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?

There was a poster struggling with her mental health, who was very kind and supportive to others. However whenever she wrote abour how appalling mental health services were, or the actual cruelty and neglect she suffered from them, the threads would go horrible and often get deleted. What happened was a few posters understood and joined in the conversation, whilst most posters went mad, being incredibly defensive of services, saying the other posters were making things up etc. No compassion for someone trying to survive lifelong trauma with no real access to professional help.

We got to know each other outside of MN.
I never met her in person, but I attended her funeral after she killed herself, after too long of being blamed and neglected by services.

Sometimes I wish all those empathy-deficient posters who dismissed her situation as made up could see and understand what cruelty they defended.

That Girlmum21 or something like that anyway

Because she was a massive turd

FluffyDressingGown? If that poster, I saw supportive posters

Dubai

There are two. One who posted on the "Brave Babes Battlebus" thread and one, now dead, who I knew IRL.

Often wonder how the first one is doing and miss the second one.

Ha! After just disagreeing with you on another thread, I’m pleased we agree on this one here! Had forgotten about her but she was always one of the first posters on a thread and was mostly unpleasant!

A couple of people have mentioned me. It's so nice to realize that people still think about me, even though it has to be almost 20 years since I was a regular poster.
I lost my husband on 9/11 and had two young daughters. They are both young adults now and are doing well. I am happily remarried. My husband and I have been together for 19 years.
I still lurk here occasionally just reading posts for entertainment, but never post anymore myself. I am in a completely different stage of life than I was when I was a regular and MN was a huge source of support for me back then.

I was very sad to learn that JanH passed away last year. We never met in person, but we were Facebook friends and she was obviously a lovely lady.

Yes!
the cat stuck in someone else’s house- the OP had posted ham into the property, and a rug was damaged.

the lady getting parcels for a local sports club sent to her house.

we rarely hear the final outcome!

is there a link to updates from the australian poster who's son was with the awful girlfriend ? I'm happy to hear there is a good ending to that one as I followed it at the time and really felt for her.

Are you referring to the lady who moved to Scotland? I'll find it. It might be in classics actually.

I remember a thread from when I first started lurking here, must of been ten years ago. She was saying how much she regretted having her second child as she was totally run ragged (husband was useless of course).

She put most of the blame/responsibility on the younger child (who was about one at the time)who she felt should just behave better. Shot down any suggestions she should get help or her husband should be made to do anything. It was all on the one year old to improve things by behaving better.

I do still wonder what became to them.

I wonder how the girl with sepsis during the GCSE period is doing - @CubeMorphine's daughter. My DS was doing his exams at the same time while struggling with (much less serious) illnessm so I really felt for her with the uncertainty about what would happen.

@StrawberryJellyBelly I never knew people thought OpheliaRose was a troll!! Why was this, do you know?

i often think of her when I’m reading on here. I never got the impression she was trolling, if so she did a great job because I remember feeling her pain whilst reading her posts. I hope she’s doing okay now and she met a wonderful man who treated her properly.

She did, but he was not the loving husband to her.

Multiple affairs, long term affair as she was dying, moved mistress in within days of funeral etc. I'm a previous neighbour. Caroline and Jacob deserved so much better.

One the men was called Pete? I remember this I think

Fluffydressinggown is the poster I remember the most,that poor woman went through so much. RIP

Is it this one? No happy ending yet, sadly 😕
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4932919-to-think-someone-must-be-able-to-do-something-part-3?page=15

I also regularly think about the clock chains. I really hope that thread is real.

Sounds awful ,so he did sadly have a dying wife but was still behaving appallingly when she was dying ?

Someone called LottieJenkins used to post frequently about her son, Wilf, who had autism. She was always very positive but disappeared after receiving some very nasty comments to the effect that no one was interested in her arrangements for Wilf.
i hope they are both doing well.

What became of the Mumsnetters who infamously asked Gordon Brown what his favourite biscuit was?

@TheFormidableMrsC
yes please, it was the woman that moved to Scotland
I've tried searching on Glasgow and Classics to no avail.
I wish I was more like everyone else on this thread who seem to remember posters names several years later.

She's still here and so is her son.

That was embarrassing. Way to go to prove that you're just a load of vacuous mummies instead of women wanting to engage in an election campaign. (It was just one great wit who asked him iirc.)
And then he was crucified for not knowing about silly in-jokes.

Thanks @Didimum - that one is purple lampshades and yes sadly is unresolved. The one I was thinking of was an Australian lady with a 16year old ds who was with a very controlling gf who was also a teenager. Someone upthread said that had ended happily but I can't recall that posters name