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

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 08/04/2026 21:37

neighbor listen GIF by britbox

The follow up thread to my one from last year 🤭

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Fwinkelle · 09/04/2026 05:34

My Dsis's exH tried to try it on with me (more than once) also my cousin and several other close friends and family over the course of their marriage. Their grown up DC have no idea.

Ex BIL pulled his dingdong out and started jacking himself off in front of me when I was seated next to him in the backseat while Dsis was driving. Dsis denied it for years! When I tried to approach her about it, she kicked me out of our DP's home where she had been living at the time.

Towards the end the shit show of a marriage, he also went on a mad cocaine binge, hired prostitutes for an orgy and withdrew £25k from their joint bank account to pay for it!

This isn't even all of it! Putting this down here makes it feel even more horrific.

MidnightBlush · 09/04/2026 05:44

03cg73 · 09/04/2026 00:52

my mums famous home made steak pie that she’s often asked to bring to extended family gatherings is actually from the local butchers. She buys it and very carefully transfers it to her own pie dishes 😂

Full respect to your mum, who has time for baking pies from scratch?

user1497787065 · 09/04/2026 06:14

I had a friend whose goddaughter turned out to be her husbands daughter.

HotRootsAndNaughtyToots · 09/04/2026 06:14

2pence · 09/04/2026 01:27

Perhaps he’s a pet? Be good to think the balance of power in that house wasn’t one man controlling 4 women.

Perhaps he's a pet 😆

WhatTheHellsGoingOn · 09/04/2026 06:27

JustAnotherWhinger · 09/04/2026 00:31

A couple in our street are about to open a swingers club. It’s about 40 mins away. I’ve known for years they were involved in that scene, but others locally are likely just about to start finding out as the opening gets nearer.

There are some people objecting to it (even though it was already a swingers club until it closed for sale and refurb and was so problem free some of the objectors didn’t even realise it was there!) and I think they’ll be mind blown when they realise that the owners - who they seem to be picturing as some wild pair wandering around naked and being inappropriate are actually the very normal couple from down the street

about to start finding out as the opening gets nearer.

Pun intended? 😂

Weirdly this conjures up images of a colossal disembodied vulva approaching through the urban landscape and ppl fleeing for their lives!

changedmynameagainforthis · 09/04/2026 06:41

A housemate from uni is still with the same boyfriend she had when I knew her. Really sweet guy. We’re now nearing 40. She’d put off having kids for ages when a few years ago he told her he really wanted kids and if she didn’t he’d like to move on and find someone who did. So she said ok let’s try for a baby.

Unbeknownst to him she continued to take the pill while “trying” for several years. Then pretended she couldn’t face IVF and cried it was probably all her fault because she’d had an eating disorder and he felt too bad to push it. So they’ve now given up. I feel so bad for him.

Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · 09/04/2026 06:44

Not much thankfully! Have had some shockers in the past best friend involved with other best friend’s DH. Why they thought they’d never be found out I don’t know. Caused 2 divorces. Plus kids involved.

OtterMummy2024 · 09/04/2026 06:45

Katflapkit · 09/04/2026 01:26

I work in a dagis (Swedish nursery). One of the married Dad's made a pass at my friend when she temped for him. He was quite persistent and constantly inviting her on dates. Next week my friend begins work in the same as his section his 18 month old daughter. Dad does drop offs, mum does picks up. My friends will be shadowing the morning handovers as they are keen on new staff getting to know the parents.

Eww that's seedy. Hitting on the nursery staff while your child is right there?!

Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · 09/04/2026 06:46

changedmynameagainforthis · 09/04/2026 06:41

A housemate from uni is still with the same boyfriend she had when I knew her. Really sweet guy. We’re now nearing 40. She’d put off having kids for ages when a few years ago he told her he really wanted kids and if she didn’t he’d like to move on and find someone who did. So she said ok let’s try for a baby.

Unbeknownst to him she continued to take the pill while “trying” for several years. Then pretended she couldn’t face IVF and cried it was probably all her fault because she’d had an eating disorder and he felt too bad to push it. So they’ve now given up. I feel so bad for him.

That’s sad for both of them. He’d like to be a dad.

Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · 09/04/2026 06:47

MidnightBlush · 09/04/2026 05:44

Full respect to your mum, who has time for baking pies from scratch?

Love it!

Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · 09/04/2026 06:48

Fwinkelle · 09/04/2026 05:34

My Dsis's exH tried to try it on with me (more than once) also my cousin and several other close friends and family over the course of their marriage. Their grown up DC have no idea.

Ex BIL pulled his dingdong out and started jacking himself off in front of me when I was seated next to him in the backseat while Dsis was driving. Dsis denied it for years! When I tried to approach her about it, she kicked me out of our DP's home where she had been living at the time.

Towards the end the shit show of a marriage, he also went on a mad cocaine binge, hired prostitutes for an orgy and withdrew £25k from their joint bank account to pay for it!

This isn't even all of it! Putting this down here makes it feel even more horrific.

Edited

Wowzer. And I thought my family were bad.

OtterMummy2024 · 09/04/2026 06:51

A colleague is having an affair with someone at a different workplace at the other end of the country (but we all know him). Her desk is full of love letters. I knew something had changed when she got her hair dyed blonde (it looks beautiful and she should have done it sooner) and took up running. Then I saw her leaving his hotel room after a work do. Lots of other people at work found out independently although she's never admitted it.

She also lives just round the corner from me, and I've run into the man she's having an affair with at the bus stop nearest our houses. I also see her husband, kids and different combinations of them regularly. It's so, so awkward.

pouletvous · 09/04/2026 06:56

NavyNorris · 09/04/2026 02:53

Oh I love this!

Someone I know has raised their child all their life believing they are the biological father, found out when child was 16 that the wife had had an affair abroad at the time of conception and he isn't the father... Aside from obviously being very sad, there is a man out there who she didn't even get the name of that has a 16 year old child they know nothing about 😮

These stories can’t stay secret forever

not now we have 23 and Me / Ancestry websites

Mintchocs · 09/04/2026 06:59

Peppermilk24 · 08/04/2026 23:11

My sil kissed her husbands brother - I know as I saw them- it was last summer after a barbecue. They were wrapped around each other and honestly once The kiss stopped the look they give each other let me know it’s not a once off. I’ve told no one and they don’t know I saw.

If shes your SIL doesnt that mean her husbands brother is another sibling of your DH? How on earth could you manage to keep quiet?!

PersephoneParlormaid · 09/04/2026 07:01

One of my workmates goes to Turkey for 2 weeks with her female friend every year. Not to be mean, but they are both just normal looking women in their 50’s, neither of them go to the gym or have any work done. They both sleep with multiple young men who work around the hotel. The young men pay for a hotel room elsewhere as they can’t be seen to be doing it at work.
I also know a woman who is very unhappy at home (children in boarding school at fathers insistence) but stays for the lifestyle. She goes to Morocco every year on a girls holiday, where she sleeps with the pool boy. She says he’s her boyfriend, but he’s obviously a lot of women’s boyfriend.

BedknobsNoBroomsticks · 09/04/2026 07:03

Mintchocs · 09/04/2026 06:59

If shes your SIL doesnt that mean her husbands brother is another sibling of your DH? How on earth could you manage to keep quiet?!

She could be Peppermilks husbands sister.

RagzRebooted · 09/04/2026 07:04

My husband has a half sibling he has never met and none of his other siblings know about. He has two older half siblings on his Mum's side, two on his Dad's and a twin. His dad fathered a child between marriages and hasn't ever acknowledged them, as far as I know. Which I quietly judge him for.

MIL told me this once, I don't really know why, she was a bit drunk. She asked me not to tell DH! After a while, I told him because it seemed wrong to know it when he doesn't. He doesn't seem to care at all! His sister would definitely care... I'm expecting it all to come out one day when someone does an ancestry DNA thing. I don't know if MIL told FIL that she'd told me, she's dead now.

itswindyoutside · 09/04/2026 07:05

Many years ago a close friend's husband had an affair with a work colleague. He was disciplined and moved to another location for sexting her while on duty and on a work phone.

The affair couple were both police officers. I found out through a reliable source in that police force - it was obvious that their marriage was under strain at the time too.

We're still friends with the married couple and neither of them has any idea we know this. I don't think the wife even knew it happened.

IDrinkTeaAllTheTime · 09/04/2026 07:05

mrsCtheRed · 09/04/2026 00:41

Oohhh I like this 🧐

I once found out years ago, that an ex colleague (married woman with two kids), was actually in a polyamorous relationship, and they all lived together.

It turned out that there was
"Husband"
Wife no. 1
Wife no. 2, who was also Wife no. 1's sister!
Wife no. 3
Wife no. 4, who was Wife no. 3's sister!!

They all lived together in one big house, and there were children with three of the wives.

And the best part?
He didn't work, he stayed home, whilst all 4 wives went out to work, and they all kept him!
He must have been living the dream.
And these women were all professional intelligent women. Think, nurse, teacher, vet type thing.

Still blows my mind when I think about it 🤯🤯

A guy like that would give me the absolute ick 🤢. The sister thing is also too weird - it gives new meaning to the term sibling rivalry 😂.

Totally off-topic, but in my very limited knowledge of polyamorous relationships, it never seems to be a situation of one woman and multiple husbands - it’s always the other way. Funny that.

CinnamonBuns67 · 09/04/2026 07:05

My husbands ex girlfriends SIL lied about the paternity of her eldest, the biological Dad is actually my friends cousin not the ex girlfriends brother, the ex girlfriend, her brother and their family don't know.

Dollymylove · 09/04/2026 07:05

mumofoneAloneandwell · 08/04/2026 23:46

Omggg 👀

I dont remember this from the other thread

Yeah i agree, if hes single, theres no need to tell the ex. If they were together though, it would 100% be another story

I think though that bisexual men are often the ladies men about town 🤔

Yes I think you are right. I have known a couple of men, both ladies man types, who have confided that they enjoy a bit of "fun with the boys" 😆

MinimumRage · 09/04/2026 07:06

honeylulu · 08/04/2026 23:35

I can't remember now if I posted this on the last thread but one of my best friends exes (dad to her 2 kids) was seen down the garden at a mutual friends party getting intimate with two biological males (one a translady and one a man who was known to be bisexual and in an open marriage). But friend's ex is a real ladies' man so I was very surprised. The mutual friend/hostess was the one who caught them and asked me and another friend if she should tell best friend. We agreed not, though if he was still her current partner my answer would have been different.

Sorry this one just doesn’t sound plausible to me. An ostensibly straight guy had an outdoor trans-threesome at a garden party?

Dollymylove · 09/04/2026 07:07

MinimumRage · 09/04/2026 07:06

Sorry this one just doesn’t sound plausible to me. An ostensibly straight guy had an outdoor trans-threesome at a garden party?

Oh you would be surprised what some folk get up to 😅😅

Katflapkit · 09/04/2026 07:11

OtterMummy2024 · 09/04/2026 06:45

Eww that's seedy. Hitting on the nursery staff while your child is right there?!

No - my friend temped at a place HE worked last summer, when he was trying it on. He has a very unusual name, his daughter also. He will not be aware that my friend is starting work at the Dagis on Monday.

Fgfgfg · 09/04/2026 07:13

halfpastten · 09/04/2026 01:06

Is it religion related? If so, what religion?

Mormon?
Ignore this. Seen the update.