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Sharing secrets with friends and loved ones can be a great way to strengthen relationships. Trusting someone with hidden information about yourself is an incredibly vulnerable thing to do, but it can be worth the risk if it deepens the bond between you two. However, it can also backfire, if your confidant decides to spill that information on the internet for countless people to read…
Below, you’ll find some of the wildest secrets that Reddit users have ever been told. From confessions to crimes to family secrets that have been concealed for decades, we hope you enjoy reading all of this juicy information, pandas. Feel free to snack on some popcorn as you scroll along, and be sure to upvote the information that you find most shocking!
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#1
A friend in the year below me at school mentioned that he's not allowed to do sexual education "for religious reasons". Fine, fair enough.
"My family," he added, "taught me everything I need to know already..."
The look on his face told me I shouldn't respond yet.
"...with, uh... practicals."
His parents were abusing him, together, and dressing it up as "sex ed". He lost his virginity at 11, to his dad.
I pointed out that that was insane, f****d up, and a serious, serious crime. He agreed to go to the police about it. Two brutal years later they were locked up, he spent the rest of his childhood in foster care, and by all accounts grew into a wonderful young man.
LinkTheHylian 2 years ago
Well done for getting him to report it. They could have attempted it with other kids, and you and your friend made sure it went no further. Even though he had to suffer to make sure he was the last.
Madster 2 years ago
Thank goodness those evil people were locked up. I hope he is coping.
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LynzCatastrophe 2 years ago
He is very brave. I think he knew what was happening to him was wrong and he was trying to get help, or at least get it off his chest to someone he trusted. He was too scared to do anything so he did the one thing he could, opened up to someone he trusted.
Michelle C 2 years ago
Good for the OP for helping his friend get the help he needed desperately!! I sincerely hope his parents are spending a very long time in prison. If not their entire lives from the second they were in prison.
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#2
So I'm 37 and my dad calls me and says "Can you come over tomorrow? I need to talk to you about something." We'd just gotten back from a family visit that involved my aunt and uncle raving about their senior living community in Phoenix, and my parents are roughly that age, so I figured they were gonna sell my childhood home. Not a huge deal, but definitely not something you wanna drop on me by accident. No no no.
Instead I get there and my parents sit me down and say to me, "Fourteen years before you were born and before we were married, we had a son. He was adopted by a family in Sweden and he'll be here in half an hour." Cue the longest, strangest two hours of my life.
Marcellus II 2 years ago
Don't agree. If I'd have three hours, my imagination would just ru wild & further from normalcy for 3h... Better 15min than 30min, for me; but parents know their kid.
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Vesuvius 2 years ago
On Reddit someone asked the OP if they still talk to the brother. Here is the OP's Response. Ya, he's come to America a few times on the month-long vacations everyone in civilized countries takes, so I've met him a number of times but we're not like...close. I think we'd be closer if we had literally anything in common.
LinkTheHylian 2 years ago
Don't your parents know the plot twist is supposed to happen in Act 3? That means you should be at least 75 before they spring s**t like this on you.
MrsFettesVette 2 years ago
Hey Link, who do you hope they get to play you in the movie?
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witchling 2 years ago
Mom and I were casually chatting over a glass of wine about someone's unexpected sibling found on 23&me. I looked at her and said 'we'll at least I know I don't have any surprises waiting out there for me, right?' Silence. 'Right???' Turns mom had a daughter when she was 16 and put her up for adoption. She knows nothing about that child or where she might be. I think I was 48 when she told me. I still don't know what, if anything, I should do about it.
bbfa 2 years ago
When I was 14 my mom told me "Your half brother from Wisconsin will be here tomorrow." "What brother?" "Oh we told you about him." Yeah, I think I'd remember another brother, you cowardly gaslighters...My dad and he had been estranged for a long time so they never mentioned him.
#3
Someone confessing a murder. I'm a nurse and she was recovering from being unwell and it triggered her PTSD to be immobile in bed. When she was 11 she pushed her uncle down the stairs after he sexually abused her. She'd only told her husband. She was in bits- thought her illness was God punishing her. She needed a lot of TLC.
Jack Smith 2 years ago
i dont know about the legal side of things, but I would personally consider that self-defence
Tsdey 2 years ago
ditto, and maybe if he was alive let her do it 5 more times if she wanted
Load More Replies... María Hermida 2 years ago
I agree with you. But even from the legal, objective point of view, it's not murder if there's no premeditation. So, yes, she killed a person, but she was 11, he was abusing her and she only wanted to protect herself. Either an accident or self-defence.
Load More Replies... María Hermida 2 years ago
That's *not* a murder. Please, read the definition of murder before using the word so carelessly. She killed a f*****g pederast, and it was in self-defence. *She* paid for *his* crime for years.
Paddling Panda 2 years ago
It's lifelong, the impact of being sexuallt abused by a family member when you're a child. The impact lasts forever.
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SummerVeE 2 years ago
What an awful thing for a little girl to survive through. She must have felt so alone & terrified if she had nobody to turn to for help, nor anyone she could confide in afterwards. That's a heavy weight for a child to carry around and try to make sense of on her own. I hope she is in a safe and loving place now.
iseefractals 2 years ago
Well....she was 11, so even if it could be quantified as a murder for which she was convicted, she would have been released by the time she was 18-21. But....she was an 11 year old being sexually abused, i don't think there's a jury in the world that wouldn't classify that as self defense. Murder isn't the term to be using. Murder is the "unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another" It's a legal designation. It's a hard sell to justify the actions of an 11 year old as premeditated, and the abuse, by a family member no less, immediately calls into question the "unlawful" bit. She confessed to killing someone. It was not murder, and should not be referred to as such.
VioletHunter 2 years ago (edited)
Very few countries would persecute an 11 year old for a crime. The age of criminal responsibility is between 12 and 15 in most countries.
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Mabelbabel 2 years ago
Years ago, when I was a very junior doctor, I was working on a geriatric ward. We had an elderly patient with dementia, and he was really unsettled at night, and used to get violent or upset, crying a lot. One night, I was called by the nurse to sedate him as he was making threats. It turned out he used to be a member of the B-Specials in Northern Ireland. The B specials were a type of special constabulary, and were known for their violence and abuse. He wasn't threatening the nurses, he was reliving life from years ago, threatening people in his past, basically torturing information out of them. It was awful listening to it-I've no idea if he was telling the truth or exaggerating but the B specials were definitely bad news.
#4
It was me. I mentioned that my mom, my daughter's grandma was coming to visit.
My then five year old was shocked to the core: "IS GRANDMA your MOM???"
I didn't know it was a secret.
CouchChihuahua (He/Him) 2 years ago
in this post of r@ape, inc3st and murder, this post is like the sun, lighting up the darkness
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Awesome At Being Autistic 2 years ago
I didn't know how I was related to most of my mom's family until I was like 20. A really massive number of people, and no one explained it to me, so I didn't know. Also there were a bunch of really good family friends that weren't actually related to me that I was taught to call Nana or Aint or Uncle. Very confusing.
Nonnie Bear 2 years ago
My 4.5 grandson recently figured that out. I went from being his buddy in all adventures to being "really old."😄
Mila Preradović 2 years ago
My kid at about 3-4 somehow accepted that I am grandma's daughter, but it took her long afterwards to accept that my brother is grandma's son🫠
#5
My whole life growing up, my dad told me my mother was a drug addict and didn’t want me. When I was 21 I met my mom for the first time and as it turns out, my dad kidnapped me when I was 4 and she never knew where we went. Yup. I should be in therapy. Both are dead now and my dad and I never reconciled after I found out.
Nightshade1972 2 years ago
Maybe 40 years ago, there was a letter in Ann Landers. A 21 yo woman wrote in to say that kids shouldn't always believe what their parents tell them. She was the oldest, she had two younger brothers. Their father left when the boys were barely toddlers, and she had very little memory of him. When she turned 21, she decided to find and confront her father about why he never contacted them, never acknowledged them, never sent them birthday/xmas presents, etc. He said, "Come here, I want to show you something." One whole room of his house was devoted to all the birthday/xmas presents he'd bought for all three kids, that had all been marked "return to sender" in Mom's handwriting. He also had all the canceled checks for the support payments he'd sent--Mom had claimed he was a "deadbeat" who "never" cared and "never" sent support. After that, she developed a relationship with her father, and went NC with her mother.
Jenn Smith 2 years ago
How very painful. I'm sorry for you to bear this burden. Hope and best wishes for brighter days of the future.
Jon Steensen 2 years ago
sounds wierd that the police was not able to find the child for the mother. Kidnapping is a very serious crime, and if you have a good idea about who the kidnapper is, it shouldn't be too hard to locate him, if he still have some sort of ties to his old life.
AndThenICommented 2 years ago
I’m glad there are other people who dealt with terrible parents (in this case fathers). Mine didn’t succeed in breaking my contact with my mom, but he really tried. He lied through his teeth about my mom. Turns out he was a racist and textbook narcissist. When my sibling and I didn’t serve his narrative he abandoned us anyway and thankfully my mom got us back.
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#6
I was like 5 so it was less jarring, but I went to my grandmother’s house, ostensibly to show off the first tooth I ever lost (I was so excited lol), and there was an old man there I’d never seen before. My mom and grandmother were basically like “Tada! This is your grandfather!” I was just like ok, I guess he just fell from the sky and now I have a grandfather ¯_(ツ)_/¯.
When I was a teenager I learned the full story, which has a pretty wild component. My grandparents were very Catholic, like truly didn’t believe in divorce. And my grandmother, as wonderful as she was to have as a grandmother, was a very hard person to have as a wife or mother. So my grandfather had an affair. My grandfather and mother had a close relationship, and his mistress was jealous. I assume she saw my mom as the reason my grandfather wouldn’t leave his wife (they could have been childless, neither would have been willing to divorce). So she started stalking my mom. Would call the house and her work and hang up or whisper weird shit and threats in the phone to her, etc. My mom got suspicious, eventually found out, and told my grandmother. Both were pissed as hell. My grandmother kicked him out, and both of them cut all contact with him. This happened like 10 years or so before I was born.
But here’s the wild part: HE LIVED NEXT DOOR THE ENTIRE TIME. My great uncle (grandmother’s brother) lived right next to my grandmother, and my grandfather moved in with him. It must say a lot about him respecting boundaries, because I never heard him or caught sight of him whenever I was at my grandmother’s or my uncle’s house. Although I imagine it was really hard for him. My uncle’s windows looked right into my grandmother’s yard. I can’t imagine what it’s like to watch your children and grandchildren exist right under your nose and not be able to talk to them.
Anyway, at some point, they all decided to reconcile. The day I met him, he had already moved back into the house. And I’m glad, because he was amazing. He passed when I was 8, but in those three-ish years he became (and remains to this day), one my favorite people on the planet.
Kevin Hickey 2 years ago
He couldn't get divorced because he was a very devout catholic. Adultery is just fine though. I'll never understand the mental gymnastics that religious people go through.
Elizabeth Brown 2 years ago
It sounds like they had a failing marriage, at which point his mistake isn't seeing another woman, but refusing to leave the first one
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Canda (Cat Panda) 2 years ago
Is anyone gonna talk about the word the censor fairies missed? No? Ok
Schtroumphette Zezekof 2 years ago
What word?? I'm not going to read this again but now i have to know the uncensored word
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BPisaddictive 🇮🇹 🤌 2 years ago (edited)
OT maybe but I hate when people talk about someone being "very catholic". One can be very religious, very observant but not very *religion*. Nobody says I'm very Jew or very Muslim!
Brocken Blue 2 years ago
Catholicism (in the US at least) can be understood to be a particular culture as well as a religion, so I think it fits. And honestly, that phrase is part of that culture — I’ve heard it my whole life ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 years ago
Did you read any of it? Grandpa cheated on Grandma.
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My brother had his appendix out when he was about 13. 5 or 6 years later he confessed to me that he made it all up to get out of doing some homework. He made all the right noises at the doctor's surgery who sent him to hospital, where he fooled them again.
After the operation he says the surgeon spoke to him and said it was odd because there wasn't any inflammation. I am amazed that in the days before the internet he knew where his appendix should be.
He is 50 next year and my parents still don't know...
arthbach 2 years ago
we did have books, and libraries back in the 1970s and 80s. A child would have been able to work out where their appendix was.
Awesome At Being Autistic 2 years ago
Plus we all knew someone who had their appendix removed and we heard all about the gory details in depth.
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MrsFettesVette 2 years ago
Apparently since they go to all the trouble of opening the patient up, you don't need it, and because the patient is stating they do have symptoms..they just took it out
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Chewie Baron 2 years ago
Roald Dahl did this when he was a boy. He was at Prep School and to get away from the beatings he was getting, he faked the symptoms perfectly. The school nurse didn’t know what was wrong and he was sent to hospital where it was taken out. The surgeon did mention the lack of inflammation. Apparently one of his sisters had previously had appendicitis, and they all watched her get operated on. He carefully watched her reactions. It’s mentioned in his book, ‘Boy’.
MrsFettesVette 2 years ago
Everyone knew where the appendix was, and everyone knew someone who's had it out. It's not like we knew nothing in the pre-internet days.
Silre (she/her) 2 years ago
Why wouldn't he know where his appendix was without the internet? Did you not have health class?
Alex Davis 2 years ago
I know someone who did this and the operation (before keyhole was used and they opened her up) found she had a really serious but rare condition that hadn't shown symptoms yet. Had she not revised for her exam and pretended to have appendicitis they wouldn't have caught it so early and treat it so successfully. I don't think she ever told her parents the truth
Nonnie Bear 2 years ago
Retired nurse here. How in the name of science did he fool the labs? Dr's typically order a CBC, which shows your white blood cells count. You typically see an elevated WBC with appendicitis and other infections/inflammation.
Amelia Jade 2 years ago
Not a nurse, but an MA/phlebotomist, and this my first thought. All I can think is that it was done out of precaution even though none of the usual markers pointed to inflammation?
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Martinna Jaap 2 years ago
My dad did the exact same thing. It was back when he was in grade school and he was required to take dance lessons. He didn't like the girl he was partnered with so he told the teacher, parents, doctors that he had pain in the right spot. They took his appendix out right away. He's in his early 70s now and still talks (and giggles) about this.
#8
several months after my mom passed my aunt decided to tell me that my mom had given a baby up for adoption when she was 17. somehow he had contacted my aunt several years ago wanting to meet his birth mother but my aunt decided to play gatekeeper telling him my mom was ill (she had dementia but was still functioning several years ago) and she didn't think it was a good idea.
why did she even tell me? It's too late. I can't ever get answers to my questions. I tried a DNA website hoping to find him but no matches came up.
in my moms last few months she kept asking where the baby was and calling a name I did not know. at least that makes sense now but I feel bad that I kept telling her there's no baby and we don't know anybody by that name.
🇳🇬 Asi Bassey 🇳🇬 2 years ago
Aunt had no right to keep her away from her baby, especially considering the kid was keen on meeting his birth mum, dementia or no.
Fun Fan 2 years ago
I don't know for sure, but I think I would have made the same thing, if somebody would pop up the same way to my grandfather, who lived his last years with dementia. I was his caretaker for almost a year, a ived with him. You have no idea, if you didn't experienced it.It's hearthbreaking, because in his lucid times, he was aware of his illness. Droping a bomb like this on him, would confused him even more, making it more harder for him.
Load More Replies... María Hermida 2 years ago
Just a piece of advice I received while volunteering with elderly people. Do not contradict a person with dementia/Alzheimer because you don't know every detail about their lives and they might be remembering something you don't know. it is very frustrating for them. It's better to just "play along" with general statements, like "the baby is fine, Mary (or whoever the person trusts) is looking after him". Only contradict them if they feel in danger, to try and calm them down. Unfortunately, our brain can be our worst enemy. I read the Holocaust survivors with dementia "return" to the camps as their dementia progress. So heart breaking. And there are still sooo many people against euthanasia...
Elizabeth Brown 2 years ago
NGL I don't want to see her go but I will be partially relieved when my grandma goes. She still has moments of joy but she isn't mentally able enough to recover from physical injuries at this point. I don't see her often enough to see her at her worst either but I have heard stories :(
Load More Replies... Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
That is so wrong. How DARE she block that kind of reunion and leave unanswered questions for all their lives in a situation she has no business in! What, afraid you would lose money in the inheritance? What possible reasons to ever do this??
María Hermida 2 years ago
Before speaking and judging, spend just a week looking 24/7 for a person with advanced dementia, and after that you come here and tell me what you feel. How DARE YOU judge, when you are living comfortably and carefree? Before judging, go and find out about dementia, how little things can trigger major episodes of violence, anxiety and panic, how they harm others and themselves, how they obsess about minor details and stop eating and sleeping, even after taking really powerful drugs. Please, educate yourself. Also, if there is a son (OP), the sister won't get any inheritance, with or without the "newcomer". The aunt was the one looking after the patient, the one suffering the pain, the sleepless nights, the screams and the self harm. It was literally HER BUSINESS.
Load More Replies... Alexej Dvorak 2 years ago
That's a horrible thing that aunt did. I know a person who was looking for their estranged biological father. Found his father (their grandfather) online and reached out via letter in hopes of getting into contact and never received an answer. Years later, the phone rang and their father was on the line. Turns out, the grandfather was also not on the best terms with his son and decided not to mention the whole thing to him. He only found out after the grandfather's death when he went through his stuff and found the letter.
Kathy 2 years ago
My sister worked in the care system for over 2 decades. Whenever someone with Alzheimer's or dementia did something similar (asking for a baby, a relative long dead, etc.) They just told the people, "They are okay, but unfortunately, they cannot come, but send their regards" or something like that. To comfort them and not confuse them any further. In their mind, it's all real and present and an issue.
RabidChild 2 years ago (edited)
No one has the right to make decisions like this that they're really not involved in but that so deeply impact someone else's life. The Aunt took it upon herself to deprive three people the opportunity to ever connect and become whole.
María Hermida 2 years ago
The aunt was the one putting up with all the horrible consequences of dementia. She was the one who put up with the screams, the obsessions, the violence, the self harm, the sleepless nights, the pee, the poo... She has every right to decide what she thought was the best for her "patient". You are the one who has no right to judge.
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#9
When I was 11 I had a friend reveal that her step mother was abusing her.. she made me promise not to say anything to my mom or any other adult. I agreed, we had weekly therapy sessions with a guidance counselor if you wanted it so it was my day to go and I just felt like I needed to tell… so I did. The counselor ended up reporting it and CPS got involved and my friend was made to live with her mother. She was so angry at me for telling but I felt it in my soul that I should. We are still friends to this day.. both of us 29 years old.
Suck it Trebek 2 years ago
Had a similar situation. My friend told me she was going to kill herself when we were in high school and made me promise not to tell anyone. I was terrified and went to a school counselor I trusted. They got her help but I lost her as my friend which hurt very badly. About 20 years later I got a Facebook invite from her. We never talked about it but just that gesture made me know she forgave me and that I did the right thing.
Remi (He/Him) 2 years ago
Adults abusing kids might tell them that if people knew, bad things would happen to them (the kids I mean). Stories of foster family horrors, the frankly real problems in the institutes looking after those kids, but if a parent needs to scare the kid with those, the "system" is still better than suffering at home with no way out
JB 2 years ago
Not sure it is. We read too many articles where kids entering the system for their protection simply exchange one (set of) abuser(s) for another.
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Sadie Hales 2 years ago
good job, that was the right thing to do. if you know of something illegal happening, such as this, NO MATTER WHAT SOMEONE TELLS YOH TO DO TELL SOMEONE
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
I had to tell my wellbeing co-ordinator (guidance counsellor) about a friend self harming in high school. It was a tough decision in one sense, but absolutely necessary to get her help.
#10
I had a patient who, on his deathbed, confessed to sexually abusing minors while he was a soccer coach for many years. He said he had no idea how many, but it was in the hundreds and he wished he could go back in time to do it again. I walked out and threw up.
Queenly Bored 2 years ago
Not only did he do it multiple times to multiple people, but he wanted to do it again? Didn't even have a small shred of regret. Some people are sick
Freya the Wanderer 2 years ago
People like this make you hope there is a Hell
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The_Nicest_Misanthrope 2 years ago
Don't know how hospital staff could keep their oath to do no harm around scum like that
jennymac312 2 years ago
From OP: "After his death it was investigated. We reported it immediately after he said it, and forwarded the report to the relevant agencies. Unfortunately we couldn’t get any names etc from him as he died quite literally minutes after the revelation, but his wife was able to give us the information about the teams he had coached and a rough estimate of the years which helped with the investigation. As he was already dead, the outcome was less than satisfactory for those abused by him but, of those that were found and contacted, many received financial compensation from his estate. Not much, but enough to keep them comfortable."
Tommy DePaul 1 month ago
I guess you could all take turns beating his dead corpse. That sounds about your speed
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Remi (He/Him) 2 years ago
Here's what you should do if children look s*xy to you: A friend of a friend is single and not looking to mingle, has a farm and is living a good life on the whole. Here's the catch tho, to him the attractive thing is eight year old girls. And that's why he keeps the ef away from them.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
I'd have outed him on facebook, given his hospital room number, for his victims to come visit.
#11
That a majority of people from my Dad's side of the family "borrowed" money from my great grandmother and never paid her back. I'm talking like 10-20 thousand dollars each person. My uncle, my Aunt, my Grandmother, my Great-Uncle, Great-Aunt
Apparently when she died they all fought over the remaining stuff in her house, and what money was left over.
My Dad never asked for money. Never asked for anything. And after she died, all we got was her Van.
That actually leads into another secret. That Van was then handed down to me, as I had just gotten my license as a teen. It was a good van. Heated seats. Good speakers. TV in the back. seats went all the way down. Hot boxed that van so many times, got lucky in there as well. I loved that van. Then I learned that my Great Grandmother didn't actually die in her living room like I had been told. She died in the driver seat of that van. Just died while putting it in park one day. I feel very weird when I think about everything I did in that van now.
Epsilon 2 years ago
That's horrible! Sadly, that sounds a lot like what happened with my great grandmother and her kids... humans suck
🇳🇬 Asi Bassey 🇳🇬 2 years ago
“SOME humans suck.” Fixed it. You’re welcome.
Load More Replies... Queenly Bored 2 years ago
I've heard of people dying while doing the most mundane things. Sometimes being completely healthy and doing absolutely nothing but still dying. Even then every time I hear it, it just dawns on me, how life can just...stop. Also relatives can just be the worst.
Remi (He/Him) 2 years ago
A friend of mine was complaining about a migraine for couple of days until she just collapsed and died. A blockage in a brain vessel lead to an aneurysm. she was 50. Another friend was waiting for aneurysm surgery, the thing burst and he died after two weeks of coma and waking up for a bit. He was 29. I think leaving like that is better than any prolonged illness even if it seems sudden.
Load More Replies... Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
Great granny has been along for the ride the whole time and watching over you.
Andrew Cowles 2 years ago
I was hoping they found a load of gold hidden in the van or something!
RabidChild 2 years ago
OP's grandma may have been happy he had so much fun in that van. Not all grammas are puritans.. .
Lynn Morello 2 years ago
When my step father passed away, My sister was going through mums glass cabinet picking out things she wanted. Mum was really angry that I had started a fight on the day of then funeral of all days, until I told her that sis was taking her share of the inheritance.. it took mum a few minutes to figure out what I had just said before she asked my sis to leave. My sister and her husband did the same when mum moved interstate,. As they helped mum pack, they put the best things in their van. After mums death, we even found bags of plastic bags and takeaway containers that mum Supposedly packed away, (something she never used to keep.)
RosenCranzLives 2 years ago
It's not so much that she died there. It could be that she made sure her spirit was with the only place and person she genuinely cared for. Or not. It's all about how YOU think of it.
the two youtz 2 years ago
She should be doing a full sweep of the van to see what she left her
#12
I was a bridesmaid for a friend, who had problems with her MIL. I went to have a chat with MIL, after her brutal verbal attack at friend, while at the bridal shop. I found out that MIL was raped by her FIL & BILs multiple times and her husband supported this. MIL wanted to brake the engagement, after she overheard her husband, BILs & sons talking to the groom about sharing friend with them and groom told them that will consider it.
Alexej Dvorak 2 years ago
I wasn't able to follow the who's who in that story completely, but it really sounds like a connection that shouldn't be happening.
Dainty72 2 years ago
I've read it three times but wished I hadn't, because it becomes clear how disgusting this family are!!
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Ruivo 2 years ago (edited)
This is a VERY difficult situation to stomach and also to follow. See if I got this right: 1) Harriet was married to Doug. Doug's brother, Drake, and Doug's father, Bill, raped Harriet, and Doug was OK with it. 2) Harriet had two sons, D**k and Herb. 3) D**k got engaged to Mary. Harriet overheard Doug talking to D**k about letting him (Doug), Bill, Drake and even Herb rape Mary 4) Harried goes nuclear on Mary, in the hopes of scaring her away from that cursed family 5) Mary dumped D**k like a lead baloon. The police arrested Doug, Bill and Drake, and both D**k and Herb got arrested for insurance fraud. I have no info on 5), just hoping this is what happened afterwards.
jennymac312 2 years ago
You got #5 almost correct! From OP: "No, she didn’t go through with the wedding. MIL didn’t want to tell friend in the first place, because she didn’t want her son’s reputation ruined. I convinced MIL to tell friend, so she doesn’t go through what she went through. I was there as support for MIL, when she told friend. Friend said about her unusual conversation with groom. MIL’s experience & what she overheard, made friend understand what the groom was saying. It took a lot of convincing to get evidence & go to police. MIL did get justice & divorce."
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LA Murphy 2 years ago (edited)
Or this is a made up post, perhaps? I'm not saying there aren't sickos, but a whole clan of rapists? A MIL just now telling the bride because she overheard them talk about raping her? But warns the friend after she insults the bride? What are the odds? I call bs.
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MarieL 2 months ago
That was my first question too. What culture produced this?
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#13
My aunt murdered her second husband to marry her third, then she made the kids go to the lake and campground where their dad died every single summer for vacation.
My cousin just dropped this bomb, like, “oh yeah, my mom isn’t a good person and I wish everyone would quit acting like she is.”
Queenly Bored 2 years ago
Now that's just sick Imagine being the kid and finding out that your favorite (probably) place to just go chill is the very same place your father died. Oh and who killed him? That's right your very own mother! Now i'm wondering what happened to the first..
LadyRougarou 2 years ago
This sounds like some sort of soap opera huh? Like why didn't the kids say anything? I have alot of questions lol
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Funhog 2 years ago
I had to reread it a couple of times to make sense of it, too.
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Michelle C 2 years ago
The kid is right. I hope the children were able to seek justice for their dad.
Foffy Skrimshaw 2 years ago
I swear I've heard this story on one of those living with a murderer shows.
#14
My brother owns a restaraunt that has an old school counter service. Same customers every day. Very popular place. This one guy, a city worker came in every work day religiously . One day he finishing his lunch calls my brother over and tells to call the Prosecutors Office. He admitted to killing a classmate in school 20 years prior. My bro said he was casual as could be . Just said it was time to be accountable. You never know.
Star Anäis 2 years ago
Better late than never. The family and friends of the victim can finally have closure.
#15
That he watched his son die of an overdose and didn’t do anything to help. He told me that his son had battled addictions for many years and that he had called an ambulance in the past when his son had overdosed, but that he thought it was better this time to “just let him go since he made his choice”.
Kaye 2 years ago
This makes me sick. My son died of an overdose 19 years ago. I would do anything for him to be here.
XanthippeⓐWulf🇨🇦️️🇬🇧 2 years ago
This one is incredibly tough and incredibly personal, so it's difficult to judge. My heart goes out to you and anyone in this situation. That being said, one of our family friends had a son that died of an OD. For years he was constantly making excuses for the money he'd steal, bailing him out of jail, buying him new cars when he would crash one or sell it for drugs, sending him to rehab, going places to literally pull him out of the gutters, etc. Until one day he refused. His son died, and he blamed himself for not going to the crackhouse he was living in and pulling him out for the umpteenth time. I can't even begin to imagine how difficult it would be to watch someone you love be dead set on slowly killing themselves, especially if they kept doing it because they knew you would always be there to bail them out. I can't possibly know how difficult & heartbreaking this was for you, but I also can't judge this guy for deciding he couldn't keep going through it.
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Kill-Bunny 2 years ago
I was 18/19, living with my mom, finishing last school year before uni. Went to school end party (with parents permission). Drinking by that age in my country was quite common. I had about half a can of beer when I've started being extremely dizzy and body control became very difficult. Contacted my dad (parents were already living separately) and he drove me home. Going home went fine, but after entering the home, I've started projectile vomiting, could barely stand and was collapsing. Tried to explain to mom, that I must be drugged or poisoned, because I've barely drank, and I need help. She took away my mobile, stationary phone, put huge bowl for vomiting close to bed and locked me in a room, so I would not call ambulance to embarrass her. One of the scariest nights and I don't have memory of all the week, that came after it. Few weeks later I've found out that several other girls were drugged too. Their parents rushed them to the hospital, where they've spent several days in ICU.
Tommy DePaul 1 year ago
Your mom is a sociopath. I hope you've gone NC with her
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Tee Rat 2 years ago
I had a friend OD in a motel room with other people around and they didn't even attempt to use the Narcan they had. They called another friend of ours, told him what happened, and then left. My friend called 911 and raced off to the motel only to be confronted by the police accusing him of being involved.
Jon Steensen 2 years ago
It may sound horrible to an outsider, but standing on the side and watching a loved one fall victim to a substance abuse is a horrible experience, and you have to be really carefull that it does not end up ruining your life too. In many cases it ends up that your attempts at helping that person turns out to be doing them a dissservice, as it is just making the abuse bearable enough that it can continue and the addict does not hit rock bottom. Hard as it may be, there is an element of put on your own oxygenmask first, or you will slowly but surely break down too as a relative.
Ralph Watkins 1 year ago
When I worked with troubled & abused kids we had one kid who liked to prank his mother to assaulting her. Mom was nuts too. Mom woke up the one morning & the kid was lying one the kitchen floor. He must be playing a prank. She step over him multiple times throughout the day. After 10 hours, she decided to check him. He was dead. The kids was 12. Suffocated during a seizure.
Melinda Flick 2 years ago
I can see burnout causing that decision. It's horribly sad, but I can see where it would come from.
#16
My mom used to like to drop things on me casually amidst a normal conversation. I called them Mama Bombs.
One Christmas after my dad died, over breakfast she said, “Well, back when Stephanie and I were sexually involved…”
It took a minute to sink in and it was like a series of puzzle pieces clicking in my head. So many things made sense.
Stephanie was her close friend from work. They were both married to men. Stephanie was a good 30 years younger than my mom. My mom had never mentioned romantic feelings or relationships with women before. They were both in pretty lonely marriages and for a time made each other very happy.
My O My 2 years ago
It's nicer like that then the whole "sit down I want to tell you sth". For mom it's just a part of her life
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Lama 2 years ago
Grace and Frankie is pretty much this (minus the age difference).
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Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
My mum did something a bit like this - that is blurt out something shocking right out of nowhere. One moment we're having a fun conversation over donuts and coffee and then like it was nothing she says, "By the way I have to go to hospital next week to have a tumour removed". You could have heard a pin drop before my sister and I started freaking out. That was over twenty years ago. She's now happily pottering around in the garden, cancer free. ^_^
Remi (He/Him) 2 years ago
The thumb is over the saucer behind the cup as an anchor and the rest of the fingers are spreading out below it in support. Pro level style for graduation parties, informal weddings, christenings and funerals.
Load More Replies... Haywood Jablome 2 years ago
Nobody has pointed put the 3 decade age disparity. I guess that's OK so long as you're a woman
Dread Pirate Roberts 2 years ago
This mom seems like a stressful person to be around O_o never know when she's gonna nonchalantly drop a secret info bomb on you.
#17
Literally just happened to me. I have an almost two year old son with my ex girlfriend of over 4 years (we broke up not long after he was born). Come to find out she cheated on me throughout nearly the entire relationship with at least 5 different people and was even cheating on me well into her pregnancy. I am absolutely devastated and should probably get a paternity test.
Lauren S 2 years ago
I don’t know if I’d insist he get a test. I’m guessing he is pretty bonded to and loves that almost 2 year old like crazy, blood or not. I’m a woman so I wouldn’t be in this situation but I’m not sure I’d want to know. But it sounds like he’s leaning towards getting a test so I’d support that then. If just want him to feel like he has the option to choose.
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Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
That's terribly sad. I can't imagine. I would probably just continue to love my son and be terrified to lose him forever if I found out my kid wasn't mine
María Hermida 2 years ago
If he loves the child, it's a tricky situation. If he is not the biological father he'd lose every right.
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Lara Verne 2 years ago
It would be even more devastating if kid is not his, but he has right to know.
Igor914624 2 years ago
You can get a paternity test, but it probably won't do you any good. You are the established parent, and for the child's welfare, you will have to continue to pay child support.
V Martinez 2 years ago
Not always fair, but definitely very true. Also, a non-bio father can petition a court to have his name removed from the birth certificate. He has to show proof, etc., but it can be done. The hard part is if he has established a relationship with the child and whether or not he still wants to be in that child's life. If he's bonded and loves that kid, it can be possibility be devastating to both.
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Shelli Aderman 2 years ago
Will the results of the test change your relationship with the child, however?
Laura Williams 2 years ago
If you do don't let mom know. If you love child and find out it is not your child mom won't let you see if you're not bio dad. If you were looking to get out then tell her.
#18
My friend from uni hid her pregnancy, had the baby, and gave it up for adoption without telling anyone. I regularly saw her throughout the pregnancy. She didn't really show or put on weight and only found out she was pregnant herself at 7 months. One day, I noticed she was at the hospital as she had left her location on snapchat. I messaged her in a panic, asking if she was ok. She brushed it off as visiting a friend. I found out three years later from a mutual friend that was the day she gave birth. I had actually caught up with her for drinks 2 days after she had the baby. I had absolutely no idea that she had literally just given birth 48 hours prior
Remi (He/Him) 2 years ago
Rape victims often go on denial including evidence like pregnancy. I hope she got some resolution to it all if my guess is correct
VioletHunter 2 years ago
It's a phenomenon that actually happens to a lot of women in normal relationships too.
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Cloud Fisher 2 years ago
It sounds like it was none of your, or anyone's but her, business. Perhaps because you are a person who would post this "news" as if it were. I think she chose wisely not to share with you.
Laura Williams 2 years ago
My first pregnancy you couldn't tell either. I weighed less than when I got pregnant.
kathoco 2 years ago
Well, if she didn’t know she was pregnant until 7 months, there was really no other choice.
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#19
I had an old girlfriend who was coming to Florida and wanted to hang out with me and my wife, she brought her mom, who I knew pretty well. A great dinner, drinks, fun stories, then when my ex went to the bathroom, the mom told me she (the ex) was dying of cancer. (I had No idea). It was sad, but yet felt so good she wanted to hang out. She died within a year. We were probably 35 years old at the time.
Jennifer Smith 2 years ago
I never knew how upsetting it would be to hear someone died of cancer until I was diagnosed myself. It was caught early and I have a good prognosis but i can’t know for sure
#20
At the start of this year, my mom got drunk and let it slip that I was adopted. At 30 years old that was and is still a trip.
Shark Lady 2 years ago
I imagine knowing the right time to let someone know they were adopted is a difficult and complex decision. Blurting it out while drunk is probably the worst way.
Tyranamar Seuss 2 years ago
Studies show people do best when they are told from the beginning.
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Shelli Aderman 2 years ago
Tell your children who they are from an early age, don’t add to the therapy fund by avoiding it!
#21
My wife and I went to the hospital so my wife could have an ultra sound. Found out she was going to have twins. As we were leaving we passed an open door and I saw my cousin sitting on an examination table. WTF. He had just been diagnosed with cancer. It ended up that the day the twins were born, my cousin passed away.
CaliPanda 2 years ago
Same here. My son was born on the day a beloved cousin passed from cancer. I didn’t know it until later, but it still dampened celebrations on that side of my family.
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Mochi 2 years ago
My parents were having trouble having children. When my Papa passed he said to my mom "while I am leaving you, I bring you two little angels" a year later my mom found out she was having twins and that the IVF worked. I know it's probably a coincidence but it's such a lovely story.
Cyndi Hafele 2 years ago
Some things we consider coincidences are really little miracles. I think this was one of those.
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Alicia M 2 years ago (edited)
My best friend, who was there when my son was born, left for a few hours to attend her sister's funeral. Her sister had been sick for a long time but it was still hard. Crazy dynamic to usher in a new life on the same day that you're saying goodbye to another one. In case you're curious, she wanted to be there when my son was born. She didn't want to miss it for anything.
Delta Dawn 2 years ago
Maybe I’m seeing patterns that aren’t there, but I feel like this type of coincidence happens a lot - way more than it should
#22
In the 70’s, my cousin died in a car crash that caught fire. I was very afraid that he was awake and felt the fire. My parents said he died immediately and didn’t suffer. My mother was on hospice at home in 2011. She told me the firemen were trying to open the doors and My cousin and the other teens were screaming for help when the cars caught fire. There were no survivors and my Aunt was never the same. It wasn’t until after his death that the jaws of life were distributed to our rural departments.
Alyssa Phillips 2 years ago
My 3 cousins died on the way back from a concert. Limo rear ended by a drunk driver and gas tank exploded. Driver tried to get them out but couldn't. They were celebrating one graduating high school, one having her first baby, and the oldest having the 2 year anniversary of her heart transplant. The drunk driver spent 4 months in prison and was out on parole.
Remi (He/Him) 2 years ago
There's the story of a young woman who was trapped in a burning car and survived. She has burn scars everywhere including the face, eyelids and all. The first responders outside the car thought she'd perished and commented while she was aware that "thank god" :(
Astrophile 2 years ago
Mom and aunt probably both knew, they were just trying to protect OP by not telling the truth since OP was young and the truth is horrible
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Laura Deckers 2 years ago
Firefighters use the spreaders and cutters to extricate people in motor vehicle accidents.
Jon Steensen 2 years ago
can't you push an elbow through a window and either unlock the door from the inside, or crawl/drag someone out through the window, in case the door is too smashed up to be opened?
Dread Pirate Roberts 2 years ago
They were lacking access to life saving equipment just because they were in a rural area?! What, are country folk not worth saving? Wtf?! All emergency responders should be given what they need, regardless of location.
jaysko 2 years ago
I mean, this was the '70s, I'm assuming the jaws of life were a fairly new concept
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My grandfather was telling me about his father. My great grandfather was abusive and threw his wife around til she was incapacitated and dragged her out onto the lawn in the middle of a blizzard and locked the door. The 6 children were too young or didn't dare help her or say anything or they'd be next. She ended up dying in the walkway during the storm so he spun a story of her falling and must've locked herself out. The same douche also accidentally burned their first house down because he was tossing lit matches at the family cat for fun. The cat caught fire and burned the whole house down. It was much easier to get away with s**t back then.
Freya the Wanderer 2 years ago
I hope the spirit of that unfortunate feline is now sinking its claws into the soul of that wicked great-grandpa.
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Spooky Demon Bat (they/them) 2 years ago
Yeah! What a horrible person. Not only did he kill his wife, but SET HIS CAT ON FIRE???!! I feel like crying right now
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Remi (He/Him) 2 years ago
Glad the op's grandpa managed to become an ok person, at least I'm assuming so
Rob D 2 years ago
My grandparents and great-grandparents stories about how harsh and mean spirited things could get back in the day, including spousal abuse shocked me as a child and continue to shock me when I think back on them. Hell, just the commonplace unconcealed racism was staggering and that persisted much longer than openly abusive domestic situations. Never forget that there's a solid wedge of folks that think MAGA means going back to a wife/women "knowing their place" and minorities being treated like s**t. They won't admit it, but that's absolutely what MAGA means.
#24
I was not told this secret but stumbled upon it after someone’s death. My wife is an only child and her parents were married for 30+ years. I’ve always known that they didn’t actually get married until a month or so after she was born, but they were dating and supposedly engaged for several years prior. After he died suddenly I was doing a family tree online and discovered that at the time of my wife’s birth, he was married to another woman in a different state. Their divorce was finalized shortly before he married my mother in law. I know my wife doesn’t know this and I’m pretty sure my mother in law doesn’t either. I’ve decided to keep it to myself to spare them any pain.
🇳🇬 Asi Bassey 🇳🇬 2 years ago
Perhaps the reason why it took so long for your parents-in-law to get married. Your MIL may have been aware, you never know.
Delta Dawn 2 years ago
I generally think it’s a bad idea to gatekeep information from people, but this could go either way
Anne35383 2 years ago
More than likely the MIL knows the full story..she was the mistress. But that wasn't the story she wanted to tell her kids.
Jesha 2 years ago
One can only hope that it's because of how difficult divorce was (and is) and the shame attached to it. They may have been separated. I mean, if his wife was in another state entirely that makes it much more difficult.
Load More Replies... Alexej Dvorak 2 years ago (edited)
That's exactly the kind of gatekeeping paved with good intentions from the higher up entries. It might be a painful thing to know but they have a right to know the truth. OP is the villain here.
Marcellus II 2 years ago
Why?? What on earth would it change? "Oh noes your parents broke 1950s morals"?!
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Andy Frobig 2 years ago
My dad's father got stationed in Missouri during World War 2 and my grandmother wouldn't leave Brooklyn to be with him, so he started another family. The story is, Grandma didn't give him a divorce until about 1955, so we figured my aunts and uncle were born out of wedlock. Recently I saw a public record of my grandfather marrying his second (probably, but now who knows what he was up to before Grandma) wife in 1942. If all this is true, he was a bigamist for more than a decade
Steve Hall 2 years ago
Keeping this information to yourself is wrong and it may cause much more pain for them to find out you knew and didn't tell them.
Michelle C 2 years ago
OP may want to encourage her parents to tell his wife about what’s going on because she may need that information for medical history purposes…
jaysko 2 years ago
Her parents are still her bio parents, dad was married to someone else when she was born
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I found out my mother and father were not divorced. He never existed. She had a one night stand, found out she was pregnant, bought a wedding ring, changed her name, and told the family that she had gotten married. She made up excuses every time she went to my grandparents house as to why her husband couldn’t also be there to meet them. On the 3rd visit my grandfather told her to never wear that ring in his house again, and when is the baby due?
I’m 53.
Marcellus II 2 years ago
You look up "father". He was a donor, not a father.
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#26
My now ex best friend told me she has stolen over 100 things from me over 10 years
megabeth 2 years ago
I need more information.... 100 things! What kind of things? Did this person think they were losing their mind when they kept "misplacing" things?
XanthippeⓐWulf🇨🇦️️🇬🇧 2 years ago
Yes and yes! When I was a teen, I had someone I thought was a friend do something similar, even "helped" me look for things when I couldn't find them and thought I was going mental. May you burn in hell Jessica!
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lily jones 2 years ago
kleptomaniacs steal but they can't really help themselves, whereas I wonder if the ex friend in this story was just a thief
Load More Replies... Michelle C 2 years ago
Setting boundaries and cutting contact with people who can do something like that is justified. I hope she got the help she needed for her kleptomania, regardless of whether it was accidental or purposeful.
W C 2 years ago
My ex best fried told me she used her kid's SSNs to open lines of credit. She has been evicted from several rentals and had multiple repossessions. She also made her teens pay for utilities. There are truly horrible people in this world.
Bec 2 years ago
My first time living by myself was in a tiny efficiency apartment, and I had a limited amount of stuff. One day I couldn't find my nail clippers, I had a friend over recently and was starting to wonder if they were some kind of weirdo and had taken them. Fortunately, I found them under a bookshelf a few days later.
Deborah Joanne 1 year ago
I found a little brass barrel in my downstairs bathroom...I was somewhat worried in case I had nicked it off her and I didn't remember. Turns out she was passing it on to me and put it there herself...
Dread Pirate Roberts 2 years ago
100 things? How would they not notice any of that? That girl must've had some legendary thieving skills.
#27
My mother told me that my now deceased step-father told her of something he did in his youth. He got into a car accident and the old lady he ran into died on the scene. The first responding police officer told him to leave, that the old lady had lived her life and he was just getting started. So he got off scot free for killing an old lady with his vehicle. I feel that his self entitlement in life probably started there. He ended up later in life robbing a store, holding hostages, and then got arrested. While out on bail he took his own life.
Delta Dawn 2 years ago
spoiler alert: this was a Fallen situation (1998 movie about a host-hopping demon/evil spirit)
just me 2 years ago
I said I was going to tell you about the time I *almost* died.
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Grew up thinking my dad who was a fisherman had drowned. Went on a cruise in my early twenties with family. Mom revealed that he had been murdered by a new crew member for a paycheck. He skipped town the next day and the local cop who hated my dad over something trivial didn't do jack shit.
Epsilon 2 years ago
Thats... quite illegal. If you have enough evidence (and statue of limitations hasn't activated yet), I would sue tf outta that cop
SkyBlueandBlack 2 years ago
There's no statute of limitations on murder. File a police report. The cop in question probably is dead by now, and even if he's not, you basically can't sue police. It's called qualified immunity, and it's more prevalent in some states than in others, but it basically means cops really are above the law. If this is the US, of course
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#29
My great grandma recently revealed to me that, when my great grandfather was on hospice twenty years ago, due to leukemia, she got tired of caring for him and irritated by how many people were at the house that she turned off his oxygen and "sent him to rest with the good Lord."
She has been diagnosed with dementia at some point within the past few years, so I don't know how true this is, but I will never look at her the same 🥲
Chez2202 2 years ago
Around 6 years ago my mother got a urinary tract infection. She had struggled with alcohol addiction for a number years prior to this and the infection messed with her memory. When I was in the hospital she kept saying in front of everyone that she knew she had complained a lot about my stepdad but she hadn’t wanted me to kill him. The nurses had absolutely no idea what to do so I assured them that I hadn’t killed him. He was in the same hospital on a different ward due to a heart condition and one of them went to the ward with me to see him and prove that he was alive. The only reason they didn’t call the police straight away was because she claimed I had shot him. We live in England. Guns aren’t that readily available to a 43 year old mother who spent 12 years looking after her disabled parents. We lost him almost 2 years ago. I love my mum and she obviously has no memory of what she was saying so I remind her every so often that if anyone gives her grief I’ll sort it 😂
Barbara Skolly 2 years ago
UTIs can really mess with one's cognitive abilities, especially with seniors
Load More Replies... Remi (He/Him) 2 years ago
Legalize death aid. When it's about our pets it's "the humane thing to do", but with actual humans, especially ones who are begging for help, it's somehow wrong
Jessica Reitzell 2 years ago
If he was already on hospice I don't see a problem here. Wish the US would allow MAID and we would have fewer of these stories, and the pain that people carry after
Meghan Wood 2 years ago
We do have MAID in several states, just not all. Poor Dr. Kevorkian was just ahead of his time
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StrangePenguin 2 years ago (edited)
maybe he was in a lot of pain and it was better edit:still murder but maybe it was consensual
moi 2 years ago (edited)
He's in hospice, people go there to die. It is kinder to end their suffering in the majority of cases
Tommy DePaul 1 month ago
Most hospice care is provided in the patient's home.
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My dad died from Lewy body dementia. He never got to the point of not recognizing people, but in his last few years he told me some scandalous stories I'd never heard before. My sisters think he was BSing but he had lost whatever filter he'd ever had, and I'm pretty sure these stories were true
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
My grandad had dementia and told us about a woman he was in love with before he met my grandma. He spoke about leaving a letter to her, declaring his love, that got misplaced in furniture at her house before she could read it, o he never heard from her after. This could be true, but he also altered his stories about our ancestors around this time.
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Paul Brown 2 years ago
Years ago my baby sister had terminal cancer. Hospice gave my mom some liquid morphine for my sister. I'm pretty sure my mom purposely gave my sister enough morphine to end her.
Tyranamar Seuss 2 years ago
I had an agreement with my grandfather that if things got too bad I'd just slip him some extra opiates. Fortunately I never had to. But wringing every ounce of life out of someone isn't always the kind thing to do.
Patrick Whittington 2 years ago
Oh my God. 😆 I mean it's not funny but still. Grandma just wanted her piece. Old people aren't something to mess with.
#30
A friend revealed she was the product of incest..between father and daughter...so father was father but sister was mother and mother was actually grandmother
Queenly Bored 2 years ago
When the family tree turns into some sort of family branch. I seriously doubt this was in any way consensual
Karen Startz Richardson 2 years ago
I'm understanding this to mean that the father impregnated his own daughter...and the baby was raised thinking that the actual MOTHER was her sibling. 😕
Load More Replies... Tyranamar Seuss 2 years ago
I had a patient who had a baby by her brother. Non-consensual. He was older and coerced her. She had so many problems. That poor girl.
SkyBlueandBlack 2 years ago
Just get him to play it. You can play the washboard.
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#31
My buddy in college told me when he was little he was playing “bungie jumping” with his cousin. His cousin wrapped a rope around his neck and hung himself. Story still scares the s**t outta me.
#32
An old friend burned her house down, with her husband and three kids inside. Got her family out *just in time*. She was on a new antidepressant and had a mental breakdown in middle of the night. She faced 83 years in prison after the arson investigation and was only sentenced to 6 months (no prior record). Her husband killed himself, by arson, while she was in jail. The detectives still investigated her, her cell mates, and her family. Her kids were with their grandparents when he killed himself. She's been out for a decade now and is living a normal life.
Remi (He/Him) 2 years ago
only popular among Buddhist monks while making a point
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Kate Chupein 2 years ago
Does anyone else suspect it was the husband, whose weapon of choice seems to be arson, was the one who set the original fire and the mother took the fall because she was one medication?
DarkViolet 2 years ago
Some sick person who wants to set someone else up as the fall guy. Yes, Virginia, there is an insanity clause.
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HangryHangryHippo 2 years ago
So sad! :( During one of my man moves, the day after I moved I went out for a few hours to the apartment I was moving out to do the last cleaning. When I went back it was ~3pm, they were firetrucks everywhere. I almost went into a panic attack, my two guinea pigs were alone and the firefighters we asked said the fire got to my floor (they were still actively fighting the fire) It went down like this: the guy two floors below, and three doors to the right had a fight with his wife, decided to kill himself. Cut his veins but didn't die, so he then blew up a 15k propane canister starting the fire. The heat melted the door frame of the neighbor above who was taking a shower trapping here there. She died 😰 We were able to re-enter at 9pm, and thank god my girls were ok. The apartment was spared too, just a bit of smoke (I learned afterwards that firefighters call the ground floor "1st floor", and that's why I was told the fire has extended to my floor too, when actually stopped one below)
Rocky 2 years ago
While it shouldn't be stigmatized and that hurts the people who really do NEED them, I agree. Downvotes will come but, as human beings, we really forget how we can work on our environment first off
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#33
My boss told me his mother has dementia, and that he feels like he's experiencing it, too.
Hearing your boss say "I might have dementia.." to you in private is real weird. Especially coming from such an aggressively confident man. He seemed so deflated and sad. In the past 5 years he's gone from being a super fit 50 year old that you'd never guess was 50 to looking like he's 70.
Little Wonder 2 years ago
He might not be, honestly - caring for someone with dementia CAN make you feel like your own mind is going.
arthbach 2 years ago
W hen I was approaching the menopause I thought I had dementia. It was so scary. I 've since learned it can be part of this horrible process. N ow I'm out the other side, it feels so good to have a fully functioning brain again.
Bec 2 years ago
I've had two family members, not related to each other, who had a thyroid imbalance and it hugely affected their mental health - like one acting bipolar and the other thought she was going crazy but was keeping it to herself. You can have no mental issues for 60 years and a hormone change could change that all tomorrow
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Dane 2 years ago
Note - I loved my mother and do not regret a moment I spend with her. But....my sister and I took care of her (with some help) the last 1 1/2 yrs of her life. Some of it was funny and some of it was exasperating, and nearly all of it is heartbreakingly sad, because in those few moments of clarity, they recognize what is going on, what is happening to them, and above all else, they are scared. They frightened out of their minds, because they realize they are losing their minds. And in living that and trying to support that for 12 mths, I aged something like 12 years. Mentally, emotionally, physically. I don't regret it. I wouldn't trade it. But I may never recover from it.
Remi (He/Him) 2 years ago
There are other reasons for dementia like symptoms, eg long covid and run of the mill anxiety. The boss should definitely go for a check-up because it might not be as bad as he thinks
Sheena Leversedge Wood 2 years ago
urinary infections can cause dementia like symptoms too.
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Belladonna Wexhome 2 years ago
i was told by my own grandmothers doctor (when her sisters tried to get me to move in with her when it started to get really bad - I was in my mid 20's she was in her 80's) that unless it's an absolute last resort, and they are trained, family members, should NOT take care of dementia patients on their own - even if they are family. I was lucky that i had a stocks and bonds grandma instead of a cookies and milk one cause she had the money that we were able to put her into an amazing facility.
Jan Feline 1 year ago (edited)
Years ago, my boss, who was a mentor and a friend to me, told me his cancer had returned, it had metastasized, he didn't know if he was going to die, and not to tell anyone else. He let the rest of the staff know about a month later (he went into remission, and is still alive and happy to this day), but it was an agonizing month.
Tommy DePaul 1 year ago
There are easy and quick assessment tools that can be used to diagnose dementia. Call your local community mental health center.
Tommy DePaul 1 year ago (edited)
Things that look (and feel) like dementia in older people is often depression. My mother showed signs of dementia at 80. The doctor put her on Pamelor (tricyclic antidepressant) and she turned into "Einstein." Always treat for depression first. (LCSW here)
#34
I found out at 10 years old that my dad is actually my step dad, funny thing he found out that day too
Haywood Jablome 2 years ago
And I'm sure his now ex-wife still took virtually everything in the divorce
#35
Husband and I recently learned that his kid's grandfather (mother's side) is a convicted serial killer. That was... fun?
Given the caliber of his exes I would have thought this was a lie; however, the mother was interviewed for a documentary about it. Needless to say, kiddo slept over at our house while the interviews were taking place... they are way too young to process that kind of clusterfuck.
LinkTheHylian 2 years ago
Husband's kid's grandfather on his mother's side? That's his ex-father-in-law, isn't it? As it seems like OP is a step-parent.
Princess Mar-li Cathryn 2 years ago
Me too! If you find out, let me know!
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#36
I worked with a very sober and intelligent woman with a background in biology. Once when she was drunk at the company Christmas party she told me about a very intense experience with a "UFO-ish" object when she was younger. A multicoloured, shimmering and incomprehensible thing that hovered above her for 30 seconds and gave her sensations of information she couldn't make sense of. She swore me to secrecy and admitted to having needed a lot of therapy after. Her story was quite believable.
Remi (He/Him) 2 years ago
I'm not saying it wasn't real. She really sounds like the kind of person who wouldn't fake anything like this and it clearly had a negative effect. But the most probable explanation is that she had a mini seizure.
#37
I had a random gal who was buying some furniture from me tell me her deepest secret. Apparently her and her four siblings were in a continuous fight over the cremated remains of their father, and she had possession of them. I guess all except her agreed to equally distribute them among the remaining children. However when it was time to share the remains she gave her siblings her deceased dogs cremated remains instead! I guess her dad is in her closet. When I tell you I gasped. I asked her if she thought she’d ever tell them and she said yeah some day. But she fully expects them to never speak to her again.
Realistic Optimist 2 years ago
I don't understand why one would do this. Is there a cultural component that made having the ashes important?
Michael Largey 2 years ago
It may have nothing to do with the culture and everything to do with how she felt about her siblings (or her father).
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TomCat 2 years ago (edited)
I knew of someone who was dating my cousin. His previous wife had died. She was so jealous of a dead woman that she threw her ashes in a dumpster.
Load More Replies... The_Nicest_Misanthrope 2 years ago
My Mum did this to my grans boyfriend. We were all aware of this but none of us regretted it. He was scum, trust me.
Jon Steensen 2 years ago
I find the entire concept of keeping somebodies ashes in your home a bit creepy to be honest. I think that it belongs either in a cementary, or should be disposed of in another way, e.g. by being spread over the sea or somethings similar. ..and why distribute you dog's ashes? getting access to some "random" ash isn't really that hard, just light a fire, or clean out the fireplace.
#38
Not a secret i guess but when I was 16, my Mom announced at dinner that her sister was coming for a visit next week. I dropped my fork and said “YOU HAVE A SISTER?”
S P 2 years ago
I think that being 16 years old without knowing your parents have siblings warrants a shocked response.
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Jake B 2 years ago
I was riding with my grandparents one day and my grandmother said we needed to stop at grandfathers sisters house. I was in shock, age 24. No idea he had a sister. Then after he passed, I was 36, I found out he had brothers and the sister PLUS bonus, was previously married and had 3 kids. Took awhile for that to sink in. Families- I don’t know……
#39
When I was 18 my parents sat me down and told me I had a half brother and half sister halfway across the world from my dads previous marriage that I knew nothing about. There was a picture of them on the wall in our house and we were told they were our cousins from Australia.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Well, then throw another two shrimp on the barbie. (Actually it's "prawns", I believe.)
Rayne OfSalt 2 years ago
In Australia we eat prawns. A shrimp is a short person, and throwing them on a bbq is generally considered poor manners.
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For a time, we kept a gravestone in our front yard. Since it wasn't Halloween, I asked my mom why we had it out, and she told me it was for my miscarried older brother.
Jostanquecla 2 years ago
Well this is complicated. If you miscarry at home and are unfortunate enough to find the fetus, what should you do with it? I was fortunate enough not to find it.
Remi (He/Him) 2 years ago
According to my dad they chucked the miscarried corpse of my little brother to the trash can. He was mouse sized.
Tamra 2 years ago
I feel very sorry that your dad felt it necessary to tell you such a thing, and in such an insensitive way.
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Lunaofthenest (She/they) 2 years ago
This is so sad and burying a pre-term fetus on private property isn't all that unusual. The gravestone is a little odd but to each their own?
#41
I was chatting with a detail cop, and he happily told me that he sold all the drugs he confiscated near a CVS in town.
Lunaofthenest (She/they) 2 years ago
This is infuriating and I pray to whatever is out there that he gets caught and really enjoys being a dirty cop in prison.
Fussy1 2 years ago
So my friend wants to know if he can get a discount when he buys his own sh!t back from you @$$hole?!
DarkViolet 2 years ago
PLEASE tell me that he was caught, tried, and convicted. That piece of work doesn't belong pushing a broom, much less wearing a badge.
BPisaddictive 🇮🇹 🤌 2 years ago
My BIL, now retired, was an high rank policeman. He told me that usually cops keep part of confiscated drugs which must be destroyed to use them to bribe or "pay" informants
#42
My grandfather was adopted. I was trying to figure out some genealogical stuff and couldn't get dates to line up so I asked him about it. He hemmed and hawed and misdirected and finally my grandmother actually told me for him while he practically broke down in tears. I've known my grandfather my entire 40 yrs of life and I've never seen him get that emotional. It's a secret I was not expecting at all and that he is deeply ashamed of.
Ariom Dahl 2 years ago
If your grandfather is adopted HE has no need for shame. I hope he realises this.
Bell-icose 2 years ago
It’s strange that he would think adoption is something to hide. It’s a wonderful thing for all parties (most of the time anyway, sorry Ukraine).
Chez2202 2 years ago
He has nothing to be ashamed of and with you being his 40 year old grandchild I suspect that his mother had nothing to be ashamed of either. It wasn’t uncommon for an unmarried girl or young woman to be forced by their parents to put a child up for adoption. Is he ashamed or is he just sad and still feeling that he wasn’t worth keeping like so many children who don’t have the full story of why they were adopted? He may have been wanted and loved by his mother. Talk to him. Tell him he’s loved.
Chez2202 2 years ago
Wow. The username throwaway_4733 is basically telling you that his privacy is totally being protected and respected but you still had to say this? Yeah. Not judgemental at all.
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I found out my parents weren't married when I was 14, and my parents had a massive row after my dad was caught by the police with a prostitute. My mum blurted it out to me along with the reason why they were arguing. I'm 50. Up til then, they pretended.. when my Catholic secondary school asked for a marriage certificate as part of my screening for the school, they sent a letter to the priest confidentially.. I still got in. Explains why from birth until 11 a Catholic nun would visit my parents every weekend, probably to ensure my soul was intact, lol.
Delta Dawn 2 years ago
not married = soul in mortal danger. paying a prostitute = your soul is dandy so long as it’s not adultery
Chez2202 2 years ago
Why? I’m 49. I’ve been with my partner for almost 28 years but never married. I have a lot of friends and family in long term unmarried relationships who are happy as they are. We have an adult daughter. There’s nothing odd about it. What I do find odd is people assuming that if you have a kid you should marry. Even if you’re Catholic.
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#44
I'm 56 now but at some point in my early 40s while driving with my dad he says "you have a half brother somewhere".
Jan Feline 1 year ago
My best friend found out in her 40's that she had a half brother and two half sisters she never knew about. She now has a great relationship with her half brother and one of her half sisters
Marykay Klim 2 years ago
IF he held the secret that long, he could have not ever told you. Same for many of the other stories where people "overshare" out of guilt or some such nonsense. Why not keep it to yourself!
Dread Pirate Roberts 2 years ago
I'm kinda hoping his dad was just pulling a really messed up prank on him...
#45
I have a friend who presents as euphorically happily married who told me recently that the reality is she married her second choice and that it will forever silently hangover and haunt the relationship. She said she wishes she had just been alone until she found somebody new all together. Not the most shocking, but the most recent shocking thing someone told me.
Lunaofthenest (She/they) 2 years ago
If he doesn't know already, he'll figure it out eventually. She's actually being incredibly selfish and nobody is even benefitting.
Binny Tutera 2 years ago
We need to remind our loved ones that it is never “this one or that one”. When choosing someone with always in mind, do not “settle”.
Mary Hiers 2 years ago
No one should marry unless they genuinely want to. Societal expectations, tradition, and peer pressure should not be what prompts people to get married. I think the younger generation in America is mostly (finally) "getting" this. Even as a smart, college-educated young woman in the 1980s, I felt tremendous pressure to get married ASAP because "that's what people do!" Ugh.
Tyranamar Seuss 2 years ago
People who present themselves as "euphorically happy" to be married are always suspicious. Who are you trying to convince?
Remi (He/Him) 2 years ago
People: Learn who you are by yourself! Parents: Don't pressure your kids to marriage, let them find their own way!
#46
Dude with my last name pings me on Facebook and says he's my half brother. Dad denies it and says the mom lied to her son and to the world. But he was obviously busy back in the day.
Alexej Dvorak 2 years ago
If only there was a way in modern medical technology to determine who's telling the truth.
#47
Don't know if it's the most shocking secret but the most recent secret that's been let slip anyway. My (25F) nan (73F) accidentally told me about how my mum (52F) disappeared for two weeks a few months after I was born, she just up and left one day, didn't tell anyone where she was just that she wasn't coming back. She of course came back and apologised to my Dad(52M), they divorced 7 years later, no shock there. Not angry that she left, angry she came back. Horrible, disgusting thing to think I know but she was never mentally stable enough to have children and she made the conscious choice to have two, it was selfish. I love her but I was her parent more than she was mine. Edit: I'm getting a lot of comments about how I should cut her slack because she was probably hit with post-natal depression. I understand that completely. I just didn't know that this is when she started to spiral out, I thought it was either when my brother was born or when the divorce happened but it just unlocked a whole load of toddler crazy memories. So idk just hurt that almost everyone let it go on my entire life, not just a part of it. So before people also bring my Dad into this, after the Divorce he tried to get custody of me and my brother, then tried again after she was committed for the 2nd time but he had no money so that's how that went. My Dad told me that she wouldn't let us go because she couldn't bear to be away from us and that he understood that, just would always hate her for it. It also sucks realising how different your life could've been if the woman that loves you more than life wasn't so selfish. (My brother knows nothing about the custody thing, he already has no relationship to my mother, my family is super f****d up)
Delta Dawn 2 years ago
I bet she didn’t know when she chose to have kids that this is how her life would turn out
DarkViolet 2 years ago (edited)
Not unlike my own mother. Even with a college scholarship, she ran away from home at 17 (something to do with her stepfather, and stepbrother. Yes, it was what you're thinking.) She met my dad, and lied to her parents about his age (he was in his 50's.) They married, and within five years had four kids (the first three very closely). My mom didn't take very good care of us (left alone at home at night, baby brother's soiled diapers full of maggots.) Everything came to a head when she had the locks changed by her brother. The next day, the marriage ended violently, with the blast from a hunting rifle. It would have been better if she had gone on to college and lived elsewhere.
Load More Replies... Laura Williams 2 years ago
Anytime mental health is not dealt with it usually does. Speaking from personal experience. Hang in there. If you haven't get help moving past. You made it. You have a super power.
#48
The mafia called my grandparents to threaten harm against my mother because she ripped them off.
#49
My entire life I thought I was an only child only for my dad to admit that he’s had children with other women. He never said who but I could have bio siblings out there and I also apologize for my dad being terrible.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
This is completely commonplace in Africa. In fact I know several guys who seem quite proud of having kids with different women and call it 'leaving a legacy'. Naturally, most of them can't afford maintenance/alimony so they just are deadbeats.
Myrtle Maybe 2 years ago
Do you even know what country or culture you are talking about? That comment sounds really ignorant
Load More Replies... Laura Williams 2 years ago
Reach out so they can tell him what a c**p dad he is if you want them to know.
Tameeza Joyce Lightowler 2 years ago
This is disturbing for certain reasons. What would happen if you met someone, fell in love, neither of you knowing that you're half siblings? Went on to have a baby and THAT'S when you find out?
Lunaofthenest (She/they) 2 years ago
This is my hubby but in reverse. At 43, he, almost by chance, stumbled upon his birth mother through a crazy series of events. We met her & his full sister (sister is 2 yrs older) last year. Sperm donor had those two kids, already had two kids prior and now has 3 more with current wife somewhere in TX. Hubby has ½ siblings the same age as our children.
DarkViolet 2 years ago
My dad was married seven times, and had 33 children. (It would have been 34, had my twin not died in utero.) I have never met anyone on my father's side of the family.
#50
Casually dropped they’d killed someone then got really quiet about it. Like, sad quiet. Sounds like there was a case surrounding the ordeal but could never get them to talk about it more and I didn’t want to push.
tameson 2 years ago
There is a support network for people who have killed someone and have deeply regretted their actions ever since. It was started by a woman who hit and killed a young boy when she was backing out of a driveway as a teenager. She says she has thought about that boy every day of her life since then.
Eithne Griffiths 2 years ago
I had a friend that smothered an abusive man then put him face down in a snow pile.Verdict,accidental death while intoxicated.
Deborah B 2 years ago
Killing someone doesn't automatically mean murder. It could have been in war, in self defense, by accident, or blaming themselves for something outside of their control. There are lots of situations where a person can die, and another person can blame themself for that, and not have commited murder.
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Multa Nocte 2 years ago
I had to stop reading this article part way down. There are just so many horrible things that happen in the world, and some days I am better off not knowing specific details . . . . 😔
Bec 2 years ago
It's scary that there are psychopaths out there that don't/ won't ever feel bad about the awful things they've done.
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DrKimball 2 years ago
My cousin was raised in a fundamentalist Christian house. No alcohol, no smoking, no R-rated movies, no sex, and no kissing before marriage. Almost as repressive as the Duggar cult, but not quite. I want to state that he is a really wonderful person; loving, kind, generous, and genuine. He didn't find "the one" until he was 32 as he has always been pretty shy around women. On the night before his wedding, he requested a nice dinner with my husband and myself. We are very secular, worldly, and agnostic so it was a bit of a surprise. We took him to a very expensive steakhouse and he asked to have a bourbon; he then said it wasn't his first one before telling us the story of how he lost his virginity to an escort 10 years earlier just to "get it over with." That wasn't the shocking part. After his second bourbon he shared that the experience confirmed what he'd always known: he is gay. Bless his heart, he married a controlling harpy and they now have 2 kids. I feel so sad for him...
Tamra 2 years ago
That is indeed very sad. Sad that his religious indoctrination makes him feel forced to live a lie.
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Tiny Dancer 2 years ago
An only child, I spent my life thinking my father had always wanted a son. I was never a sporty gal, but he desperately tried to get me to play soccer, softball, darts, you name it. On my 18th birthday, Mum blew the door off the family closet. Dad had been married before he met Mum. In fact, his then wife was pregnant when he left her and his TWO SONS to be with my Mum. She later had a son, so he had three boys. Three half-brothers I never knew about (years later, long after my parents split, he remarried the first wife and the boys made it clear they wanted nothing to do with me, nice, eh?). Oh, and Mum had a sister we never talked about as she had mental issues and ended up taking herself out as a teenager.
Lene 2 years ago
I'm sorry your half-brothers don't want anything to do with you. Why are they angry with you? You didn't do anything wrong. They should be angry with their dad instead. He is the one who created a situation where they got a half-sibling. On the other hand, if they are angry at you simply from being your father's child then perhaps you're better off without them.
Load More Replies... eame 2 years ago
I discovered my best friend was a pedophile. He loaned me his phone and the auto-fill on the google search revealed a nasty search. He wasn't even clever about his search history/using Tor, etc. to hide his nasty stuff. No longer friends.
Catlady6000 2 years ago
Please say you reported him. Even if he hasn't actually molested anyone himself this is illegal and NOT a victomless crime
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Tarryn Ball 2 years ago
I could never understand why my Mother hated me more than my four older siblings. After she died my brother told me I had a different father. She thought her relationship with this rich man was her meal ticket to an easy life. He dumped her and she was bitter as hell. Turns out she never really loved any of us.
theoneandonlynoira 1 year ago
List of things I shouldn't have done --- an idiot's journey: 1. Reading this flipping list
Lucas 2 years ago
My whole life I was told that my mom’s step dad was a very bad man but it was never explained to me why. Last year I was told that he is a child molester and he molested my mom. Thankfully my Aunt was ok. Now I know that I’ve never seen him because my mom was protecting me. My grandma (who I don’t even consider family at this point) knows about this and is still willingly married to him.
brittany 2 years ago
got two, both involving my grandfather. supposedly, he had a brief relationship with someone from England and she moved away after becoming pregnant. was never able to find him and we dont know that we should as he might not know about his bio dad and would be in his 60s by now. the second is that my mom is the product of incest between grandpa and grandma who were first cousins. according to grandma it was not consensual and she stated that in court but nothing happened with it. i believe her, my mother doesnt because there are photos of them when my mom is grown up where they are standing together with her. her argument is no one would stand by their assaulter and smile for a picture. i argue they would especially if shamed by family. grandma is religious and yes shaming women for assault was par for the course. two weeks after mom was born grandma ran and married someone else who raise mom as his own but mom always hated them both and idolized her dad.
Lady Stardust 1 year ago (edited)
My whole life I never knew my biological father, and my mother told me that he wanted her to abort me as soon as he found out she was pregnant when I pushed the subject one night. Obviously she didn’t, and he left when she refused. She got married, had my sister and my step dad was and still is my dad, I love him to bits. A couple years ago I did the ancestry DNA thing and start matching with people I’d never heard of; one of them messages me and we find out we’re half siblings. She tells me all about our father, and they both claim that he never knew I even existed. I’ve been talking with him for a couple of years now and I’ve learned I have two half brothers as well, and to this day he says he didn’t even know my mother was pregnant. My mother is adament that he never wanted me and refuses to talk about him. So now I’m left not knowing the truth, but he’s not a bad dude from what I can tell 🤷🏻♀️
Multa Nocte 2 years ago
I had to stop reading this article part way down. There are just so many horrible things that happen in the world, and some days I am better off not knowing specific details . . . . 😔
Bec 2 years ago
It's scary that there are psychopaths out there that don't/ won't ever feel bad about the awful things they've done.
Load More Replies... DrKimball 2 years ago
My cousin was raised in a fundamentalist Christian house. No alcohol, no smoking, no R-rated movies, no sex, and no kissing before marriage. Almost as repressive as the Duggar cult, but not quite. I want to state that he is a really wonderful person; loving, kind, generous, and genuine. He didn't find "the one" until he was 32 as he has always been pretty shy around women. On the night before his wedding, he requested a nice dinner with my husband and myself. We are very secular, worldly, and agnostic so it was a bit of a surprise. We took him to a very expensive steakhouse and he asked to have a bourbon; he then said it wasn't his first one before telling us the story of how he lost his virginity to an escort 10 years earlier just to "get it over with." That wasn't the shocking part. After his second bourbon he shared that the experience confirmed what he'd always known: he is gay. Bless his heart, he married a controlling harpy and they now have 2 kids. I feel so sad for him...
Tamra 2 years ago
That is indeed very sad. Sad that his religious indoctrination makes him feel forced to live a lie.
Load More Replies... Tiny Dancer 2 years ago
An only child, I spent my life thinking my father had always wanted a son. I was never a sporty gal, but he desperately tried to get me to play soccer, softball, darts, you name it. On my 18th birthday, Mum blew the door off the family closet. Dad had been married before he met Mum. In fact, his then wife was pregnant when he left her and his TWO SONS to be with my Mum. She later had a son, so he had three boys. Three half-brothers I never knew about (years later, long after my parents split, he remarried the first wife and the boys made it clear they wanted nothing to do with me, nice, eh?). Oh, and Mum had a sister we never talked about as she had mental issues and ended up taking herself out as a teenager.
Lene 2 years ago
I'm sorry your half-brothers don't want anything to do with you. Why are they angry with you? You didn't do anything wrong. They should be angry with their dad instead. He is the one who created a situation where they got a half-sibling. On the other hand, if they are angry at you simply from being your father's child then perhaps you're better off without them.
Load More Replies... eame 2 years ago
I discovered my best friend was a pedophile. He loaned me his phone and the auto-fill on the google search revealed a nasty search. He wasn't even clever about his search history/using Tor, etc. to hide his nasty stuff. No longer friends.
Catlady6000 2 years ago
Please say you reported him. Even if he hasn't actually molested anyone himself this is illegal and NOT a victomless crime
Load More Replies... Tarryn Ball 2 years ago
I could never understand why my Mother hated me more than my four older siblings. After she died my brother told me I had a different father. She thought her relationship with this rich man was her meal ticket to an easy life. He dumped her and she was bitter as hell. Turns out she never really loved any of us.
theoneandonlynoira 1 year ago
List of things I shouldn't have done --- an idiot's journey: 1. Reading this flipping list
Lucas 2 years ago
My whole life I was told that my mom’s step dad was a very bad man but it was never explained to me why. Last year I was told that he is a child molester and he molested my mom. Thankfully my Aunt was ok. Now I know that I’ve never seen him because my mom was protecting me. My grandma (who I don’t even consider family at this point) knows about this and is still willingly married to him.
brittany 2 years ago
got two, both involving my grandfather. supposedly, he had a brief relationship with someone from England and she moved away after becoming pregnant. was never able to find him and we dont know that we should as he might not know about his bio dad and would be in his 60s by now. the second is that my mom is the product of incest between grandpa and grandma who were first cousins. according to grandma it was not consensual and she stated that in court but nothing happened with it. i believe her, my mother doesnt because there are photos of them when my mom is grown up where they are standing together with her. her argument is no one would stand by their assaulter and smile for a picture. i argue they would especially if shamed by family. grandma is religious and yes shaming women for assault was par for the course. two weeks after mom was born grandma ran and married someone else who raise mom as his own but mom always hated them both and idolized her dad.
Lady Stardust 1 year ago (edited)
My whole life I never knew my biological father, and my mother told me that he wanted her to abort me as soon as he found out she was pregnant when I pushed the subject one night. Obviously she didn’t, and he left when she refused. She got married, had my sister and my step dad was and still is my dad, I love him to bits. A couple years ago I did the ancestry DNA thing and start matching with people I’d never heard of; one of them messages me and we find out we’re half siblings. She tells me all about our father, and they both claim that he never knew I even existed. I’ve been talking with him for a couple of years now and I’ve learned I have two half brothers as well, and to this day he says he didn’t even know my mother was pregnant. My mother is adament that he never wanted me and refuses to talk about him. So now I’m left not knowing the truth, but he’s not a bad dude from what I can tell 🤷🏻♀️
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