🤯 INCRÍVEL: People Share Their Family Secrets That Aren’t For The Faint-Hearted And Here Are 39 Of Them 😲
No one enjoys keeping an unsettling family secret. No matter how much of an impenetrable vault you think you are, this confidential piece of information will keep gnawing at you until you reach a point where you just have to spill the beans to someone.
These people are using Reddit as a platform to unburden themselves while hiding behind the anonymity of a username. They responded to this loaded question: “What’s a secret your family doesn’t think you know, but you do?”
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Up until today, the secret was that I am gay. I came out to my extended family this weekend after telling my parents that I was done hiding (I’d kept it secret several years at my mom’s request.) Ironically, the response from my aunts/uncles was way better than my parents’, they all said they still loved me and my mom said I was ruining her life 🙃.
I absolutely adored my mother. She was a single mother who got a master’s in education while taking care of the three of us all the way up to working being a head of a department in the DOE. I never seen her drink, shout, act immature, act out in any unbecoming way etc. My whole life the one thing people commented on was how “classy” my mother is.
Then two years ago when she passed away and I was cleaning out her house, I ended up accidently taking one of her boxes of papers from the attic thinking it was mine. It was full of court documents talking about an affair my mother had with a married colleague where she got allegedly got so upset he ended it that she started to stalk and harass him and he filed criminal charges on her as well as brought it to HR at her former job. The things he says my mother did in those documents, I can’t imagine in a hundred years. Yet I also couldn’t imagine her having an affair with this guy at all but she admits it in the paperwork. I know why she left her state job and we moved to DC- basically there was some kind of deal made where she would leave and it would go away. And the criminal case was also pretty much dropped with the expectation and deal she would never contact him or bother him again.
Like [why?]. It’s made me really realize that you don’t know ANYONE really.
EDIT: I really didn’t expect to get all these nice and respectful replies. I realized that a lot of you are right and I’m judging my mom a bit to harshly when she did everything else right and had been a great mother. Everyone makes a lapse in judgment sometimes especially when it comes to love and it seems she owned up to it and took responsibility. Thanks. I feel a lot better about it.
My aunt divorced my uncle in the 50s, with six children. She had no job nor any means to support her & her kids and had to split the family up, sending half the kids to her sister’s house while she & the other three stayed in another sister’s home. She and her six children were treated like dirt. No one could understand why she left her husband. She died in the 1980s taking the truth to her grave. I became close to one of her daughters who also died, recently. But on her deathbed, drugged up from all the medication, she told me the truth. She told me her father, the uncle whom my aunt divorced “touched her all over when she was 12.” 😳😢.
H**l, I am positively mortified hearing about all these stories in here. Mine is a bit light one. I am from a very conservative country, and arranged marriages were the norm here, until a generation ago. Mine uncle’s marriage was the first love marriage in our family, and it happened after a lot of persuasions with the Elders. Long before that, my uncle once took me to see his gf in the McDonalds. I was hardly 5, and I remembered the woman as a tall amiable one, who gave me her burgers to eat. As we were going away, I told uncle that I am gonna tell mother how fine this lady was. (We lived in a joint family.) Uncle was terrified. He said there is no haste, and made me promise to never tell again. They married next year.
21 years from then, and they are still married with a boy and a girl.
Tl:Dr; I met my future aunt, before the rest of the family even knew she existed.
The part they know I know now, because I vocally expressed my knowledge, is that my dad cheated on my mom while she was pregnant with my younger brother. There are a couple parts they don’t know I know, and one they don’t even know themselves.
1. My dad actively took me to see his mistress (my now stepmom) while he was still with my mom. I was really young, but I remember being around her while my parents were still married. It didn’t click for me until I got older, and the rest of the family was really mad to find out when I told them.
2. The thing I know that my dad and the rest of my family doesn’t know themselves is that my paternal grandpa continued to give my mom $1000/month on top of what my dad paid in child support, because he was [angry] at my dad for cheating. My mom actually told me a story about my dad trying to bail on a dinner where the divorce was going to be discussed, and my grandpa straight up said, “You’re taking your f*****g b***h a*s to that dinner.” My dad started favoring the kids he had with my stepmom, and my grandpa wasn’t having it. Until the day he died, he would secretly give my brother and I “extra” for Christmas, birthdays, etc., because he knew the other two kids were getting treated better. My mom told me many times that my grandpa was the only member of my dad’s side she truly still loved after the divorce because of everything he did.
3. My grandparents paid for the house my dad and mom lived in, but my dad wanted to leave it when he got remarried. He didn’t want the memories from it. Note that this house was three years old and really expensive. My dad threw a fit, because he wanted to build a new one family farm land. This [angry] the rest of my family off, because it was active farmland. This fit split the family in half, and it’s still not fixed. My aunts and uncles still don’t like my stepmom because of her role.
1. The ” richest ” of them, Swiss banker, constantly borrows money from 2 of the retired middle income family members to stay afloat. He doesn’t know the rest of the family know, and is insufferably arrogant about his non existent wealth.
2. The fitness instructor of the family is an anorexic who also drinks a bottle of wine every night, and is constantly preaching health / fitness to the rest of the family.
3. Sister of fitness woman is an aerospace engineer, who graduated with honors. Her personality is so overbearing and toxic that she can’t keep a job, so she’s a SAHM who looks down on working moms in the family.
4. The judgemental ultra religious aunt had to go to another state to have a baby in secret. Thanks ancestry test.
My grandpa had an entire secret family.
Even named his mistress’s kids the same exact names as my mom and her brothers. No one knew until his funeral, they all think I was too young to remember (8ish 9ish) but I do
Edit: funny part is, I remember the secret kids and my mom + her siblings all getting drunk together later that night too.
Back when i was 14, my father got blackout drunk and told me that he and my mother nearly had me aborted. She was 15 when i was conceived, and both of them were growing up in poverty. At the appointment for the procedure, they decided against it and kept me, knowing that they were both throwing away better chances at a good life in adulthood.
He doesn’t remember telling me, i am certain of it. I dealt with the emotional rollercoaster on my own instead of confronting them.
After a few years of dealing with my emotions over it all, i was happy they had the choice. I am pro-choice. They set themselves back probably 15 years compared to where they could be if they went through with it the way i see things. I am thankful for life and thankful they put so much love and care into my upbringing. They raised me to make smarter decisions, and they set me up for success in having a “better life” than the lives they had. Not everyone has as much love and selflessness as my parents had, day after day, raising me. There are billions of different lives and situations out there, and sometimes, abortion is the right decision. Me being here probably wasn’t the right one, they struggled a lot. Alcoholism, divorce, depression, poverty, and who knows what else, had followed that decision.
All of this being said. Me knowing this is not getting back to them, ever. They can tell me about it consciously if they want, but i don’t think they will.
That my uncle (deceased) was a registered [intimacy] offender. I was never introduced to him and my dad (His brother) would never speak about him. I was told he passed away, and the excuse of “You never met him!) was the reason I couldn’t go to his funeral yet my parents have dragged me to peoples funeral that I never knee’s funeral. They weren’t even related to me. Got suspicious and searched my uncles name up on one of those [intimacy] offender lists and his name came up + his face. Turns out he was caught touching a 3 year old child at a park a few weeks before I was born. Scary. My parents were probably just protecting me.
That my grandfather cheated on my grandma with her best friend! Karma did him dirty, the “best friend” took his money when they divorced.
That my father cheated on my mother when she was pregnant with me! (My father is the son of the cheating grandpa btw)
Such a f****d up family.
I discovered that my mom had a secret husband (she divorced him) that no one knew about. I do the family history research for my family, and I discovered it by accident. I asked her about it discreetly, and she begged me not to tell anyone–said not even my dad or brother knew. She died in 2003, and I still haven’t, or won’t, tell a soul.
My brother got arrested and went to court for multiple d**g charges. They went out of their way to hide it from me so that they could continue to act like I was the disappointment. They pretended they were going out to breakfast without me and rubbed it in my face to cover up his court dates.
I have a half-sister. No one in my family has ever spoken about her, and after putting the pieces together I understand why. Being young, unwed and pregnant in the South in the early sixties could be f*****g tragic.
My mother is the reason my dad wasn’t in my life for over 18 years.
My sibling and I were supposedly abducted by my mother and left our country in Europe for the US.
My mother is a US citizen but my father was not, being from Europe. He took her to court here in the US but for some reason nothing amounted to it. I grew up listening and believing her stories of how he was a bad person and how he treated her. Although, she was pretty bad herself with the physical, mental, and emotional abuse I endured all my life with her. But because of the stories she told my sibling and I, I grew up hating him.
I came to a boiling point from the abuse she gave and decided one day to move out once I turned 22 and moved in with my wife (gf at the time). My wife (gf at the time) knew how much it hurt me not being able to be or speak with my dad so she secretly contacted him and put us in touch.
5 years later and my dad and I are reconnected almost speaking daily. I get to go back home yearly to reconnect with family. We both are grateful to my wife.
At first it was difficult speaking to my dad as I had so much anger, hate, and questions for him. But I later learned my mom got married secretly before him and us and that’s how she got her US citizenship. She ended up cheating on my dad and that’s how my dad found out about the previous marriage by contacting him to ask why they divorced. Once my dad told the man he wanted to ask about my mom, the guy told him to never contact him again because she ruined his life.
All of my family from my dads side told me stories about how my mom made life difficult for my dad. I learned a lot about her and honestly put the pieces together with how she was as a human being.
5 years and I still have 0 contact with her.
My wife was sexually, physically and emotionally abused as a toddler by her mothers boyfriend at the time (plus she was an absolute terrible mother in many other ways).
My wife’s mum has never talked to her about it and has no idea that she/we know about it. We only know as my wife’s grandmother spilled the beans. I don’t even think her husband knows about it.
It’s all kept on the hush as my wife’s grandmother doesn’t want my wife’s mum to find out she told her, my wife’s mum has secretly been taken out of her will, she is leaving all her money and a house to our children.
It’s a really complicated family dynamics and there’s also a lot of complex trauma, it’s easy to say from the outside to say “just cut them off”, CPTSD is a real c**t of a condition. Karma will come around.
My mom and dad left in the middle of the night, I was left home alone with my 4 siblings. After a couple hours, at like 2 in the morning, I called my mom to find out what the H**l was going on. She paused, and I heard her ask dad, “what do I tell her?” He responded, “well, don’t tell her he shot himself.” Mom got back on the phone and said they were going to go help my step grandma with something. Turns out the thing was scrubbing grandpas brain off the wall and funeral arrangements. So yeah, that’s how I found out grandpa died.
My Uncle has 3 kids none of our family has ever met. I didn’t find out until after my Uncle died. My Mom knows that I know but no one else. My Uncle was a truck driver and he drove all over the US. He had a girlfriend in every state apparently 🤨 My Uncle knew about the children but he just didn’t care…but..he was married 6 times and had two children who he raised and loved. It’s really weird that he didn’t want those other kids or wanted us to know about them……
This hit close to home and convenient timing but that my family or more of my mom hid my potentially autism diagnosis from me for over 20 years. I always had trouble in school always falling behind, writing, balance, speech etc the schools would constantly try to get me in special education which my mom refused I remember being in an program as a kindergarten I research it and it was an Autism Early intervention program I ask my mom and she got defensive, denied it despite me showing her all the evidence and said it doesn’t matter and she doesn’t remember. I’ll never know the full truth I accepted it well working on it.
My parents adopted a baby girl who they gave away about a year later. This was when I was a toddler so I don’t remember her.
They already had a house full of children so I can’t imagine why they adopted one—or why they tossed her away. I am thinking about trying to find out what happened to her. I hope she’s doing okay.
Found my brother’s Reddit username and that he had a fiancée who was pregnant and died in a drunk driving accident. Not sure if it’s the truth, but he mentioned it several times in comments.
My dad fathered a baby girl when he was 16ish. Baby was given up for adoption right after she was born. From what I’ve put together, she was born around Minneapolis in either 1967 or 1968.
My Dad drunkenly called me and told me my younger brother is my half-brother. My mother doesn’t know that I know.
Long story short is that my Mom cheated on my Dad and didn’t tell him till the child was two. To which she then divorced him and left him for the guy who she cheated on him with.
I know that they have been hiding for atleast a month the fact that my dog was going to die.
I know it’s not the question, but look it’s close enough to be an acceptable answer.
Mine is a secret I know that my family are refusing to accept. My sister has a form of autism. It hasn’t been diagnosed, but I believe it to be aspergers. Thankfully it manifests itself in a humorous way… mostly… but other times not. Because it’s usually humorous she gets away with it, but socially she’s very autistic. I tried mentioning it to my parents once, but they wouldn’t hear of it. Basically they just shut me down and asked me not to talk about it.
That my uncle is gay. I think i went to his house maybe once when I was 3 before he got married to my other uncle. My parents tried to hide this fact for some reason, but 2 years ago, I was the only one in the house when the postman arrived, and saw the Christmas card my two uncles had sent. Also that the same uncle has skin cancer because he spent too much time in Spain trying to get a tan.
My parents were married, my dad caught my mom red handed cheating on him, my dad beat the s**t of the dude who my mom was with, they got a divorce, and then later re-married.
I know my parents do their f*****g best to keep that a secret, but all four of their children know however, it’s really one of those things that’s rarely talked about.
I’m the product of adultery and my parents got married when I was two, not before I was born as I was told.
My father was dishonorably discharged from the Air Force for theft. He told my sibling and I when he was trashed. I know he doesn’t remember.
My parents borrow lot of money from me because supposedly they own it to an Italian businessman, but when I went to the bank, I saw they had paid the amount to an Austrian bank. Never asked them explanation.
Zealot family member who never met a American instigated war he didn’t like was a draft dodger during Vietnam. I found the smoking gun letters to another relative from 1968 to prove it. The letters were found in the recipients house after they passed. They have no idea I know. I wish I knew this gem back in 2006.
My dad cheated on my mum when I was a baby (and maybe also before my birth).
She suspects, but never had any proof.
He told me about 5 years ago and it really f****d me up for a while. Noone else knows.
The divorce was about 25 years ago, they already hate each other’s guts and I don’t think it would benefit anyone to open old wounds. Especially my siblings and me. It’s already a hassle to get them into the same room – it’ll be impossible if I told her.
Nothing too bad but apparently they have told alot of relatives I was a good student but I skipped more then half of classes to play basketball all day. I did not graduate from high school even.
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