Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

Secret confessions thread

999 replies

colourPink · 27/07/2022 20:13

Okay, so, we all have these thoughts; things we know we DEFINITELY are being unreasonable about and yet we can't help but think them.

This is that thread. A chance to say whatever you want judgement free. You know it's silly, you know it makes no sense but it's how you feel. Feel free to share! It might make me feel a little less crazy.

I'll go first...

My best friend gave birth to twins today and I am INSANELY jealous. Simply because I want twins. I know it's stupid, I know I likely won't even have twins but I want them so badly and now she has them. I feel like she's stolen the twin dust and there will be none left for me!

Like I said - just somewhere to post how you're feeling consequence free Smile

OP posts:
Thread gallery
5
HollowTalk · 27/07/2022 21:56

Curioushorse · 27/07/2022 20:49

I've achieved something that in loads of people's eyes makes me enormously successful.

What drove me to achieve it is the fact that I knew it would piss of my SIL.

Was it losing weight?

Zone2NorthLondon · 27/07/2022 21:56

Bpdqueen · 27/07/2022 21:54

I've been leading a double life for years and nobody has a clue

Can you elaborate I’m nosy😀

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 27/07/2022 21:57

I don’t like my mum. She turned a blind eye to me being bullies relentlessly for 6 years, and did less than nothing when I told her about it. Basically she made me feel that it was my fault if it carried on - she told me to just ignome it, and the bullies would stop. They didn’t.

I was always closer to my dad - he died suddenly over 20 years ago. Sometimes I think the wrong parent died.

romany4 · 27/07/2022 21:59

I wanked off my best mates boyfriend in a phone box in the rain when I was 17

SenoritaNaturista · 27/07/2022 22:01

I’m of an age and going on a sporty holiday with my longstanding friend/FWB.

I have also convinced his sporty friend who I have known for a long time (plus a few others) to join us.

I am desperate to engineer it so I can just lie with my head on the other chaps naked chest and just hug him - for a long time…

I don’t know what’s going to happen…but at my age I suppose there is little to lose.

thefirstmrsrochester · 27/07/2022 22:01

Lesina · 27/07/2022 20:40

I loathe my niece. She is a grabby wee fucker… but she is the only granddaughter so we all have to pretend she is an angel. I want to punch her.

You speak from my very soul. My niece is the youngest in the family and is revered way more than is necessary for an indulged little know it all. I come back from every family event with lockjaw from holding back on wanting to tell her to STFU.

GretaVanFleet · 27/07/2022 22:02

I don’t like my brother’s wife, she makes him so happy but I can’t stand her. She tries too hard to make everyone happy all the time, it’s exhausting. Her family are weirdos and I can only assume she’s great in bed because she’s boring as hell.

elfycat · 27/07/2022 22:02

Newyearnewname20 · 27/07/2022 21:34

I really want to write a book - I keep on thinking about it and an idea for a story has been pootling around in my head for a couple of years now, but can’t seem to build up the courage/motivation to actually write it. Would love to do it though.

In November there's a slightly bonkers NaNoWriMo challenge - to write a 50k word book. There are loads of supporters, advice, games etc to keep the words flowing. It's about quantity of words, and not quality (To quote the great Terry Pratchett — 'The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.').

I've done it (counts on fingers... takes shoes off) 18 times. This year will be 19... I've written lots of terrible words, but you know what - after over a million words some bits were good.

Come and join us. No one will read it (unless you want to share). There's always a thread on here, and there's a whole website (Google NaNoWriMo.org) and discord and stuff. Editing afterwards is another challenge, but you said write...

redtoenails2 · 27/07/2022 22:02

I have IBS. It's actually quite mild and well controlled. However, it's amazing how often it flares up when I don't want to go somewhere or fancy a day in bed. I think some of my friends think I'm a martyr to my bowels😂😂

Minimalme · 27/07/2022 22:02

@NanaNelly In addition to being cruel, without love and mean, my Mum is a liar.

I have heard she told friends and family I went no contact because I wanted money and she wouldn't give it.

It feels to me as though the people around her colluded in hiding her abuse. I have told a couple of them some of the stuff but they chose not to believe me.

I guess not going to her funeral would be a public way of letting them all know I thought she was a terrible Mother and she is nothing to me.

I do slightly worry that she may come back and haunt me...

SorryICantIvegotaCatonmyLap · 27/07/2022 22:03

Bpdqueen · 27/07/2022 21:54

I've been leading a double life for years and nobody has a clue

We're going to need more details! Don't leave us hanging...

RainbowConnection1 · 27/07/2022 22:03

When I can't sleep at night I imagine how I might have dealt with a situation that almost happened but didn't.

On the day of SiL funeral I was almost left behind on the pavement outside MiL's house (the funeral cars had actually gone). I was only saved when a relative turned up late!

This was DH's fault entirely. I imagine the arguments we might have had.

FatsoandtheFeast · 27/07/2022 22:05

I vaguely know someone that pronounces their own name 'wrong' and everyone goes with it. I haven't seen them for years, they have nothing to do with me directly or indirectly, and it still bugs me almost weekly. It's pathetic how bothered I am by this name.

Smokealarmwakeup · 27/07/2022 22:05

Yes to the shagging other men.

I also do my marking just in my pants. Including GCSE marking! So if your DC has recently done a food GCSE it might have been marked by me, sat on the sofa in just my pants.

WomanStanleyWoman2 · 27/07/2022 22:07

Once at school, when I’d managed to get out of PE by ‘forgetting’ my kit, I went back to the classroom and swapped everyone’s clothes around. I did it because the class bully also wasn’t doing PE and I knew she’d get the blame, because I was a good girl. She tried to say it was me, but she’d cried wolf too many times. Served the little bitch right.

ToxicCuntMum · 27/07/2022 22:07

bluegardenflowers · 27/07/2022 21:54

I had an affair with a much younger man and I don't give a damn. My exH was a lying, cheating, abusive piece of shit.

When I was 11 I stole the pencil case and all the pencils of my best friend and feel mortified to this day. I have a stationary obsession.

I think you need to ramp up that obsession another notch and learn how to spell stationeryGrin

ToxicCuntMum · 27/07/2022 22:10

Chatterbait · 27/07/2022 20:45

Sometimes I stand looking out of my window with my arse hanging out. For some reason I enjoy the knowledge that anyone going past would just see someone looking out of their window and never know about my naked arse.

if your arse is hanging out the window how are you also looking out. Are you a contortionist

Hawkins001 · 27/07/2022 22:10

Studyed, some history, and I think their may of been another human civilisation before our own, I think egypt, the pyramids, ext were built by a very advanced civilisation, and not our ancient Egyptians.

I think there is a lot more to human history than is in the official history books.

THing is, try to debate this with most people and they think your woo.

sausageandbeansx · 27/07/2022 22:10

FrothyThoughts · 27/07/2022 20:54

I fantasise about being a YouTuber. I'd have a book vlog and I have loads of video ideas and I think it would be fun.

But I'd also feel like a twat filming myself and would cringe if anyone who knew me watched it.

So it's never going to happen...but still I'm thinking of ideas for 5 Classics Not Worth the Hype or Best Books about Time travel

I do this. I’m so convinced I could get thousands of subscribers easily however unrealistic that is haha

Goatling · 27/07/2022 22:11

I really dislike two of my children and my sister, haven't spoken to them in years, they are nasty pieces of work. I seriously hate my dil and wouldn't care if she died tomorrow.

thequeenoftheandals · 27/07/2022 22:11

i have an Instagram page (over 100k followers) where I write content, stories and poems about deep and personal things (issues with in-laws, issues with friends etc.) and no one knows!! some family & friends even follow me 🙃

Goawayangryman · 27/07/2022 22:11

I've worked stark bollock naked in front of my laptop for weeks at a time because I am menopausal and can't afford to run the fan. There was no actual issue with my 'bandwidth' preventing video calls, but a very real issue with potential indecency so I shut my camera off and stuck gaffer tape over the webcam for good measure.

My 80-yr-old mum has asked me on numerous occasions if I can get her some weed as she's always wanted to try it. I haven't smoked any for about 30 years. To the kids she is a loving, suburban innocent granny (and she is, pretty much)...

Burntcreme · 27/07/2022 22:12

I detest my SIL because I was not allowed to celebrate my pregnancy as she was on IVF treatment to have her SECOND child. I had sympathy for her struggle with her first child but since I could not celebrate my first pregnancy because of her problem all I want to say to her is “your infertility is not my problem so deal with it”

LisamT89 · 27/07/2022 22:12

I have a fake facebook account under the name of a local drug user / criminal. I made it as a laugh to play a joke on my friend after some videos of him rapping did the rounds and got a bit of traction.

Soon after the friends requests came flooding in as people thought it was actually him - before I knew it they were in the thousands. The newsfeed was alsays active though, unlike my own small and boring account that I don't like having strangers on, so I logged in every few days or so just to have a nosy.

Every now and then I'd see something on the newsfeed that got my back up, somebody posting about a domestic abuser or a serial cheat to give two examples. I made it my mission to shame the horrible bastards and give them a piece of my mind. If I saw somebody being bullied online I'd take it upon myself to wade in and stand up for them.

"John Smith" became a bit of a dichotomous character, being hauled into court for burglarly on a monday then being an online advocate for abuse victims and somebody who stands up for women's rights on a Tuesday.

A few months ago I (John Smith) helped a woman leave a dangerous situation and get away from an abusive dickhead, I still get the odd message from her on that account thanking me for helping her.

It's all a bit crazy, innit?

TeamSpike · 27/07/2022 22:13

I wish exh was dead so I would never have to tell Dd that he exists

I'm always jealous of my step sis. Everything seems to come so easily to her. She's got the great dh, house and dream job. Everytime she shares something good happening I secretly hate her for it

Swipe left for the next trending thread