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What's some juicy gossip that you can't share irl but can share with nosy strangers on mumsnet?

732 replies

mumofoneAloneandwell · 15/08/2025 19:39

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

👀👀

OP posts:
99bottlesofkombucha · 16/08/2025 10:55

daddysgirlnot · 15/08/2025 20:46

My daughter and her husband have been selected to participate in a TV show. Filming is happening at the moment, but she’s not allowed to discuss it before the show is broadcast, so sadly I cannot disclose which show it is, or who the presenter is. DD says the presenter is one of the loveliest, kindest people she has ever met, and they’re both loving the experience.

Come back and tell us when you can!! I love to know hosts are genuinely lovely, it’s so unusual in reality tv

Enr25 · 16/08/2025 10:56

@bixiscool you're 100% on about MA

Truffleshuffle84 · 16/08/2025 10:56

My extended family on my mother's side are pretty narrow minded with it being regularly voiced online, you don't get the impression as much in person but online on Facebook it's lots of Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve and shit about rounding up every immigrant ever and deporting them etc. constant stream of pretty hateful intolerant comments and posts.

I've opened an anonymous Facebook account and now troll their comments, having a personal knowledge of their lives helps me tailor the trolling a bit.

Was at my grandmothers birthday earlier in the summer and was trolling whilst they were all there and I guess getting notifications. Was very enjoyable.

MrsNessaSmithy · 16/08/2025 11:00

@mumofoneAloneandwell yes am over 50lb down on MJ and a total weight loss 10 stone over the last 10 years. I am a whole new person and it’s the best thing I ever did.

WillyWonkasPurpleHat · 16/08/2025 11:00

MrsNessaSmithy · 16/08/2025 10:52

I have been on mounjaro for 15 months and nobody in my life knows . Not 1 person.

Me too! Not told anyone.

8 months now, just tapering off as happy with my loss but scared of the hunger pains coming back too quickly.

How much have you lost? Edit - just seen your update - well done!!

CelineDijon · 16/08/2025 11:16

Verydemure · 16/08/2025 10:45

NC?

Definitely not. I've met him and his wife a few times and honestly I've more chance of winning Euromillions than either of them straying, they are absolutely devoted.

CelineDijon · 16/08/2025 11:17

mumofoneAloneandwell · 16/08/2025 09:45

My gdad had a great hand in British history, during the war, Windrush etc

But he was a nonce who abused his 13yo daughter and got her pregnant with my dm, so cannot be celebrated in any way. Evil man.

My dm and I are estranged now, but its hard for me to hate her, given how unwanted she felt growing up. Then again she made me feel the same so 😬😬

I'm so sorry OP 💐

NNforthispost · 16/08/2025 11:18

New name for this as its outing.

ex boss tried it on with me. He is living with long term partner and teens, after they met at work (she was still married at time and was his secretary). After he’d admitted he’d not been faithful in the 19 years they’ve been together. He’s gone from one affair to another with short gaps in between.

Hes shagged everyone from receptionists to other senior partners at the firm.

He does generally choose people in a lower position so he has leverage 🤢.

He will ‘work’ until 1am some days but he’s actually sexting people (no not me - but not sure why he told me all this shit).

He’s currently shagging another team manager and they go on ‘work trips’ with clients so everyone must know.

Absolutely disgusted with him and he used the excuse that he’s just like roommates with his partner and they’ve not had sex since 2019. Am not surprised - I bet she knows and is just worn down.

Unfortunately she’s not working (been SAHM since they had their first) and he’s on over 170k so I bet she feels stuck.

Occasionally I see them out as a family and I’m always so tempted to say something but I don’t. He’s such a deceitful unpleasant man but has a very good ‘nice guy’ mask.

CelineDijon · 16/08/2025 11:19

xSideshowAuntSallyXx · 16/08/2025 09:27

S from TP married to TS?

Took me ages to figure out who this is, but no.

JudgeJ · 16/08/2025 11:23

LittleBitButthurt · 16/08/2025 00:05

No he honestly had no idea! My mum is pretty pissed off that my DGM went to her grave (nearly 20 years after my DGF) not letting him know the truth. I guess when she died in 1993 she could never had foreseen Ancestry being a thing.

I think there might be a lot of 80 years olds in the same position! My mother would describe many of her contemporaries as 'No better than she ought to be' or 'Selling it to Burtonwood' during the war when their husbands were away! Burtonwood was a large US base, (near Ikea).

JudgeJ · 16/08/2025 11:32

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

I would have no hesitation in telling the boyfriend to get a DNA test, why should he be stuck with the financial burden of someone else's child and a feckless partner while he is working hard?

JudgeJ · 16/08/2025 11:41

Lucyweeks · 16/08/2025 10:48

They're all at it.
I had a shop selling luxury items. I learnt not to ask if the wife liked her gift!

Years ago my late OH and I went into a posh shop and he chose some silk boxers. I went to pay and I could see Miss Smug's mind whirring as she took the payment so I said to OH 'How will you smuggle them into the house without Name knowing?', I think she almost wet herself at the intrigue.

ConnieHeart · 16/08/2025 11:43

They're not really an 80s band, they were formed in early 70s

Dippythedino · 16/08/2025 11:44

JudgeJ · 16/08/2025 11:32

I would have no hesitation in telling the boyfriend to get a DNA test, why should he be stuck with the financial burden of someone else's child and a feckless partner while he is working hard?

@Phoebesparrow
Send an anonymous letter to the boyfriend and his family ASAP as well as to the family of the actual father so there's no way for her to wriggle out of it.

SeasalterSadie · 16/08/2025 11:46

ConnieHeart · 16/08/2025 11:43

They're not really an 80s band, they were formed in early 70s

SLB DD?

JackJarvisEsq · 16/08/2025 11:52

I’m convinced me ex is the secret child of a former footballer. I know his mum and the player were “friends” as she used to say way back.

my ex looks so much like him it’s scary.

I’ve only ever told my thoughts to my mother who agrees it’s possible

Kingsleadhat · 16/08/2025 11:53

CelineDijon · 16/08/2025 11:19

Took me ages to figure out who this is, but no.

I've no idea who any of these initials are. Enlighten me?

InBetweenTheLines · 16/08/2025 12:04

Boulevard88 · 15/08/2025 23:00

So… a guy was telling me his unfortunate adventures after his divorce with dating. How he felt lonely etc. The divorce seemed quite amicable and I even suggested that maybe they should get back together with his ex wife, as he said at first that they divorced because the spark was gone and they weren’t attracted to each other anymore. I knew both of them and I always thought they match. I suggested maybe they could still work on their issues.
He then proceeded to tell me that things weren’t as good as they looked, the marriage was truly toxic and he wasn’t going to to bash his wife and said a few things she did who hurt him but also and also a few of the mistakes he had done. One of them was an affair with a married woman named X (rare name) who was originally from Y country (small country with not too many around from there) and that he got really invested with that affair. The cheated husband went after him, it was full on drama and then they stopped. I remember asking oh wow he took her back? And he said “yes” and that she actually had lots of time as she was child free then.
We live in an area that I have met lots of mums and friends and when I met X (a rare name) who originally comes from same Y country around the park at first I didn't connected the dots. We became mum friends and I really like her. I’m 99% she's the lady the guy was talking about to me , really his style, slim body/sexy face. The year she had her child also suits the hypothesis, as she would have been child free around the time the acquaintance had the affair. I would never tell her even that I know said man especially since that divorced man went after me too 😅
The guy still walks his dog around the same big park I meet very occasionally my friend but it never happened to be with her when I see him. I also avoid him like the plague, he found love though which is similar to my friend and me, slim build. The guy clearly had a particular type and also he didn’t stop even if the woman was married or in relationship.
moral of the story: no affairs with silly guys who don’t keep their mouth shut 😅. I’m a a nice person and I wouldn’t even mention to my partner or my best friend what I highly suspect about this other friend had happened prior to meet her.

You lost me at 'sexy face'

ConnieHeart · 16/08/2025 12:05

SeasalterSadie · 16/08/2025 11:46

SLB DD?

Pp has already said no. The wife isn't famous

Upsidedownyourturningme · 16/08/2025 12:05

I was recently the subject of a real life indecent proposal situation. Haven't told anyone irl.

I know the person irl and know they are pretty wealthy so don't doubt they meant it.

InBetweenTheLines · 16/08/2025 12:06

Kingsleadhat · 16/08/2025 11:53

I've no idea who any of these initials are. Enlighten me?

Sting from The Police married to Trudie Styer

mumofoneAloneandwell · 16/08/2025 12:08

CelineDijon · 16/08/2025 11:17

I'm so sorry OP 💐

Thank you 🥺 x

Its fine honestly, I only remember him telling me off for my adhd traits as a kid.

And i'm free ☀️ - got my dd away from them all and we're making it on our own in a different part of london 🥰

OP posts:
PauliesWalnuts · 16/08/2025 12:09

Local builder fancies himself as a property developer and buys probate houses (usually bungalows) in decent areas owned by pensioners for a song, and then extends, renovates, puts v high end fixtures and fittings in. He then lives in them for a bit and then sells them. He has several sons in early twenties who he pays cash hand to help, ditto undocumented immigrants. He’s done one on my road, and lives there now. He has been pretty open with the neighbour about flipping things to avoid paying capital gains tax etc. He’s pissed off everyone with out of hours noisy working, parking issues, deliveries at the crack of dawn etc. He is not well liked.

What he doesn’t know is that the neighbour’s son works for Border Force and her DIL works for HMRC fraud. They’ve been compiling a dossier of information to take to their respective employers and are pretty confident that they’ll catch him for several million pounds worth of tax evasion.

mumofoneAloneandwell · 16/08/2025 12:09

Upsidedownyourturningme · 16/08/2025 12:05

I was recently the subject of a real life indecent proposal situation. Haven't told anyone irl.

I know the person irl and know they are pretty wealthy so don't doubt they meant it.

Ooo 👀

Were you tempted? Was he hot?

I'll share this secret - if I recieved such a proposal as a single woman now, I'd go for it 🙈🤭

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InBetweenTheLines · 16/08/2025 12:11

mumofoneAloneandwell · 16/08/2025 08:36

Omg 😄

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

How did he see it before his wife?