Our family’s legacy is one vital part of our life. That’s why unearthing family secrets hidden for a very long time might either make or break us.
These stories will make you realize that even a “picture perfect” family has hidden secrets that can scar their legacy for life. Brace yourself because these stories are kind of crazy. Come check these out!
1. Family Math
The secret that we discovered is that my parents "had" to get married. They always told us they got married in 1961, but it was 1962, 3 months before my sister was born.
What's amusing is that my father was an accountant who was insanely fast with Math. Whenever he was asked how many years they'd been married, he'd be off by one.
My mother would always correct him through clenched teeth and then my father would nod and agree to whatever she said.
dramboxf
2. Grandpa's Secret Service Legacy
When my paternal grandfather passed away, the federal government reached out to do a state funeral. He'd been a career army and a colonel, so we didn't question it.
Then the funeral came and they went all out! A huge procession of people showed up who were really big names, like heads of dept, senators, retired senators, and people from the CIA and State Dept.
It was nuts and we were all super confused. Turns out he was a key dude in the OSI during WWII and when the OSI splintered into the CIA and Secret Service, he went the Secret Service route.
He wasn't on White House detail but instead worked in a covert office that dealt with counterfeiting and currency. He went blind when I was a toddler and retired from 'the Army.
For whatever reason, he told no one about all his covert work with the OSI and Secret Service, and the only person who knew (my grandmother) was sworn to secrecy and never told anyone.
My father grew up thinking he was just a colonel working on base. After his passing, we were given all sorts of cool stuff like publications for him, lectures given by him, and all kinds of things from various things he did and was known for.
All I knew him as was a blind old man who was perpetually smoking, drinking, and being a crotchety man. Turns out he was a cool dude and all but none of us knew.
[deleted]
3. DNA Test Unraveled Earthy Secret
My mother is the 7th child among the 10 siblings. My aunt, who was the 4th child, was born in 1945. They did her DNA test and found out that she has a different father from everyone else.
Once she found out, she was devastated. There was always a rumour circulating that there was an affair but nobody talked about it. She has so many questions but nobody's alive to answer her.
I_see_farts
4. Truth Behind My Mother’s Back Pain
This is kind of messed up, but my parents told me my mom had a bad back because I pushed on her spine during birth. This was what I thought all my childhood.
I think I was in my teens when my older brother told me my dad pushed my mom during an argument and she fell and had to have surgery. I thought I ruined my moms back my entire childhood and those awful people let me believe it
thtssotrue
5. The Secret Gift
When I was 5 years old (1988), Santa Claus left a gaming console on our front porch. It was wrapped in newspaper, and my parents had no idea who gifted it to us. My dad, particularly, tried to figure it out.
He was always suspicious that it had been a family friend. It was by far the best gift of the year, and we played it all the time throughout our childhood. My dad passed away in 2004.
Last Christmas, my mom explained that she was the one who had bought it and surreptitiously placed it on the porch.
My dad liked to be in control of things and had forbidden the purchase. She knew better. She didn't tell a soul for 30 years. Thanks, Mom.
Madame_F
6. DNA Dilemma
I see a lot of stories about people finding out that who they thought were their parents weren’t the people raising them and this one is a little bit different.
My dad always thought his father who raised him wasn’t his biodad and the father thought the same. He was treated terribly by his father because the father was told he couldn’t have children.
My father was born prematurely but at a healthy weight. So, everyone assumed my grandmother had an affair and got pregnant with my dad.
It was to the point that after my grandmother passed away, my grandfather failed to even mention to his new wife that he had a son and grandchild (me).
Years later, my dad got an Ancestry DNA test for him and me. He finds out that his dad was actually his biological dad. It was shocking and sad.
OwnBackground6676
7. Blended Bonds: Embracing Family Beyond Bloodlines
My defacto uncle and my aunt never married but have been together since well before I was born. He has a child with another woman. It became common knowledge when the girl was 6 and was starting to understand the situation.
At first, it was a bit scandalous but she's been welcomed with open arms by my entire family, including her half-siblings' maternal grandparents.
She's treated the same as all the other kids her age. Her half-sister (my cousin) has a daughter the same age and they're best friends.
They go to the same high school, totally inseparable, technically aunt and niece. She comes to all our family events and she's an awesome kid, we're all stoked to have her in our family!
tahituatara
8. Love Found Unexpectedly
After my mom passed away I found out the real story behind my parent's marriage. She came to my father's country to visit some of her relatives.
She met my father and after just one week she asked him to marry her so she could stay in the country. My father accepted because he had no one else and his parents were pressing him to get married already.
But the highlight of the story is that over some time, the two of them fell in love with each other. Their love only grew over time and they were really happy together.
My mother spent her last days very ill, and she would accept only my father by her bedside. He swears to this day that she was an angel sent from God to take care of him.
I am shocked that they got married just like that, out of the blue, and ended up loving each other so deeply. I can only hope to have a good and loving marriage as they had.
Amendris
9. A Hidden Act Of Kindness
My uncle served in Vietnam. While over there his troop found a baby that had been orphaned or abandoned, they aren't sure.
My uncle was shipping back to Australia soon and wanted to adopt him, but my aunt said no. They had only been married about 4 months when he was drafted.
So, while I don't agree with my aunt's actions and generally don't like her as a person, I can understand why she said no. My uncle's troop found a family to raise the baby, and that's the story the whole family knows.
The secret is that my uncle and some other guys from his troop stayed in contact with the family and the kid, sending them money every month to help raise him and then to help him go to university.
They eventually helped him and his adoptive family move to Australia in the last 90s. My aunt and the rest of my family had no idea all this time, it only came out when my aunt and uncle divorced in 2017.
She had a forensic accountant go through their bank records. She worked at a bank for like 40 years and always noticed the money missing, but his reasons were always justified.
As we all know now, my uncle has introduced some of us to the guy and his family. They are all really lovely people.
Aetra
10. The Mystery Of Smiling Tony
My great-grandfather didn't pass away from cancer. He passed away from complications after being gunned down when one of his businesses was being robbed. Maybe.
He also spent a lot of time in Atlantic City. He also had a lot of partners in the Teamsters and other unions in the coal country. Also, everyone called him "smiling Tony” but his name wasn't Tony.
He passed away in the '60s, long before my time, but when my great-grandmother passed away 20 years ago, a very old guy showed up to the funeral in a white suit.
All of the oldest people in my family kiss his hand. When I asked, no one knew who he was. My grandfather moved his family away from central PA in the late 60s and disconnected from all of this but, there it is.
[deleted]
11. Unveiling Grandma’s Gravy Scandal
My grandmother recently passed away. She was famous in our town for her amazing cooking/catering, in particular her turkey dinners. Notably, her gravy was amazing. It was so delicious.
She had a heart attack several years ago and her near-death experience convinced her to share some of her secret recipes with me, all except for her gravy recipe.
When she passed away this spring, I was going through her pantry and found an entire bucket of a fast food chain’s gravy mix. She was using gravy mix as a base to make her incredible gravy. Huge scandal.
beaubandit
12. The Family Fallout Of A Hidden Affair
We went to my grandmother's for Christmas dinner like we did every year and my uncle drank too much, and kind of hinted that he had an affair with my mother.
A couple of months and two DNA tests later we found out my sister is his daughter. My dad never spoke to his brother again. And of course, my parents got divorced. And I needed a lot of therapy and chocolate. Gosh, we are trash!
oliveotherraindeer
13. Discovering Biological Roots
My mom and older brother are not biologically related to me. My biological mom passed away sometime after I was born, leaving me, my sister, and my dad behind. My brother was the one who told me.
My parents never told me because they wanted to protect me from the truth, but my brother thought that was a bad reason for me to not know. I don't know if my parents know that I know the truth, but I don't want to bring it up either.
ItsGoT1me
14. Grandma’s Secret Roadtrip
My grandma didn't drive. I thought she couldn't, but it was just never discussed. One day when I was maybe 7-8, I'd been trying to get someone, anyone to drive me to the store for candy.
We were visiting my aunt and uncle, grandma lived with them. They had Bit-O-Honey at the local store, which I could no longer get at home. But no one would take me to the store.
Finally, I said I'd just ask Grandma, and my cousin chimed in with, "Grandma can't drive." Grandma responded, "Oh, you bet your sweet tushy I can drive. They just don't let me!" Grandma had overheard and she was in high dudgeon.
But that's all that was said about it, and my aunt finally took me to the store, so I forgot about it. Years later, when I'd just gotten my license, I asked my mom what was up with Grandma not driving.
She explained that during prohibition grandma boot-legged alcohol for moonshiners. She was very successful at it.
She was so successful at it that when the moonshiners were finally busted, even though the revenuers never caught my Grandma, her license was suspended by the state "to never be reissued."
Later in life, she was told she could petition for it back but it came with an admission of guilt or some such. She told them to go to hell.
ronearc
15. The Hidden Heritage
We had discovered that my great-grandmother wasn’t actually a Mexican but rather was adopted by a Mexican family from a Chinese family who was being kicked out of Mexico when railroad construction was over.
So that’s why she always had more typically Asian features but only spoke Spanish and it was never really questioned about that. Well, DNA testing is a hell of a thing.
bustyodust
16. Unravelling Family Origins
Due to a DNA testing kit, my Dad discovered that his recently deceased father was not his biological father after all.
It wasn’t a situation related to my grandma cheating with another man, it was due to a sperm donation. So, they knew this was the case his entire life.
It was pretty crazy they never told him about it, his parents did not pass until he was 65 years old. Talk about a curveball.
usereddit
17. Fertility Doctor’s Hidden Legacy
One of my friends did a DNA test and discovered she had 185 half-siblings she didn't know about.
The fertility doctor her mom had gone to was just using his sperm and not telling anyone if a couple was having trouble conceiving because of the father.
What's even crazier is that apparently, he was not the only fertility doctor doing this. A couple of other "superclusters" of siblings have been found because of DNA testing.
In most of the cases, the parents had absolutely no idea this had happened until their kids got DNA testing done.
PM_me_your_fantasyz
18. A Chance Encounter Through A Shared Picture
My dad got a girl pregnant and she decided to do it alone. She moved across the state and had my half-sister. She met a guy, married, and he raised her like she was his own. They had no other children.
She didn't reveal my dad's identity until after he passed away. She contacted my Grandma and Mom, but they kept it from us. Years later, my half-sister has a kid with medical issues and needs to know the family's medical history.
She contacts Mom and Grandma, who, again, don't tell us. Meanwhile, after Dad passed away, my uncle had prints made of a favourite picture of Dad.
He gets them framed and gives them to all of us kids, as well as my grandma, aunts, and uncles. Mom gets a picture of our half-sister after their secret meeting. Fast forward another few years.
My brother and his roommate live in a nearby large city and hit a bar and pick up and bring home some ladies to "sleepover.”
The next morning, my half-sister sees a photo of my dad on the mantle, turns white, and asks "Who's picture is that?" He said, "That's my roommate's dad. He died a long time ago." She answered, "I need to talk to your roommate."
She lived her entire life across the state. Hundreds of miles. Her friend was going to school in a large city near our hometown. She was visiting, and they decided to go to a bar.
They get picked up by my brother and his roommate. That's how we found out. My brother went to my grandma and asked about her, and grandma first denied it, then gave in and spilled the beans. Small world.
2leewhohot
19. Uncovering Family Ties From War
After my grandfather passed away, we found out he had fathered a child when he was posted in Italy during World War II.
He never knew about it. Our great-grandmother intercepted any letters from the Italian girl. He came home, met and married my grandmother, and had 4 children.
I forget who in the family found out and how. It's crazy to think we have a whole Italian family out there!
SquirrelsandCrayons
20. Grandpa’s Double Life
My mother often had stories like, "At your age, we got up at 4 am to work on the farm, after the job, we went home to have lunch with your grandfather.
She continues, “Then we walked 10 km to go to school, and when we were back, we used to work in the field in a tractor until it was 6 pm to go and cook dinner for your grandfather."
I was like "Yeah, but he didn't work the farm with you in the morning?" and she was changing the subject. I learned on Easter that my grandfather was an alcoholic, got drunk every night, and didn't get up in the morning to go to work.
He was in fake jobs to lie to the family and go to drink, while the children had to go. to elementary school and manage a farm. Then he was in prison because he touched the neighbor's children.
When he got out of prison, he took out a loan of $ 30,000 in my grandmother's name and ran away with the money. Then he passed away a few years later.
My grandmother bought herself a used Ford LTD, and no one cried at the funeral. 30 years later, I learned who my grandfather was.
dezzz
21. My Aunt’s Remarkable Journey
My aunt wasn't my grandfather's child. He met my granny when my aunt was a very sick infant, she had polio and wasn't expected to survive.
My grandad married my granny so she could get on his insurance and move to an area that had proper medical support.
My aunt was the first infant to survive open heart surgery at Yale New Haven Hospital, and although she had to be in leg braces most of her childhood, she had a great (although not long enough) life.
My grandad loved her like she was his own, and I never knew until she went to her biological dad's funeral when I was a teenager.
knittybitty123
22. Atomic Shadows
My grandfather was an atomic soldier. Instead of sending him to fight in the Korean War, they sent him to Nevada, where (after having him turn away from the initial flash) he witnessed the mushroom cloud.
After that was over, he was ordered to march to the detonation point, where he was unwittingly exposed to high amounts of radiation.
Luckily for my family, my grandpa is now in his 90s (even after a few cancer scares).
The rest of us, my mom, aunt, cousins, sister, and I are cancer-free and fairly healthy, but this is medical information that we really should have known earlier!
[deleted]
23. Truth About My Uncle’s Runaway Story
We were always told that my uncle was a liar and a conman. Per the family, he was out there swindling people by faking expertise/degrees and getting engineering contracts that he had no means to deliver on.
They told us he was an awkward loser that left home around 18 because he didn’t fit in with the family for vague reasons, generally centered on being crippled by insecurity about his looks and/or career prospects.
As it turns out, he was gay. He left because the family treated him awfully because of it. He wasn’t conning people, rather he had opened a successful gay bar in another city.
The gay bar used the family name as the moniker. The family made up a story, so they didn’t have to tell people that he left because they were awful and he was better off for having done it.
Sciencewonk
24. Family Entanglements
My mom was cheating on my dad with my now stepfather. My parents divorced when I was young (about 1 year old), so I don't remember anything about that.
When I would ask as a curious kid why they split up both said that they just fell out of love. I already had a feeling that this was not true because, through my grandma, I knew the divorce was in 1996.
My mom and stepfather started dating in 1995. On my 18th birthday, my stepfather confessed to me in private that they had an affair all that time ago and he still feels awful, because he feels like he broke up that family.
I told him that all was fine because everyone was happy now and I already kinda knew it. Some years later my stepmother told me that my mom kicked out my dad without telling him why.
She just "needed a break" (remember she just had a newborn and my dad could barely see me at the beginning). My dad later found out through the landlord that my stepfather had moved in.
In the house, my dad rented with his wife where his newborn daughter was living with a stranger. To this day I don't know how my dad managed to overcome this without starting a huge fight.
I never talked with my parents about it. Just once when my mom was having a rant about a neighbour who left her husband for another man.
I told her to stop throwing rocks while sitting in a glass house. I hope you know what this saying means. She definitely does.
forshuregirl
25. The Silent Loss
Last week I discovered that my dad passed away two years ago and no one bothered to tell me. I'd been looking for him. He was something of a drifter and most likely had Asperger's. I'm his only child.
I stumbled across his headstone on a website while digging through ancestry. His marker was labeled "beloved brother.”
My aunts and uncles are pieces of crap. I'm not hard to find. I don't even know how he passed away. He passed away alone though. VA paid for his burial. I'm not okay.
nightcrawler616
26. The Unexpected Adoption Saga
We found out one of my cousins was a child of my other aunt but she couldn't/wouldn't raise him so another aunt adopted him to keep him in the family.
Only my mother and her siblings knew this until his biological mom was dying of cancer and they decided to reveal it. It was really crappy.
Especially because he has a biological sister who was little more than a distant cousin. He was around 24 when this all came out.
MrsTurnPage
27. Paternity Puzzle
I grew up in a Mexican family and have 2 younger cousins. My aunt married another Latino guy who looked white. The oldest child was a girl and came out looking exactly like her dad, full stop.
The second was a boy who came out looking like his mom. Maybe? He was dark dark. Like, I’m half-Black and this kid is darker than me. But his mom was pretty brown as well. So we thought nothing of it. The kid looks like his mom.
Well fast forward 16 years later. They’re divorced and hate each other. The daughter was always treated like a princess, the boy was rather spoiled too but very much sought out his dad's approval which he just wasn’t getting.
He couldn’t figure out why. He’s acting out, getting in trouble, running with gangs. Boohoos about his dad all the time. Well, his dad had enough and flat-out told him, “You’re not my kid. She is a cheater, and I don’t know who your dad is.”
He even was kind enough to offer up a paternity test. His mother never said anything about it. She took the ostrich approach and hoped it would go away.
We now know his dad was a pacific islander and while there is one who has always been a family friend for many years, he took a paternity test too, and was completely cleared.
So the mystery remains on who she cheated on her ex with. She says she doesn’t even know who among them is the father.
Lady_DreadStar
28. Hidden Family Branches
My wife's mother's family (in rural Iowa) had a schism within the family around inherited farmland. So growing up, when she visited grandma for two weeks in the summer, she never knew about 2nd or 3rd cousins living in that small town.
My wife found out when we started using a family tree website and tracing family. Not a huge secret but it was an interesting long-standing family feud.
ctmurray
29. Shattered Illusions
My dad passed away 2 years ago. He and my mom were married for 34 years. He was a good dad and husband, I have no ill memories of him as far as I can remember. He treated us nicely.
All of a sudden, I just found out that for the past 10 years, he was living a double life and had many mistresses on the side. Now my whole childhood feels like a sham. I don't know what was real and what was fabricated.
Anonforgoodreason123
30. A Funeral Encounter
My father passed away when I was 17. At the funeral home during a viewing a young lady and her boyfriend showed up, she was probably two or three years older than me.
Nobody recognized her so she was asked why she was there, she stated she was there to see her father. My siblings and I are naturally confused, our mom is just standing there shaking her head.
My uncles ask her to leave, and she leaves crying in her boyfriend's arms. Our mother takes us to a private area and explains our father had an affair years ago and that was our step sister.
I never heard any more about her, never learned her name, and have never met her. I would like to meet her and apologize to my family.
Seeing her rejected and crying because she couldn't even attend a viewing for her father bothers me to this day, and this was over 40 years ago.
DougJHFTB
31. Revelation In The Village
When my dad was about 18 he got into an argument with his younger brother (my uncle, a bit of a douche now, about 15 at the time) and ended the argument by telling my dad that his dad wasn't his biological father.
He confronted my nana and the truth came out. The worst part was the whole village knew but not my dad. It was a horrible feeling.
I have respect for my grandad though, he married a woman who already had a child in the 50s. Something quite controversial back then.
Rare_Pollution
32. Flaming Pastures
My mom’s side of the family are farmers. One particularly dry summer we were playing around with fireworks in a pasture and accidentally lit it on fire.
Luckily there was an industrial hose attached to the well nearby, and we were able to turn it on and douse the flames before it got out of control.
We didn’t tell anyone until 10 years later when it came out to my parents and my aunt and uncle. My uncle, who farmed the land, burst out laughing.
He told us that it must’ve been not long after that he was at that property and noticed the burned grass and askew hose. He put 2 and 2 together but didn’t say anything because he figured we were being kids, and we probably learned our lesson.
ProfessorBeer
33. Ancestral Irony
My maternal great-grandmother did not like Norwegians and went to her deathbed insisting she was full-blooded Swedish. My father is half Norwegian, so he and my mom got a lot of flak from her.
It was mostly good fun, but it could get to my dad. After she passed, my grandfather (her son) revealed that she was a quarter Norwegian. So my father, the “half-breed,” was no more Norwegian than her father.
ProfessorBeer
34. The Cost Of Deception
My cousin called CPS on her parents because her mom was upset that she was out for two days without picking up her phone or calling/texting. She told CPS that her parents physically hurt her.
Her dad was jailed for some time, her mom sat with the police for hours, her little brother ended up traumatized, and our grandparents became sick with worry.
Then she admitted that she lied two years later because she wanted to get out of the house and get all the money that was in the account in her name but didn't want to wait until she was 18.
The wench was 17 years and eight months old. Here you can open a savings account for your kids and put in a certain amount of money every month which will be given to them the day they turn 18.
MyUsernameIsMehh
35. His Hidden Legacy
Until I was 15, I thought I was my father's first biological kid. I found out at 15 by reading some old letters he had written to my mother that he had a biological daughter born years before me to another woman.
The woman wouldn't allow him in the girl's life if they didn't get married, and he didn't want to be with the woman.
He marries my mother, the woman's new bf/husband adopts a girl, and they forget about the whole thing for 20ish years.
I was pissed when I found out. Turns out both the woman and my half-sister became substance dependents though so we kind of dodged that bullet.
thatoneguytoknow
36. The Unspoken Family Wealth
Everyone knew my great-grandpa had cheated on his wife (my great-grandma) numerous times but we never knew if he had illegitimate children or not. My great-grandma passed away first then he followed about a year later.
Their only living child was the executor of their estate and she noticed a lot of names (like 20) listed as specifically excluded from their estate. All of them had to be notified by the executor.
They passed away very wealthy and had taken in foster children when my great-aunt was young, so she recognized almost all of the names.
They discluded the foster children because they didn't want them entitled to any of their belongings. The name she didn't recognize turned out to be my great-grandpa's son from an affair.
After doing some research, she was able to locate his mother and notify her that he was discluded from their estate. My great-aunt figured that the son didn't know that they were half-siblings, and she didn't want to be the one to tell him.
It turned out she was right and the mother never told her son. He still believes that his (now deceased) stepfather was his biological father.
The craziest part? The illegitimate son had two daughters who ended up going to high school with my brother.
padillerpadooder
37. Hidden Roots: A Family Discovery
I am the secret of our family. I was adopted, always knew it, and was fine with it. Did an ancestry test this year and got matched with some 2nd cousins and an uncle.
Turns out my biological dad had severe schizophrenia, was in a home his whole life, and passed away 3 years ago, and somehow no one knew I existed (besides my biological grandparents on my paternal side who passed away a few years ago).
AnchorBuddy
38. The Basement Chronicles
My parents used to grow grass in the basement when my siblings were little. I was a baby at the time, or possibly not born.
The secret came out when my dad sent a photo of my sister standing happily in front of a bunch of plants. She asked about it in an email but he ignored it. My dad told me all about it though.
He was between jobs and was visiting family in California. One of his family members was growing it. So he ended up getting some cuttings and brought them back to New York.
He hooked up some electrical wire so he could steal electricity off the power line without being detected, and so there wasn’t a large power bill for the lights.
They grew grass and tomatoes, and they told the kids what everything was. He’d sell it in bulk to some guy at an airport he flew at recreationally. He used that money to move to a new state and start a business there.
PaulRuddsButthole
39. Hidden Connections
My cousin got married to her high-school boyfriend. They had 2 children. It didn't come out that they were cousins until the high school graduation party of their youngest.
He was the child of the outcome of an ongoing affair between a farmer's wife and the farmer's farmhand (my great-uncle). My grandmother (same side of the family) had 14 children between 3 different husbands, or so we thought.
It came out recently that she had given birth to 3 more children who were put up for adoption. One was the product of an affair between Grandma and the foreman of a lumberjack crew.
She owned a bar, and the crew would come down from up north to get drunk every so often. Grandma got knocked up and told him on one of the visits.
The next time, he wasn't with the crew. They told her he had accidentally fallen into a millsaw and passed away.
The reality was, he already had a wife and kids. Grandma went on a "vacation" had the baby, and gave her up for adoption. Didn't find out until my aunt did a DNA test.
Ag3ntM1ck
40. Our Undercover Uncle
Growing up, my twin cousins and I always played at the family reunions and weddings. I asked why their dad was never there and they talked about their dad being out of town all the time because he was a plumber.
I was little so I had no idea plumbers don’t usually travel out of town for work. About 15 years later I saw my uncle and twin cousins at a wedding after never really seeing him much before.
However, there was something very militant about his behaviour. I mentioned to my grandma in passing that he had a pretty crazy posture and was quite serious for a plumber.
She looked at me bewildered and laughed at me. And that’s when I learned Uncle Jeff is a retired CIA, family alias: Plumber.
Stayawaymakemyday
41. The Not-So-Secret Discoveries
My very catholic grandma and her very catholic brother both had multiple children with their spouses which included, by random chance, one gay son each, but them each being gay was a secret in each family and never spoken about.
My family always suspected the cousin was gay but never said anything for fear of outing them. My grandma was sure her brother would have a problem with his son being gay.
Her brother was sure she would have a problem with her son being gay. One day when they were in their 30s, the secret broke with the brother confronting sister, "I need to tell you, we think he is gay"
She said, "Oh, of course, we've known for decades, and I hate to be the one to tell you but you know (your son) is gay too right?" Then he replied, "Oh yeah we've always known."
Turns out nobody in my very catholic family had any issues with accepting their homosexuality and everyone is supportive and keeping secrets for no reason.
I just always thought it was funny they hid something everyone already knew for like 25 years. It was crazy.
IlluminateWonder
42. The Doctor’s Dual Legacy
My great-grandfather had two families. The first was his picture-perfect white family. The second was his Navajo family. He was a doctor at the turn of the twentieth century and he craved “adventure.”
I’ve met several second cousins from the Navajo branch. They’re great. Most of the Anglo family refuses to acknowledge the connection, even with DNA confirmations. They’re not great.
dohmestic
43. Financial Missteps
My great-grandmother co-signed a loan for my father and mother to get a mobile home in a nice mobile home park for us to live in. However, my mom sucks with money and my dad was too lazy to take control of the finances.
We lost the mobile home because they couldn't pay the lot rent. My grandma's name was still on the loan for the trailer so the finance company started drawing money out of her bank to make the payment on the mobile home we no longer had.
The next week my parents took us to the fair and I was confronted by my uncle because my great-grandma was unable to pay some of her bills because of what my parents did.
I just don't know why my mom wouldn't pay the lot rent. I was about 5 years old at the time, I had no idea what was going on. I have a relationship with my parents now, but I just can't forgive my parents for that.
My great-grandmother was the sweetest, kindest woman I have ever known. She did not deserve that. I miss you, grandma!
EviedenceMatters5678
44. A Family Bombshell
One week before my younger sister's wedding, my dad decided to call me, both my sisters and my mother (his ex-wife) to meet at his house for something "very important he needed to tell us."
We all thought he had cancer or something. We were very worried. Once we were all there, he sobbingly confessed to having a 5-year-old son living in the town next to ours.
This means the kid was conceived and born while my parents were still married. He claimed he didn't know for sure that the kid was his, and he had only recently gotten a DNA test.
He showed us a picture of our half-brother. He looks exactly like my dad. My mother was devastated by that news.
Icosotc
45. Polygamous Roots
My grandfather passed away before I was born. He was a polygamist, had eight wives, simultaneously, and had 42 children (yes he was Mormon).
My grandmother left him when he eventually went to jail for it (polygamy was illegal even back then), but Grandma stayed with the Mormon church.
My parents turned away from the Mormon church when I was very young so I was not raised Mormon, but my aunts/uncles/cousins along with grandma were all still heavily involved with the church.
My siblings and I knew about our grandfather's history but were sworn to secrecy to never discuss it with the cousins. Fast forward a decade and a half and it was so funny to see my adult cousins losing their minds when they found out.
meanogre