Whenever someone starts a sentence with “you won’t believe what I have to tell you”, chances are you’ll be all ears. It’s just the way our minds work. Even if you don’t spill the beans yourself, refraining from listening to gossip might be a challenge.
The members of Reddit’s 'Ask Women' community couldn’t keep the juiciest stories they’ve ever heard to themselves. Their accounts range from family drama, to disastrous break ups, work-related matters, and more. We have gathered some of the most shocking and enthralling examples into the list below. Scroll down for the stories that seem too surprising to be true.
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Tales from a large and very dysfunctional family:
Identical twin sisters are very close. Twin A marries but can’t be apart from her twin so the newlyweds invite twin B to live with them.
The 3 get along great for 10 + years until twin B develops feelings for her BIL. Twin A is completely blindsided when they come clean and hubby asks for a divorce so he can marry Twin B
Family is shocked but refuses to take sides.
Twin A cuts all ties makes a new life for herself.
Shockingly twin B’s marriage also ends in divorce a few years later when she discovers that the husband is having an affair with his brothers wife. Thus taking the phrase”keeping it in the family” to a whole new level
A guy I used to work with ended up marrying his sons wife… his grandchildren are now his step children
…that’s a lot to unpack. I don’t even know if I WANT to unpack it.
I’m from a small pretty wealthy village in Central Europe. A lot of gossip. The best thing that comes to mind: my mum’s cousin married the holiest of women in the village. She is always in the front every Sunday in church praying the loudest. They have multiple children together, all grown up now. One of the son’s didn’t look anything like her or his dad, but very much like a rich farmer from the village. Everyone talked about how he looks just like his twin (they kinda looked like blonde Elvis 🤣). Well he went on to marry the daughter of said wealthy farmer. Only after years of marriage when they wanted children someone must have told them what’s up. Apparently they took DNA tests and eventually they divorced. So. They were probably half siblings.
Not as juicy as other stories here
Girl 1 was 'best friends' with girl 2 but would bully girl 2 for many things, one of them being the fact that she was born out of wedlock to a 16 year old mother. Girl 1's boyfriend leaves her for girl 2, entire school tells them "you make a cute couple" (they never said this when bf was with girl 1)
Girl 1 finds a new guy, proceeds to have a baby born out of wedlock less than a year later at age 17
As a hair stylist, I hear a lot of crazy gossip. Sometimes I’ll get a client and they’ll refer their sibling or parent or some other relative. I just have to pretend I don’t know s**t when they start telling me gossip about other clients. It’s wild.
A friend/client of mine referred her aunt and she was very comfortable telling me a lot of her personal business. Aunt wouldn’t stop telling me how much she hates her son-in-law and vice versa. They despise each other. Her and her daughter are very close and I was thinking maybe she’s just overbearing or overprotective of her. She then refers her daughter to me. I don’t tell her anything her mom says to me. Daughter tells me that her husband cheated on her before so she’s just mentally checked out of their marriage. She knows he lies and says he’s staying late for work when he’s actually seeing some other girls. She doesn’t care anymore, she just stays for the kids. Because of this, her mom hates him and tries to keep the kids away from their dad. She takes care of the kids when the daughter works cause the husband won’t show up to pick up the kids just to avoid seeing her. SO fast forward a couple weeks later, we cycle back to my friend who originally referred them to me. She asked me how the appointment went. I said good, I was vague about it, I just said that it seems like they’re going through a lot. She then spills the beans.
Long story short:
The woman that the daughter’s husband was having an affair with is her OWN MOTHER. He cut things off with her and she now hates him and makes his life difficult. The daughter doesn’t know. The mother’s husband knows she had an affair but doesn’t know it’s with the son in law. Several people in the family know but no one is telling them. It’s a f*****g mess.
im having a hard time following but from what i understand.... what the heck?!?!
I grew up in a VERY tiny community. I lived just left from the middle of nowhere and we all knew eachother. When I was maybe 12 or 13 my best friend’s aunt got a little tipsy and told us that the local hairdresser and her husband were swingers and had approached her and her husband at a bar. Me and my friend giggle about it, but overall it wasn’t a shocking revelation.
This past year my best friend’s aunt died, it was awful and really shook the community. We were all sharing stories of her impact on our lives and I mention how she had told me and my best friend that the hairdresser and her husband were swingers and how it was funny at the time.
Now being an adult, my mom decides to let me in on the juicy gossip. Apparently it wasn’t just the hairdresser and her husband, but everyone who lived on their street! A whole suburb-like development in a small a*s town that was made with the entire purpose of swinging. Teachers, seamstresses, the guy that does taxes, everyone. So many absolute pillars of the community had settled and specifically made a swingers suburb. Whenever anyone had moved out of the area apparently it was an exile of the couple from the swinging group and was quite the debacle.
It was just common knowledge apparently, but I had reached the age to know about it. Now whenever I go on facebook once in a blue moon and see posts of them hanging out I have a giggle to myself and think of Aunt.
My half sister's boyfriend (maybe 20? 21?) Has been cuddling with my stepmom (40). Apparently they're very close and love to touch each other and have regular 'spooning' time where just the two of them go lay down in my dad's marital bed. My half sister is apparently ok with it now, but she was very upset in the beginning. Can't imagine what he told her to make it sound ok.
A friend went to visit her father who lives abroad and found out that he had a new wife…and child…and another on the way. Everyone knew besides her and her mother…who was still married to him!!!
17 year old boy got a 14 year old girl pregnant while at school, so the welfare department got involved. The boys mother worked for a lady lawyer, so she helped and advised the son on what to do. (Lawyer was in her 30s and married, no kids)
No clue what happened to baby but it never materialized so was either BS or miscarried. Next thing boy and lawyer lady are having an affair and she's pregnant with his child. Still together a year later.
Life can be stranger than fiction.
I used to be in a Facebook group where drama would kick off constantly. It was a pretty toxic place but I stayed for ages just to lurk on the shenanigans. Probably the biggest drama was a woman who had been in the group for years since the beginning. There was a kind of core “in crowd” who basically lived most of their lives on this group, she was one of the most popular and well loved of them and had close online friendships with many members outside of the group. This woman had experienced lots of miscarriages and her child had died in infancy and she posted a lot about how she was really struggling with it. She recently had adopted a baby and everyone in the group was super supportive and she’d post updates all the time about how it was going.
Well it turned out that this person wasn’t who they said they was, they were a catfish with fake pictures and a whole fake life story. Basically some of the members became suspicious and did some hardcore online sleuthing and discovered the real person behind the photos and other things that proved they were a catfish. This person had made close connections with other people who had been through infant loss who had shared really intimate details of their lives with her. I believe she may have also taken money from people as well. When I tell you people went wild, it went on for weeks with literally hundreds of posts about it, thousands of comments, just absolute mayhem. People were posting photos of themselves crying, it was like someone had died.
Another thing that happened was one of the members discovered her partner had been cheating on her and posted a video that she’d found of him having sex with another woman and poking his finger up her bum. It then came to light that this woman was a member of a right wing white supremacy organisation. That was another wild one.
I'm noticing a gap in logic in between "poking his finger up her bum" and "White supremacy"
Someone I know’s grandmother found her husband in bed with her own dad. (Husband + his father in law going at it)
This was in the 60’s, they stayed together and never divorced.
Wow, just wow! Plus its do sad that they had to hide their true sexuality
A friend of mine broke up with her boyfriend and slept with his guy who she had the biggest crush on for YEARS. A few days later she started getting a burning in her vagina. She thought it was a yeast infection. NOPE! It was herpes.
However, the guy she slept with had never had a herpes outbreak prior to the current one so his herpes was new too. Where did guy A get the herpes from? He slept with a woman who had a recent herpes outbreak. This woman also slept with guy A's FATHER and is now pregnant!
But where did the herpes originally come from? From guy A's father.
So to sum up this woman is now pregnant, they don't know if the childs father is father or son, and now everyone has herpes.
I had a roommate in college that was trying to get into modeling. She met a military guy and convinced him to buy her giant boobies within like a week. She moved out shortly after the surgery and I never talked to her again.
I stayed at the same house for a few more years and one day a cop comes knocking looking for her. Turns out, after the surgery, she ghosted the military guy and changed her phone number. Her moving out was so he couldn't track her down for the boobies money. I imagine the military guy was trying to sue her or something.
I never really liked her but it always makes me smile thinking about the absurdity of this story.
I am a terrible person for laughing at this. I hope that guy got his money back. What happened to him wasn't fair.
Worked at an assisted living dementia unit. The activity director “Barbie” was attracted to “Ken” who was a phlebotomist that would come in occasionally. Then, her boss “Kim” (who was also Barbie’s cousin) started realizing Ken was showing up more often. So one day she went back there and found them both in a patients room in the patients bed. Obvi, she was fired on the spot. Ken was fired from his job as well. Oh yeah, Barbie and Ken are both married…. To other people.
That would have been bad enough but it gets worse. The patients family had installed a camera in the room so they could watch Granny sleep. Kim knew about it but Barbie hadn’t been told yet. The family saw a lot more than sleeping. They were not happy.
A friend of mine was sleeping around and got pregnant. She had to have 5 or 6 paternity tests before she found out who the father was.
Worst part of this story is, she hadn't been having protected sex
She could have been. Accidents happen. Some guys don't tell you if the condom broke. Etc.
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Nothing bad about that.She enjoyed sex and (assuming they were all reasonable enough to use condoms) just had bad luck. Can we stop treating women who have sex with different partners consensually as if they were somehow 'shameful'?
It may not be shameful but it certainly had to be inconvenient to get all the testing done.
Load More Replies... I had a flatmate who got pregnant and couldn't positively ID the father. Her policy was to start with the wealthiest candidate and work downward. Lawyers were involved; It was embarrassing for everyone. Baby daddy ended up being an unemployed drug addict.
2 of my cousins got called into one of these multiple paternity tests. One of them was the father. He and the woman are now married and have a couple of kids.
It's not so much about sleeping around, I mean you do you but the unprotected sex? This means that you had sex within the span of a month with 6 different guys. Unprotected....
The definitive case of f**k around and find out. (Sorry, I'll see myself out.)
Getting it on raw with multiple people isn't wise. STDs still exist, people.
That is an assumption. All parties involved may have been practicing safe sex and pregnancy still happened. Oops. Which contraceptive failed? Only one way to find out, check everyone. BTW: this is exactly why we need to keep abortion safe and legal.
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My fiancés cousin just got divorced because his WIFE found him passed out on the couch with Grindr open. He had cheated on her with men every chance he got the entire time they were married. Grocery store, gym, work- every time she left he invited someone over. He slept with his male best friend after she went to sleep on a camping trip the three of them. No one in the family knows this but me and her. My fiancés brother’s wife cheated on him with a male stripper in Vegas. And his other brother’s wife couldn’t decide who to let raise their daughter because she was hooking up with him and another guy at the same time who offered to raise her as well. I walked into family drama at every angle that no one knows but me 😅
Sad. If you're Bi and can't handle being in a monogamous situation where you only get to express one side of your sexuality, then maybe keep things casual.
Juicy gossip happened over the summer and when the teachers return to school we find out that the third grade teacher is getting a divorce. Shocking bc she’s married to her high school sweetheart, the only bf she’d ever had, been together 20 years. Apparently he has a whole other fiancé living with her and everything. His real wife thought his job involved a lot of travel but he was actually at the other woman’s house right across town. So here she is raising two kids. Running them to dr and sports and everything else while he’s getting laid.
I'm just sat here laughing at the advanced calculus in the picture. Those are some precocious 8 year olds :D
My aunt has been married for 28 years to my uncle but only married him after breaking up with my family’s neighbor’s son 6 months earlier who she grew up with. My uncle doesn’t know this but she has spent every Wednesday with our neighbor’s son since they got married. Also her eldest son looks more like our neighbors than my uncle.
It’s sad how situations like this the person being cheated on knows, but does not want to come out to say so because they know the consequences of how much damage it can bring especially if there’s a child involved, while the cheating party couldn’t give 2 Fs
A super famous guy in my last job's industry faked a brain tumour to cover up his drug problem, but apparently he's been found out because he was siphoning money away from his benefactors.
oh where to start! My uncle let his cousin and his wife stay with him since he had a bigger house and lived alone. Eventually we all figured out they were having an affair with his cousins wife and everyone suspects the younger child is my uncles. They all went their seperate ways and my uncle married another woman he hates, half his age who doesnt know he has a secret child. No one talks about it, just like we don't talk about my aunt who is gay and her "roomate" is actually her partner. Everyone knows but apparently we are just gonna pretend like we don't know.
In high school we were mostly boring kids, nothing too weird going on, BUT there was once this one thing that happened that was insane.
There was this chubby girl in our class that was really upset that she might go to university a virgin (although most of us did :P). And apparently, the boyfriend of a friend of hers that was also in class with us offered to "help" her while he was dating the friend.
Well, when this came to light and these 2 girls started fighting in class, another girl, thinking she'll help, said something like "why would you have trusted this guy anyway? he cheated on [insert 3rd girls name] too". To which, obviously the 3rd girl goes "WTF, he did that? With who?". And a 4th girl got thrown under the buss. All these girls were basically one big friend group before this came to light.
As it turns out, this guy would date a girl, woo her and be all sweet and romantic and when all of her friends would be jealous of her for being woo-ed like that, he would slowly start to work his way through her friend group by being sweet to her friends with lower self esteem.
Last year I lived in a house with two other women and one man (were all in a postgrad course together). There was girl a, girl b and the guy.
Girl A was really close friends with the guy. Like REALLY close. Texted daily, woke each other up with instagram posts, cooked together, basically in a relationship without the relationship. He even got drunk once and told her he would be jealous if she brought another guy home. She of course caught feelings because who wouldn’t?
Girl b disliked this guy immensely, even went as far as making some pretty insensitive comments about his appearance to his face. Despite this everyone was friendly and the first few months of living together went smoothly.
So after girl A caught feelings, she told girl B and myself. I stayed supportive but didn’t influence her decision about whether to tell him or not- I just want to pass my course and get my degree. Girl B, though, was rather pushy about girl A disclosing her feelings for the guy- would ask like every other week if she had told him about her feelings yet, encouraged her to tell him, etc.
Girl A finally disclosed to the guy that she liked him. He said the feelings weren’t mutual, and she took it like a champ, still wanted to be friends with no weirdness. Then, about 5 days later, he says he’s interested in girl B and wants to pursue a relationship with her. Cue confusion.
So girl B comes to girl A and says she actually ALSO has feelings for this guy, and would girl A be okay if she pursued a relationship? Of f*****g course not. She just disclosed her feelings 5 days ago, this is still raw, everyone’s living together, no way. She says she’d prefer if she didn’t do that right now since it still stings.
Guy comes home and explodes at girl A. How could she EVER think she had a chance with him, she’s way too heavy for him to ever be interested, she has completely ruined his chance with girl B because she had hurt feelings and now his life is terrible because of her.
Long story short, girl B and the guy had been secretly f*****g for two months after everybody went to bed. Girl B knew girl A liked him and still slept with him, and actively encouraged girl A to tell the guy she liked him.
Guy moved out, blaming everyone else for his problems. I moved out not soon after because I was stranded with these two girls and the house dynamic was weird. Last I heard girl B and the guy are still together. They deserve each other.
My ex friend’s parents were going through a divorce it was getting nasty there were rumours but we weren’t sure the actual motivation for it. Eventually his dad was visiting where I lived and he got drunk while having dinner with and it all came out … I mean the fact that he had a secret love child with his secretary that he promptly shipped off back to her home country wasn’t the cause as everyone assumed, although he confirmed that was true. The actual reason for the divorce was he fell in love with their secret threesome partner… this was were the wife drew the line apparently…. Oh and the threesome partner was his friends wife just to top it all off!
My high school history teacher/softball coach left his wife to marry one of his softball players after she graduated (and turned 18)
Don't care what consenting adults do BUT they must be adults from the start
Umm my niece was sleeping with her husband's brother in law and her brother was sleeping with that brother in laws wife.
Husband and I were out to dinner one night. Overheard a conversation from a nearby table, it was three older men talking about a very specific, unique clause in their insurance coverage that saved them a lot of money, one that very few people know about. As they kept talking, we discovered that my husband works for the same organization.
Later that night, when we got home, we looked up the clause online. Did some digging. Discovered we're eligible for the same coverage. It has saved us several thousand $ over the last few years.
I (25F) used to work at a casino in a small department. My boss (45M) was never inappropriate with me, or made me feel uncomfortable. He’s also married, with five kids, the youngest is a year old. One time I left work and realized I left my wallet in my desk, so I went back to get it. When I got there, everyone had already left for the day but my bosses’ office door was closed, and the light was still on. My department was very particular about leaving lights on for some reason so on my way out, I figured I would help him out. I opened his office door only to find him having sex with this other married woman from my company. I apologized and ran out. I wasn’t sure if I should say anything to him or not, but he never said a word to me about it. Fast forward 6 months, I no longer work there. My old boss has been obsessively texting me, asking if he could taste me, saying he’s been fantasizing about me since day one, etc. I started to confide in a friend who still worked there because I was uncomfortable with everything he was saying… turns out my old boss has slept with almost every single woman that worked at the casino. No joke. And I know that because he kept a black book of secrets, and accidentally dropped it in the parking lot when leaving work one day.
My accountant who does my taxes told me she does taxes for a wealthy lady who owns multiple properties. Apparently this lady’s husband was having an affair, found out who the affair partner was, but she wasn’t planning on calling him out on it until she saw the affair partner on the news because she had been arrested. What was she arrested for? The affair partner had ALSO been in another relationship with a married man and they conspired to kill his (also wealthy) wife for the money. So she finally calls out her husband on the affair, asking if they were planning on doing the same to her, and he ADMITS EVERYTHING. Apologetic, whatever. She leaves him, didn’t report him, and then she finds out her ex husband has a terminal illness. For whatever reason (I guess she pitied him), she decided to be his caregiver until he died.
Chick I worked with was sleeping with our manager. Which wasn't against company policy but was frowned upon. Then they decide to get married after they find out she's pregnant. A year later, baby is born, and everything is great. Then our manager gets fired, and his wife takes his position. We are confused because it was so sudden, but things happen. Then she files for divorce and tells everyone her baby was the company owners. This sends everyone into chaos because the owners wife was pretty close to this chick. So now our workplace is a battle ground. Eventually, the owners wife files for divorce.
But that's not even the twist. Found out later that the baby was my ex-managers baby. This chick was just trying to "move up in the world" and tried to pin the kid on the owner. They did sleep together but well before her pregnancy. And she admitted this to me and a few other "trustworthy people" right before our company shut down.
My loving, wonderful and dearly departed Papaw killed his first wife. Shot her!! I found out when I was 28 from a family friend. I asked my Mamaw about it later and her response was "Well....he said it was an accident.".... He was a mean husband but a loving dad and Papaw. I'm glad Mamaw went on to know true love after he died. Lost her in 2020. The world is a bit dim without her but she left me so much wisdom and laughter.
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I got a job at a fancy restaurant where the gossip was ripe. On the first day, the staff pointed out an old woman who'd take men to the bathroom for sex. She had been doing it for many years and she often found several men each night. We were expected to help her keep the "secret" since it was a "finer" restaurant. Months later I'm out shopping with my husband and we bumped into his ex. I don't like her and the situation is "icy" at best. She's a "holier than thou" type and I always felt the urge to kick her. Then her mother walks up to us. Yeah, you know who. It's been over 30 years and I still giggle inside when I see the ex. I don't look down on her mom, she can do whatever she wants to. The ex on the other hand has very demeaning opinions on "that" type of women, little does she know...
Yeah, but maybe she does know? Disdain for her mother could fuel her disapproval of "that" type, especially if there's childhood trauma involved.
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Friend of mine married the girl he had been dating since he was 13. They had a daughter when they were both 18. 11 years later his wife got pregnant again and after the baby was born he wasn't 100% sure it was his and wanted a paternity test. As you can imagine, that didn't go over very well with his wife, who blew up on him and stormed out. She came back a few hours later, drunk as hell and started screaming at him that he was an idiot because he wanted to test the wrong kid. Next day when she sobered up he started asking her about the things she said the night before. After an hour of yelling, crying and more then a little nausea, she tells him that his 11yr old daughter isn't his. When he asked who the father might be, if not him, she told him how she had been sleeping with his father since she was 14 and that it's most likely his. So turns out his 11yr old daughter was really his sister.
These make the story of my coworker who is in a relationship with his father's ex-wife seem normal by comparison.
Ok, so I found out that my friend's little sister got permanently banned from all campuses in our school district. What did she do? I have no idea. What can a 12-year-old even do that warrants this kind of punishment?
Growing up, I always knew my paternal grandmother loved her step mother dearly, and my oldest great uncle HATED her. With everyone now passed, my mother finally asked my father about it. Turns out my great-grandfather was a minister at the local church and was counseling a woman on her divorce. This was in the 20s, so huge deal. He fell in love and decided to leave my great-grandmother. She was walking one night and stepped in front of a train, committing suicide. My great uncle was with her at the time. My grandmother was only 2, so her step mother is the only mother she’d really ever known.
I was a nanny for a while in my 20s and through a friend I got a job working for a celebrity news anchor (I signed a NDA so I can't say who). I did light housecleaning and took care of the kids and their meals/rooms/pickups and drop offs entirely. I was a live-in, and was required at all kind of times and hours (which was fine, I signed up for that because she worked crazy hours a lot. She needed someone really flexible and the job paid well). She was one of the worst human beings alive. Seriously she was horrible to her children and her husband. She called one of her daughters 'fatty' (she was 9). She was incredibly racist and was one of those people who didn't think they were racist they were just 'honest'. Her husband was actually a nice guy except for the fact it seemed his entire job was just apologizing for her all the time. He was a doormat for sure. So I got denied a raise my second year with them, so I gave my notice. No hard feelings (1)
(2) 2 days into my notice, I walk in on her in this little changing room they had near their pool. And she is receiving oral sex from some guy. She sees me see her and they don't even stop. I literally just leave and don't say anything. I felt so bad for her family. That night she comes to my room and says she's rethought my raise. I think she thought she was going to pay me to basically keep quiet. Honestly I might have but I just felt like this was going to end really badly and I didn't want to be in the middle of that. I had already decided to leave and I was tired of taking care of kids. And she was just a horrible person. I found out in the news about a year later they were getting a divorce. I still wonder if that poor man ever just got fed up and had enough or if she left him.
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Oh have I got one for you Pandas... So a girl I know (26 at the time) was messing around with her bosses son (17 at the time) and got pregnant. His parents are divorced and the moms met, his mom convinced her mom to take her daughter to get an abortion (rumour has it that she even payed her for it), her dad wanted to meet with his dad to discuss what should be done but his dad declined, in the end she did get the abortion, probably the money too, and possibly continued the relationship because during the height of Corona they both got sick at the exact same time... She still works for the same boss. The kicker? Her boss was, and still is president of our country
Was at a bar when a woman, that was visiting our province, started crying on the phone, and then yelling into it; "I can hear her giving you a blow job", "Why would you do that to my daughter", "Why would you let her" She hangs up and starts ranting and raving loudly about how her daughter was giving head to her husband. They left the bar shortly after and went back to their hotel. It wasn't till she left that I began to wonder if it was the girls father or step father.
I was in Paris on holidays several years ago. At a Holocaust memorial I there was someone with our family name (not overly common). I didn't realise we had relatives in France and asked about it when I got home. No explanation from anyone except for an older cousin. Apparently the woman on the memorial had an affair with her brother-in law, fell pregnant and was sent to Paris in the 1930s. She was rounded up by the nazis and died in a concentration camp. No one knows what happened to her child and they never talk about this. They also never talk about the relative who was a prostitute.
Gossip, scandal, or thanks ancestry webpages. My maiden name is the same as my great grandmother. She never married but had six kids. My mother's mother was the matriarch. Born in 1900 she had old fashioned etiquette rules. never wore pants and only men were allowed to smoke. She was orphaned at 4 yo and lived with an aunt and uncle, her brother and sister to grandparents. When this loving prudish woman was 16 yo she boarded a train from NJ to CA and married a man. When she was 18 she and a friend moved to SD where she met my grandfather and married him. #1 died 8 years later. The last visit with them my grandmother told me it was actually her older sister that was supposed to go because 23 yo was an old maid. It was set up for her to marry a terminal veteran so she would have his income in her spinster years, Her sister was actually married but the insurance company they worked for did not allow couples to work there so the marriage was secret. They sent my gramma instead.
It would help enormously if these entries are accompanied by explanatory diagrams, and maybe a banana for scale.
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Load More Replies... I got a job at a fancy restaurant where the gossip was ripe. On the first day, the staff pointed out an old woman who'd take men to the bathroom for sex. She had been doing it for many years and she often found several men each night. We were expected to help her keep the "secret" since it was a "finer" restaurant. Months later I'm out shopping with my husband and we bumped into his ex. I don't like her and the situation is "icy" at best. She's a "holier than thou" type and I always felt the urge to kick her. Then her mother walks up to us. Yeah, you know who. It's been over 30 years and I still giggle inside when I see the ex. I don't look down on her mom, she can do whatever she wants to. The ex on the other hand has very demeaning opinions on "that" type of women, little does she know...
Yeah, but maybe she does know? Disdain for her mother could fuel her disapproval of "that" type, especially if there's childhood trauma involved.
Load More Replies... Friend of mine married the girl he had been dating since he was 13. They had a daughter when they were both 18. 11 years later his wife got pregnant again and after the baby was born he wasn't 100% sure it was his and wanted a paternity test. As you can imagine, that didn't go over very well with his wife, who blew up on him and stormed out. She came back a few hours later, drunk as hell and started screaming at him that he was an idiot because he wanted to test the wrong kid. Next day when she sobered up he started asking her about the things she said the night before. After an hour of yelling, crying and more then a little nausea, she tells him that his 11yr old daughter isn't his. When he asked who the father might be, if not him, she told him how she had been sleeping with his father since she was 14 and that it's most likely his. So turns out his 11yr old daughter was really his sister.
These make the story of my coworker who is in a relationship with his father's ex-wife seem normal by comparison.
Ok, so I found out that my friend's little sister got permanently banned from all campuses in our school district. What did she do? I have no idea. What can a 12-year-old even do that warrants this kind of punishment?
Growing up, I always knew my paternal grandmother loved her step mother dearly, and my oldest great uncle HATED her. With everyone now passed, my mother finally asked my father about it. Turns out my great-grandfather was a minister at the local church and was counseling a woman on her divorce. This was in the 20s, so huge deal. He fell in love and decided to leave my great-grandmother. She was walking one night and stepped in front of a train, committing suicide. My great uncle was with her at the time. My grandmother was only 2, so her step mother is the only mother she’d really ever known.
I was a nanny for a while in my 20s and through a friend I got a job working for a celebrity news anchor (I signed a NDA so I can't say who). I did light housecleaning and took care of the kids and their meals/rooms/pickups and drop offs entirely. I was a live-in, and was required at all kind of times and hours (which was fine, I signed up for that because she worked crazy hours a lot. She needed someone really flexible and the job paid well). She was one of the worst human beings alive. Seriously she was horrible to her children and her husband. She called one of her daughters 'fatty' (she was 9). She was incredibly racist and was one of those people who didn't think they were racist they were just 'honest'. Her husband was actually a nice guy except for the fact it seemed his entire job was just apologizing for her all the time. He was a doormat for sure. So I got denied a raise my second year with them, so I gave my notice. No hard feelings (1)
(2) 2 days into my notice, I walk in on her in this little changing room they had near their pool. And she is receiving oral sex from some guy. She sees me see her and they don't even stop. I literally just leave and don't say anything. I felt so bad for her family. That night she comes to my room and says she's rethought my raise. I think she thought she was going to pay me to basically keep quiet. Honestly I might have but I just felt like this was going to end really badly and I didn't want to be in the middle of that. I had already decided to leave and I was tired of taking care of kids. And she was just a horrible person. I found out in the news about a year later they were getting a divorce. I still wonder if that poor man ever just got fed up and had enough or if she left him.
Load More Replies... Oh have I got one for you Pandas... So a girl I know (26 at the time) was messing around with her bosses son (17 at the time) and got pregnant. His parents are divorced and the moms met, his mom convinced her mom to take her daughter to get an abortion (rumour has it that she even payed her for it), her dad wanted to meet with his dad to discuss what should be done but his dad declined, in the end she did get the abortion, probably the money too, and possibly continued the relationship because during the height of Corona they both got sick at the exact same time... She still works for the same boss. The kicker? Her boss was, and still is president of our country
Was at a bar when a woman, that was visiting our province, started crying on the phone, and then yelling into it; "I can hear her giving you a blow job", "Why would you do that to my daughter", "Why would you let her" She hangs up and starts ranting and raving loudly about how her daughter was giving head to her husband. They left the bar shortly after and went back to their hotel. It wasn't till she left that I began to wonder if it was the girls father or step father.
I was in Paris on holidays several years ago. At a Holocaust memorial I there was someone with our family name (not overly common). I didn't realise we had relatives in France and asked about it when I got home. No explanation from anyone except for an older cousin. Apparently the woman on the memorial had an affair with her brother-in law, fell pregnant and was sent to Paris in the 1930s. She was rounded up by the nazis and died in a concentration camp. No one knows what happened to her child and they never talk about this. They also never talk about the relative who was a prostitute.
Gossip, scandal, or thanks ancestry webpages. My maiden name is the same as my great grandmother. She never married but had six kids. My mother's mother was the matriarch. Born in 1900 she had old fashioned etiquette rules. never wore pants and only men were allowed to smoke. She was orphaned at 4 yo and lived with an aunt and uncle, her brother and sister to grandparents. When this loving prudish woman was 16 yo she boarded a train from NJ to CA and married a man. When she was 18 she and a friend moved to SD where she met my grandfather and married him. #1 died 8 years later. The last visit with them my grandmother told me it was actually her older sister that was supposed to go because 23 yo was an old maid. It was set up for her to marry a terminal veteran so she would have his income in her spinster years, Her sister was actually married but the insurance company they worked for did not allow couples to work there so the marriage was secret. They sent my gramma instead.
