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to ask you to tell us something you’d never admit IRL Thread 2

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GooseAndSandals · 17/09/2025 23:24

Continuation of previous thread.

OP posts:
Shegotanology · 19/09/2025 13:33

I regularly wish for the extinction of the human race.

Evaka · 19/09/2025 13:38

Hope everyone on here is ok. Very often if you think you're not loveable or useful it's because some negative shitbox has convinced you of that, not because it's true x

Belladog1 · 19/09/2025 13:41

I really love a good world disaster. I get totally hooked on reading everything there is about it. Tsunami, earthquakes ........ I'm in.

willsandnoodle · 19/09/2025 13:52

I only feel worthy of love, and actually happy when I am slimmer. I have nothing against anyone else being overweight - but I could never be overweight myself as I have used my looks to get by my whole life.
I wasn’t loved as I should have been as a child. Nobody taught me how to adult - I was just thrown out and expected to get on with it. For years my life was a mess. I’ve been with my wonderful husband for so long now, and even so I still don’t believe I’m good enough. I feel like a charlatan all the time. I’m a good, kind person and my life is good - people respond well to me, but the weight of the shame can be suffocating.

The rational side of me tells me lots of people must feel this way. I continue to be kind, advocate for my younger colleagues, support my children and just hope it’s enough in the end. As the years pass, the feeling of someone about to pull the rug does lessen, so I’m confident I’m moving in the right direction.

AliceMaforethought · 19/09/2025 14:58

willsandnoodle · 19/09/2025 13:52

I only feel worthy of love, and actually happy when I am slimmer. I have nothing against anyone else being overweight - but I could never be overweight myself as I have used my looks to get by my whole life.
I wasn’t loved as I should have been as a child. Nobody taught me how to adult - I was just thrown out and expected to get on with it. For years my life was a mess. I’ve been with my wonderful husband for so long now, and even so I still don’t believe I’m good enough. I feel like a charlatan all the time. I’m a good, kind person and my life is good - people respond well to me, but the weight of the shame can be suffocating.

The rational side of me tells me lots of people must feel this way. I continue to be kind, advocate for my younger colleagues, support my children and just hope it’s enough in the end. As the years pass, the feeling of someone about to pull the rug does lessen, so I’m confident I’m moving in the right direction.

I'm right there with you. I am very beautiful and very vain. It's all I really value about myself, although nobody would really think it of me. I'm not the type to get botox or enhancements, and I dont really care about the male gaze, but I do live for fashion. My clothing collection must run into the tens of thousands, if not more.

AliceMaforethought · 19/09/2025 15:00

Gwenhwyfar · 19/09/2025 13:00

Can't you get help from the council. I don't see why anybody should be forced into being a carer.

You're right, and if things get any worse that's what we will do. I still resent the fact that she is so lazy and just assumes that we will be responsible for everything. Even discussing making arrangements and legal stuff, she will be all shocked Pikachu.

Beeinalily · 19/09/2025 15:02

@Belladog1 you must have nerves of steel, that stuff terrifies me!

MiddlingMarch · 19/09/2025 15:06

I am 45 and juat had my first smear test this morning.

I have a deep shame about having a body. The shameful embarrassment of having corporeal form. I don't wish to die, I just feel like everyone is embarrassed for me because I have this body.

I wasnt abused, but led to believe my body was ultimately shameful and I chose to have dirty, dirty periods and made my body grow to the size it is.

I told the doctor. She was kind.

Mynameissomething · 19/09/2025 16:32

Yesterday at 7.30am I discovered my long term AP had died suddenly

Thought he was messing about not getting my usual morning texts so checked his FB

I still can’t believe it and can’t speak about it to anybody

OneCrabbyPattyPlease · 19/09/2025 16:44

Netcurtainnelly · 18/09/2025 11:11

Just be careful they don't cut them.

That's always a worry. They might cut them. I did score 4 or more points on multiple areas though, and I've had significantly more professional input from services and adult social care with demonstrable evidence of need through care assessments and need that I feel reasonably secure when it comes up for re-assessment, not to mention the ever piling list of diagnoses that have cropped up since my last assessment.

Still, they may get cut. That's true. I'm utterly unemployable long term though, so if that happens I'll just plan a swift exit and see everyone in the next life when we're all cats.

piaofsicily · 19/09/2025 20:19

My 3rd child is a girl after 2 boys. It wasn't luck alone! Nobody will ever know exactly how far I went to ensure I had a girl.
I do not regret anything.

RememberBeKindWithKaren · 19/09/2025 20:40

piaofsicily · 19/09/2025 20:19

My 3rd child is a girl after 2 boys. It wasn't luck alone! Nobody will ever know exactly how far I went to ensure I had a girl.
I do not regret anything.

How did you ensure you had a girl?

kiwiblue · 19/09/2025 20:53

RememberBeKindWithKaren · 19/09/2025 20:40

How did you ensure you had a girl?

Obviously don't know about this poster, but my friend said she ensured this by using the Shettles method, but research has since shown that it is ineffective.

designateddriverforfun · 20/09/2025 00:35

Mynameissomething · 19/09/2025 16:32

Yesterday at 7.30am I discovered my long term AP had died suddenly

Thought he was messing about not getting my usual morning texts so checked his FB

I still can’t believe it and can’t speak about it to anybody

Oh wow Shock
is there someone you can talk to about this in RL ?

youngerself · 20/09/2025 00:45

TempName444567 · 18/09/2025 08:59

I told everyone I gave up drinking because I just went off it.

What really happened was, one evening during the Xmas holidays I drank too much vodka too quickly so became very, very drunk. I was going to be sick so got up to go to the toilet but staggered and fell over onto the TV. Managed to make it to the toilet where I was sick and also filled my pants with diarrhoea. I remember sitting on the toilet shitting myself and throwing up into my cupped hands and onto the floor, thinking I was going to pass out and die.
I must have had a shower and gone to bed.
It was fucking terrifying.
I live alone so nobody will ever know the truth.

Edited

Overall, would you say it's a positive thing looking back?
Or was it just a one off rather than part of a greater pattern?

Fatfreefatball · 20/09/2025 00:48

@Mynameissomething sorry for your loss but what does AP stand for?

SeptemberIRemember · 20/09/2025 00:53

Affair Partner, @Fatfreefatball

PocketBattleship · 20/09/2025 01:06

Belladog1 · 19/09/2025 13:41

I really love a good world disaster. I get totally hooked on reading everything there is about it. Tsunami, earthquakes ........ I'm in.

Fist bump @Belladog1
It's plane crash footage for me. 9/11 was simultaneously horrifying and fascinating and I will never tire of watching it.

MischievousBiscuits · 20/09/2025 01:30

I'm a cheerful happy person and very feminine but I absolutely love true crime and dark content like about murders, mysteries, strange camera footage, the paranormal, etc. When I relax it's my go to.

SeenAtHarrods · 20/09/2025 02:09

I am capable of way, way more than I achieve. To the point that I’m ashamed of how many opportunities I’ve missed.

I can’t tell anyone in real life because they’d either mock but me or give me a long list diet J shouldn’t v it.

Ooopsyididit · 20/09/2025 03:19

piaofsicily · 19/09/2025 20:19

My 3rd child is a girl after 2 boys. It wasn't luck alone! Nobody will ever know exactly how far I went to ensure I had a girl.
I do not regret anything.

How did you do it?!

DervlaGlass · 20/09/2025 03:37

Ooopsyididit · 20/09/2025 03:19

How did you do it?!

I'm guessing sex selective termination?

DervlaGlass · 20/09/2025 03:43

Mine is that I don't really believe anyone likes the human experience but we all feel compelled to pretend so we don't upset the people we love.

I prefer the pretence.

Notagoodthing · 20/09/2025 03:53

.

HumphreyCushionintheHouse · 20/09/2025 06:23

DervlaGlass · 20/09/2025 03:37

I'm guessing sex selective termination?

I wondered if they’d used something like Microsort. www.microsort.com

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