I did Ancestry DNA and one day I got a message from someone saying that we matched as 1st or 2nd cousins. My mom has one brother but my dad is one of 5 he is the 2nd youngest and the oldest was over 10 years older. We assumed the oldest must have been his father cuz he was in his 20s at the time he was born and unfortunately he had already passed away so my new cousin couldn't meet his biodad. I felt bad and my mom was emailing one of my other uncles about the situation asking about the oldest brother and it turns out the uncle was emailing was the father. He had gotten a girl pregnant in high school and she was forced to give up the baby. My uncle left his door open every year on the baby's birthday hoping it would help them find each other which I think is the sweetest part. So my uncle and his son were reunited he got to meet all his grandkids. I always was so grateful that I was able to bring them together I was the only one in my family at the time who had done the DNA testing after that my mom did hers also
Not my family but my bff's- The day of her graduation, her grandfather gets a phone call after the ceremony. This man is very sarcastic and slick, rarely ever rattled, but as he has the phone to his ear his face goes white and begins to visibly shake. We begin to panic, wondering if he was having a medical emergency, until he begins crying. The phone call was from a long lost grand daughter. When he was in high school, he fathered a child, but was cut off from her due to the mother's family being extremely devout Mormons. He wanted to provide and know his child, but they refused unless he converted. Grand daughter left the faith and found him after DNA testing. As far as I know, the daughter is still estranged due to remaining in the faith. A few weeks later, he flew out to meet her in person. My BFF even got to meet her new cousin. I will never forget that moment, the look on his face and the pure emotion when he received that call.
Did an ancestry tree back in early 2019. A few days after setting the tree up, I kept on getting a bunch of “hints”. It turns out that my mom’s fam is descended from one of the Salem “witches”. I am the 10th great granddaughter of Martha Carrier. Literally NO ONE in my family knew. They all think that they’re Irish and Native American, even though the DNA tests we took in 2016 proved otherwise. We are English (obviously) and Scottish with no Native American in our bloodline.
A lot of people that claim Native American heritage and don't have any used it as a way to lord themselves over people. Like "well we were here first/longer" kind of thing. More common in southern families, I think, but maybe that's how it started in your family.
@@WarDragon72345 sorry for the late response. Yeah, obviously my fam is from New England. However, over generations, we migrated south to the mid Atlantic (primarily New Jersey, but I was born in Pennsylvania and raised in Delaware). I only know one other person from my hometown that claims native ancestry, even with pale skin and blonde hair. I think you’re right about this.
@@darkangel7589 You can of course still have First Nations ancestry and be registered in some tribes (not sure how it works for most of them) and look white as a ghost but more often than not when someone's claiming they're descended from whatever tribe, it's just a family lie that's been passed down.
When I was a teenager my mom told me of a paternal family member that was jailed for stealing. He later escaped, killed 5 or 6 people while on the lam, was recaptured and put in prison. He later went to the gallows for murder.
One of my 2x great uncles ran with Billy the kid and was caught and swung for his activities. I've hunted and hunted for more facts about how he was caught and where Billy was at the time. But haven't found more than the wanted poster and the article about him being swung and what for.
I am 55 now but when I was 20-ish (can’t remember exactly) my dad told me that I had an older half sister. When he was about 19, he got his girlfriend pregnant and they put the baby up for adoption. This was in the early to mid sixties in conservative southern Manitoba where babies raised without benefit of marriage just do NOT happen. Years later she tracked down her bio parents and the rest is history. I and my sister have maintained a relationship with her family. The weird thing was my mum’s reaction. By this time they had been divorced for a number of years. I told her about it and her response was “So he finally told you huh?” EXCUSE ME MUM?! “It was his secret to tell you. Not mine.” Turns out that dad told her all about it while they were dating. So it wasn’t a secret from the ENTIRE family. Just certain members.
When both my grandparents passed, their sons let it out that the youngest brother wasn’t my grandfathers. They had split up because my grandfather was abusing her physically. (Another secret). She started seeing someone and got pregnant. When they reconciled, they decided they’d raise him as my grandfathers. 57 years they kept that secret.
@@aftersexhighfives Yup. I weighed around 6lbs at birth. So while I was premature, I wasn’t a micro-preemie. Although a decent chunk of those pounds were my head, which was very big compared to the rest of my body.
Lol it wasn’t something my parents ever actively tried to hide, there was no lying about dates or saying I was premature. But on my parent’s anniversary when I was like 8 I realized that my birthday was only like 5 months after and was shook
My mother was a virgin until she was married and insisted I was too. So, how come they were married in April of 1972 and I was born in August of that year? That would make me about 22-24 weeks premature, born at 8 lbs, 7 ounces. A medical miracle, to be sure. 😂 Meanwhile when I got married at age 23, I too was a virgin 😉.
I couldn't imagine being murdered over the likes of Biden and Donald. That's just crazy. Back then... I'm guessing Ronald was president, maybe? That's just as bad.... Here's a wild one for you... I knew this girl who's " much younger sister" was actually her younger half-brother's kid that he had illegitimatly when he was 13. The mother, at the time, was in her mid 20s and should have been sent to prison. Apparently, she wasn't fit for motherhood and wanted nothing to do with the kid. That's when the 13 year old boy's mother adopted her and became her legal guardian; thus, how she became the girl that I knew's "sister"... which would technically make her father, her brother. And that was that. People around here all too often turn the cheek the other way when it comes to abuse. And usually it's because it involves someone who supplies the victims parent with their dope... and no one wants to upset the dope man. That could mean being cut off... I'm not sure how that all was worked out, and how the news was broken to her as she gotten older. The girl I "knew" ... back in 2018, she died from an overdose... although, many believe that this dude she was hanging with deliberately shot her up with his insulin without her knowing he did a switcheroo. He had a history of drugging girls dating back to high school. Many also speculate that he tried putting the moves on her. And when she shot him down, he did what he did in a fit of rage... instant diabetic coma from insulin shock
"The first child can come at any time..." is how I heard it put. As I understand it this comes from a long ago practice of letting the kids get busy before the marriage to make sure they were able to have kids. She gets pregnant they get married. Not sure what the over/under was on how long they'd let them try though.
My stepsister started to show features that weren't exactly matching with my stepdad. My mother put 2 and 2 together and asked him straight out, he's obviously not the dad yet it was before he got into his ex's life. Everyone knew except her for about 2 decades. Eventually she figured it out on her own or someone told her and now she went NC with everyone because, well EVERYONE knew except her. Don't exactly blame her, I felt like telling her many times but not my place. Her mom or my stepdad should've but they didn't and now she hates them.
When my mom was engaged to my dad, one day, my grandfather showed up at her dorm with a girl who was about her age. He asked her to “please accompany her for a while, I’ll be back.” Turned out the girl was his daughter from another marriage. My grandfather was married when married my grandmother, and the whole family just found out about it that day. That’s why he tried to hide the daughter… in my mom’s dormitory
It wasn't exactly a family secret for me but it was for my grandfather. It's definitely a interesting anecdote of my family history for me. My grandmother was my grandfather's second wife. His first wife was a McCoy. The Hatfields and them were still feuding during the time they were married but my grandfather had no idea about the feud because they got married and lived on the west coast of the United States outside of the Hatfield and McCoy territories. They ended up divorcing and Grandpa got custody of the kids, as far as I've been told she was unfit to be a mother and more than happy to get out of the marriage. My grandmother ended up adopting both of them. The lady left for parts unknown and died some time later; the rumors had it that she ended up getting killed as part of the Hatfield and McCoy feud, however since she was divorced at the time and nowhere near where my grandfather was he and the kids were not assassinated as well. Both of the kids live to old age and had children and grandchildren of their own, so there's technically a branch of The McCoys living down the street from me under a different name and I am related to them through marriage.
You are right, I'd even say most are inconsequential...but the people who engaged in keeping the secret sure thought it was a big deal. Its why I don't keep secrets: what is a big deal to you that you spend alot of time and energy hiding is just a quasi-interesting footnote in family history. We all think our secrets are more important than they really are or ever will be.
whew. Ok sooooo My (dads side) grandparents were forced to get married cuz grandma and grandpa hooked up. she got pregnant, had a miscarriage but still made it work. Mom had hookups in college. dated like 3 guys at once. her mom divorced her dad, got married again, then divorced again then her boyfriend wouldnt commit. so now shes alone. my mom was the head of her sorority in college. She dated a really rich guy, he cheated on her so she gave him a black eye. my now dad and mom started dating each other while they were also dating other people. Eventually made their relationship serious. And the rest is history. Crazy shit 😂😂😂😂
My parents did something similar to yours. My dad broke up with his ex, and my mom ghosted hers. Funnily enough, their exes know each other on Facebook, which I found absolutely hilarious
Found out a year ago my grandfather on my mom’s side is a pedophile from my oldest sister who was one of his victims. Both my parents knew and didn’t tell me or my other sister who grew up with him in our lives. Little to say the immediate loss of respect, trust and feeling for safety all went down the drain. So yeah currently still dealing with that
It was a rumour in the family that a (distant, deceased) uncle was in the IRA, that rumour was confirmed a few years ago. We don’t know what he did, but he was always talking to the same bunch of lads in his shed. One of the (surviving) lads told us.
That my two cousins ( One was actually a step cousin). . They were sleeping together and had a secret relationship for around twenty years,. It only came to light when one of the cousins passed and left a very large sum of money to the other cousin. Mind you she was married at this time with two children. So people were naturally curious why he would leave nearly 6 figures to his cousin . The truth came out at his memorial. Where there was a lot of drinking and she broke down about him being her true soul mate and how she thinks of him everyday. That it's not fair she couldn't be with him and her daughter couldn't know her father because of the "shame" that would come with it. She said this in front of her husband. That was a very awkward funeral to say the least.
This isn't a secret, but it is disgusting and makes me wanna throw up whenever I hear about it or think about it, which has been a lot lately yay 🙃 anyway, my cousin got married to a guy that's about 30 years older than her, and I would have a problem with that anyway, because that age gap is just too big for me, but it gets worse. WAY worse. Apparently this guy has known her since she was 10. Yep. You heard that right. 10. I literally don't know how in the world my aunt and uncle are ok with this I just wanna die every time I think about it. She seems to be happy, which is good, but isn't that the definition of grooming????????
My great grandmother was running booze during prohibition, too. She was a kid pulling a little wagon and nobody looked twice, lol. Not a single person bothered her - back then, kids roaming on their own wasn't a big deal.
I can attest to 12:03. When the red army came my great grandmother scratched my gandfathers brothers and bit them so they cried. Because the men of the red army hated to have "fun" with the women while there were crying children.
I also have a sister from a woman my stepfather (at the time) cheated on my mom with. She's 20 years my junior and I love her. May family also welcomed her with open arms, her dad got a bunch of well deserved flack though. She didn't even question me as her sister until she made it to her teens. She knows the truth now and our bond is all the stronger. She's a good kid and im proud of all her achievements
i always knew my grandma had a daughter at 16 and gave her up but i didn't know until this past year that she actually gave her up when she was 2 and she did that for a new car. also my cousins dad isn't really her dad ,, and she had been best friends w her half sister w/o knowing it for years.
I suspected my grandparents got married because my grandmother was pregnant with my dad at the time. They got married in 1970 at a young age and although you could just say "well that's just the idea of the time", my dad was born later that year. It feels a lot like "oops my girlfriend's pregnant, gotta get married now" rather than "let's have a baby immediately".
Hey. I use reddit and I'm 50. I prefer to view it on google chrome rather than open the app, which reddit hates. So I guess that tells my age right there. 😂 I don't share stories, though. I use reddit to see how others interpret the endings of movies and books. Very lame, I assure you.
Found out when I was a teenager that I would’ve had a younger granduncle named Eugene but he died of pneumonia or such as a baby. He caught a cold and my great grandparents didn’t have money to see a doctor for him (we’re talking the 1940s) and he didn’t make it. :(
I was always convinced that my maternal great-grandmother who I lost when I was 7 died of old age. It wasn't until my 22nd birthday that I learned the truth. She had colon cancer, and it was caught too late.
I knew this girl who's " much younger sister" was actually her younger half-brother's kid that he had illegitimatly when he was 13. The mother, at the time, was in her mid 20s and should have been sent to prison. Apparently, she wasn't fit for motherhood and wanted nothing to do with the kid. That's when the 13 year old boy's mother adopted her and became her legal guardian; thus, how she became the girl that I knew's "sister"... which would technically make her father, her brother... I'm not sure how that all was worked out, and how the news was broken to her as she gotten older. The girl I "knew" ... back in 2018, she died from an overdose... although, many believe that this dude she was hanging with deliberately shot her up with his insulin without her knowing he did a switcheroo. He had a history of drugging girls dating back to high school. Many also speculate that he tried putting the moves on her. And when she shot him down, he did what he did in a fit of rage... instant diabetic coma from insulin shock
I found out my dad had a fiancée before my mom and how I found out was my mom was telling me a story and she said “so your grandma (my dad’s mom) ask me if I would still marry your dad if he had kids with Veronica and I said no because Veronica was a crazy bitch” and I turned to her and said “who the fuck was Veronica” and my mom turned to me and said “your dad’s ex-fiancée” so that is how I found out my dad was going to get married before meeting my mom
I'll never understand why Redditors can't answer a question without rambling. I know that it's due to severe loneliness, and just wanting people to pay attention to them for a few seconds, but I thought that they wouldn't want to make it so obvious
On my fathers side, my great great somn uncle killed his ex-bestfriend ,after catching him cheating at cards in New Orleans, after the guy showed up to his house the next day. Thats when that GG+/- uncle packed my fathers side of the family up at the time and moved. He was never arrested from what i know.
People go on about ‘modern women’ but women in the 50s and 60s were having so many affairs and out of wedlock babies that most families have a story of it lol. Then again, just as many men had entire second families or teenage secretaries-turned-mistresses. People act like cheating and promiscuity is new, news flash, your grandma was getting it on the side and so was pop-pop 🤷♀️
It means that the mother tried to k*ll the daughter, herself and other kids by slitting their wrists before the approaching red army (Russians) arrived. The Russian army was notorious for r*ping and slaughtering any civilians they found as they “liberated” Germany from the Nazis. Sounds like the same tactics and justification being used by the Russians in Ukraine today.
Did ancestry DNA of curiosity on ancestry. People confuse me with any number of minorities. In Mexico, people will begin a conversation in Spanish, Asians will give me a longer look wondering if I am Asian, I could blend in most anywhere in the world. Of course, it would be great to be part Native American. Nope. I am Whitie McWhight. Scots Irish and German. not a drop of anything else.
I’m half welsh and half English/Scottish but no one really knows where my mums family is from before they moved to the welsh vallies, the main theory is somewhere in Scandinavia, and my paternal grandfather has been dead since 1977, and he was from Zimbabwe so when the ancestry test I ordered arrives I’m excited to see my results.
It was spilled to me, but the husband of my cousin (5 kids) r-word and sa'd her younger sibling (she was 16 he was past 30). My uncle did not believe her and forced everyone to shut up about it. The cousin is still married to the dude (who got a 18 yo pregnant as a 40 yo btw) and would do anything to keep him. I don't think my uncle knows I know
Women who know about sexual abuse but who stay with the abuser and allow him access to the children are second only to the abuser himself in terms of how absolutely foul they are
Did an ancestry DNA test and found out I have a half sister the Vile English family knew but decided it wasn't my business!!! Reunited with my sis 6 month's ago!!! And the Vile filth step brothers both have stage 2 and stage 3, csncer!!!mi couldn't be happier when I was told (, for sympathy fit the two rats) that as great news for me!!!vwhy??? Well how would anyone else feel to find out you had a half sibling after 50 year's?? Adopted mob knew but not you!??? May they both happily suffer to the grave and beyond!!!
I did Ancestry DNA and one day I got a message from someone saying that we matched as 1st or 2nd cousins. My mom has one brother but my dad is one of 5 he is the 2nd youngest and the oldest was over 10 years older. We assumed the oldest must have been his father cuz he was in his 20s at the time he was born and unfortunately he had already passed away so my new cousin couldn't meet his biodad. I felt bad and my mom was emailing one of my other uncles about the situation asking about the oldest brother and it turns out the uncle was emailing was the father. He had gotten a girl pregnant in high school and she was forced to give up the baby. My uncle left his door open every year on the baby's birthday hoping it would help them find each other which I think is the sweetest part. So my uncle and his son were reunited he got to meet all his grandkids. I always was so grateful that I was able to bring them together I was the only one in my family at the time who had done the DNA testing after that my mom did hers also
Not my family but my bff's-
The day of her graduation, her grandfather gets a phone call after the ceremony. This man is very sarcastic and slick, rarely ever rattled, but as he has the phone to his ear his face goes white and begins to visibly shake. We begin to panic, wondering if he was having a medical emergency, until he begins crying. The phone call was from a long lost grand daughter.
When he was in high school, he fathered a child, but was cut off from her due to the mother's family being extremely devout Mormons. He wanted to provide and know his child, but they refused unless he converted. Grand daughter left the faith and found him after DNA testing. As far as I know, the daughter is still estranged due to remaining in the faith.
A few weeks later, he flew out to meet her in person. My BFF even got to meet her new cousin. I will never forget that moment, the look on his face and the pure emotion when he received that call.
Did an ancestry tree back in early 2019. A few days after setting the tree up, I kept on getting a bunch of “hints”. It turns out that my mom’s fam is descended from one of the Salem “witches”. I am the 10th great granddaughter of Martha Carrier. Literally NO ONE in my family knew. They all think that they’re Irish and Native American, even though the DNA tests we took in 2016 proved otherwise. We are English (obviously) and Scottish with no Native American in our bloodline.
Interesting. I went to high school with a gal who’s descended from John and Elizabeth Proctor.
A lot of people that claim Native American heritage and don't have any used it as a way to lord themselves over people. Like "well we were here first/longer" kind of thing. More common in southern families, I think, but maybe that's how it started in your family.
The name checks out in this case
@@WarDragon72345 sorry for the late response. Yeah, obviously my fam is from New England. However, over generations, we migrated south to the mid Atlantic (primarily New Jersey, but I was born in Pennsylvania and raised in Delaware). I only know one other person from my hometown that claims native ancestry, even with pale skin and blonde hair. I think you’re right about this.
@@darkangel7589 You can of course still have First Nations ancestry and be registered in some tribes (not sure how it works for most of them) and look white as a ghost but more often than not when someone's claiming they're descended from whatever tribe, it's just a family lie that's been passed down.
When I was a teenager my mom told me of a paternal family member that was jailed for stealing. He later escaped, killed 5 or 6 people while on the lam, was recaptured and put in prison. He later went to the gallows for murder.
One of my 2x great uncles ran with Billy the kid and was caught and swung for his activities. I've hunted and hunted for more facts about how he was caught and where Billy was at the time. But haven't found more than the wanted poster and the article about him being swung and what for.
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I am 55 now but when I was 20-ish (can’t remember exactly) my dad told me that I had an older half sister. When he was about 19, he got his girlfriend pregnant and they put the baby up for adoption. This was in the early to mid sixties in conservative southern Manitoba where babies raised without benefit of marriage just do NOT happen.
Years later she tracked down her bio parents and the rest is history. I and my sister have maintained a relationship with her family.
The weird thing was my mum’s reaction. By this time they had been divorced for a number of years. I told her about it and her response was “So he finally told you huh?” EXCUSE ME MUM?! “It was his secret to tell you. Not mine.”
Turns out that dad told her all about it while they were dating. So it wasn’t a secret from the ENTIRE family. Just certain members.
When both my grandparents passed, their sons let it out that the youngest brother wasn’t my grandfathers. They had split up because my grandfather was abusing her physically. (Another secret). She started seeing someone and got pregnant. When they reconciled, they decided they’d raise him as my grandfathers. 57 years they kept that secret.
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Me, the first child, 6 weeks premature: Hmm, makes sense to me.
Every first baby is "premature" 😆 then you look at their birth stats and it's like 7lb3oz 21in long. Mhmm, premature.
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Yup.
I weighed around 6lbs at birth.
So while I was premature, I wasn’t a micro-preemie. Although a decent chunk of those pounds were my head, which was very big compared to the rest of my body.
Lol it wasn’t something my parents ever actively tried to hide, there was no lying about dates or saying I was premature. But on my parent’s anniversary when I was like 8 I realized that my birthday was only like 5 months after and was shook
My mother was a virgin until she was married and insisted I was too. So, how come they were married in April of 1972 and I was born in August of that year? That would make me about 22-24 weeks premature, born at 8 lbs, 7 ounces. A medical miracle, to be sure. 😂
Meanwhile when I got married at age 23, I too was a virgin 😉.
When my mom was 6, her oldest brother was murdered by his friend. She believes they were having a political dispute. He was 20 years old
I couldn't imagine being murdered over the likes of Biden and Donald. That's just crazy. Back then... I'm guessing Ronald was president, maybe? That's just as bad.... Here's a wild one for you...
I knew this girl who's " much younger sister" was actually her younger half-brother's kid that he had illegitimatly when he was 13. The mother, at the time, was in her mid 20s and should have been sent to prison. Apparently, she wasn't fit for motherhood and wanted nothing to do with the kid. That's when the 13 year old boy's mother adopted her and became her legal guardian; thus, how she became the girl that I knew's "sister"... which would technically make her father, her brother. And that was that. People around here all too often turn the cheek the other way when it comes to abuse. And usually it's because it involves someone who supplies the victims parent with their dope... and no one wants to upset the dope man. That could mean being cut off...
I'm not sure how that all was worked out, and how the news was broken to her as she gotten older. The girl I "knew" ... back in 2018, she died from an overdose... although, many believe that this dude she was hanging with deliberately shot her up with his insulin without her knowing he did a switcheroo. He had a history of drugging girls dating back to high school. Many also speculate that he tried putting the moves on her. And when she shot him down, he did what he did in a fit of rage... instant diabetic coma from insulin shock
@@chuckshartz2722 my mom doesn’t seem all that bothered by it. She said she doesn’t even remember him
2:36 is definitely Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin of Robert Kennedy.
"The first child can come at any time..." is how I heard it put. As I understand it this comes from a long ago practice of letting the kids get busy before the marriage to make sure they were able to have kids. She gets pregnant they get married. Not sure what the over/under was on how long they'd let them try though.
My stepsister started to show features that weren't exactly matching with my stepdad. My mother put 2 and 2 together and asked him straight out, he's obviously not the dad yet it was before he got into his ex's life. Everyone knew except her for about 2 decades. Eventually she figured it out on her own or someone told her and now she went NC with everyone because, well EVERYONE knew except her. Don't exactly blame her, I felt like telling her many times but not my place. Her mom or my stepdad should've but they didn't and now she hates them.
When my mom was engaged to my dad, one day, my grandfather showed up at her dorm with a girl who was about her age. He asked her to “please accompany her for a while, I’ll be back.” Turned out the girl was his daughter from another marriage. My grandfather was married when married my grandmother, and the whole family just found out about it that day. That’s why he tried to hide the daughter… in my mom’s dormitory
Bit of an odd way to meet her SIL imo
It wasn't exactly a family secret for me but it was for my grandfather. It's definitely a interesting anecdote of my family history for me.
My grandmother was my grandfather's second wife. His first wife was a McCoy. The Hatfields and them were still feuding during the time they were married but my grandfather had no idea about the feud because they got married and lived on the west coast of the United States outside of the Hatfield and McCoy territories.
They ended up divorcing and Grandpa got custody of the kids, as far as I've been told she was unfit to be a mother and more than happy to get out of the marriage. My grandmother ended up adopting both of them.
The lady left for parts unknown and died some time later; the rumors had it that she ended up getting killed as part of the Hatfield and McCoy feud, however since she was divorced at the time and nowhere near where my grandfather was he and the kids were not assassinated as well.
Both of the kids live to old age and had children and grandchildren of their own, so there's technically a branch of The McCoys living down the street from me under a different name and I am related to them through marriage.
Some secrets are good, some are terrible, and many are inconsequential secrets.
You are right, I'd even say most are inconsequential...but the people who engaged in keeping the secret sure thought it was a big deal. Its why I don't keep secrets: what is a big deal to you that you spend alot of time and energy hiding is just a quasi-interesting footnote in family history. We all think our secrets are more important than they really are or ever will be.
@@bombshellonthego You said it well.
whew. Ok sooooo
My (dads side) grandparents were forced to get married cuz grandma and grandpa hooked up. she got pregnant, had a miscarriage but still made it work. Mom had hookups in college. dated like 3 guys at once. her mom divorced her dad, got married again, then divorced again then her boyfriend wouldnt commit. so now shes alone. my mom was the head of her sorority in college. She dated a really rich guy, he cheated on her so she gave him a black eye. my now dad and mom started dating each other while they were also dating other people. Eventually made their relationship serious. And the rest is history. Crazy shit 😂😂😂😂
My parents did something similar to yours.
My dad broke up with his ex, and my mom ghosted hers.
Funnily enough, their exes know each other on Facebook, which I found absolutely hilarious
Found out a year ago my grandfather on my mom’s side is a pedophile from my oldest sister who was one of his victims. Both my parents knew and didn’t tell me or my other sister who grew up with him in our lives. Little to say the immediate loss of respect, trust and feeling for safety all went down the drain. So yeah currently still dealing with that
Im so sorry my dude
The family always protects these monsters
I had no idea how my family all tolerated each other during family gatherings. Turns out they are all high as shit
It was a rumour in the family that a (distant, deceased) uncle was in the IRA, that rumour was confirmed a few years ago. We don’t know what he did, but he was always talking to the same bunch of lads in his shed. One of the (surviving) lads told us.
That my two cousins ( One was actually a step cousin). . They were sleeping together and had a secret relationship for around twenty years,. It only came to light when one of the cousins passed and left a very large sum of money to the other cousin. Mind you she was married at this time with two children. So people were naturally curious why he would leave nearly 6 figures to his cousin . The truth came out at his memorial. Where there was a lot of drinking and she broke down about him being her true soul mate and how she thinks of him everyday. That it's not fair she couldn't be with him and her daughter couldn't know her father because of the "shame" that would come with it. She said this in front of her husband. That was a very awkward funeral to say the least.
I love the ones where there are children given up for adoption, illegitimate children, etc. that are discovered but completely embraced by the family.
My dad used to bootleg. Way way back in the day. He used to tell me about it.
i have a secret aunt that was completely shunned by the family. Still dont know why though
Faith differences, lesbian, child of an affair, or some sort of falling out
Or maybe drug problems or somethin’ like that.
Who knows.
OP’s family probably won’t tell them.
So for now, it’s a mystery
This isn't a secret, but it is disgusting and makes me wanna throw up whenever I hear about it or think about it, which has been a lot lately yay 🙃 anyway, my cousin got married to a guy that's about 30 years older than her, and I would have a problem with that anyway, because that age gap is just too big for me, but it gets worse. WAY worse. Apparently this guy has known her since she was 10. Yep. You heard that right. 10. I literally don't know how in the world my aunt and uncle are ok with this I just wanna die every time I think about it. She seems to be happy, which is good, but isn't that the definition of grooming????????
When I was told that my grandma and grandpa are related.
My great grandmother was running booze during prohibition, too. She was a kid pulling a little wagon and nobody looked twice, lol. Not a single person bothered her - back then, kids roaming on their own wasn't a big deal.
Hell ya my mom and dad's families in the 60s bootlegged at some point.
I can attest to 12:03. When the red army came my great grandmother scratched my gandfathers brothers and bit them so they cried. Because the men of the red army hated to have "fun" with the women while there were crying children.
7:09 so you don't agree with her not wanting to raise a baby while your uncle gets shipped off? They've only been married 4 months. Get over yourself!
I also have a sister from a woman my stepfather (at the time) cheated on my mom with. She's 20 years my junior and I love her. May family also welcomed her with open arms, her dad got a bunch of well deserved flack though. She didn't even question me as her sister until she made it to her teens. She knows the truth now and our bond is all the stronger. She's a good kid and im proud of all her achievements
i always knew my grandma had a daughter at 16 and gave her up but i didn't know until this past year that she actually gave her up when she was 2 and she did that for a new car. also my cousins dad isn't really her dad ,, and she had been best friends w her half sister w/o knowing it for years.
For a car? 😢
I found out I was related to way too many convicted Nazi war criminals
I suspected my grandparents got married because my grandmother was pregnant with my dad at the time. They got married in 1970 at a young age and although you could just say "well that's just the idea of the time", my dad was born later that year. It feels a lot like "oops my girlfriend's pregnant, gotta get married now" rather than "let's have a baby immediately".
For some odd reason I’m having a hard time believe all these 45+ year olds use Reddit…
Hey. I use reddit and I'm 50. I prefer to view it on google chrome rather than open the app, which reddit hates. So I guess that tells my age right there. 😂 I don't share stories, though. I use reddit to see how others interpret the endings of movies and books. Very lame, I assure you.
Found out when I was a teenager that I would’ve had a younger granduncle named Eugene but he died of pneumonia or such as a baby. He caught a cold and my great grandparents didn’t have money to see a doctor for him (we’re talking the 1940s) and he didn’t make it. :(
My boyfriend is first cousins with his brother and sister. His mum got with one brother and then another. Lol
I was always convinced that my maternal great-grandmother who I lost when I was 7 died of old age. It wasn't until my 22nd birthday that I learned the truth. She had colon cancer, and it was caught too late.
In my family we did 23 and me, and we discovered that our cat was not actually our biological cat. We still love her though.
The Gravy story wasn’t so bad
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Ironic because i’m the oldest and was born ON my due date.
I knew this girl who's " much younger sister" was actually her younger half-brother's kid that he had illegitimatly when he was 13. The mother, at the time, was in her mid 20s and should have been sent to prison. Apparently, she wasn't fit for motherhood and wanted nothing to do with the kid. That's when the 13 year old boy's mother adopted her and became her legal guardian; thus, how she became the girl that I knew's "sister"... which would technically make her father, her brother...
I'm not sure how that all was worked out, and how the news was broken to her as she gotten older. The girl I "knew" ... back in 2018, she died from an overdose... although, many believe that this dude she was hanging with deliberately shot her up with his insulin without her knowing he did a switcheroo. He had a history of drugging girls dating back to high school. Many also speculate that he tried putting the moves on her. And when she shot him down, he did what he did in a fit of rage... instant diabetic coma from insulin shock
I dread the day my niece finds out her father sexually assaulted me.
Oh that's terrible
Lol at the KFC gravy story from this thread
Haha right! I was expecting something like fucking "stray cats kidneys" or the "tears of tortured orphans" as a base.
There are so many “family recipes are just storebought” stories on these threads.
They’re the greatest, because it’s so hilarious.
My fave of the whole thread!
I found out my dad had a fiancée before my mom and how I found out was my mom was telling me a story and she said “so your grandma (my dad’s mom) ask me if I would still marry your dad if he had kids with Veronica and I said no because Veronica was a crazy bitch” and I turned to her and said “who the fuck was Veronica” and my mom turned to me and said “your dad’s ex-fiancée” so that is how I found out my dad was going to get married before meeting my mom
20:54 Janie's Got a Gun
I found out that my grandfather was an alcoholic, adulterous, & abusive piece of shit. Luckily he died horribly of cancer when I was very young.
I'll never understand why Redditors can't answer a question without rambling. I know that it's due to severe loneliness, and just wanting people to pay attention to them for a few seconds, but I thought that they wouldn't want to make it so obvious
On my fathers side, my great great somn uncle killed his ex-bestfriend ,after catching him cheating at cards in New Orleans, after the guy showed up to his house the next day. Thats when that GG+/- uncle packed my fathers side of the family up at the time and moved. He was never arrested from what i know.
❤Dark but interesting 🧐🤔⁉️!!
It's wierd how you can proclaim to be deeply religious and simultaneously throw a son your sin created essentially into a pit
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Welcome to this week's "Who can craft the most believable story?" courtesy of Reddit.
People go on about ‘modern women’ but women in the 50s and 60s were having so many affairs and out of wedlock babies that most families have a story of it lol. Then again, just as many men had entire second families or teenage secretaries-turned-mistresses. People act like cheating and promiscuity is new, news flash, your grandma was getting it on the side and so was pop-pop 🤷♀️
People were having affairs like it was going out of style back then.
Jeez.
@@beastmaster0934 to the point where affairs were a popular punchline lol
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my family are descendants of bagpipe players that played for the royal family in Scotland...
not really a secret but still cool
12:07 can anyone explain this one? idk what it means-
It means that the mother tried to k*ll the daughter, herself and other kids by slitting their wrists before the approaching red army (Russians) arrived. The Russian army was notorious for r*ping and slaughtering any civilians they found as they “liberated” Germany from the Nazis. Sounds like the same tactics and justification being used by the Russians in Ukraine today.
my older siblings have a different biological father than my younger brother and i, and he just died recently. they have half brothers aswell
Song?
Did ancestry DNA of curiosity on ancestry. People confuse me with any number of minorities. In Mexico, people will begin a conversation in Spanish, Asians will give me a longer look wondering if I am Asian, I could blend in most anywhere in the world. Of course, it would be great to be part Native American.
Nope. I am Whitie McWhight. Scots Irish and German. not a drop of anything else.
I’m half welsh and half English/Scottish but no one really knows where my mums family is from before they moved to the welsh vallies, the main theory is somewhere in Scandinavia, and my paternal grandfather has been dead since 1977, and he was from Zimbabwe so when the ancestry test I ordered arrives I’m excited to see my results.
❤❤Ha ha lol 😂!
It was spilled to me, but the husband of my cousin (5 kids) r-word and sa'd her younger sibling (she was 16 he was past 30). My uncle did not believe her and forced everyone to shut up about it. The cousin is still married to the dude (who got a 18 yo pregnant as a 40 yo btw) and would do anything to keep him.
I don't think my uncle knows I know
Women who know about sexual abuse but who stay with the abuser and allow him access to the children are second only to the abuser himself in terms of how absolutely foul they are
Did an ancestry DNA test and found out I have a half sister the Vile English family knew but decided it wasn't my business!!! Reunited with my sis 6 month's ago!!! And the Vile filth step brothers both have stage 2 and stage 3, csncer!!!mi couldn't be happier when I was told (, for sympathy fit the two rats) that as great news for me!!!vwhy??? Well how would anyone else feel to find out you had a half sibling after 50 year's?? Adopted mob knew but not you!??? May they both happily suffer to the grave and beyond!!!
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