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?

She was such a wonderful and supportive poster

I remember this one as well and wondered about her a few times. Hope she is ok and turned her life around.
I was wondering about the Australian poster and her son too. Hope they got him away from his GF, it sounded pretty scary how helpless the family was in reality just basically because he turned 16.

Crumbs is very much still with us... Gawd bless her.

Emin... and the baby born drug addicted.

Trickytreelou- we were going through something very similar at the same time and admired her courage.

Mrsdevere

She was always so kind and lovely to me when I went through a phase of posting far too much, over sharing etc as had zero to support . Some posters were nice some were really really unpleasant she was always lovely and offered great advice which ultimately helped me so much she was a constant reliable reassuring presence on my threads and just so kind

Oh and the lady with the terminally ill child. Gojetter

I cried buckets :(

WhatWouldLeslieKnopeDo ❤️

I thought she always replied so well on the relationship board.

I think of Pamela who sadly passed away quite suddenly from cancer and her husband who updated us when she was too poorly

The man whose wife was a nurse with extreme OCD and was really abusive to him. He was wanting to escape with his child. I hope he got away….

Also NoCapes I think her name was. She had 3 Dc, her youngest was a terrible sleeper. A tradesman came round to do work in her house, they started flirting and then she came back to say she was pregnant a short time after. I always wondered how things turned out for her.

not long after I first came on MN there was a thread from a woman whose husband was deliberately ruining her laundry. He was washing her delicates in the main wash even though she had bought a separate basket to put her delicates in and asked him not to wash them. The responses were fascinating in how diverse they were. I think about that thread even now.

how long do you have to be on here to remember all the names and the stories attached to them? wow

Ages. Because I'm fairly sure most people for the last 10 years or so routinely namechange due to the fear of being outed.

There was a bit of a golden early era of mumsnet when this didn't happen but its a long time ago now - between 2005 & 2010 really.

A poster who died many years ago, she committed suicide.
A poster who was an incredibly boastful snob but actually had a very regular life
A poster who was outed as having totally fabricated her rather extraordinary life
A very witty poster who was common as muck quite frankly but really very funny

These people were on the site many years ago when the site was a lot smaller and you would see the same user names time and time again, pre the site being hacked.

There was a lady who was in an unhappy marriage & her step children were nasty to her, she had saved enough money to buy her own house and her husband didn’t know about it.
She had all the paperwork sent to her work address. Just wondering if she managed to leave for work and never return to her marital home like she planned to.

I think about the poster chopinandchampayne sometimes, she posted about her eldest daughter who had met up with an awful boyfirend in college, they ended up marrying and moving to rural Ireland, he isolated her from her parents and sisters, it was very sad and chopin's dh sadly died during this time too. I beleve her DD was on 3rd or 4th pregnancy the last time she posted and she was still very lc with her family, the husband, nicknamed lobsterboy by mn, was financially abusing the DD and DC, they would return gifts to OP sent to her DGC and tried to get money (large sums) from her, it was very sad to read and I always hoped that her DD finally saw the light and found a way out and back to her family.

I've been on MN since early 2011 with a few name changes.

I still think about Trazzletoes & her little Joseph. MrsDeVere was a fabulous poster, always had something intelligent & kind to say.

AnyFucker too. She would say things as they were which was sometimes exactly what the poster needed to hear. Never unkind though.

Also remember expatinscotland & her daughter.

That's what the community on MN do (or used to do) best I think. Supporting strangers at the lowest, darkest points of their lives.

Just stay away from AIBU.

The poster who left her abusive OH and bought a red toothbrush because he wouldn't let her have anything red.

I so hope she is happy and free now.

@AnyFucker was around relatively recently. Hanging out on the feminism boards. Also miss the poster who had incredible knowledge on safeguarding. I believe she was banned for being clear on the risks inherent in gender ideology.

A poster who's experienced was abusing their son and taking pictures of him but the child protection person was basically believing everything the ex was saying and the courts weren't helping. Her screenname initials were BNC and her posts were always in the otbt section. I hope that she just one day ran away with her little boy and started a new life.

@StrawberryJellyBelly - I hope you and Claire's mum meet up soon. It's nice to know something nicer has come out of such a tragic thing in the family.

One of the first threads I read on here, must have been around 2015, was from a poster named Gloworm something. She was in an abusive relationship and became pregnant. The boyfriend was trying to force her to abort so she did a moonlit flit back to South Africa, where her family were. I always remember her posting with such relief that she'd landed in SA and her lovely dad was waiting for her.
I hope she and her baby are well and that the arsehole ex never caught up with her.

Wig and Robe - the 'QC'
MamaDadawahwah - her threads always ended in uproar

A lady whose husband cheated with her on a night out with his mates from a sport team on a night out or a stag do... I think he had a private dance or something and a lot more happened after that. I remember she posted around October'ish (last year or two years ago), chucked him out, but was begging to be back in, not sure if I remember this but was she pregnant at the time maybe? She was super in love with him and wanted to give it till Christmas and maybe try to let him back in her life.

I mean, there are a lot of similar stories like this on Mumsnet so maybe this one will not stand out. I could not find the post later, wonder if it was removed because OP mentioned she thought her SiL(s) may be on the boards as well.

AnyFucker too. She would say things as they were which was sometimes exactly what the poster needed to hear. Never unkind though.

Hmmm I wish I could say the same.