01/05/2015 19:32

I would like to know what happened to the.poster joycetheripper she posted about having a brain aneurysm. She was really worried about dying and leaving her little boy who was two. He would probably be about 7 years old now. I still have the thread on my watched thread and read it from time to time and hope that she is ok.

mummytime · 01/05/2015 20:23

I don't think the "pillar of the community" was a Vicar, more like a Baptist or Free Church minister with no real upward accountability. I do hope she is okay.

MollieCoddler · 01/05/2015 20:26

Yes, it really made me wonder about people's hidden lives

Wenglish · 01/05/2015 20:50

Why did LeQueen go? How did I miss this?

WipsGlitter · 01/05/2015 20:52

She posted a thread about her husband. People pulled her up about the (a) content and (b) inconsistencies in her threads.

Cocolepew · 01/05/2015 21:26

3 or 4 years ago there was a poster worried about her dh. He had memory loss, slurred words, and had been falling over. Me and another couple of posters kept bumping it for ages. We were urging her to get him to a dr or to phone an ambulance the next time anything happened but he didn't want to see a dr and she didn't seem to want to force the issue.
I do wonder about him.

WhywouldIdothat · 01/05/2015 21:36

One a couple of years ago where a woman was feeling suicidal a lot of the time. I posted quite a lot in support and then disengaged as I felt I was getting over-involved, but I wonder if she got through that dark time. She had lots of friends on MN and some who had actually visited when she was in psychiatric hospital. There were financial issues, she didn't feel she could take more time off work or was in a dilemma about it but kept feeling drawn to a train bridge and thinking about ending her life. Emergency psychiatric teams etc. were in contact but my heart just went out to her. She had a strong sense of humour too, may well still be on here - I hope.

MetallicBeige · 01/05/2015 23:24

The recent thread where a lovely poster thought her neighbour had been in her house regularly while she was out. The neighbour sounded a right one, really overbearing - putting a gate in the adjoining fence Shock and pouncing on the op every time she was home. I think she'd been in before when the op was out and lit candles?? May be misremembering.
Last time I read it op was suspicious neighbour may have read the thread as she was avoiding her.