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Who do you think about from Mumsnet?

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Mrsknackered · 27/09/2017 00:28

Have you read a thread that has really stayed with you?

I always think of the foster mum, who sadly passed away. She was looking after lovely ladybird (I think that is what she called her) and her posts made me laugh and pulled at my heartstrings. I did feel utterly heartbroken when I read she had passed on and she truly has inspired me to go into foster caring in later years.

I think about the poster who was pregnant and found out about her DP having an affair, after he was in hospital because of a car crash. I wonder how she is getting on and hope she is doing well.

Whenever I think about the poster who accidentally took the case of prosecco (was it prosecco?!) and the following Christmas, she was given a single bottle only, I really chuckle.

OP posts:
NoWordForFluffy · 28/09/2017 21:26

There's two threads I recall now that I remember and didn't see any conclusion to. Or I think they were two, they may have been 1 and my memory is failing me.

There was a woman who was being bugged by her DP and, I think, he'd left the home at the time she was posting.

There was also a woman who had a child with the DH and he also had an older daughter from a previous relationship. The OP was being emotionally abused and wanted to leave him (she may actually have done so), but she wanted to maintain a relationship with her DSD.

Does anyone recall these from my rubbish descriptions?

UrsulaPandress · 28/09/2017 21:27

fatima those were both very recent.

RunningOutOfCharge · 28/09/2017 21:30

Tigga who always signed off her posts with a tiger theme!

Tiggapleasecomeforward

GlitterGlassEye · 28/09/2017 21:34

OpheliaRose. Her threads were heartbreaking and I really hope that she is doing well with her twins. Her husband seemed to be completely in lust with his cow bag co-worker. I've always thought he would end up begging to go back once the shine wore off. I really hope that's not the case and if it is, she's told him to fuck off (and met someone who treats her amazingly).

fudgefeet · 28/09/2017 21:34

There was a lady years ago called sadsusan who's daughter died quite suddenly from meningitis.
I think she was an older mum and it was her only child. I always think about her and I hope she is happy and at peace now.

AliceScarlett · 28/09/2017 21:37

Maui.

KatherinaMinola · 28/09/2017 21:43

Oh I'd forgotten DawnTigga - I loved her posts!

SadSusan NC'd to SassySusan and then got banned - she's one who really sticks in my mind too, and I thought of her recently.

KatherinaMinola · 28/09/2017 21:45

Who was the crazy woman who came up with the most inventive baby names and wanted opinions on them even though she wasn't actually pregnant?

She had several children already and I think her username began with a T. The names were always Beryl, Mildred, Ethelred etc.

nevergooglenevergoogle · 28/09/2017 21:47

So so many. I think I must be talking about 10 years ago now.
Cod
MrsThierryHenry/MrsMerryHenry (we're actually still in touch but i miss those days)
Pavlovthecat (still in touch off of mumsnet)
QuntessentialShadows
Aitch
SoupDragon
KurriKurri?
MmeLindt or something like that
Anyone who was in the mumsnet orchestra, or was in the pub and even the virtual kebab shop, those involved with the mumsnet tights pervert gag or the working class legs nonsense.
I only ever browse occasionally now to see if I recognise any names, I never do.
Smile feeling quite nostalgic now.

nevergooglenevergoogle · 28/09/2017 21:48

Ooh and TrinityRhino, I often wonder how she and the girls are, We met after her husband died.

bellaboo101 · 28/09/2017 21:50

The lady who's husband was in a car accident and turned out to be having an affair in the OP, the poster was called syc4moretrees?

That post really had me thinking about the poor OP for such a long time!

I hope she is ok! Flowers

PandorasXbox · 28/09/2017 21:51

I thought SassySusan's DD died from complications of chickenpox?

MrsSchadenfreude · 28/09/2017 21:53

Wasn't SassySusan a troll?

PorpoisefullyObtuse · 28/09/2017 21:54

Mrs Devere and her neighbors horrible erection (aka building). She was always so measured and yet cut through the crap. Her beautiful daughter.

Vicar in a tutu who had had a bloody awful upbringing but had created a good life for herself. She was in the police. Her DS had autism and she was stalked on here by one of his employers looking for an excuse to get rid of him. One of my previous user names was "employerisacunt".

The lady whose husband failed to supervise their toddler DD and she ended up badly burnt. She posted recently - the marriage has ended, he is being an unutterable dick and her health has failed so so badly. I so hope her health improves (and her exh is involved in an unfortunate accident involving the loss of his pathetic cock and accidentally and irrevocably transfers all his money to her).

Zombie.

The music teacher who married and had a son called I think caspian to an utter cock. He was beyond the pale. She was so strong and worked so hard and couldn't seem to see that he didn't deserve to breath the same air as her.

A poster called yellowtang. I think she may was a troll. Even if she wasn't she opened my eyes to how abusive relationships can be. She was, per her posts, the same age as me and one of her children was born the same month as mine. But she portrayed the helplessness of complete entrapment.

The poster whose husband cleared out half the house including jam etc. She was also called troll. I could never quite believe that one. If she was a troll she was a very dedicated one. She went on to have a son who was younger than her exhs son with the ow. She supported forest.

Oh, another one with a long running thread in relationships, her husband had left her for his best friends wife. I'm rubbish with names. Something to do with sun maybe?? She was an accountant, he was a delivery driver. The ow had lost a child who would have been a similar age to their child. Her DD was the same age as my eldest. Her ex was irresponsible. She wanted him to man up and parent but I think he was barely capable of that and she also wanted him to parent how she would. I remember reading her threads and thinking he was a dick but her rage and hurt at him meant she couldn't protect her DD from his ineptitude which was even more damaging for her DD. I so hope she found peace.

PandorasXbox · 28/09/2017 21:56

She trolled MN but she lost her DD aged 3.

UnRavellingFast · 28/09/2017 22:01

all the amazing posters from the Support for those in EA relationships thread. It ran for ages but has stopped now, I miss it, there was such camaraderie. There was SilveryPussycat, PonyGirlCurtis, NiniLegsintheAir and many others. The bond I felt with them enabled me to get the strength to leave. I hope they are all doing well. We had a phantom pub where we hung out and ate cheesy wotsits while the FWs bellowed around the dark moor outside :-D

MissJSays · 28/09/2017 22:09

I think about Somerville and Mr Lovely all the time. She updated the other day and they are now married and have just had their baby. How nice is that, so glad she found happiness again.

I think about Onit who was from Scotland I believe, her dh left her for an ow and she and her 2 dc really struggled. I hope she found peace and happiness.

Also NoCapes and her gardener! Loved that one, I was completely over invested.

Ploppymoodypants · 28/09/2017 22:30

Purposelyobtuse - the poster with the baby called Capsian was from Isle of Wight and if I remember her user name was wavesandsmiles. I think of her a lot. Her awful awful husband and her poor older daughter who had 'had enough of daddies' 😔

I also think about OpheliaRose with the twins and her husband following his cock to the co worker. She turned to mn for help in her darkest hour and then it turned on her and accused her of being a troll. I hope she is okay and found someone else to listen and support her.

friendlyflicka · 28/09/2017 22:32

Poor Fluffydressinggown. Was so shocked by her death. Still think about her a lot - she meant a great deal to a lot of people on here as well as in real life. RIP

TooSleepyToCare · 28/09/2017 22:34

I always wonder about IKEA, she NC after her EXDP found her thread. She sounded soo lovely and extremely strong. He was abusive and she managed to contact the police etc. I would love to know how her and the Dc are doing.

and NoCapes with GEG, of course.

Schadenfreude and her work with Vlad on the Wattyy garden theft post.

PoorYorick · 28/09/2017 22:43

There was a user, I think her name was calicocat or something along those lines. She was a young teacher who loved her career and didn't want a child just yet. Her husband bullied her into it, wanting her to become a SAHM and she had to fight to go part time (she wanted to go full time, she hadn't wanted a child to start with). Her worthless pig of a husband said that since she was determined to work, he would not assist with childcare arrangements, so she was running herself into the ground doing all the pickups and drop-offs with the childminder. She plainly had PND (unsurprising) and her spirit was breaking. It was devastating.

Last I saw of her, she was thinking about having a second child and giving up work entirely. She didn't want to, of course, but her desires and wants and personality were being swallowed whole...you could see her breaking in front of you.

It was enough to make you weep. I hope she's ditched that arsehole husband and found new peace with her career and child, but I suspect she's pregnant...and that nobody will ever see her again. I mean, I'm sure she's alive and leaving the house and so on...but she's defeated, absorbed and no longer her own person. She's not there and it may be too late ever to get her back.

It's heartbreaking.

Sparklyhousedust · 29/09/2017 00:17

I always wondered about Zombie's son and what happened there- I thought she was brilliant.

FoxyRoxy · 29/09/2017 00:19

Onit recently updated in relationships, she's doing well.

Pagwatch, thumbwitch and worra are all names I used to see a lot of and now see rarely.

nevergooglenevergoogle · 29/09/2017 00:22

is boysarelikedogs still around?

Catra · 29/09/2017 00:31

I'm another one who wonders what happened to CogitoErgoSometimes. She used to be such a prolific poster with wise words to offer on every subject. Then all of a sudden ... nada.