Loads of you will remember a girl who posted on here earlier in the year, she was the "Dumped By Text" poster who's prick of a boyfriend ghosted her with a callous "no need to reply" text after two years. She was very inspiring to a lot of women on here, the way she handled it was pure class. Anyway towards the end of the thread somebody who had never used or even heard of MN before posted about her own devastation let's call her Amy. Her friend had told her about the Rain Runner thread and advised her to read it for inspiration. Amy was going through something similar to what I had been through so eventually I messaged her privately and asked how she was doing. She replied, I replied and within a week it was part of our daily routine to send each other huge messages of support and encouragement. It has been an absolutely terrible year for both of us but we have had it made so much easier by finding each other. We think the same way, we love the same way, we hurt the same way, we share the same fears, goals, dreams our lives have been so parallel. I could write sentences that she would identify with so much it freaked her out and vice versa. We still didn't know each other's names and referred to each other as our MN names only as we wanted to respect one another's privacy. But gradually we exchanged locations and other little things... then just before lockdown in October we both bit the bullet, travelled an hour and a half to meet in the middle... and BOOM revealed ourselves. I gave Amy the biggest hug, I feel like I've known her all my life. We ate, drank, laughed, cried, exchanged allsorts of life experiences and I can honestly say I've made a friend for life. We met under horrible circumstances but our friendship is now so much more than that, we have loads in common and a psychic even told her that she would meet a positive influence with my surname! When this covid shit is over we are planning lots of fun days out! So thank you Rain Runner wherever you are now and thank you MN... from two childless women who stumbled upon each other on a parenting forum, helped build each other back up again and bonded for life. I know loads of people have probably met up on here and it's no big deal to anyone else, but it's the best most supportive thing that happened to me all year and I'm so glad I found my new friend!
Merry Christmas 👊