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Have I overstepped here and what do I do

270 replies

AirheadMonent · 01/01/2026 22:39

I posted about a man sending offensive videos and offensive messages to a woman along with naked pictures. It's a vulnerable person and looking like grooming as she's believing it's a relationship. I contacted the police who won't intervene because she's not complaining.

I put a post on the community Facebook page asking if anyone knows a man by the name of (and then gave his nickname). No other information than that. A woman replied saying it's her dad. She's private messaged me asking if everything is ok.

What would you do?

OP posts:
MarriedWithCauldron · 08/01/2026 11:25

HK04 · 08/01/2026 10:59

Gosh is this post still on the go? Usually when an OP declares or accepts not my 🎪 not my 🙈 that’s the end of it…

Tell me you’ve just skipped to the end without telling me…

sammylady37 · 08/01/2026 19:16

AirheadMonent · 08/01/2026 08:49

I'm just interested in if this guy's wife posted here that my husband is sending naked selfies and videos of himself wanking and underwear to another woman, would the response be that the woman has the right to explore her sexuality with him?

I suspect a lot of people would say something along those lines, actually. She’d be told that she had a DH problem, that the OW didn’t owe her anything, her DH was the one who took marriage vows to be faithful and the one she should be holding to account now.

Then people would wade in talking about sisterhood and societal contracts, and a bunfight would ensue. That’s usually how OW threads do, IME.

AirheadMonent · 13/01/2026 13:18

I know I'm dragging this up again but I wanted to say to the poster who said if we get rid of this guy there's going to be others, there already are. All messages about Viagra and wanking on camera.

I've told her now to stop involving me and telling me because it's disgraceful.

The married bloke has sent more knickers. He's buying her a vibrator and a tripod for their sessions, and said again she should get the carers involved with watching and joining in. I've told her that he's a menace and she needs to be careful as he's skating on thin ice. If the carers report him she's going to be blacklisted and he's verging on criminal activity. Not sure if it's true but I hope it's scared her a bit.

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fatphalange · 13/01/2026 13:35

tell her to stop sexually harassing you.

IwishIcouldconfess · 13/01/2026 14:46

AirheadMonent · 13/01/2026 13:18

I know I'm dragging this up again but I wanted to say to the poster who said if we get rid of this guy there's going to be others, there already are. All messages about Viagra and wanking on camera.

I've told her now to stop involving me and telling me because it's disgraceful.

The married bloke has sent more knickers. He's buying her a vibrator and a tripod for their sessions, and said again she should get the carers involved with watching and joining in. I've told her that he's a menace and she needs to be careful as he's skating on thin ice. If the carers report him she's going to be blacklisted and he's verging on criminal activity. Not sure if it's true but I hope it's scared her a bit.

I thought you were stepping back??

PunishmentSnart · 13/01/2026 15:11

How old is she?

Eightdayz · 13/01/2026 15:28

You're loving this drama. Only a few posts ago you were "stepping back" now you're back with all the grisly details.

Yawn

AirheadMonent · 13/01/2026 15:33

IwishIcouldconfess · 13/01/2026 14:46

I thought you were stepping back??

I have. I'm seeing her once a week and that was yesterday and she told me all this crap.

OP posts:
AirheadMonent · 13/01/2026 15:33

PunishmentSnart · 13/01/2026 15:11

How old is she?

49

OP posts:
Lifestooshort71 · 13/01/2026 20:34

I think the OP is enjoying this thread too much.

IwishIcouldconfess · 13/01/2026 20:37

Lifestooshort71 · 13/01/2026 20:34

I think the OP is enjoying this thread too much.

I agree.

IwishIcouldconfess · 13/01/2026 20:38

AirheadMonent · 13/01/2026 15:33

I have. I'm seeing her once a week and that was yesterday and she told me all this crap.

Why not just shut the conversation down?

AirheadMonent · 13/01/2026 21:37

IwishIcouldconfess · 13/01/2026 20:38

Why not just shut the conversation down?

I did. @Lifestooshort71 I can't see how anyone can enjoy that crap.

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IwishIcouldconfess · 13/01/2026 21:40

AirheadMonent · 13/01/2026 21:37

I did. @Lifestooshort71 I can't see how anyone can enjoy that crap.

You obviously let it continue long enough to listen to the sordid details

Lifestooshort71 · 14/01/2026 06:57

IwishIcouldconfess · 13/01/2026 21:40

You obviously let it continue long enough to listen to the sordid details

And to drip feed it here!

Rileysp · 14/01/2026 07:23

the term vulnerable I assumed the OP meant someone with learning difficulties. It seems this isn’t the case.

theres no illegality in my mind, here. I think the OP was out of order posting to social media. Sadly all of this is now a consequence of their actions

my advice is to block the daughter and step away. I hope you didn’t post it via your own account mind….

FaceDownInAPuddle · 14/01/2026 07:25

BlackCatDiscoClub · 01/01/2026 23:16

The other thing here though is, unless your friend has a severe learning disability, shes an adult who gets to make her own decisions. Is it right for her to be sexually messaging a married man? No, but thats her informed mistake to make. You didn't mention was disability she has, but depression and anxiety doesn't mean she can't engage with whoever she wants sexually. And the fact they are facetiming naked together, it sounds like she is up for it? She's not underage or the police would be involved, so what is your core concern?

This. Some people enjoy it and she may well be getting sexual kicks from it too. She is an adult and the illnesses you have mentioned doesn't mean she no longer has a sex drive. Just because it isn't your kink it doesn't mean that she isn't allowed to partakr. Unless she has expressed that she feels uncomfortable, let her get on with it. Really none of your business how she wishes to fulfill her desires.

AirheadMonent · 14/01/2026 08:56

Lifestooshort71 · 14/01/2026 06:57

And to drip feed it here!

When something happens that hadn't happened when the thread was started and the OP posts about it later, because they couldn't at the outset because, you know, it hasn't happened, how can that be drip feeding?

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Lifestooshort71 · 14/01/2026 10:00

AirheadMonent · 14/01/2026 08:56

When something happens that hadn't happened when the thread was started and the OP posts about it later, because they couldn't at the outset because, you know, it hasn't happened, how can that be drip feeding?

He sent wanking videos and full frontal pictures of himself in a pair of socks and a Christmas hat saying Jolly Old St Prickolas.
So you don't think going into salacious detail like this is drip feeding?

AndreaMarvell · 14/01/2026 10:18

FaceDownInAPuddle · 14/01/2026 07:25

This. Some people enjoy it and she may well be getting sexual kicks from it too. She is an adult and the illnesses you have mentioned doesn't mean she no longer has a sex drive. Just because it isn't your kink it doesn't mean that she isn't allowed to partakr. Unless she has expressed that she feels uncomfortable, let her get on with it. Really none of your business how she wishes to fulfill her desires.

They both sound like silly, giddy kids. He also sounds an abhorrent husband and she sounds pathetic if this is the level of relationship she thinks she deserves. Leave them to get on with it OP and if disaster happens, then it's on them.

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