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To ask for your secrets you're taking to the grave

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FuckingFabulous · 17/09/2021 20:06

Lighthearted, and risk free. Given that this is all anonymous and all that.

When I was fourteen, I was out with my friend after drama club. It was winter and dark and fucking freezing but I was sweating as well as shivering. We were walking to her grandma's house in the next village where I was getting picked up by my stepdad in about an hour. I was quite clearly ill, but my mum had not believed me and sent me to a long day at school. As we were walking, my belly churned and I knew that there was gastric trouble afoot. I excused myself into an innocent looking field for "a wee" but I knew it was not that. Thankfully, there were no street lights at all, so even if someone had come past, they'd not have seen. It was pitch black. My friend kept watch while my bowels evacuated what seemed like water and slime for about five minutes and sweat dripped off my body onto the ground, I can remember how much I was shaking and how I had the weirdest taste of metal in my mouth. When the onslaught ended, I didn't know how to wipe my bum. I took off my school tie, wiped with that and then had no idea what to do so I just discarded it at the scene and shamefully scuttled back to my friend. I was then off school for a week with some kind of horrible intestinal infection.

But the field. The quiet little field I'd chosen to slip over the fence into. It was a graveyard. And I'd relieved myself right next to a war grave. Right before armistice. And left my school tie there. How do I know? Because it was in the school newsletter as a "regrettable incident" and anyone with information as to who the culprit was could report in confidence to the headteacher. I expect the groundskeeper reported it to the school. Even my mum tutted about no respect. Thank god it was over 20 years ago. Nowadays it would have trended with a hashtag and a witch hunt.

And now I have finally told the tale. What's yours?

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RoseStar · 22/09/2021 04:40

Unhappy marriage decided I'd murder him. Poison was what I settled on. I got a piece of chicken from freezer and defrosted on window ledge (summer in the sun) I then refroze, doing this several times. I had the intention of making a curry. I dont eat meat so he wouldn't be suspicious of the two curry's as this was the norm. I then put the chicken in the bin packed my belongings in a bin bag and ran, never looked back

@Ddot hope you’re in a better place now, but I’ve read this several times and still can’t work out what happened…

Sparklfairy · 22/09/2021 05:24

@RoseStar sounds like she came to her senses and left him instead I hope

Pretty sure the relationship is over when you're at the stage of premeditated murder Grin

Ddot · 22/09/2021 05:51

RoseStar
Changed my mind. I put the chicken in the bin. Left him and got a divorce.

Ddot · 22/09/2021 05:55

Just to add, he is remarried with children now, so definitely not dead. Sorry for the confusion

RoseStar · 22/09/2021 06:31

Glad you’re out of there @Ddot (and not incarcerated somewhere!)

Garriet · 22/09/2021 06:33

@havesomepatience

Just remembered another one. I had just learnt to drive and whilst parking my husbands company car I scraped all down the passenger door. I was too scared to tell him so kept quiet about it. Next day he went to the supermarket and came home livid that some idiot had scraped all down the side of his car. I never told him it was me.
I did something similar. Driving my exH’s car, I scraped the side along some bollards and the trim came off the doors. I gathered up the trim, checked for dents (in the dark) all seemed otherwise ok. I got home, told ex I’d come back to the parked car and found the trim in the road beside it “must’ve been kids”. I’m pretty sure he knows I lied as when he went to get the trim replaced, the garage told him that the paintwork was scratched around the trim area…

Another memory, I was 8 years old and a shy, awkward child. Middle of winter, pretty rough weather outside. Needed a wee but teacher was full flow talking about the Romans and I didn’t want to interrupt. Pissed myself. The chairs were those plastic bucket seat type so the urine just kind of pooled under me, pretty gross to sit in. My seat was right beside the window, I remember kind of tipping the chair backwards like I was swinging on it, and the piss running down on to the floor.

Later, in quieter moment, I put my hand up. “Miss, I think the window is leaking?”

The teacher came over, looked at the puddle beneath the window, and put her hand in it.

“Oh dear, I’ll have to get the caretakers to look at that…”

Ddot · 22/09/2021 06:33

🤣

CrankyFrankie · 22/09/2021 10:50

@LovelyIssues omg, were you a traffic warden? Shock

LovelyIssues · 22/09/2021 15:39

@crankfrankie god no nothing THAT horrific

PetitTorteois · 22/09/2021 15:52

When I was 5 years old my sister was in a hospital for an infection. I was very envious of everyone making a fuss and bringing her sweets etc. So I decided I wanted to be admitted as well. So I came up with this story that I have horrible headaches. I ended up in the hospital for nearly three weeks until they ran all tests possible. They kept asking for my symptoms so I came up with some horrible pains and aches in my brain. The doctors were very worried about me. But as they found nothing I was discharged. Three weeks in a hospital was very boring as a 5-y-o and the food was miserable. I haven't told anyone I faked my way into a hospital and 30 years later my mum still asks how are my headaches...

steadyedina · 23/09/2021 00:03

My husband had left for another woman. A big fat letter arrived for him from a building society(can't remember which one now) and it had been in the news that they were giving shares to all their customers as they were going public. I opened it and saw it would be £10,000 worth. It was an account he had forgotten about so he didn't expect it and I binned it so he didn't get it. It occurred to me I might have been awarded half in the divorce settlement, but didn't care.

Harford · 23/09/2021 00:37

I was sick of being poor and working so lead an elderly man into believing I liked him and ended up moving in with him, thinking he was rich. He was the mid-70s.
He was old and lonely and I was mid-30s, after 6 months I left. Made excuses even though he begged me to stay. We still keep in touch though it makes me sick that I whored myself like that although we never slept together even though he tried. Just cuddled.

Do I feel shame and guilt? Yes but I still gave him around 8 good months of company etc and I never took a penny off him. Made me realize though i'd never marry for cash.

steadyedina · 23/09/2021 09:17

A Saturday job in a supermarket had me sitting for hours in the 'cigarette kiosk'. When not busy, I couldn't stop myself, would devour a creme egg and hide the wrapper. I can't look at one now without feeling sick.

Truffs2000 · 23/09/2021 11:44

DH and I were in a beer garden having ordered food, and when he nipped to the toilet, the food arrived. Our baby was fussing and I was sorting him and so I hadn’t realised there was a seagull on the table pecking at DH’s garlic mayo. By the time I shooed it away, half the pot had gone. Baby carried on fussing, I got distracted, DH came back and cracked on with his meal. It was only when he commented on the measly portion of garlic mayo (the pot was now all gone) that I realised I’d forgotten to tell him that the seagull ate it first. Oops.

FuckingFabulous · 23/09/2021 16:11

@Harford

I was sick of being poor and working so lead an elderly man into believing I liked him and ended up moving in with him, thinking he was rich. He was the mid-70s. He was old and lonely and I was mid-30s, after 6 months I left. Made excuses even though he begged me to stay. We still keep in touch though it makes me sick that I whored myself like that although we never slept together even though he tried. Just cuddled.

Do I feel shame and guilt? Yes but I still gave him around 8 good months of company etc and I never took a penny off him. Made me realize though i'd never marry for cash.

What if he had been rich though...
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Bloodypunkrockers · 23/09/2021 16:17

@Harford

I was sick of being poor and working so lead an elderly man into believing I liked him and ended up moving in with him, thinking he was rich. He was the mid-70s. He was old and lonely and I was mid-30s, after 6 months I left. Made excuses even though he begged me to stay. We still keep in touch though it makes me sick that I whored myself like that although we never slept together even though he tried. Just cuddled.

Do I feel shame and guilt? Yes but I still gave him around 8 good months of company etc and I never took a penny off him. Made me realize though i'd never marry for cash.

Which bit of that are you keeping secret?
PetuniaButterworth · 23/09/2021 21:25

We record Only Connect on a Monday night then watch it together the next evening. Unbeknownst to DH I watch it first that lunchtime while he is out on his bike ride, so I already know the answers and wow him with my mental prowess.

GrandTheftWalrus · 23/09/2021 21:46

I done that with who wants to be a millionaire years ago Grin

Harford · 23/09/2021 22:17

What if he had been rich though

I still could not have stayed, I was looking for an inheritance more than anything but after 6 months of just me and him in lockdowns, I was desperate to go. He had money in excess amounts but lost it when his business went bust but he said he had investments and that sucked me in.

After 7 months I didn't care, I knew life was too short to sit around waiting on money that may never come and I moved on. My darkest moments were that I would lie in bed at night and fantasize about him dying and me being left rich and not having to struggle. Yea when it got there I came around to myself and moved on. He looked like my grandfather.

Harford · 23/09/2021 22:18

Which bit of that are you keeping secret

pretty much that I whored myself and let an elderly person think I liked him and we were in a relationship.

whoami123 · 23/09/2021 22:20

No one knows I was sexually abused by my own father. I've never told a single soul not even my dh, people in my life would find it so hard to believe that happened to me as I come across as a very strong person.
I don't know if my mum had any inclinations. The worst of what happened when I was very young but I must've blocked it out from my memory, (as far as am aware that particular action only happened once, )when I got married thAt memory got unlocked, it was so vivid I clearly remembered. He carried me downstairs in the middle of the night whilst everyone else was asleep. How could my mother not realise? Or even wonder why I would be taken down. I don't know...
The saddest thing is, as I got older and busier with school, I think he then started doing it to my sisters, I knew but I couldn't say anything. No one would believe me, and even if they did they wouldn't want to believe it. I wish I had spoken for even if I hadn't been believed, Atleast maybe out of humiliation of being called out he may have stopped. I didn't even ask my sisters, I didn't know how to.
I will never ever fathom how a father can do that to his own daughter, his own flesh and blood, a child.

StinkingCold · 23/09/2021 22:33

WhatDidISayAlan..

*I know an elite athlete (no longer competing) who doped. They are now famous, powerful, and very rich and would be ruined if it got out.

But they also do a lot of work for the wider good. I don't agree with what they did, but I'm not going to be the one leaking that out.*

Crikey!! That is quite a big deal!!! I wonder who it is? Gary Lineker?

Kintsugi16 · 24/09/2021 07:39

@StinkingCold

WhatDidISayAlan..

*I know an elite athlete (no longer competing) who doped. They are now famous, powerful, and very rich and would be ruined if it got out.

But they also do a lot of work for the wider good. I don't agree with what they did, but I'm not going to be the one leaking that out.*

Crikey!! That is quite a big deal!!! I wonder who it is? Gary Lineker?

I’m guessing not GL It’s a different sport and I think I know who
FrankieDobie · 24/09/2021 07:43

There was a post in our local Facebook neighbourhood group from someone who’s Halloween pumpkins had been stolen and smashed all over the road and smeared onto people’s windows etc. Apparently her children were distraught. I replied saying about how the area was rapidly going downhill and how people had no control of their kids and clearly didn’t give a shit what they were upto (very similar reply to the rest of the replies). I was furious on their behalf. I later found out it was my son and his mate that did it. I was still getting “likes” on my post after I found out but I just stayed quiet 🤦‍♀️

Kintsugi16 · 24/09/2021 07:47

@whoami123
I really don’t know how he could do that and I'm so sorry that happened to you. Do you feel you could talk to someone professionally about it? Flowers