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Sometimes you just want to gasp and hear tea, and this Reddit thread is full of it. The forum is filled with secrets and reveals so unexpected, wild, and salacious (plus a bit heartbreaking) about those who uncovered things that made them view the people around them in a whole new light. I'll warn you not to sip anything while reading this, because it might make you spit out your drink. Some of these are NSFW, too, so you've been warned. Here's what people said:
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1. "My mate was independently wealthy from stocks and bonds. He owned his house and car, had very expensive hobbies and holidays, and I asked why he still went to work if it frustrated him so much. He used his almost five-figure pay solely for gambling. That way, he didn’t care if he lost, and topped up his 'real' income when he won."
2. "Apparently, I had a grand-aunt who, at 16 or 17, went through a bad breakup. They found her catatonic, parked on the side of the road, and when she started talking again, I guess she’d totally lost it. They put her in a psychiatric facility, and she stayed there her whole life, although apparently my grandma and her other sister would take her out for a private Christmas or Thanksgiving here and there. She didn’t die until I was fifteen, but I didn’t learn of her until I was 25. My whole family basically just erased her existence; I think it’s awful."
3. "My best friend from childhood visited me. She is in her mid-30s, single, living alone in another country, and has a great career. Whenever I forward her profiles of potential guys to go on dates with, she says she doesn't want to date right now. While we were having lunch, she went to the bathroom when her phone rang. There it was: a picture of a married guy in her old office back in our home country. When she came back, I asked her bluntly why he was calling her — she had told me about 10 years ago that this man had a wife and two children, but was flirting with her. I told her to stop giving him attention, and I thought it was a closed chapter. After some hesitation, she admitted that they were in a secret relationship and that she had helped him emigrate to the same country where she was living. They lived together for a few years until his family emigrated to the same country. Now, they are making arrangements for him to visit her on the pretext of work."
4. "My mom called me while I was in Mexico vacationing with my family to tell me I had another sister she didn't tell me about. I already knew I had one that she put up for adoption when she was 15. My long-lost sister found my mom when she was 18, but apparently, my mom had another baby girl later and gave her up for adoption as well. She finally told us because of the Ancestry DNA site. The other adopted sister reached out to her. This wasn't completely life-changing or anything, but my parents seemed to have their shit pretty together, and to find out you have extra siblings that they had no plans to tell you about was weird."
5. "My friend unknowingly hooked up with her half-brother. Once they found out, he continued to pursue her, despite being married and having children."
6. "My wife's best friend, Jane, could not get pregnant through IVF after trying several times. So, she and her sister Mary talked her brother-in-law Peter (Mary's husband) into a night of drinks and other things that eventually led to Peter getting Jane pregnant, with Mary's blessing. Jane's husband thought the last attempt at IVF worked, and he thinks the child is his biological kid."
7. "My wife's friend has an OnlyFans."
8. "My great-uncle was a survivor of the 1942 Bataan Death March. The army gave him (and others) a lobotomy in the hopes of making them forget. For as long as he lived, every time we’d visit, he’d be sitting in a recliner in the living room, staring out the front window. My aunt would always announce who was visiting; sometimes he’d turn his head towards us, but it was obvious he wasn’t really seeing or registering us. When I was old enough to understand what had happened to him, I’d sit in the living room with him and talk to him while the family visited in the kitchen. I had no idea whether he was aware — like, maybe a coma patient can hear you — but it made me feel better to try. It haunts me to this day, not knowing whether the lobotomy did help him forget, or trapped him inside his head with those memories."
9. "One of the department heads of the school district cheated on her now-ex-husband with dozens of men, did cocaine with coworkers at her desk, and was a camgirl while teaching. She used to be a friend, and really likes to talk when she’s drunk."
10. "My friend's uncle ran a lot of drugs and cocaine on the reserve they lived on. He always paid for everything in the family and was super rich for a while. Now, he lives in an attic with nothing. But holy, what a life and ride."
11. "My grandfather has always been wealthy, and he loved to tell me how you can achieve anything with effort and will. His favorite story was about how he would ride his bicycle every day as a teenager, from morning to sundown, riding loops to the city, buying tobacco, and selling it in his village. Then, with age came dementia, and he started to confuse my father and me, and the stories changed to all the wild shit 'me and my brother' did before getting married. His favorite story is about 'paying a visit' to the cops so they keep their mouths shut. Looking back, it didn't make sense that so much wealth was coming from a tiny village shop, but I admit that I had been clueless the entire time."
12. "My super religious, super conservative, waiting-till-marriage friend from high school is now a very famous porn star."
13. "My parents used be swingers."
14. "I always knew my buddy would cheat on his girlfriend whenever he got the chance, but it wasn't until after we moved in together that I realized how often it happened. His girlfriend would come over, spend a few hours there, and then leave. Within minutes, a new girl would show up for a few hours, then another would show up and spend the night. This would happen almost daily... He's married now with a kid, but I still bet he is doing the same thing."
15. "This girl at my church, who seemed super innocent and quiet, made a fake Facebook account as her 'classmate' and was messaging people, trying to get them to have sex with her on the second floor of the church overlooking the stage during the music part of the service with the curtain closed. I know because I'm one of the people she messaged, and later on, she logged into her fake account on my phone but forgot to log out."
16. "The guy I played board games with occasionally at the club where I live turned out to be a sci-fi author of some note (who went by a pen name). We had no idea until he passed away recently and his widow informed us of his other life."
17. "A friend’s wife had sex with another friend, then with his wife, and then the two of them together. She got caught when my friend stumbled upon pictures in the ‘deleted’ folder of her iPhone. Since then, they’ve had a baby and are still together. Now I know why they went off the grid for over a year."
18. "As a teen, we were drinking at a friend's place in his shed, listening to music on his computer. A few drinks in, we started looking around the folders for a specific song we couldn't find and stumbled upon a series of videos. We hit the play button and BAM. My friend's mother was getting railed by the dad’s friend, with a shaky handcam. We were all in shock. And then the cameraman started talking. It was his dad. My buddy found out his dad is a cuck in front of his friends, and immediately burst into tears. We killed the video and just tried to comfort him."
19. And lastly, "When I was like 18 or 19, me and some other coworkers offered to help another coworker remove her old bed and bring in a new one, as she was very tiny. (She was our age and a college freshman). She had already stripped the bed and had it ready to be loaded into a small U-Haul truck. We went over and grabbed the mattress, but as soon as I lifted it, I was greeted by the biggest, fattest dildo I have ever seen. We all kind of just stood there in shocked silence. She quickly grabbed it, threw it into the closet, and acted as if no one had seen it. It’s still very vivid in my memory 30 years later. I'm still mystified how she ever was able to use that, as it was that huge."
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