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  • peachyprice
    peachyprice Posts: 22,346 Forumite
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    skintchick wrote: »
    I think it's really wrong of those people who are outing the OP's real ID on here. She obviously wanted to stay anonymous and as she's deleted the post made mistakenly under the AE, I think people should delete their references to it also.

    There is no reason to out her other than being plain nasty.

    That's all well and good, but when she's posting uner her real username in support of her AE she's rather taking the proverbial out of those trying to help.
    Accept your past without regret, handle your present with confidence and face your future without fear
  • scooby088
    scooby088 Posts: 3,385 Forumite
    That's all well and good, but when she's posting uner her real username in support of her AE she's rather taking the proverbial out of those trying to help.

    I have often wondered how many of the so called AE's on here are actually contributing to their own thread, one of the reasons I can't be bothered when someone is posting as an AE.
  • coolcait
    coolcait Posts: 4,803 Forumite
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    skintchick wrote: »
    I think it's really wrong of those people who are outing the OP's real ID on here. She obviously wanted to stay anonymous and as she's deleted the post made mistakenly under the AE, I think people should delete their references to it also.

    There is no reason to out her other than being plain nasty.

    You obviously believe that the other ID is the poster's real, or only other, ID.

    I don't.
  • duchy
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    I'm a bit late to this one but basically odds are if they stayed together and neither made any effort to contact you then you were almost certainly "blamed" for the whole thing so they could move on (which they have obviously done. From their point of view they won't want you reappearing in their lives as it'll remind them of a time neither of them behaved too well and has probably being rewritten as "when that awful girl caused all that trouble between us" and anyway you'd never be able to visit their house as any time you walked into the loo -it'd make you view them both in a very strange light......Move on and hope your paths don't cross. As for wanting to apologise-Forget it-that ship sailed a long time ago and it's just the price we sometimes have to pay when we've done something stoooopid.
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  • Pollycat
    Pollycat Posts: 36,195 Forumite
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    That's all well and good, but when she's posting uner her real username in support of her AE she's rather taking the proverbial out of those trying to help.

    And that's why I quoted her posts.

    If notanewuser hadn't 'contributed' to this thread in support of dramallama, I'd not have quoted the relevant posts.

    I have no objection to anyone posting under an AE, but when they post in support of themselves - going so far as to say the OP is being used as a scapegoat - then I think that changes things.
  • mrcow
    mrcow Posts: 15,170 Forumite
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    Sheesh, I've barely the energy to keep up with one account.

    Let alone creating another account and then using it to reply to myself. That's taking bizarre to a whole new level.
    "One day I realised that when you are lying in your grave, it's no good saying, "I was too shy, too frightened."
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  • pulliptears
    pulliptears Posts: 14,583 Forumite
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    That's all well and good, but when she's posting uner her real username in support of her AE she's rather taking the proverbial out of those trying to help.

    You know when you read a posters name and your spidey senses tingle a bit that all is not right there? Thats the feeling I get with their posts.
  • Tropez
    Tropez Posts: 3,696 Forumite
    I'm going to be honest; when I see someone reply to their own thread using an AE I immediately conclude that the story is all made up.
  • Stay out of the way and don't try to contact her. I had a sort of similar situation a couple of years ago when an ex boyfriend got in touch with me after 18 years and wanted to pick up our relationship again. I was devastated when we broke up,somebody else was involved and it took me years to learn to trust OH and I was also really upset when he contacted me again as 18 years later I'm happily married with 3 children and getting on with my life. The only benefit I got out of him contacting me was to be able to tell him exactly what I thought of him which was something I hadn't been able to do when we split up 18 years ago. Some things are better left alone and I suspect that this is one of those things. It happened, but its over and you need to forgive yourself and move on with your life. We all do things we regret, its called being human. Enjoy your time living the life you have now with your family and forget the past because you cannot change what happened you just need to let it go.
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  • Tropez wrote: »
    I'm going to be honest; when I see someone reply to their own thread using an AE I immediately conclude that the story is all made up.

    I can assure you that this (and the other story I posted on this thread) are 100% true and happened within 3 months of each other.

    Not that it really matters, but I used an AE because I wasn't particularly proud of my part in the story. I posted under my other name in order that I be subscribed in my normal posting name, and thought that if I posted the 2nd story under my AE nobody would have believed that both things could happen to one person and they happened so close to each other.

    I see now that that wasn't so smart.
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