“The kids are now stepsiblings and cousins at the same time.
This makes for awkward family reunions.”
Reddit userPhenomenalPancakeaskedthe AskReddit community, “What’s an NSFW scandal in your family?”
The thread quickly filled with all sorts of family secrets.
Here’s what people revealed:
1.
“My grandfather was a nude photographer and serial cheater.
He invited one of the women he cheated with to his wedding with my grandmother.
Safe to say, many people were upset and very uncomfortable.”
u/icaruslaughsashefell
2.
“I recently learned that my paternal grandfather had an entire second family in a different town.
My dad has known most of his life but never said anything.
u/EhDotHam
3. u/gilmorefile13
4.
“My great-aunt was married five times.
The fifth died by suicide.
The whole family believes she somehow directly or indirectly killed each of them in turn.
I only knew her when I was a little kid, but she was certainly bitter and mean-spirited.”
u/Alert-Accountant-515
5.
“A distant uncle was screwing his nephew’s wife.
They got caught and married a couple of years later.
She had two kids.
My uncle has two kids.
The kids are now stepsiblings and cousins at the same time.
This makes for awkward family reunions.”
u/DonSuburban
6.
“After my grandmother died, my grandfather married and had kids with her sister.
I would love to find out who these people are and meet them one day.”
u/pinchmyleftnipple
7. u/firestorm713
8.
“My biological father had an affair with my mother’sbest friendand our neighbor.
u/Ok_Alygotsass
9. u/dkreni2
10.
His siblings decided never to tell their children.
My parents thought we should know.”
u/calvion90
11.
My cousin had a couple of kids with this man.
My cousin and her husband divorced, and my cousin kept custody of their children.
We don’t talk about my cousin anymore.”
u/ThanksToDenial
12.
“My uncle was engaged to his wife’s sister first.
He met my aunt on the night of his official engagement to the sister.
Things kicked off from there.
My cousins hadn’t met anyone from their mother’s side until their early adulthood.”
u/victoriageras
13.
“My biological father and grandfather were serial cheats.
u/Radiant_Truck_8917
14.
“I am the result of an affair.
My father and I didnt find out until I was 13 through a DNA test.
u/freedomandbiscuits
15.
“My distant uncle made a porn movie in a well-known theme park in my country.
The theme park found out; it was all over the news here.
We share the same last name.
u/lennekex
16.
The hit man was undercover FBI.
He went to jail and lost his license to practice medicine.”
u/storyofohno
17. u/mstrdsastr
18.
“An in-law went to see a band and went missing for a few weeks.
u/yew420
19.
“My dad slept with my pregnant sister’s fiance.
That’s how we found out they were actually both gay.”
u/DucktapeCorkfeet
20.
“My grandmother cheated on my grandfather with her ballroom dance instructor.
They divorced, only to get remarried two years later because she got pregnant with my uncle.”
u/meta_muse
21.
“After doing a DNA test, a family member discovered he had a different dad from his siblings.
Turns out she’d had an affair with a firefighter (also long dead).
He was more amused than upset by the whole thing.”
u/zerbey
22.
“Two of my second cousins are also my half-brothers.
That means my mum messed around with her cousin’s man.
My mum then married someone else while pregnant and pretended I was the other fellow’s daughter.
Also, my bio dad has 18+ kids.
I only know those two second cousins out of all of them.”
My father has two siblings, but they are childless.
Our only thought was that our bachelor uncle had feathered illegitimate children we didn’t know about.
Then, my mom revealed that our grandfather on that side had another family.
He had abandoned a wife and children before he met my grandmother.
Apparently, my father is sensitive about the subject.
We’ve never discussed it further.”
u/Mushrooming247
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