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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?

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CatthiefKeith · 01/05/2015 23:59

Metallic. Not much to update. She is fine with me again now, and has never mentioned that her key no longer works. (Dh changed the locks).

I've gone back to work full time, and she works, so I naturally see much less of her, which is probably a good thing. It was all getting a bit intense!

DrankSangriaInThePark · 02/05/2015 07:39

Not all of these dramatic stories are trolls, of course not. But a fair few of the threads mentioned have turned out to be.
They don't go away, these creative writers, unfortunately.
A lot of them trip themselves up on their own (always regularly updated as soon as it looks like slipping) threads.
Sockpuppetry usually, followed by a namechange fail.
Or the simple fact that it's far easier to remember truthful details than it is to recall and plot the intricate web of lies you are spinning.

HateSpiders disappeared after being called out on the fact that she spoke about her husband as if he were an exotic pet. And seemingly treated him as such.

BuzzardBird · 02/05/2015 10:15

I woke up this morning thinking about the woman who went downstairs in the middle of the night to find a rubber clad man lying on her kitchen worktops! Has this one been mentioned?

pinkr · 02/05/2015 12:32

Zombies

melisma · 02/05/2015 14:53

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Coyoacan · 02/05/2015 18:18

I've always wondered about a woman who had left her husband and she and her children were living with her father when she found out that she was very late on in a pregnancy. She had decided to give the baby up for adoption. The baby was born and placed with foster carers pending adoption, but then, thanks to mumsnet, she changed her mind, but the SW was being very obstructive. And that was more or less where it stopped. I've always worried about whether she got her baby back or not.

LilQueenie · 02/05/2015 20:24

Ive been wondering the outcome of Dogzilla's post and her DP and the over friendly person he was working for. Hope it was a good outcome.

maccie · 02/05/2015 20:40

coyoacan. I was in touch with that poster and her beautiful little boy will be celebrating his first birthday soon, happily reunited with his family. It took a few weeks to get him back to his mum full time but contact visits were eventually arranged. It was staggering the amount of fight that was needed for that very brave lady to get her son returned to her. As far as I know things were improving and she updates me with photo's of gorgeous family sometimes.

That was a thread were the collective knowledge of mumsnet and the wonderful support it can offer really made a real difference to someone at just the point where they needed it. Mumsnet at its very best.

NolanThorne · 02/05/2015 20:45

The one where the poster had a friend who sent mental when she told her she was TTC because friend was infertile. Friends boyfriend came and kicked posters husband's baby making area and friend punched poster repeatedly in uterus. Police came and issued restraining order but friend swore more would come if poster got pregnant. Poster was going to TTC anyway. Thread was moved to 'the other place' and I can't find it so no idea of posters name Confused

iLoveFlop · 02/05/2015 20:53

I noticed that about Hatespiders. She would bang on about her DH being black, yet make some pretty ignorant remarks about race at the same time. I got the feeling DH being black was a big deal for her.

BitOfFun · 02/05/2015 21:17

I'd love to know whether the poster's husband who was insisting on a dangerous motorcycling trip back from Delhi while she was pregnant with SPD ever saw sense.

Coyoacan · 02/05/2015 21:56

maccie

Oh thank you maccie, that is great news. I'm so happy for them both.

GiantGaspingSatanicCyst · 02/05/2015 22:25

lucjam I wonder about joycetheripper as well, thought of her just the other day in fact. I really hope she and her DS are well. She was in so much pain...

crabb · 02/05/2015 23:05

I too kept JoycetheRipper's thread on my watch list for years, but she never came back Sad

FuckingLiability · 02/05/2015 23:40

The update I'd like to see is box room poster ditching her awful DP so that she doesn't have to come on here every few weeks under a new name to complain about the latest horrible thing he's done.

I'm genuinely not being nasty, the guy is clearly making her and her DC miserable and it would be nice to see her happy.

MetallicBeige · 02/05/2015 23:47

Catthief thanks for updating. Glad for you that she's backed off a bit.

Nayville · 03/05/2015 00:40

Had LaQueen been telling lies?? Shock

DrankSangriaInThePark · 03/05/2015 08:36

I think LaQueen exaggerated elements of her life.

I believe she left/namechanged more due to the incessant bullying and internet stalking/outing of her real life that went on for years. I would, wouldn't you?

She was very silly and naïve to put stuff on that made her immediately "findable" but many others on here do so and aren't subjected to the treatment she received.

Justusemyname · 03/05/2015 10:50

I enjoyed LaQueen's posts until she posted how she'd punched her husband in the face and thought nothing of throwing things out of the car window while on a motorway. She had a smugness about her that implied she thought she was a cut above. In my world decent people don't hit anyone.

missmargot · 03/05/2015 13:09

I often think about a lovely lady with grown up children whose husband left out of the blue, I think he had flown to America to see a woman he had met online.

Also CouthyMow who was having terrible issues with her daughter's behaviour and wasn't getting the support that she and her family needed.

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 03/05/2015 13:46

I didn't know LaQueen had gone, I liked her too. She was a bit smug sometimes, a bit too much, but I know people like that in RL and their 'lot' doesn't stack up the way it's portrayed. Anyway, I hope LaQueen's ok, I think she's kind and her heart's in the right place.

I've been thinking of a lot of these posters/threads and wondering how they were getting on.

One not mentioned is NurseyWorsey(?). I have wondered about her and hope she's sorted things now. She tripped herself up over her career statements here, said she was a nurse with years of experience and then talked on another thread about training to be a nurse. I hope she made it, I haven't seen her post back but as far as I can remember, she used to give qood medical advice.

BitOfFun · 03/05/2015 14:18

Nobody ever really goes, Lying, you should know that Wink. Talking of trainee nurses, I wonder about that poster who was the most pessimistic person in the world- she had a few different names. I wonder if she's bringing sunshine to our poorly NHS.

BrightSunshineyDay · 03/05/2015 21:01

coyocan That was me. As maccie said, I finally got my ds back. It took 6 weeks from the day of his birth and was the most horrendous time of my life. SS were shit and only arranged fir me to see him once or twice a week but ended in the foster mum handing him over to me in a supermarket carpark where ss didn't even bother to turn up and I didn't hear from them for another 2 months. The advice and support I got on my thread was invaluable and the hoyrs that maccie spent on the phone to me listening to me cry and supporting me - I will never forget this.
As fir where we are now - still living with my dad which isn't great but my other 3 dc have bonded with ds and adorw him - they have amazed me how much they have fallen in love with him. Ds dad has stepped up andsees him every week. My exdh is still in a psychiatric hospital but unfortunately I can't find out where so my middle 2 dc haven't seen him fir 18months. We are doing ok though :)
Oh and ds is adorable! 1 next month and the spit of his brothers. I still struggle with what the hell I was thinking wanting to give him away!

I would like to know how edgarallenpoe is getting on. Her ds had an ear infection and sadly died. My heart broke for her simple 'oh' when she updated the thread.
Oh and also if the poster ever did go to Canada (on the infamous I AM CANADIAN thread!)

ememem84 · 04/05/2015 14:02

I want to know whether the MIL actually went to the christening she wasn't invited to...

(and also what the "other place" is....)

ememem84 · 04/05/2015 14:02

I want to know whether the MIL actually went to the christening she wasn't invited to...

(and also what the "other place" is....)