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I don't 'lurk' on MN, I'm an active participant on a lot of threads. I prefer it because you can be more honest in your response. Younger people are much less likely to take offence when you call a spade a spade.
We run a business, so there is no way I am going to compromise that at all if I can help it. I shall be off again, if he appears!
It is easy to say LTB on a computer screen. I think if a person is often abusive[and this can be as much a woman as a man[, then yes, the other person should consider leaving. But it is easy to write LTB when there are other choices too.
I lurk on Mumsnet mainly to find out what I'm doing wrong as a mother and MIL I think on the whole there are some silly girls - the Bridezillas and young women who have to have a bloke in their life and seem to drag their children after them. And then there are lots of cheery normal women who are doing their best. There are even posters who are grans and I wonder why they are not here.
A word in support of the mumsnet advice to LTB - I may have missed a lot over there, but my reading of the posts that give that advice has always involved abusive partners. If one of my daughter's was in an abusive relationship I fear my advice may well be LTB. I enjoy the feisty young women on mumsnet and don't feel it's "their fault" that some even more abusive men have targeted Justine. It's shocking. Men aren't unable to control themselves so it isn't up to women to ensure they don't get upset
I'm not surprised this has happened to Mumsnet. For years Mumsnetters have been very ready to urge each other to leave rocky marriages, rather than work at it. Only a matter of time before cast-off dads started hating the site.
That's not to say I agree with what they are doing. Just not that surprised.