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

[mumofoneAloneandwell]

The follow up thread to my one from last year 🤭

This happened to a male cousin of mine. They stuck together, but he has developed serious MH/alcohol problems due to the fact he never got over, and is so sad about, never becoming a father. He’s been through therapy about it. Meanwhile she enjoys lots of far flung holidays and expensive hobbies, trips with ‘the girls’ because she didn’t tell him the truth about not wanting children and letting him have the option of deciding if he would accept that or move on and find someone to create a family with. So sad.

We have come across a few secret relatives with ancestry , one case is sad it's on my dms side but was from mother and baby home and none of us can figure out who his parents could have been so can't help him find any info. I can't imagine what it's like to hit a brick wall like that

Ok thank you. Eye colour goes back to grandparents though. Which doctors were blood testing children and why would the mum consent to it if she knew the baby was someone else's?

Missing the point of the thread but delighted you’ve shared this tip (I know what I’m having for lunch, haha).

Reminds me a bit of Minnie Driver—she and her sister were the result of a long-term affair whilst her father was married and had a family.

My sister is having an affair with my brother’s business partner and if it gets out this will probably implode my brother’s business which he’s worked so hard for. Normally I’m a “not my circus not my monkeys” person but I feel like she kind of is a monkey from my circus. Best case scenario it just fizzles out. It’s even worse because we spend time with the affair partners family like we had to go on an Easter egg hunt with them and I felt sick the whole time to the point my kids were asking why I’m not having any eggs.

I usually find it irritating when people ask on MN if men have magic penises but in this case I think this must be the only explanation!

Some secrets I'll never tell. Time is a great healer.

My husband and I go swinging. We’ve done all sorts. If our sensible friends knew it would be big gossip 😂😂

People get their blood type tested all the time for all types of medical things.

My stepdad tried to get with my stepmum before he met my mum. My mum would divorce him if she found out I think.

Do your non sensible friends know? Have you made any friends through swinging or is that a very naive question 😭?

I suspect my parents neighbour has been having an affair with a local woman, for the last 10 years he's been living there.

He is single but she is married with kids my own dc age (that's how I know her).

She is well known in our area and I know many people who are friends with her but obviously it's a 'not my circus, not my monkeys situation' but I often wonder how long this went on before he moved next door to my parents and how long it will continue, you hear of people having affairs for decades, maybe this is one of those?

Yes. They behave perfectly normally when in public. It’s so uncomfortable for me though. I tend not to be around them much and luckily the “kissing” brother doesn’t tend to be invited along much to family gatherings

She’s my other half’s sister - ie say her name is Jane she’s married to John and kissed John’s brother Kevin

I was beyond shocked - it’s like something you read but never actually think happens

Mumsnet definitely needs a shocked face reaction or at least a 'WTF have I just read' button

My absolute best friend knows but that’s it out of our non naughty friends. We’ve made loads of friends on ‘the scene.’

My 18YO autistic dd is falling in love with her first boyfriend (19YO also autistic).

It is very love on the spectrum and super cute but she won't talk to me and would be horrified if I spoke to anybody else so I cannot speak to anybody about it IRL.

Surprised the randy bugger hasnt had a heart attack having to service 4 women 🤣🤣

I have 5 half siblings that don't know I exist. They live mostly in the same small rural village, unless some moved recently that I don't know of. It's a few hours away, I have never been but I could turn up any time any day and within minutes probably locate them and blow their world apart. But I don't and never will. I've never even looked them up online although I know their names. I might get more curious some day but for now I'm happy to let things lie. I don't really mention it in real life so it's nice to post it here to strangers.

I agree it sounds implausible but I believe the friend/hostess who witnessed it. She really isn't a bullshitter or shitstirrer, she's very "call a spade a spade" and get things out in the open, so I really don't think she could have made it up. Her instinct was to tell his ex (our friend) but hesitated and asked us (the other friends) what we thought and we agreed there was no benefit in her knowing.

Yes he was/is an ostensibly straight man, very flirty with women, a bit of a philanderer which is why I was so shocked. Not someone I expected to be interested in willies at all. But from other comments on my post it seems this isn't unknown for ladies men types. I've obviously led a very sheltered life!

No, I meant that she might work it out e.g if blood types are incompatible. Very slim chance, but you never know. Or if he needs treatment a relative might provide e.g. a transplant, but again slim chance.

I used to work in a sex shop when I was a student. We had a regular customer who was very into the gay rubber fetish scene, and his interest was certainly very extreme in the sense that it was at the weirdest end of the scale.

One day I was flicking through the local paper and saw his face. Turned out he was a pastor at a very strict local Baptist church. He'd led protests against theatre shows he considered immoral/pornographic and was also against sex education in schools.

Yes, you've explained it better than I did.