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“The Messiest Love Triangle”: 71 Juicy And Chaotic Secrets People Learned Without Even Trying
There is a very special sort of thrill to learning something you know you weren’t exactly supposed to know about, hence our love of inside information, gossip or “tea.” But often enough, these revelations are the sort that one can’t just go around telling others. Unless, of course, it’s done online.
Someone asked “What’s the juiciest secret you accidentally found out?” and people shared their best examples. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote the juiciest examples and be sure to detail your own experiences and stories in the comments down below.
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#1
In a newish relationship with a girl, about 3 months in. We went out drinking last night and after a few too many, she told me she loves me and has wanted to tell me for a while now.
Today, she asked me if she said anything stupid while drunk, to which I smiled and replied 'not at all'.
I love her too and now am just waiting for the right moment to tell her.
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#2
HR assistant accidentally emailed me everyone’s salaries, from hourly to CEO. This Kinda counts!
QueenBearEXP:
I would leave that in the communal printer and watch the world burn.
#3
That my super conservative judgmental aunt had an abortion when she was 16. My mother, who is 8 years her junior, ended up having my older sister when she was 15. My aunt refused to help her with anything and judged her, they also pressured her to keep my sister. Years later, I’m like 15, and my mom and my aunt had a huge fight, like screaming and throwing [things] everywhere fight at my grandmas because my mom was getting a divorce and my aunt was against it. My mom went home a wrote a long letter just airing out all of my aunt's secrets, all the men she had slept with, cheated on her husband with, and [broke the news to] my catholic family, that she had not one, but two abortions by the time she was 18.
We didn’t talk to my moms side of the family for like a year, than my aunt apologized, ironically enough she went to my mom for advice on how to divorce her husband, and now she’s like insanely nice to my mom, and my sister and I and our kids, like we went to vacation where she lives, she hosted all of us for two weeks, she paid for dinners, huge Lego sets for my kids, and all I could think of was this is allllllll guilt gifts!
#4
I was going to transfer a new album I bought onto my iPod, and I stumbled across an email from my dad's girlfriend. I had to wait until he left the house that evening to tell my mom. That made summer vacation really rough.
#5
The woman we thought was my grandma's sister was actually her mother and the folks she said were her parents were actually her grandparents. She didn't even tell her kids, my dad and his siblings happened to find her birth certificate when my grandpa [passed away].
#6
Walked in on a cousin making out with his best friend. He's the biggest jock and homophobes I knew.
He had a gf at the time.
Never told anyone and just didn't interact with him.
Years later he'd come out as gay.
#7
My father’s reaction to my mum being diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer, was to start an affair with my sister’s German tutor.
I walked in on them kissing when I came home early from my after school job.
My father said that it was up to me whether to tell mum, but I should know that if she [passes away] with a broken heart, that would be my fault.
Never told her. She [passed away] a few years later of something else and the day of her funeral was the last day I saw him.
My siblings don’t know any of this and have cut me off, for going no contact with him.
When people ask about family, I just say that I was an only child and both parents have [passed away].
#8
My twin sister and I were adopted. My adoptive parents were told about our mother having two young children when we were born. Birth mother had two more children after us and never told any of them about us. Ancestry spilled the beans when we were in our fifties and birth mother had already passed away. Shock for them but we’re all in touch and it’s fine.
#9
I accidentally found out my friend’s “long distance boyfriend” wasn’t real.
For almost a year she would show us screenshots of their conversations, send us selfies they “took together,” and talk about visiting him. Everyone believed it because the guy looked real and the photos looked normal.
One night we were hanging out and she asked me to help her edit something on her phone. While scrolling through her camera roll, I realized the photos of them together were actually edited pictures using random photos of a guy she followed on Instagram. She had been photoshopping herself into his pictures and even faking chat screenshots.
Turns out the guy had no idea she existed.
She kept the story going for months until someone in our group actually found the real guy’s Instagram account and realized he lived in a completely different country and was in a long-term relationship.
To this day she still pretends they “broke up.”
#10
My friend is taking his kids to Disneyland. They don't know it yet. It's a surprise.
goobermuslim:
This is the first one I read and it’s wonderful! I’m going to stop here. I just know the rest will in no way improve my day. Goodnight y’all!
#11
My step brother ended his 12 year relationship with his high school sweet heart because her mom was obese and he was worried the gf would get fat one day too.
#12
One of my best friends was cheating with our manager who was also cheating with her other best friend. The best friend had no idea. The messiest love triangle.
#13
Our history teacher fathered a child with his ex wife while still married to his second wife.
EDIT. He was quietly fired. Having an affair with you ex-wife is a huge NO NO in catholic school.
We were all happy to see him gone!!!
#14
I used to run IT for a company. Had to run manual backups of all the sales guys’ laptops, stumble upon pics/video of a sales guy having an affair with the receptionist at a company party (they used to set us all up with rooms).
#15
I was 17, at my aunts house and couldn't find my mom. One of the bedroom doors was closed so I knocked on it and I heard my mom say 'just a minute.' Shortly after she came out with her boss. I knew something was up so I asked my cousin (she was 15 years older) and she said she didn't know anything. A few weeks later, she called and told me she saw them kissing at a party. I told my dad, he called me a liar, until he followed her over to the guy's house.
I didn't talk to her for probably a month, and she tried to make me feel better by saying nothing was happening between them at the time.
#16
That my supervisor was hooking up with a subordinate and they worked the same shift. This is a huge no no, when something like this happens, they’re supposed to go to management and one of them has to move to a different shift. This is necessary because supervisors have the power to discipline subordinates.
In the end the female supervisor was forced to step down because they lied about being in a physical relationship. She made a massive stink about it, and no one was sympathetic because her behavior towards subordinates was rude and unprofessional during the investigation.
It was obvious within the first week. They were going to lunch together, walking out to the cars together and even got in one car. Supervisors are allowed to carpool with subordinates, but they lived in an opposite direction in both owned a car.
#17
I was an executive assistant to a vice=president of a huge company, which meant I had access to his email for scheduling and follow up purposes. Every morning I checked his email, but one morning I saw my name in the subject line. It was a group email that had been passed around to other vice presidents and their assistants about my boss listing the reasons he was going to fire me and when he planned to do it. When the day arrived. He asked me to enter over $35,000 worth of expenses and reciepts into the company SAP so he could be paid back for all the money he had spent on business trips. I did as I was told, but did not press the final confirmation. As soon as I was finished, I was sent to HR, and they gave me 10 minutes to grab my stuff and leave the building. So I signed into my computer and deleted the expense report, and then I went over to the shredder and shredded all of my bosses reciepts. No one asked or stopped me. They just thought I was shredding my personal papers. Then I grabbed my stuff and left. And I never looked back. Never told that story until now.
#18
Not me, but I know someone who found out their dad was not actually their birth father because they were gifted a 23 and Me.
#19
My husband was in love with another man and I overheard it on a walk outside on my birthday.
#20
My best friend's little sister (still in hs) being pregnant. I literally walked into the room where the family was gathered, felt a weird aura, and said "Uh oh, you're pregnant," as a joke (I was a teen too, and I guess I thought that was funny) and then the vibe turned even weirder. It was not a joke. She was pregnant from a secret older boyfriend the family was trying to keep hidden.
#21
Former boss (married) was [sleeping with] a woman in our department (not a direct report thankfully). There were rumors but I didn't believe them. Her cubicle was adjacent to mine and one day I overheard her phone conversation with him that left little doubt they were bumping uglies.
I was lucky enough to have a window cubicle overlooking the parking lot. She would call him at lunch time and say "I'm ready." He would go out one set of doors and her another and they each wandered through the parking lot until they met at his vehicle and left together. Being discreet just made it more obvious. Blew my mind because he was otherwise a great boss and someone I looked up to.
#22
My ex’s best friend whom I was sleeping with at the time (I was a really dumb 18yo) broke off our hookups because he wanted to be exclusive with a girl he went on a few dates with. Ok cool, send me her Facebook I want to see who she is. Turns out it’s my current bosses WIFE. So I drop the [news] on both of them and my poor boss is absolutely DEVASTATED. My ex’s friend? Didn’t care, was still convinced she was the love of his life and wanted to date her still… several months later, while not even officially divorced yet, she had an abortion while pregnant with ex’s besties baby and now HE was devastated. Such a freaking mess!
#23
I'm 54, found out last year that my mother was married with four kids when she met my father... a travelling salesman who she ran away with within an hour of him coming to the door.
She never got divorced, and she never spoke to the four kids again.
#24
My brother got married, my bf at the time was his best man. Well me and that guy broke up right after the wedding. But I got with a new guy and he was jealous and wanted me to prove that me and other guy were really done. So I logged into my exes fb and found messages between him and my sister in law. Read all of the messages and sent them to my brother. They were essentially planning to have my brother raise their secret love child. This was 8ish years ago. My brother is happily remarried and co-parenting. For his 2 children only. She’s with my ex and the best man and she’s miserable. She ended up having like 4 more kids with him, and he doesn’t do anything to help her I think karmas kind of funny because my brother ended up going back to school and becoming an EMT which he loves, while they are coasting off ex guys factory job income.
#25
My cousin found out at age 34 that her dad who was her dad for her entire life, parents married, had her and her brother etc. was not her bio dad. And she found out her bio dad after doing research to want to meet him, had [passed away] the previous year of her finding this out. My uncle was livid.
#26
I found out my boss was cheating his wife because he accidentally screen-shared his 'Personal intimate photo with his secretary’ during a Zoom call. I didn't say anything, but I've been getting great performance ratings and salary hikes ever since.
#27
Company car service picks me up from European head office where I was working, asks me if I work with the two guys he just drove from my office to the airport (CEO and CFO). Tells me all the details of the company about to be bought out since they discussed every little detail on the ride.
Apparently never occurred to these 2 guys that London cabbies have an incredible memory. Worked out well for me.
#28
My paternal grandmother got a letter from her then-husband while he was in Vietnam where he confessed to cheating on her with a Vietnamese woman, so my grandmother went out and cheating on him with a Latino migrant worker and that's why my dad and I are so much darker than everyone else in our family.
#29
When I was a teenager I had a big crush on this one guy I knew but there was this girl he hung out with all the time who really liked him too and flirted with him everyday. I was super jealous because he seemed in love with her as well and so I thought they were dating. Then not only did I find out they were cousins, but he made out with his own little sister too. Yeah, my feelings for him didn't last long after that.
#30
Found out 2 over time:
1. My grandfather was a Purple Heart recipient and POW during WWII. My mother told me about 10 years ago after he passed.
2. Same mother never told us about a child she had while she was in high school. She found him a few years ago and reconnected. She then explained it all to us kids and now am forging a relationship with him.
#31
You know those "are we dating the same guy" groups? Found out my BIL is mentioned every few months. I knew he was a cheater, but dang, these women spilled some tea! Thankfully we aren't close, I'd have a hard time keeping a straight face.
#32
A state politician lobbied against gambling in the late 90’s had gambling earnings and expenses on his tax returns in the 2020’s .
#33
I once found out two coworkers were secretly married because they both had the same weird emergency contact name in the company directory. They acted surprised for like 3 seconds and then just started laughing.
#35
Found out my coworker’s salary. He left it on the share drive by accident. I made 50k. He made 80k and he was only 1 level higher. Blew my mind. Because of that I have been confidently asking for more with every job hop and now I make a TON more thanks to his blunder. Salary transparency is empowering.
#36
One of my relatives 32 M, was having an affair with a 47 y woman while in a long distance relationship with a 32 y girl in another state ! Im the only one who knew about this when he left a restaurant receipt by mistake in a bag he gave me!
#37
My previous manager of my previous employer (2017-2019 timeframe) accidentally cc’d me on an email chain with the CEO discussing shutting down our largest branch and laying off 500 people. I found this out months before it was planned to occur.
I was given a couple “promotions” soon after; an effort to keep me quiet. I didn’t tell anyone but I also found myself job hunting during at least half of my working hours soon after.
I got out of there and within a year the whole company folded.
#38
That my older sister was my half sister. Was 13 at the time hiding under an outdoor table playing jailbreak and overheard my dad tell his friends.
#39
A kid I knew in high school's mother is actually his grandmother and his sister is his real mother.
#40
This girl I went to college with, her little sister was her daughter. She got pregnant at like 13.
#41
Accidentally included in a meeting discussing an acquisition of one of our competitors months before it was supposed to be publicly mentioned.
Dunno how I blended in or no one noticed until after. Was asked to not talk and sign an NDA.
#42
The 'juiciest' secret is that those two lawyers you see screaming at each other in court and calling each other incompetent are almost definitely grabbing sushi or a beer 20 minutes later. We’re usually good friends, but we have to put on a 'show' of hating each other because if our clients saw us laughing together, they’d think we weren't 'fighting' for them. 90% of it is just theater.
#43
I found out two people at work were secretly dating because I got copied on the wrong email chain.
The next day I had to act like I knew nothing.
#44
My great grandfather was from Middleton, Ireland just outside of Cork. He married a woman who was secretly from Blacklion just over the border to N.Ireland. They had two marriage certificates, both of which I found. They took her origin and her different religion to the grave.
#45
Found out my buddy was gonna propose.
Living in the same house, I got Adblock on literally everything so any ads I get are based on him and his girlfriends (now fiancé) preferences and I suddenly started getting ads for engagement rings.
#46
I overheard my cousin talking about their elopement in the 80s. Someone rang the house for them and I grabbed the downstairs phone and yelled up to them to answer upstairs. Before I hung up, I checked that they were on the line and I heard the friend say "Why are you nervous? It's not like you're getting married today!" and my cousin laughed and said he was glad that no one knew yet.
When they came back that night, married, everyone (bar me) was so shocked and surprised.
#47
In the early 2010s I found out through a blabbermouth acquaintance about a private company being purchased for a few hundred million bucks by a larger public company before the knoweldge was public. I thought this would make the larger company's stock rise, so I colluded with a mate in another country to buy a decent pile of their stock at short notice. Made about 150k. Super illegal.
#48
Was dating a guy who was best friends with a NBA player and we all kinda know, but how bad NBA men are with cheating when married with children.
#49
My ex boyfriend's father would go to the community pool and take pictures of kids on his phone.
#50
Married Provider (with kids) at medical office is flying across world to meet a younger secret affair partner and is openly discussing in office setting.
#51
I found out as a teenager that one of my great-grandfathers wasn’t really my great-grandfather. This was framed as some deep, dark family secret that should never be revealed to anyone outside of the family. Was told the real GG was a man of the same ethnicity and it was an out of wedlock pregnancy. I did not find it to be that big of a deal. I was confused about all the shame and secrecy surrounding it.
After taking a DNA test, I found it strange I did not have any of my great-grandmother’s ethnicity or any DNA matches with her side of the family. Nor did I have the ethnicity of the alleged great-grandfather. I was, however, related to a whole bunch of people with ethnicities that were not in our family.
What came next was accidental in a way because it took a turn I never could have predicted. After years of research, I figured out who my bio great-grandmother and bio great-grandfather were. I found pictures as well and my grandpa resembled both of them. They both lived in the same neighborhood as my adopted great grandmother. I don’t know if my grandpa’s conception was from a relationship or if it was the result of SA (great-grandfather had a criminal record and lots of kids from different women). My great-grandparents were also different religions. There is no record of an adoption, official or otherwise. I don’t know how or if these families knew each other and why my adopted great-grandmother (single at the time) would take in someone else’s baby and raise it as her own - especially considering the stigma of unwed mothers. She was not at all maternal, resented my grandpa, and he was basically raised by her sister and mom. Despite all of that, she did marry (the man I always thought was my great-grandfather) and went on to have three more children.
The saddest part is that my parents thought this discovery would devastate my grandpa (who truly had no idea his mom was not his mom) and instructed me not to tell him. He [passed away] a few years ago. I wish he knew he wasn’t related to either of those awful people he thought were his parents. He did nothing wrong and he didn’t deserve to be mistreated by them. He always wondered why they treated him so differently than his siblings.
#52
Just found a few days ago the most perfect for each other, lovey-dovey couple I know are... Polyamorous.
I won't be able to see people the same way ever again.
#53
Top this…I got a message from a “friend” that my ex of 16 months had gotten married two days ago and was on life support. The aneurysm that was found a few months before I kicked him out ruptured after their sudden marriage.
Secret…they had only been married 1.5 hours when it happened!
The wife of 1.5 hours tells hospital he has no family, and his friends aren’t allowed to visit. No one is to know…ahhh but I know he has a sister…two in fact.
He has a 3 MIL accident annuity and the big question is…WHO is the beneficiary???
A) Wife of 1.5 hours
B) Sister (1or2)
C)Me
D) Ex-wife
Wife of 1.5 hours ? Nope did not have time to get license and submit her as beneficiary!
Sister? Nope
Me? Nope not related
THE EX WIFE from 7 years ago!
Secret Number 3
Everything is getting repoed because he didn’t trust new wife with account information so nothing can be paid.
Secret Number 4…My dive “accident” was no accident!
Secret Number 5… The SIL giving out updates on the sly because new wife “doesn’t want anyone to know anything”…. Is actually THE NEW WIFE!!
#54
I'm mostly deaf. I was the officiant for my friend at his wedding. The time came to sign the papers and I'm invited into the guest house for my signature. Inside is the entire wedding party and champagne is starting to be passed around. I see the maid of honor quietly declining a drink only to reluctantly accept but not sip. The bridesmaid that offered the drink touched the shoulder of the maid of honor with gentle concern. And that's when I lip read, "I'm pregnant, but don't tell [the bride]--it's her day-- or [the boyfriend].
Ooh, I sat on that for three days before it burst out of me.
#55
That my grandpa [slept with] multiple of his sister-in-laws. (Gma had 11 sisters)
Oh, and that gma met her second (and final) husband via grandpa's request to be cucked….
I don’t speak to my grandpa very much.
#56
That it was my mum telling neighbours and other family that I was gay. When I was 15. And working myself out.
Drop Bear from Hell 28 minutes ago
my parents told a huge group of people that I was in prison (I wasn't - I just worked there).......many never spoke to me again.......
#57
My wife has a secret half Japanese aunt form when her grandfather was stationed in Okinawa.
#58
A customer emailed me a spreadsheet of all the products he wanted quoted. Our competitor's quotes were in there too. He had hidden the columns, but no password for protection.
#59
Two coworkers at my old job acted like they couldn’t stand each other and argued all the time. Turns out they’d secretly been dating for months. Everyone only found out when someone saw them together outside work.
#60
Oh finally a question I have a good answer to!
When we were younger, my older sister and I shared a cellphone (we were probably 10/12 years old). She got in trouble and our parents took it away as a punishment, so she convinced me to bike to target with her to get one of those pay as you go phones. Of course being the younger sister, I had basically no ownership over this phone - she just wanted my allowance to chip in. A couple of days go by, and she's waking me up in the middle of the night saying that she found an indentical pay as you go phone in our dads office, and that he was cheating on our mom. I didn't believe her, but also wasn't able to go back to sleep, so eventually I went downstairs and confirmed that it was true. I was so distressed for days realizing our family was going to implode. For context, our dad had cheated on our mom years prior and they got divorced over it, and were pretty early into their reconciliation, so I knew what was coming.
A few days later, my mom finds my sisters new cellphone ww bought, and goes to my dad holding it up saying "look what I found". I'm sure he stomach fell thinking she found his phone. Anyways, she quickly explains that she found it in my sisters room (they realized quickly I didn't have much of a part in this), and my dad decides to be the one to tell my sister she's grounded. He starts to tell her, and she hits him with a "well what about your extra cell phone?".
Anyways, that was the last time I saw my parents together aside from graduation and my wedding!
#61
I found out my parents divorced and remarried before I was born, I asked my mom to send me my original birth certificate, she accidentally sent me their second marriage license.
#62
Accidentally caught lady that hired me with the owner of the company. Both were married to other people.
#63
My cousins know they’re adopted so they know they’re not blood related to us. What they don’t know is that they aren’t blood related to each other either.
#65
Found out my teacher had two Instagram accounts. One for “education and motivation”… and the other for gym selfies and thirst traps. I can never look at homework the same again.
#66
My husband and his ex wife tried for years to have a baby, but she had several miscarriages. After we were married, he said he didn’t want to go through that again and was perfectly happy raising my children from my first marriage.
Years later we went on vacation with his childhood best friend, and after a night of drinking, the best friend told me that my husband’s ex had faked every pregnancy except one. The one time she was actually pregnant, she pretended to have another miscarriage, but actually had an abortion because she knew my husband wasn’t the father.
#68
Strictly speaking, I don't have any memory of doing this so I don't know if it's true, but my mum said that I was the one to find proof of my dad's affair when I was 11-12 or so, and that I even saved the MSN chat messages. Still feel a bit weird about that one as I really feel like I would have remembered (?) but whatever, I guess.
#69
Did an Ancestry test and my great-uncle (my paternal grandmother's brother) came up as one of relatives but as "half uncle." I know my great-uncle so I thought that was interesting. I asked my dad about it. He revealed there was always speculation that my grandmother has a different father than the rest of her siblings. Well that speculation was true.
#70
My friend got his partner pregnant and kept it a secret from everyone for the whole pregnancy as a surprise. I only found out after running into someone outside of our friend group and they asked if they were born yet.
#71
Dad and mom filed for divorce while I was still baking in the oven. Dad told his parents that mom had left him, mom had left the house with her sons (1 is my dad’s kid, the other from a previous relationship) to go see her parents.
Mom comes home and my dad won’t let her in, dad has to go to work. The whole works came out for this, until finally dads parents show up, dad leaves, moms parents show up. The truth comes out that dad has been fibbing to everyone.
Cue to mom and her parents moving her kids stuff out to their vehicles, mom has too pee being five months pregnant with me. She’s in the bathroom bawling her eyes out.
The whole time my stepmother has been hiding in bathroom shower, where she heard my mother sobbing. She still married my dad.
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