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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!

OP posts:
fidel1ne · 30/12/2015 06:58

Wouldn't 'father' be the operative word there Horton? Confused

WitchWay · 30/12/2015 07:29

marking place Xmas Smile

FairyBiker · 30/12/2015 07:40

[santa][santa]

FedUpWithBriiiiiick · 30/12/2015 07:40

Wow.

ivykaty44 · 30/12/2015 07:46

If you are married to the father

If you are married but your estranged husband is not the father then he doesn't legally get or. If it went to court the judge wouldn't give the estranged husband pr as that would be a nonsense as he isn't the father. Why would the estranged husband swear on oath he was the father and be liable for surgery when a simple dna test would prove him to be untruthful?

ivykaty44 · 30/12/2015 07:47

Purgery not surgery

CuttedUpPear · 30/12/2015 07:48

I've got 2 bottles of grenadine but no gin Xmas Sad

rainbowstardrops · 30/12/2015 07:52

I didn't realise grenadine was red. I thought it was green Confused

itsbegginingtolook · 30/12/2015 07:56

Marking place

SfaOkaySuperFurryAnimals · 30/12/2015 08:03

I'm guessing he's woke up and the OP is now erm....busyGrin
(insert your own Aidan Turner scene right hereSmile) oh how I love a good yarn, Ribena for adults mumsnet has been more educational than my degree.....

Dipankrispaneven · 30/12/2015 08:05

I think you mean perjury, ivykaty.

IAmNotDarling · 30/12/2015 08:09

So want this to be true!!

Dumdedumdedum · 30/12/2015 08:17

Rainbowstardoips The green stuff is used (again in France, reliving my childhood holidays here) to make a disgusting drink called Diabolo Menthe, am guessing made of mint syrup and lemonade.

Dumdedumdedum · 30/12/2015 08:17

Sorry, Rainbowstardrops..

Coconutty · 30/12/2015 08:29

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DurhamDurham · 30/12/2015 08:39

Awwwwwwww I just knew there would be a happy ending!!

Was it a McMuffin or a big breakfast? I like details Grin

Pepperpot99 · 30/12/2015 08:41

I'd like to ask the OP which family member died on Christmas day?

(not that I'm suspicious or anything...Wink)

Coconutty · 30/12/2015 09:02

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MorrisZapp · 30/12/2015 09:13

My MIL used actual ribena to make prosecco more palatable for her friends at her Christmas gathering.

Flossiesmummy · 30/12/2015 09:15

The quiet time must mean round two hopefully

Twinklestein · 30/12/2015 09:27

Go tell that to the Marines...

ENTirelyTrimmedUpForChristmas · 30/12/2015 09:29

Lemonade with Grenadene is known as a Shirley Temple. Don't know if it has a name if you add Gin.

Joe Hart advertises Head and Shoulders, doubt he uses it though. Anyone know what it smells like?

Shockers · 30/12/2015 09:30

I tried to find grenadine in Sainsburys the other day. I wonder whether it is with the mixers rather than the spirits if it's not alcoholic.

I was looking for a friend who wanted it to make trifle shots with.

Shockers · 30/12/2015 09:31

A squiffy Shirley Temple perhaps?

ClementineWardrobe · 30/12/2015 09:37

If you add gin to a Shirley Temple, it becomes a Shirley Bassey
Or at least it should....

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