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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 · 17/08/2025 16:31

GreenFlag · 17/08/2025 16:25

My well to do friend has been spotted eating in Taco Bell using the synonym Anastasia Beaverhousin.

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Namechangefordaughterevasion · 17/08/2025 16:35

My mum had two children from her first husband (i'm the oldest). The official story is that she left the first husband while pregnant with my brother and moved in with her new man. She eventually married that man who adopted me and my brother and the two of them went on to have two other DC. So we were a happy, blended family of 6 and Mum and Dad were devoted to each other for over 40 years until they died.

This was all nearly 70 years ago and as you can imagine it was a huge scandal at the time and our parents never talked about it but brushed it under the carpet.

Recently a very big penny dropped for me - my brother and I have very similar features and look like our mum but we have very very different colouring to one another. I'm fair skinned and ginger. I never tan, just burn, rather like my biological father. My brother OTOH, has dark skin and hair and just has to look out of the window on a sunny day to turn a deep mahogany colour - just our adoptive dad. I'm 99% certain that although Mum's first husband was the name on my bro's birth certificate our eventual adoptive dad was actually his father.

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 17/08/2025 16:40

Namechangefordaughterevasion · 17/08/2025 16:35

My mum had two children from her first husband (i'm the oldest). The official story is that she left the first husband while pregnant with my brother and moved in with her new man. She eventually married that man who adopted me and my brother and the two of them went on to have two other DC. So we were a happy, blended family of 6 and Mum and Dad were devoted to each other for over 40 years until they died.

This was all nearly 70 years ago and as you can imagine it was a huge scandal at the time and our parents never talked about it but brushed it under the carpet.

Recently a very big penny dropped for me - my brother and I have very similar features and look like our mum but we have very very different colouring to one another. I'm fair skinned and ginger. I never tan, just burn, rather like my biological father. My brother OTOH, has dark skin and hair and just has to look out of the window on a sunny day to turn a deep mahogany colour - just our adoptive dad. I'm 99% certain that although Mum's first husband was the name on my bro's birth certificate our eventual adoptive dad was actually his father.

I'm so glad you had a happy blended family 🥰

I think it sounds likely - can only imagine how much stick she must've got though!

I get those realisaions that just click one-day 😄

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Lamelie · 17/08/2025 18:14

Lamelie · 15/08/2025 23:10

Squeee! Me too. On tenterhooks, I keep checking my phone as I think they’ll call. He’s asked her siblings, DH and me, the grannys…

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They did! Weekend of squeely calls ensued between three generations and several countries.

Klp122 · 17/08/2025 18:26

Lamelie · 17/08/2025 18:14

They did! Weekend of squeely calls ensued between three generations and several countries.

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How lovely. Congratulations! 🍾🎉

Twilight7777 · 17/08/2025 19:07

curiositydidnotkillthecatisaid · 15/08/2025 20:03

My DH ex girlfriend (who he has children with) moved some cocklodger in and my stepchildren kept on saying how horrible he was. I brushed it off as the kids just having loyalty to their dad as they are very close to my DH and myself UNTIL one day I popped by to drop a surprise off for the kids and while I knocked on the front door I could hear him screaming calling the kids ungrateful cunts and then opened the door all smiles to me. I was so damn angry but kept my cool.

I made a plan with one of my friends to take her car down to his car garage and flirt with him and try and get him to go on a date with her. She did. The dirty abusive “man” was happy to cheat on the woman who was letting him live in her house for free and treating my step children like crap. My friend took video recordings and pictures of their date and sent them to my DH Ex. Needless to say she was heartbroken but she did kick his butt to the curb and the kids are so much happier that he has gone

edit for spelling and to add the ex has no idea it was a set up

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Now that’s a stepmum to be proud of! 👏👏👏

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 17/08/2025 19:18

Lamelie · 17/08/2025 18:14

They did! Weekend of squeely calls ensued between three generations and several countries.

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Congratulations to you all 🥰🥰❤️

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HermioneHerman · 17/08/2025 20:12

fruitybathbomb · 17/08/2025 16:04

I am in social work!

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Wow! He's a proper scumbag then or there are 2 of them! How I'd love to give his initials or location but I probably shouldn't, I don't know his current wife at all.

AppleSour · 17/08/2025 20:19

A couple that I know of (very small village) gf and bf. The gf is heavily pregnant and was caught having an affair with her own FIL.
Big drama happend gf got slapped by MIL when FIL confessed he was leaving to be with gf. Bf moved in with MIL, FIL moved in with gf.
This lasted all of 3 days when FIL went back to MIL and bf got back with gf. The gf swears up and down that baby is bfs. They are all horrible abusive fekkers so they honestly deserve each other.

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 17/08/2025 20:40

AppleSour · 17/08/2025 20:19

A couple that I know of (very small village) gf and bf. The gf is heavily pregnant and was caught having an affair with her own FIL.
Big drama happend gf got slapped by MIL when FIL confessed he was leaving to be with gf. Bf moved in with MIL, FIL moved in with gf.
This lasted all of 3 days when FIL went back to MIL and bf got back with gf. The gf swears up and down that baby is bfs. They are all horrible abusive fekkers so they honestly deserve each other.

😭😭 I cant get my head around them swapping places and then swapping back 😄

What a mess

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TheTeasmaid · 17/08/2025 22:48

mumofoneAloneandwell · 17/08/2025 20:40

😭😭 I cant get my head around them swapping places and then swapping back 😄

What a mess

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jesus mary and holy trinity. thats swingers on a different level

seasid · 17/08/2025 23:04

The girl my ex cheated on me with when I was pregnant (and she was pregnant with another man’s baby) is now on the fourth man she’s introduced to her child. Her child has just turned five and within a week of knowing this new man, she’s introduced him to her son and him with his children and they’re playing happy families… after a week. She should have never had children as all she does is prioritise men over her child.

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 17/08/2025 23:04

TheTeasmaid · 17/08/2025 22:48

jesus mary and holy trinity. thats swingers on a different level

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TheTeasmaid · 17/08/2025 23:16

jerry springer would be proud of them

bumblebee1000 · 17/08/2025 23:18

Our annoyingly smug super woke young neighbours, 2 houses along, also extremely rich....built an expensive luxury loft conversion and told everyone it was for the mums to move in to help with childcare.....the couple both work at home in highly paid eco green washing non jobs...anyway...the real reason the loft has gone up is so the 2 mums of the couple [ both divorced ] can engage in a lesbian triangle with another female friend....all been seen and heard going on....!!

PulchritudinousLycanthrope · 18/08/2025 07:37

Horsie · 17/08/2025 07:32

I have one from ages ago. I never see any of the people involved and haven't for years.

Elderly ex-MIL has elderly couple friends going back decades. I know the friends, as we have stayed with them. They are a married couple who got together six decades ago, at university.

MIL told me that when the couple were 18 and dating, the wife - then the girlfriend - got pregnant and gave the baby up for adoption. I suppose it must have been during their first year of university. The couple then stayed together, got married, and had three more children. They remained together for about sixty years, until the wife died of old age a couple of years ago.

I found it very sad indeed, that they stayed together for the rest of their married life and had lots more children, but that the first child they made together was adopted. I have no idea if the adult children - now in their fiftes/early sixties - have any idea whether they have a full sister out there, and I dearly wished my MIL had never told me their secret. We would go to stay with the elderly couple, and I was terrified that something would slip out.

MIL showed me the profile of the first baby from Facebook. She's about seventy now, and, heartbreakingly, is the spitting image of her birth mother. I've met the couple's adult children, from back when we used to stay with the elderly couple, and I have NO IDEA if they know about this secret sibling. If not, it seems so wrong that I know and they don't. Anyway, I haven't seen them in years, and I won't, because their mother died, and the connection was the friendship between her and my MIL. Who's my ex-MIL, anyway. I don't even know if the husband is still alive. If so, he must be ninety.

It's so odd that they didn't have any contact with the child, but I suppose adoptions were closed back then and they never talked about such things. But I have wondered how the couple felt over those years, knowing that their kids had a full sibling out there. The whole thing sounds desperately sad, and I so wish my MIL had never said anything to me.

Also, the first baby was a girl, and the three subsequent children were all boys. Makes it sadder somehow.

I have an adored friend in a very similar situation.

His parents were both married to other people and had an affair and a son who was adopted in another country. The affair partners eventually got divorced and married each other and went on to have three more DS's of which, my friend is the middle one.

He only found out he had a much older brother because the much older brother wrote a book about their father who was in the public eye.

It came as a hell of a shock to my friend who, so far has not met this sibling but it's clear from the photo of the author on the dust jacket that they are all offspring/sons of the same parents.

Sad really.

Horsie · 18/08/2025 07:52

PulchritudinousLycanthrope · 18/08/2025 07:37

I have an adored friend in a very similar situation.

His parents were both married to other people and had an affair and a son who was adopted in another country. The affair partners eventually got divorced and married each other and went on to have three more DS's of which, my friend is the middle one.

He only found out he had a much older brother because the much older brother wrote a book about their father who was in the public eye.

It came as a hell of a shock to my friend who, so far has not met this sibling but it's clear from the photo of the author on the dust jacket that they are all offspring/sons of the same parents.

Sad really.

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Really, really sad. To think that there are full siblings out there who never knew each other.

It seems so wrong that I know these people have a full sibling and they don't.

PulchritudinousLycanthrope · 18/08/2025 08:08

Horsie · 18/08/2025 07:52

Really, really sad. To think that there are full siblings out there who never knew each other.

It seems so wrong that I know these people have a full sibling and they don't.

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That feeling of knowing something but the other person or people that it affects directly does not, is awful.

My DMum used to tell us kids stuff that she never should have, even from a young age. Mum had a lot of MH issues and treated us kids as friends rather than in a parent/child relationship. Some of the stuff I heard and saw as a kid was shocking by todays standards but it was the 60's and 70's and a lot of my peers experienced the same thing. Life was wild back then.

From a young age, I was told by my Mum that the youngest son of a neighbour was not the husband's child but the son of an Afghan worker on a local farm. My Mum was told this by the mother although over the years the mother changed her story a bit but it was evident this child was not the son of the husband who was a short redheaded and bandy Welshman.

On her deathbed, the mother told her son the truth about his birth and shortly after her funeral he told me this. We were all about 50 by this time.

I had felt terrible knowing the truth all those years but when the mother was alive, I'm buggered if I was going to tell her son the truth.

DeeKitch · 18/08/2025 11:06

mumofoneAloneandwell · 16/08/2025 19:46

I got the vibe that he lit up her world like nobody else 🤭

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Ooooh lucky!!!

Smilehandshake · 18/08/2025 20:03

Qwerty58 · 16/08/2025 21:43

NC for this

one is a secret rather than gossip. Me and two of my best friends all slept with the same well off man years ago (when we were young and beautiful), mostly as a foursome (although occasionally separately). For money basically 🤣although we all had good professional jobs 🤣
but he was buying us lavish gifts (think Prada bags), taking us on holidays or shopping, giving us spending money and paying one off huge expenses like my degree or my friend’s house renovation. He was also married and had more other women on the side. And he was actually a nice man, not an asshole, it was just a normal thing among rich men in his circle

no one but us three knows.
this went on for a few years long time ago, now all three of us are married and not in touch with him

No offence, but I just remembered what this reminds me of - "What first attracted you to millionaire Paul Daniels?"

TalkToTheHand123 · 18/08/2025 23:44

I had a client who I got a bit too friendly with a few years ago. Fortunately I had to be transferred due to a company restructure after a couple of months of it starting.

MyHonestBiscuit · 19/08/2025 06:34

I know someone who would get her 8 year old child to make malicious phone calls when she got messed up with her mum friend from the school.

MrsRobinsonsHandprints · 19/08/2025 07:09

Smilehandshake · 18/08/2025 20:03

No offence, but I just remembered what this reminds me of - "What first attracted you to millionaire Paul Daniels?"

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How odd.

The poster is clear that she did it for the money and not love.

MyHonestBiscuit · 19/08/2025 07:34

Years ago I got a call a friend was going into hospital. She wanted me to hold her hand while doctors tried to get the lid of a deodorant can out of her you know what! Soft & Gentle.

DeeKitch · 19/08/2025 14:14

MyHonestBiscuit · 19/08/2025 07:34

Years ago I got a call a friend was going into hospital. She wanted me to hold her hand while doctors tried to get the lid of a deodorant can out of her you know what! Soft & Gentle.

Not so soft and gentle 🤣