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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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MrsGrimes · 28/04/2015 19:39

There was one in Relationships, either last year or year before (possibly even older!) where the OP's DF had struck up a weird friendship with a 14 year old, giving her lifts alone, hanging out with her. All the family were warning him of how it looked but he was refusing to listen. OP was going to report him to the police I think. Sorry my memory of it is really vague but I wonder if anything came of it, if it was an innocent but completely inappropriate/misjudged friendship or if there was something more sinister to it.

MrsJoeDolan · 28/04/2015 19:42

Anna and Omar - the lady struggling to see that she was married to the biggest prick imaginable. Except she wasn't married. It was one of the maddest threads I've eve read on here.

Have also realised I spend far too much time on hére

sharonthewaspandthewineywall · 28/04/2015 19:44

I'd love to know how tunnocksteacakes and DH are doing I think about them often

49again · 28/04/2015 19:46

Oh yes seventeen that compulsive liar one. He even had a tattoo of a scar to try to prove he had been ill. Everyone said she should get away from him but she needed him for childcare while she worked miles away although you wouldn't want him anywhere near your children. Very weird.

AlternativeTentacles · 28/04/2015 19:48

I'd like to know about the compulsive liar husband who told his entire family he had cancer when he didn't. His mum had moved out of her house because he said he'd won money and was going to buy a new house. The OP found out he's been lying about everything for years but it was taking ages to get to the bottom of it all.

This one haunts me to this day. He had a tattoo of a cancer scar. I so hope she got out. But I suspect she is still there and dreads people mentioning it on threads like this.

SnotQueen · 28/04/2015 19:51

So many sad snippets of peoples' lives. Sad
I remember one where a woman kept seeing the same guy around her house and I think something scarier happened, but I just remember her description of him walking by and looking at her house and it creeped the fuck out of me.

CaptainAnkles · 28/04/2015 19:56

I have the 'MIL who pissed on the toothbrush' thread in my watched threads I think.

Pollyswall · 28/04/2015 19:57

The woman whose DP was a music teacher, posted some time later and they were still together and trundling along, not sure that things were totally resolved though. She was a gentle soul.

I often think about the woman who lived at the coast with her useless DP. She supported him whilst he supposedly renovated her house, but he was seeing another woman. She finished it but he kept coming back. She had a big dog I think and posted lots.

judypoovey26 · 28/04/2015 20:02

Not so much a thread, but what with the general election going on, and Cameron promising the earth as usual, I was thinking of riven today and wondering how she and her family are getting on.

PrincessTheresaofLiechtenstein · 28/04/2015 20:10

There was one a few years ago where a woman was going to cut her hair short whilst her husband was away. He'd basically forbidden her from doing it and she was scared of the outcome. She never came back to say what had happened. I do hope she is far away from him now.

elderflowergin · 28/04/2015 20:11

The one with the young op who escaped her horribly abusive partner by collecting her dc from school and calling the police. She updated to say she got to a refuge and was so brave, I so hope that everything worked out for her.

HeartsTrumpDiamonds · 28/04/2015 20:17

I think about TunnocksTeacakes all the time and hope that her DH is ok and getting in lots of bike rides.

And most of the ones listed above.

auntpetunia · 28/04/2015 20:26

Two from relationships thenamehaschanged was leaving an arse of a man hope everything worked out ok for her and her girls and wavesandsmiles who was having a tough tim.

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Ziglinda · 28/04/2015 20:42

I often wonder about Eastie77. She sounded like such a lovely person but was struggling with a husband who was refusing to look for work while she worked full time. Her DD was very shy and crying a lot. Her husband was Italian had links to Mafia in his home town. He was also quite controlling and obsessive. She was criticised a lot on one of her threads and stopped posting. I often wonder what happened to her. I hope she is OK.

QueenInTheNorth · 28/04/2015 20:43

Did NannyPlum ever get her parcel!? Has there been any more madness from her neighbour?

weebarra · 28/04/2015 20:53

Tunnocks is still around, has name changed. She and her husband are still soldiering on. I have so much admiration for her. GB/GS is still one I think of often. I hope she's ok.

HeartsTrumpDiamonds · 28/04/2015 20:59

weebarra thank you so much.

MollieCoddler · 28/04/2015 21:05

The clothes in the attic one. Don't tell me that was a troll?! I think she came to update some time later like a year, and said she was continuing to believe him when he claimed no knowledge.

WaltzingWithHeiferlumps · 28/04/2015 21:07

No, she wasn't a troll.

WipsGlitter · 28/04/2015 21:12

And LaQueen. I wonder about her. Did she ever come back??

thehumanstain · 28/04/2015 21:30

The woman who had a fling with someone superior to her at work. He turned out to be a charismatic egomaniac who'd shagged/forced out several women in the department but was for some reason untouchable.

blushingbooty · 28/04/2015 21:34

The Bridesmaid who was treated shabbily along with another bridesmaid and wrote the Bride an email. The Bride then volunteered OPs house for a 'lets all talk abut the wedding evening' and the bridesmaid (weirdly) was more upset with the other BM who was still upset and not wanting to pretend everything was fine with the Bride. I was lurking and saw everyone pretty much said OP was unreasonable to think BM should suck it up and bumlick the Bride. OP never updated to say what happened and whether she let the cheeky bride volunteer and use her house.

Penguin bollard lady with stink eye neighbour.

Unreasonable MIL that thought her DIL was being unreasonable and taking her son away when her son didn't look to be wanting to stay.

Lady with mystery shed.

CrapBag · 28/04/2015 21:55

I've wondered about many on here.

Thank you to those who came on to post their updates.

Mine is LostJennyWren. Terribly sad. She initially posted on her 25 or 26 birthday knowing it would be her last as she has terminal cancer. That one breaks my heart. She came back a few times to update but when she doesn't you do fear the worst. Sad

NotNob · 28/04/2015 22:10

A desperately sad one on relationships called something like I know this is wrong but I don't know what to do by a poster called happyspaceman, or similar. A wonderful woman with mental health problems trying to escape her abusive partner. The thread ended when her sister reached her amd requested (through another poster) that it be pulled. I think about her often.

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