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HelenSkeleton · 2025-10-18T09:13:11+00:00

Happy Mothers Day Mummy Bear. You are simply the best, thank you for everything you continue to do for me and our famalam. Happy Nanny's Day, Theo Bear 🐻 absolutely adores you. Happy Mothers Day to my beaut Sisters, I love that we get to do this journey together and I love the bond our littlies have. It has it all! Littlies, mummy bear, famalam journey.

BauhausOfEliott · 20/10/2025 13:08

Thepeopleversuswork · 18/10/2025 18:45

Hmmm. I think judging other people's social media has become the only accepted form of snobbery these days. It's almost like sport isn't it? Spotting what you think are cringey or performative posts/naff words etc. The new form of U vs non U.

I don't post much on social media but I can't really bestir myself to care too much about other people wanting to express happiness or gratitude towards their families. In the scheme of social crimes its pretty far down the tree for me.

Yeah, this.

Nobody is obliged to follow people on social media if they don’t like them or their posts. Nobody has to tailor their own communication style to someone else’s liking, either. If someone likes to express their feelings in a schmaltzy way, they’re perfectly entitled to do that.

It’s not my style at all, but it’s not my post and it’s not me being addressed so it’s not for me to judge. It’s personal taste and of no more consequence to anyone else than, eg, someone’s choice of wallpaper or hairstyle.

What does make me cringe is how gleefully Mumsnetters love to insist that anyone who shares happy photos or soppy Facebook posts must be having an affair, getting beaten up by their husband, leading a miserable life etc. It’s an embarrassingly revealing and bitter response to someone expressing happiness.

Suednymph · 20/10/2025 13:15

I came across a whole bunch of people in a place in England I have never even been to and they are like this however its not so much the family (who seem to rip each other apart and everyone around them PUBLICLY all the time) but one of them has had the steadiest stream of boyfriends I have ever know of and every couple of months after a post about how 'you are the best stepdad to my kids, we would be lost without you' etc etc she opens a new account and low and behold then she has met 'the love of my life, forever grateful for you thank you for being the best stepdad to my kids' and this is almost twice a year and her kids are like 2! The best though is the newest stepdaddy posting a lengthy message from his kids to her, from her kids who cant talk yet to her and shes the best thing that ever happened and best stepmum etc etc however only about 5 months ago he was posting the same about another woman and again lengthy post best stepmum and mum bla bla. I get highly entertained by them all but honestly feel really sorry for the kids with the amount of stepmums/stepdads they are all going through every year.

Suednymph · 20/10/2025 13:16

To point out it takes seconds to see all of this cos in his case he never changed account or deleted any public posts so i can see the timeline of all the loves of his life right on his page with pics etc for the world to see.

SprayWhiteDung · 20/10/2025 13:26

Different people do things differently.

You just have to live and let live, laugh, love, OP!

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HelenSkeleton · 20/10/2025 13:38

Suednymph · 20/10/2025 13:15

I came across a whole bunch of people in a place in England I have never even been to and they are like this however its not so much the family (who seem to rip each other apart and everyone around them PUBLICLY all the time) but one of them has had the steadiest stream of boyfriends I have ever know of and every couple of months after a post about how 'you are the best stepdad to my kids, we would be lost without you' etc etc she opens a new account and low and behold then she has met 'the love of my life, forever grateful for you thank you for being the best stepdad to my kids' and this is almost twice a year and her kids are like 2! The best though is the newest stepdaddy posting a lengthy message from his kids to her, from her kids who cant talk yet to her and shes the best thing that ever happened and best stepmum etc etc however only about 5 months ago he was posting the same about another woman and again lengthy post best stepmum and mum bla bla. I get highly entertained by them all but honestly feel really sorry for the kids with the amount of stepmums/stepdads they are all going through every year.

They're not step-anything though are they, just a stream of random so they don't have to be unpartnered up.

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Suednymph · 20/10/2025 13:56

@HelenSkeleton oh no just the next boyfriend/girlfriend and they all live in the same area and intro the kids and move in and out of each others homes at a very impressive rate.

Thepeopleversuswork · 20/10/2025 13:57

@BauhausOfEliott

What does make me cringe is how gleefully Mumsnetters love to insist that anyone who shares happy photos or soppy Facebook posts must be having an affair, getting beaten up by their husband, leading a miserable life etc. It’s an embarrassingly revealing and bitter response to someone expressing happiness.

Yep this with bells on. So petty and nasty.

Didimum · 20/10/2025 14:08

I can't fathom expending the energy to care about this, let alone starting a MN post about it. Leave people alone.

Didimum · 20/10/2025 14:10

Thepeopleversuswork · 20/10/2025 13:57

@BauhausOfEliott

What does make me cringe is how gleefully Mumsnetters love to insist that anyone who shares happy photos or soppy Facebook posts must be having an affair, getting beaten up by their husband, leading a miserable life etc. It’s an embarrassingly revealing and bitter response to someone expressing happiness.

Yep this with bells on. So petty and nasty.

Reminds me of the post earlier today/yesterday from the lady who posted saying she was grateful for her DH for the things he had done for her at the weekend. The sneering that he was probably just useless and shit at all other times was off the charts.

FlyingCarpetRide · 20/10/2025 14:15

I really like James Van Der Beek's (the Dawson's Creek guy) IG posts to his children on their birthdays. Even though they won't comprehend them as toddlers etc, maybe they will grow up and see them they will feel really touched.

Yes there's the performative thing and it's not something I tend to do, but I think a well written and personalised message can be sweet.

ginasevern · 20/10/2025 14:29

HelenSkeleton · 18/10/2025 16:32

The babyish words.

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I agree OP. Makes you want to reach for the vomit bucket.

Tanya285 · 20/10/2025 15:22

I don't have any friends that would write that sort of nonsense thankfully,

You don't have to either.