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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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likalixer · 29/04/2015 21:03

kwerty, I remember the music teacher - was having it away and spending too much time with the mother of one of his pupils.
His wife wasn't too pleased about it.
Wonder what happened there?

Justusemyname · 29/04/2015 21:30

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watchingthedetectives · 29/04/2015 21:49

There was a woman in Scotland who always sounded lovely with I think 2 or 3 daughters who found her DH was having an affair by a text message sent by mistake. She was doing really well and booted him out but then was struggling a lot .
She had a couple of long threads and then suddenly had enough and stopped posting. I always wonder if she was OK as she sounded so nice.

FromMeToYou · 29/04/2015 21:53

I remember the Daisy one, she was really not well. I hope she has found some peace now.

MillionToOneChances · 29/04/2015 22:02

watching I remember that one. She did sound lovely - she deserved better.

Ymamiss · 29/04/2015 22:05

A fairly recent thread where the OP had agreed to lol after a friend's dcs after school, only it was getting late and there was no sign of the friend... The thread was in real time and went on for a few hours, but suddenly disappeared with no update! I often think about it. Does anyone know what happened?

PrimalLass · 29/04/2015 22:20

wavesandsmiles posted this month.

Pipbin · 29/04/2015 22:32

Yma The OPs friend had been taken to hospital with something that needed to be operated on there and then. Friend's partner hadn't been able to unlock the friend's phone to contact the OP.

Mrsfrumble · 29/04/2015 22:35

Ymamiss that one ended well enough. The disappearing friend was admitted to hospital and needed emergency surgery. Thanks to dead mobile phone batteries and a panicked DH no one got round to contacting the OP, but the family was reunited eventually. I hope they bought the OP lots of flowers and wine for her troubles!

FromMeToYou · 29/04/2015 22:40

Ymamiss the wife was in hospital, while drugged up with meds told the husband the kids were ok (as in ok with friend) and in his panic at his wife being in hospital he took it to mean ok, and he didn't have to fetch them. Just a misunderstanding, and all were fine as I recall.

FromMeToYou · 29/04/2015 22:41

Well I am a slow typist, oops.

Dowser · 29/04/2015 22:42

A couple for me.
The one where there was a man parked near the OP's house every day.

The one where the OP was satin bed crying. Her husband was downstairs with his mates and had been abusive to her. Don't know what happened there.

How is adorably getting on?

Then there was lady who had left the house with pretty much the clothes she stood up in and was going to get a hotel room for the night.

Finally...one of the first threads I read. Lady went on holiday with her new boyfriend and he'd just gone cold on her. I think she went to Spain. He may have been married.

Rainbunny · 29/04/2015 23:07

I wonder about the MIL who was upset that her son was moving a few hundred miles away and had resentment towards her son's DP - she blamed her for the move and in general thought that the DP was wearing the pants as her ds was passive. I would love to hear that she has adjusted to her adult son's independent life now.

Puzzledandpissedoff · 29/04/2015 23:29

The thread where the poster was on the laptop and her husbands messages to another woman popped up

That may well have been mine - though I'm sure it's happened to plenty of others as well

If so, my father died in January and left me a legacy which enables me to buy my own place and be completely independent of my hideously EA STBXH Smile I'm viewing more houses this week ...

Iflyaway · 29/04/2015 23:29

I remember some of these that have been mentioned.

I'm like a PP, put some thread on Watch and never go back to it.....

I wonder how the unwelcome house guest from Sweden/Switzerland/Italy/Ghana thread turned out. She even had a second thread about it.

I felt so sorry for her son who was being dragged all over Europe, no permanent home, no school. I hope he's o.k.

Iflyaway · 29/04/2015 23:31

Oh, that's great news Puzzled! Smile

MatildaWaltzes · 30/04/2015 00:17

I know Getting Big/Strong and her daughters are doing much better these days. She has a way better relationship with her youngest in particular now, and is enjoying her independence.

Kiwiinkits · 30/04/2015 00:29

I want to know whether the OP told her sister she couldn't call her daughter (chicken) Charmaine

Pollyswall · 30/04/2015 00:43

I wonder how the lovely lady got on whose DIL walked in and caught her and her DH (FIL) enjoying a bit of afternoon delight whilst babysitting their grandchild. A brilliant thread with a poster who took a lot of ribbing with such good grace.

BeachyKeen · 30/04/2015 01:29

there was one about 2 months ago(?) called "aibu to refuse to leave until seen by a dr" and her DD was admitted to hospital I think. I wonder how the DD is, and what turned out to be the cause of the pains?

WaltzingWithHeiferlumps · 30/04/2015 07:51

Matilda, that's great news! Thanks for the update.

Sansarya · 30/04/2015 10:47

I’d love to know what happened to the OP who was insisting that she would dress her baby only in white and bleach wash her floors three times a day, even with a newborn. The thread started with asking where she could find white baby clothes and descended into her calling any mother who did otherwise a filthy so-and-so. She was also insisting that she would be having a home birth with only her GP attending as midwives were disgusting creatures. I’m not sure she was prepared for the mess that babies bring…

Sansarya · 30/04/2015 10:48

Also what happened to the OP who was complaining that her boyfriend’s mother didn’t like her going around when he wasn’t home (he was in the Navy IIRC) and drank a bottle of wine she’d left in the fridge? No matter how many people said YABU she was insisting that she was not.

Trudyla · 30/04/2015 11:02

I often wonder about the woman who posted about her daughter having headaches and vomitting in the mornings and when she took her to hospital it turned out to be a brain tumour. The thread ended with them waiting for results about what kind of tumour it was. They were meant to go on holiday as well.

I often think about them and hope that it was benign and that she's all better now.

wannaBe · 30/04/2015 11:30

Imo and ime a lot of threads which have a long ongoing saga where the op then disappears suddenly are almost always fake, even if they're never actively outed as such.

the poster who got together with her boss at a Christmas party was Amanda1 iirc and it turned out to be a storyline for a novel or something.

poster posting on a train in pain and then getting fobbed off by the dr's? I didn't see it but assuming it was being posted live so to speak I'm amazed anyone would think it was real. After all what would you do in a crisis? call a close friend/family member? or sign up to a parenting website you'd never previously been on to talk... or even go to the lengths of namechanging to do so... err I don't think so.

The poster whose dh died while she was pregnant was a troll as well iirc. Lots of inconsistencies on her threads which were questioned by numerous posters, and things she posted about hospital treatment which were pointed out as not possible, etc...

I do often wonder about tunnocks as well though, and hope she's doing ok and her dh's health is still holding up.

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