and I am aghast at some of the replies.
Here are some of the biggest lies and secrets people uncovered.
Note: There are mentions of abuse, sexual assault, and suicide.
Also when taking an interest in girls, he didnt have the raging hormones like a typical teenager.
He said yes."
His entire life felt like a lie.
It really messed him up, and his self esteem took a huge hit.
We eventually adopted our daughter so he got his dream to be a dad.
But his parents never apologized or acknowledged his feelings it was always ‘you survived, get over it.’
The old attitude is a huge mindf*ck.
Any records she had at home?
she refused, saying again it was ‘nothing, hes fine now.’
This is crucial information his oncologist needed to plan his current radiation treatments.
So we had to pay $200 for his 19791982 hospital records because we had zero cooperation from her.
We only found out after the Medical Examiners report."
u/Denialle
2.
“When I was 19, I dated this guy who liked me waaaaay more than I liked him.
After almost two months of dating, I broke it off with him.
I admit, it was not the most gentle breakup, but whatever.
About three months later, I get a call from this irate woman claiming to be his mother.
She told me that he died by suicide because of me.
I felt so guilty and blamed myself.
Cut to three years later.
PATRICK ISN’T DEAD!!!!'
u/tx_blonde
3.
She was also a very ambitious person but suddenly quit all of her activities.
She concocted this long, thought-out scheme where she got progressively more and more sick.
She made up a fake email, using the name of a doctor who I could look up.
There were always reasons/excuses why I could only get some details.”
“She would call me, acting ‘high’ from the chemo or other treatments.
Eventually I had friends step in who told me it was nonsense.
A nurse would not send someone updates while a major surgery is being performed.
And any reasonable person would tell their boyfriend in advance to be there.
When we finally had sex, she was super weird and nervous about not bleeding the first time.
I didnt even care or notice.
She said it was because her doctors had to insert something there…thus breaking the hymen.
My dumbass finally broke up with her months later and went off to college.
She showed up at my dorm room over 300 miles away.
She was pregnant now…apparently.
I asked if we could go to the doctor together or get a test.
I’d finally had enough and started making phone calls to her mom.The pregnancy and cancer were lies.
Months later, cops show up at my house to investigate reports of assault, etc., etc.
The cops quickly realized what was going on and dropped it.
I had to appear in front of a board at my college because word got out.
That girl is now a high school administrator at our former school.
She has a kid and a husband.
She probably makes more money than me now, LOL.
… Ill never understand the point of the scam.
Maybe she just wanted to make a fool out of some dumb jock?”
u/Significant_Drag2713
4.
“My friend was helping her boyfriend when his dad discovered he had cancer.
He was distraught and went home often.
It put a pretty big strain on their relationship.
Finally, his father succumbed and passed away.
He broke up with her shortly after.
The father never even had cancer.
He made the whole thing up.”
“On a freak coincidence, we hired someone who worked with him at a former job.
When she started, he was away for the bereavement, so she didn’t know.
But when he returned, she got real weird about him.
I went away for a vacation, but when I returned, the guy’s cubicle was cleaned out.
I asked what happened, and nobody would tell me except ‘speak to your boss.’
He’d fake phone calls with her, her medical team, and various relatives.
They’d let him work from home and take time off.
And he was really a good actor.
I mean, I was completely fooled.
I even thought, ‘there’s no way he was faking it.’
But yeah, he was.
The memorial was for some unrelated woman.
The time he was away for bereavement, he was in the Bahamas.
In his previous job, the office took up a collection, even, which he never repaid back.
You really cant trust people.”
u/Ashitaka1013
7.
“When I was a teen, I was checked into a mental hospital for a suicide attempt.
After a few months, I was feeling great and better.
I had started showering every day and taking care of myself.
My stepmom decided it was all bullshit and stopped the visits.
I denied out of fear of retaliation from my stepmom.
She stopped buying me my medication, and I spiraled into a bad place again.
“She then proceeded to convince me the home visits were just because I was ‘stupid and extreme.’
u/Lil_BlueJay2022
8.
She ended up getting a lot of mileage out of that lie.”
That doctor said you exaggerate your pain for attention!'
when I actually had endometriosis and ovarian cysts.”
u/BistitchualBeekeeper
9.
“[My family told me] that my Dad was my biological dad, but he wasn’t.
u/Alice_600
10.
Naturally, I only found out years AFTER they managed to empty the account.”
u/WickedFairyGodmother
11.
“I was told as a young kid that my older brother (19) died by suicide.
u/LondonDavis1
12.
They told me it’s because I was too stupid for school and wasn’t wanted there anymore.
Years later, as an adult, my mother told me the real reason I was pulled out.”
“The school had apparently called because they were worried about the bruising and marks I constantly had.
They were from my dad.
He had gotten pissed about that and decided to keep me at home until all the marks went away.
I was basically punished for weeks for having bruises by the person that caused them.”
u/OxtailPhoenix
13.
“My mom told me my sister’s dad was my biological dad.
Everyone but me seemed to be in on it.
My older sister and younger brother finally told me when I was 19.
It basically messed up my brain going on 21 years now.
Just be honest with your kids.”
u/Saptilladerky
14.
“I wasnt told my sister had died by suicide.
My parents didnt tell me for three years.
I thought she had died in her sleep.”
u/Unlucky_War_154
15.
“My best friend told me she’d had a miscarriage, right after I had one.
u/nicunta
16.
Instead of sending us back, he filed some paperwork (iirc it was called a Junction of Safety?
u/Glitter8Critter
17.
But dad has always been there for you.
The man was crushed [when he found out I existed].”
“We’ve managed to build a relationship.
We’re making the best of our circumstances.”
u/PlanktonOk4846
18.
“Not me but my cousins.
Their parents told them that their grandfather had passed in the hospital from Emphysema.
In fact, he took his own life.
His disease got so bad that he couldn’t take it anymore.
… My mom told me this, but my cousins still don’t know.
And we won’t tell them.”
u/Gennevieve1
19.
My dad’s response when asked ‘what the ell?’
was the equivalent of ‘my bad.'"
u/School_House_Rock
20.
“[My husband told me,] ‘I didn’t sexually assault you.
You’re a liar and it was my right as a husband anyways.’
Spoiler: He committed bigamy and wasn’t even my husband.
Fuck that asshole.”
u/Tamsha-
21.
She said it was too big.
I asked again a few days later, and she said she’d sent it to be resized.
After six months, I noticed she still wasn’t wearing it."
“She said she still hadn’t received it back.
Then she said she hadn’t been to pick it up.
This carried on for about three months every so often I would ask her.
One day, I said to her straight, ‘Look, where is your engagement ring?
There’s something not right here.
I bought it, I want to know where it is.
What is going on?’
I told her I didn’t buy that, and I wanted the truth.
She then admitted she had ‘mislaid it.’
I fucking lost it.
I told her she was dreaming.
She then got upset and tried to turn it on me, saying I was being cruel.
Apparently I was the bastard for that.
…I am convinced these days she sold it.”
u/eezgorriseadback
22.
“[My mom lied to me about] what swiftly killed my father when I was 7.
No, Mom, it wasn’t illicit drug use.
… At age 45, I finally got his death certificate.
It turned out to be something genetic that could have killed me, too.
But I don’t have that mutation.”
u/princesspapercut
23.
“[I believed the lie] that my father was the smartest person I could know.
He meticulously built a psychological cage into me to maintain that status quo indefinitely.
u/RegularHovercraft
24.
“My parents told me my cat would ‘probably come back any day now.
Cats like to wander you know, shell be home soon.’
They knew she was dead.
They had found her body and buried it already.
I was crushed, man.
I couldnt even bury her.
All I could do was put flowers on a grave that had been dug a month earlier.
Its been over a decade by now, and that still fucks me up.”
u/FlowerFaerie13
25.
“When I was a kid, I really wanted a dog.
During a bad storm/tornado we saw this golden retriever puppy loose outside so we ran and brought it in.
It had no collar, we couldnt find the owner, and this was before chipping was a thing.
I thought it was a miracle.
We adopted it, and it became my dog.
The dog turned out to be pretty energetic, and my parents didnt know a lot about training one.
About a year later, it ran away.
I didnt find out until 20 years later when I randomly remembered and brought it up at Christmas.”
u/Sociallyawktrash78
26.
“My parents told me our golden retriever had run away.
They staged it with an open gate and everything.
I was absolutely heartbroken.
u/ScaryGermanGuy
27.
“My mother bought me a house for a wedding present.
I ended up divorcing my ex.
My mom told me she would never take the house away from me.
Three months later, without warning, she sold the house from underneath me because my sister needed money.
I was homeless and devastated.”
u/CoconutCrazy1
28.
“[The lie was] that my parents had been happily married for 40+ years.
It all blew up one Christmas which wrecked the marriage and Christmas for us in one go.”
u/OriginalStockingfan
29.
“‘He wouldn’t do that!
He’s a Sunday school teacher!’
He indeed did that, even as a Sunday school teacher.
u/h3lls1ng3r
30.
They told me they didnt care that I was done having kids.
When we broke up a few days ago, they told me they always resented the situation.”
They said they didnt resent me, but just what they had to deal with to be with me.
After two years, I truly thought it didnt matter, and they were content with things.
Its not like I was suddenly going to de-age.
Despite the hurt this revelation caused me, I miss them so desperately its hard to breathe some days.
I truly thought Id be marrying them and spending the rest of my life with them.”
u/MrsSamT82
31.And finally… “My mother told me other families have the same situation as ours.
Ours is toxic with a narcissistic mother and a depressed father.
My mother is always angry, spouting nasty words, and belittling and shaming her kids.
My jaw dropped when I found out there are loving families out there.”
u/cloverhoney12
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