c’mon proceed with caution.
“I was pissed at my whole family (we’re a family of five).
It was my turn to make dinner one night.
I put my boogers in the meal.
No one knew, and my mom said I did exceptionally great at cooking.
I even ate the meal as well, so as not to make anyone suspect anything was wrong.”
Anonymous
2.
My brother served in the Vietnam War, so they were all my heroes.
This one time when I was young, I needed a haircut.
I was going on an interview for a company that I badly wanted to be a part of.
So my oldest brother said he knew someone who could fix me up.
She was probably one of the most beautiful women from my childhood.
My brother entered the kitchen and introduced her to me formally.
And, at that moment, I knew my brother was cheating on my sister-in-law."
“Speed it up to just a few days ago.
He confesses his infidelity to her, and she did the same thing to him.
Later, as we were leaving, she asked me if I knew my brother had cheated on her.
This I will take to my grave I never said a word.”
“I lived with my in-laws for a few years in a different province than my own.
It started great, and we agreed to split the bills 50/50.
The final straw was after a meager Christmas between my partner and me.
I couldn’t leave because they kept taking all the money I tried saving up.
“I never knew my grandfather, great-grandmother, or great-grandfather on my dad’s side.
I was told they passed away before I was born, or I was too young to remember them.
Last year, I started looking into my family history and found things that did not add up.
After constantly asking my dad, he finally told me everything.
Apparently, The Deadly Eighties was true for my family.”
mistie22584
5.
But I got a number of dinners at night that way, though.”
abcedfgh
6.
“My mom attempted to miscarry me so she wouldnt have to get an abortion.
u/thraelen
7.
“My great-grandfather was an illegal moonshiner and bootlegger.
However, his brother raised the kid as if she were his own.
Nobody ever talked about it, though (nor did she).”
niccivaughn
8.
I’d ‘burn in hell’ and all that.
Because of this, I’ve rarely had a sex life in a romantic relationship because of this trauma.
One that is focused on me, moves at my own pace, and is about working through everything.
We both agreed there are no feelings, just learning and education.
There were reports of child and spouse abuse and alcoholism.
My family looked at it as if he was protecting his siblings.
u/Mimi_Jess
10.
It also explains why I was confused that my dad came home with random women.
I thought they were my mom’s friends, but they really, really weren’t.”
u/brainisonfire
11.
“My grandmother cheated on my grandfather with hisbest friend.
She eventually divorced my grandfather and married the best friend.
So, she gave the baby up, married my grandfather, and never mentioned it ever.
padawanryan
13.
She would buy uscomputer gamesand stuff, so we loved her at the time.
I never understood why my mom hated her until I was older.
Kathy ended up marrying my dad’s best friend.
I finally told him that I knew about her and that mom had told me everything.
He just said, ‘Oh, alright then.’
He never gave me shit again.”
u/Jessibeeb
14.
“My dad blew all of the money my family ever had.
u/MagogHaveMercy
15.
But also, this was the early 1940s, so good on grandma for her feminist learnings.”
16.And finally, “In high school, my cousin slept around on her boyfriend too much.
She ended up marrying her boyfriend, and they had two daughters together.
She ended up running away from home later that week with some 18-year-old guy who just joined the Army.
They just say she’s doing ‘well enough,’ and I leave it alone.”
u/GuiltyGun
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