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mumofoneAloneandwell · 2025-08-15T18:39:45+00:00

To improve an otherwise boring friday night in front of the TV, with my slightly poorly DD x 👀👀

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 16/08/2025 08:20

Bixiscool · 16/08/2025 04:21

Mine relates to a recently disgraced former MP. His antics are not a surprise to anyone who knows him. He also left his wife on Christmas Day for his mistress and attacked the other man she was having an affair with (sitting MP). He's been having the affair for years and it's only stopped because he's no longer in parliament. He's also still drinking despite court conditions citing he must stay away from alcohol.

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MyDeftDuck · 16/08/2025 08:20

I don’t think my dad was actually my dad………my siblings resemble him in some ways, but not me, I only look like my mum. And the colour of our eyes troubles me……dads were blue, mums were grey/greenish…….mine are brown. I’ve never mentioned any of this to my siblings and can’t ask my parents as they’re long time dead now.
Dad was fabulous though and provided for us all, was never out of work and made sure we had a fabulous childhood. But these doubts just niggle in the back of my mind although I don’t have the courage to mention anything to my siblings…….there’s something wise about letting a sleeping dog lie.

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 16/08/2025 08:29

ChloeUK · 16/08/2025 03:40

Spilling a little secret here... my husband told me he'd love to see me with another man! We haven't told anyone yet (or found anyone, for that matter!). Just putting it out there for the universe to work its magic.

Ooo, do keep us updated! Sounds like it could be fun, as long as he won't get too jealous?

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 16/08/2025 08:29

Poodlelove · 16/08/2025 00:01

I can see someone who lives very close to me in the shower every day , he really should get a blind, I have moved my garden chair for a better view.

😄😄 I would so do the same!

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 16/08/2025 08:32

Zoesherman · 16/08/2025 00:04

i hope your friends don’t tell you secret stuff then. I know stuff but it’s secret and I would not every gossip about it on here like a 12 year old old girl 😂

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🍅🍅 !!!

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shuffleofftobuffalo · 16/08/2025 08:33

I would like to apologise to all my new colleagues for the fact that Craig and I are not having an affair, and nor will we ever be having an affair.

I know they will never believe this because it is apparently quite the most exciting thing that’s ever (not!) happened in the history of this company - but without going into the exact circumstances it’s really all very boring and innocent and the “signs” they think they see are in fact complete coincidences.

We don’t actually talk much and when we do it’s about work related things and mostly in meetings with other people. Like I said, very boring and innocent and nowhere near as exciting as the rumours people are spreading.

But of course the more Craig or I deny it the more certain they become that it’s true.

(He’s not really called Craig!)

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 16/08/2025 08:35

Longnightmoon · 16/08/2025 04:46

I know why our head teacher was sacked - not so much a love triangle as a love pentagon. (perhaps more accurately described as a lust pentagon)

😭 love pentagon

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 16/08/2025 08:36

marblebutterfly · 16/08/2025 05:26

The first time I drove my car after passing my driver's test I hit a parked car on a little residential street. I left my phone number on the windscreen. A man rang me up and asked if I was sure it was parked where it was and not at the golf club. I live nowhere close to a golf club. Google says our nearest one is just over 7 miles away. Turns out his wife had taken his car to go to work at the golf club. He was livid and said not to worry about the damage, his wife could sort it out. I'm pretty sure I exposed her affair 😳

Omg 😄

Imagine being caught like that 😭, he probably thanks you for his freedom!

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 16/08/2025 08:37

Notmaintain · 15/08/2025 23:04

Uni friend had a promiscuous phase while working abroad after graduating. She was very quiet and studious, had only had one previous boyfriend, the last person you would expect to have a wild phase. Several celebrities were involved in this man-eating period.

Meanwhile I was stuck in a small English town...

I'm trying to be like her

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ConnieHeart · 16/08/2025 08:38

A friend of mine has been seeing a married man for 1.5 years. She knows i don't like it but he's unhappy in the marriage (apparently) & he stays for financial reasons. However he's got a family event coming up & has said he will leave after that, so as not to upset the (adult) kids before the event. My friend is going to finish it if this doesn't happen....so we'll see

NegroniMacaroni · 16/08/2025 08:39

A guy who I worked with suddenly was not at work one day. Management said he was going to be away for a while for personal reasons. In my line of work we're sometimes in touch with the police. One of my team members called me over one day and showed me this guy's mug shot on a police website - he'd been charged of hacking into women's i-cloud accounts and disseminating their nude pics. We discreetly asked management if they knew and they were like oh yes, but keep it quiet as he's coming back to work once he's out of jail in 6 months.... Since then I kept it to myself as didn't want to be seen as a trouble maker, and also I wish I had never known, but I've always wondered who knew.

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 16/08/2025 08:39

LittleBitButthurt · 15/08/2025 23:56

Courtesy of Ancestry we’ve recently discovered that my DM and her brother are only half siblings. Turns out he’s half Jew, and he has family in America. We suspect my grandmother had a dalliance with an American GI while my grandfather was away fighting in the war.

Considering he’s nearly 80 and lived his whole life assuming another man is his father he’s taken it pretty well. He’s starting addressing my DM as his ‘gentile sister’ in messages, and joking about having a joint 80th/bar mitzvah 🤣

One think american Jewish people are loved for is their lovely sense of humour, which he sounds like he definitely has! 😄🥰

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 16/08/2025 08:39

NegroniMacaroni · 16/08/2025 08:39

A guy who I worked with suddenly was not at work one day. Management said he was going to be away for a while for personal reasons. In my line of work we're sometimes in touch with the police. One of my team members called me over one day and showed me this guy's mug shot on a police website - he'd been charged of hacking into women's i-cloud accounts and disseminating their nude pics. We discreetly asked management if they knew and they were like oh yes, but keep it quiet as he's coming back to work once he's out of jail in 6 months.... Since then I kept it to myself as didn't want to be seen as a trouble maker, and also I wish I had never known, but I've always wondered who knew.

He came back to work after 6 months in prison????? Omg!

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 16/08/2025 08:40

Testerical · 16/08/2025 00:00

@LittleBitButthurt what a shock that must be in your 80s - although maybe he already had an inkling. Families think they are brilliant at keeping secrets, but kids do notice discrepancies. I think every kid wonders about their biological provenance at some point: I certainly did, despite no real obvious red flags.

Even though I couldn't put it into words, I always knew

It was so obvious 😄

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 16/08/2025 08:41

Testerical · 15/08/2025 23:22

A female relative of mine had an affair with someone on the same shifts as her at 530am in the mornings. I do not blame her at all for this but I was pretty shocked when she told me as I had no idea.

Her husband has probably been having a gay relationship outside the marriage for half a century. There is a lot of it about.

Another person I know of who is now unfortunately suffering from dementia turned out to have had a VERY colourful sexual history including many standard affairs and a few relationships that are banned by professional regulatory frameworks. Again, didn’t come out until old age.

None of this is gossip in the sense you’d think of, but it does go to show that people often have complicated lives.

I have much, much more sympathy for women who broke rules 30,40 and 50 years ago because the rules were skewed against them. They were basically trapped by finances.

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I love hearing about the colourful lives of people 😄

The most sweet unassuming older person you meet could have the wildest backstory

I hope to be one of them tbh 🤭

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 16/08/2025 08:42

TitaniasAss · 15/08/2025 23:59

I found out recently that a woman up the road doesn't know that one of closest friends is sleeping with her son. (He's in his late 20s). It's nothing to do with me and I've no intention of getting involved, but I wish I didn't know about it.

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How old is the woman 👀

Its not a Macron family situation is it

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 16/08/2025 08:44

usedtobeaylis · 15/08/2025 23:45

That seems quite exciting though (as long as you don't act on it) 😬

I'm quite a private person but reading some of the posts make me think I wouldn't be too averse to being the subject of some minor office gossip - I've had an almighty crush on a woman at work for absolutely ages. I'm amazed nobody has picked up on it since I'm like a dizzy teenager despite my best efforts to be a normal 40-something woman. Or maybe they have!

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👀👀 whats the woman like? Can you act on it? Life is for living 🥰

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Phoebesparrow · 16/08/2025 08:50

My ex was a nasty piece of work

He'd beat me up and tried to control every move I made while telling everyone I was shagging someone new every single day (not true-i was either at work or at home with the kids)

Of course when we broke up,he rewrote history and he was the perfect boyfriend and I was an utter slag

Anyway,the one one person who really ran with this was his younger sister

She was the spoilt rotten baby of the family and told so many lies about me

She got pregnant to her utter sap of a boyfriend (to be fair to him,he's a nice lad who works hard while she sits at home all day,baby is at nursery 8-6 as she finds it 'too hard')

Or so she claims

When the baby was conceived,it was at another sisters birthday party

Sappy but nice boyfriend was passed out pissed on the sofa and she was around the back of the garden shed with another fella

9 months later,baby pops out and is the spitting image of the other bloke

She opens her mouth one more time to slag me off and paint her brother as the poor victim and I'm telling her boyfriend

Best laugh is,my ex is insanely jealous of her for being the spoilt baby sister and would drop her under a bus himself but he's too scared of their mother to do it

MadinMarch · 16/08/2025 08:54

pollyglot · 15/08/2025 20:59

Out of the blue, a close relative appeared on Ancestry. Turns out he was my grandfather's love child from 1935

This has just happened to me too! Well, actually the love child's son appeared on Ancestry, but his father, the actual lovechild, was also born in 1935, the same year as yours.

CelineDijon · 16/08/2025 08:57

Someone very well known in the music industry (beloved 80s band member who is massively respected and hugely influential) and who is known for being wholesome and family orientated - and has been married to his wife for decades - is having an affair with my friend.

I'm seriously unimpressed with both of them and I've told them as much. She met him through work and we've all been friends for ages but the affair only started earlier this year. His wife is absolutely lovely and I see her socially often which is awkward to say the least.

Pair of dickheads.

sashh · 16/08/2025 08:58

KidsDoBetter · 16/08/2025 07:34

What? Is the secret he was born out of wedlock (which isn’t shocking unless we are going back a 100 years?) or that his dad was not his dad?

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No the secret was that his parents both lied about when they got married.

It's not shocking as a scandal but was a shock to my friend.

SeasalterSadie · 16/08/2025 08:59

CelineDijon · 16/08/2025 08:57

Someone very well known in the music industry (beloved 80s band member who is massively respected and hugely influential) and who is known for being wholesome and family orientated - and has been married to his wife for decades - is having an affair with my friend.

I'm seriously unimpressed with both of them and I've told them as much. She met him through work and we've all been friends for ages but the affair only started earlier this year. His wife is absolutely lovely and I see her socially often which is awkward to say the least.

Pair of dickheads.

MK of SB?

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 16/08/2025 09:04

usernumber284 · 15/08/2025 23:17

I quit my job 6 months ago, but I haven't told a soul. I had a lot of stressful changes in my life, and I just couldn't cope with it any longer because my boss was quite temperamental and unpredictable. I just quit one day after working out that financially I could afford to retire a little earlier than planned, or that I could afford to take a year out now, and find a new job next year.

I haven't told my kids, or friends, or even my partner. I wfh on my laptop, so nobody really sees me work etc, but I just don't want to have to justify it and explain myself to people. When I'm speaking to people and they ask what I do, I just pretend I'm still doing it (whilst smiling on the inside)! I've managed for this long without telling, that I'm starting to wonder if and when I should tell anybody at all. it feels like a nice secret!

I feel like, having the time to do as you please is invaluable 🥰, might as well enjoy keeping it to yourself, why not!

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 16/08/2025 09:05

somethingbeginningwithb · 15/08/2025 23:39

See, I thought Rochelle H* but who knows

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I've now caught up on the rochelle/frankie/myleene beef!!

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 16/08/2025 09:06

TellMeYourScores · 15/08/2025 22:24

Earlier this year one of my past bullies was in named in an infamous WhatsApp group. Promoted their last campaign on “supporting the most vulnerable” in private is nasty, racist, bigoted bully” I know stories about them they would not want public and that they will not know I know thanks to their equally two faced proud mean girl best friend. I refused to vote Labour despite my left of centre principles because of them.

I named them to a friend as being a member of this group before the names were published in the press. I resisted the temptation to call the tabloids to share the information about them. I have enjoyed watching their partial downfall. The best part was I had already mentioned their bigoted bullying to others in my industry before this came out in the press.

They will have been thrown under the bus by people more powerful than them. As they fall I rise and know in future they shall be exposed for the bullying bigots they truly are and this is just the beginning of their comeuppance and revenge really is best served cold and living well despite your bullies.

Yes! Sometimes all you can do is let their well deserved karma get them and smile at their downfall

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