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I think I'm in shock. Has this really just happened?

259 replies

Isthisreallyhappeningtome · 29/12/2015 20:39

I've had a horrible year. A horrible horrible year. I escaped a violent relationship, was made homeless with a baby, tried to commit suicide and lost a family member on Xmas day.
Tonight my friends decided to club together and take me out for a night in a town we used to go to befire we all had children. My best friends his bad very kindly has taken my DD overnight. Please bare with me I'm rambling but I'm in shock.
I had a few drinks at a new bar and we decided to go to an old bar where I used to work. I was standing there when my friend who is the bar man places a drink in front of me. A gin and lemonade with a dash of grenadine. There is only one person in the world who knows I used to drink that and I just go numb. My friends says it's from that gentlemen across the bar and sure enough there stands my estranged husband who I haven't seen in 5 years.
He was shot a year after we got married and suffered terrible PTSD and it broke down our marriage. He left to go and sort himself out and I decided to try and move on. I never stopped thinking about him, never stopped loving him and now he's here, asleep next to me. I just can't believe this is happening and genuinely think I'm going to wake up in the morning and it was all a dream. I don't even know why I'm posting here I just needed to speak to somebody or someone to tell me that this is real!

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Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost · 29/12/2015 21:12

Talk about the hand of fate. I hope you'll be very very happy. You certainly deserve it. Just goes to show no matter how depressing and worthless life may seem. It's so true when they say. You really never know what's around the corner.
Also you have fabulous friends there. My now ex friends wouldn't have given me a push off the side.

OliviaMumsnet · 29/12/2015 21:13

Evening all

TheoriginalLEM · 29/12/2015 21:13

awwwwww, i dont care if this is real or not, its lovely and i really really REALLY want a happy ending.

DurhamDurham · 29/12/2015 21:14

Good evening Smile

usual · 29/12/2015 21:14

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SagaNorensLeatherTrousers · 29/12/2015 21:14

I've never had grenadine. Did I spell that right?

MostIneptThatEverStepped · 29/12/2015 21:16

I would love a happy ending as cute as this one. Good luck OP, I've had a really shit year too and I hope this works out for you.

Thornrose · 29/12/2015 21:16

I expected that to be the bat! It's all that talk of MN of old! Grin

ExasperatedAlmostAlways · 29/12/2015 21:16

That's a great story.

Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost · 29/12/2015 21:16

Yes who cares if its real. We're not under oath after all are we and its certainly an imaginative thread. Some made up threads are bleeding boring. FX it is real though. I love a happy ending.

MiscellaneousAssortment · 29/12/2015 21:17

Ah, I hope this is the start of good things.

But don't rush, you're very fragile and it may feel right as you used to be together, but both you and him are different now, and you have to remember that.

Good luck.

Isthisreallyhappeningtome · 29/12/2015 21:17

Oh no am I being deleted Sad

mostinept Flowers I hope next year is better for you! You never know what's around the corner!

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SagaNorensLeatherTrousers · 29/12/2015 21:18

Y,y we all have the post Christmas grumps. As you were, OP.

MetallicBeige · 29/12/2015 21:19

Economy bottle of Gaviscon and the One Show. Grin Grin

Pipistrella · 29/12/2015 21:20

Oh wow

how cool Smile

TheCarpenter · 29/12/2015 21:20

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MostIneptThatEverStepped · 29/12/2015 21:20

Thank you Isthisreally, that's very sweet of you.

DurhamDurham · 29/12/2015 21:21

You've still got time to wrap this up, you haven't been deleted yet! Smile

toopeoply · 29/12/2015 21:22

Enjoy the happiness and the cuddles.

Fairenuff · 29/12/2015 21:23

Who says you're being deleted?

lifesalongsong · 29/12/2015 21:24

I'd guess all the troll hunting might just cause the thread to be deleted

Thankgodforthat · 29/12/2015 21:25

It's a shame he fell asleep at 8pm when you haven't seen each other for years.

Isthisreallyhappeningtome · 29/12/2015 21:25

I thought when a mumsnet person posted it meant the thread was being deleted?

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fidel1ne · 29/12/2015 21:25

Are you in shock because of how quickly he fell asleep?

And how come only one person in the world knows what you drink? Do you drink in cupboards?

hefzi · 29/12/2015 21:26

Stranger things often happen IRL than we would ever believe in fiction.