Posters you still think about

[Helfs]

Proof I probably spend too much time on here but does anyone else have posters they still think about every now and again?

Mine is the Australian poster whose son was in the abusive relationship and her many threads about helping him get out of the relationship and realizing she was toxic.

Can’t find the threads at all now but I hope her and her son are still doing well!

Does anyone else have stand out posters or threads that stick in their minds?

Does anyone remember the poster whose husband had memory issues from a brain injury (I think) and his mother took him and kept him away from the OP? Her threads were so sad. She loved her husband a lot but couldn't get near him because his family kept manipulating him.

There was a post a couple months (I think) back from a pregnant mom that couldn't feel her twins moving.
She went to the hospital and lost one of them, the other twin was fighting for his life.

I wonder how she and her little boy are doing

There was an older lady who had lost her husband. She had three daughters and one had moved to Ireland with her husband. The husband had tried to separate this daughter from the rest of the family, and when the older lady sent presents for the children etc, these were returned as being unsuitable. The daughter sent some horrible letters and emails to the older lady. It was a very convoluted scenario, and it appeared that the husband was only interested in anyone (including his own family) if someone was giving him money. I think he asked for a cow for the daughter's birthday present - something like that. This was last year and I lost the thread and now often wonder what happened.

I think about Edgar quite often too. I think you're right about the blanket. It was a terrible loss and the same for the poster who had a family of teacups (was her daughter's name Beatrice? or Primrose?).

What's really sad is that you couldn't now post on Mumsnet about a terminally ill child without a cohort thinking you are a troll. There have been trolls around deaths before, obviously, but now the immediate group-think (behind the scenes) is "I don't believe you".

Pamela.

i was going to say this. Always remembered.

I did, I have nc since it was years ago. I actually started a post when I had a chance to walk out the door and got support all the way, I remember hiding in the library with my dd and posting . I don’t think I would have ever left without MN. I just couldn’t get my head around the abuse at all. It took me years and I posted so many times and got so much help.

Talc&Turnips - wonder where that name came from, I loved her replies

I think of her often too and hope she got out, she was such a wonderful writer and in such a hideous marriage. Her first username was stupidargument and her code name for her horrible husband was Brian. I really really hope she got away from him.

I also think of Rosemary with 3 teenagers who left her horrible husband and thrived, she was marvellous and very funny. I’d love to know how she and her boys are doing.

@GwinGwyn I was totally thinking the same as you!! I was picturing a Saturday afternoon in Athena flicking through the posters and choosing a Forever Friends one. 🐻

Someone else remembers this one. I was starting to doubt myself.
I remember this one, her and the kids had to sit in the kitchen all the time because the light was so unbearable.
I hope she is OK.

David and Caroline threads. He was posting endlessly about his wife dying whilst sexually propositioning MN members and extracting money from them.

This was Chopinandchampagne. Someone posted a link a bit further back on this thread.

Yes those threads were so sad and the poster sounded like a really lovely person who was broken hearted about the situation. The daughter was being controlled but was almost as bad as her crazy horrible husband.

I always wonder about the step children of one poster. They slept on the landing in a bit of an alcove.

Her dc had branded treats, while dsc had supermarket own.

They were always excluded from trips/holidays with really odd justification like, I've saved 50p a week and that money wasn't related to her husband. A crazy number of family members gifted her money/trips etc, all which must exclude her step children.

They agreed it best he became a SAHD and stopped maintenance. I think one of her last threads she and her DH moved away from the children by a few hundred miles.

Thank you ! I waded through four pages of the thread in the hope that it would be mentioned, and then was sidetracked down hundred different rabbit holes!

Twitterqueen. I hadn't remembered her name and am glad to have heard it again.

The poster who had recently got a small boat, I think on the Medway. It was such a shock when she died.

Mrskoala. I loved hearing about her life. She wrote beautifully and I always thought I'd like her as a friend.

And recently, Pamela. I think about her often and it really brought home to me how a vibrant lovely person can be so unwell and then gone, so suddenly. I was thinking of her son this morning.

@HollyKnight I remember her but I think it was his sister rather than his DM and if I remember correctly, her sister was complicit too.

sb34 - MH struggles
kateandthegirls DH died 9/11
jimjams severely autistic DS

but i am a very very oldie

I rarely even notice posters’ names, but I do remember some - like WilsonMilson who wrote so eloquently about her terrifying and short cancer journey. Over the years, I tend to remember most the posters that have died.

The lady who fostered drug addicted babies. I think she passed away.

One I'm hoping was a troll

One thread started with a "should I date my best friends Dad" (and the answer was "No" ) the poster was young , the Dad was youngish (and As Fit AF) but her interpretation of date was drink and shag him.
She also shagged another friends boyfriend in her bathroom while she was hosting a get together ( Bank Holiday or something) in the middle of her own party

The general advice was "raise your bar and don't screw your friends blokes or Dads"

There was more , loads more . She was a carcrash , hopefully a troll.

Yes, I wonder about the lady with all the cameras. She sounded so petrified, I hope she's safe.

There have been so many women escaping DV but bluebeanbag was amazing-mumsnetters held her hand the whole way through and the thread ended up with her divorced and in her own home with her dc and they are all so happy. It's in Classics now.

sb34 hasn't posted under that name for more than 20 years.

You might be right. I was going to say mum and sister but couldn't remember exactly. It was his family anyway. The last thread I saw she was losing all hope. I don't know if it was ever resolved.