“The Messiest Love Triangle”: 71 Times People Found Out Something They Absolutely Weren’t Meant To Know

In a newish relationship with a girl, about 3 months in. We went out drinking last night and after a few too many, she told me she loves me and has wanted to tell me for a while now.

Today, she asked me if she said anything stupid while drunk, to which I smiled and replied 'not at all'.

I love her too and now am just waiting for the right moment to tell her.

Company car service picks me up from European head office where I was working, asks me if I work with the two guys he just drove from my office to the airport (CEO and CFO). Tells me all the details of the company about to be bought out since they discussed every little detail on the ride.

Apparently never occurred to these 2 guys that London cabbies have an incredible memory. Worked out well for me.

I was an executive assistant to a vice=president of a huge company, which meant I had access to his email for scheduling and follow up purposes. Every morning I checked his email, but one morning I saw my name in the subject line. It was a group email that had been passed around to other vice presidents and their assistants about my boss listing the reasons he was going to fire me and when he planned to do it. When the day arrived. He asked me to enter over $35,000 worth of expenses and reciepts into the company SAP so he could be paid back for all the money he had spent on business trips. I did as I was told, but did not press the final confirmation. As soon as I was finished, I was sent to HR, and they gave me 10 minutes to grab my stuff and leave the building. So I signed into my computer and deleted the expense report, and then I went over to the shredder and shredded all of my bosses reciepts. No one asked or stopped me. They just thought I was shredding my personal papers. Then I grabbed my stuff and left. And I never looked back. Never told that story until now.

HR assistant accidentally emailed me everyone’s salaries, from hourly to CEO. This Kinda counts!

QueenBearEXP:
I would leave that in the communal printer and watch the world burn.

My friend is taking his kids to Disneyland. They don't know it yet. It's a surprise.

goobermuslim:
This is the first one I read and it’s wonderful! I’m going to stop here. I just know the rest will in no way improve my day. Goodnight y’all!

The woman we thought was my grandma's sister was actually her mother and the folks she said were her parents were actually her grandparents. She didn't even tell her kids, my dad and his siblings happened to find her birth certificate when my grandpa [passed away].

Walked in on a cousin making out with his best friend. He's the biggest jock and homophobes I knew.

He had a gf at the time. 

Never told anyone and just didn't interact with him. 

Years later he'd come out as gay.

My twin sister and I were adopted. My adoptive parents were told about our mother having two young children when we were born. Birth mother had two more children after us and never told any of them about us. Ancestry spilled the beans when we were in our fifties and birth mother had already passed away. Shock for them but we’re all in touch and it’s fine.

Found out my coworker’s salary. He left it on the share drive by accident. I made 50k. He made 80k and he was only 1 level higher. Blew my mind. Because of that I have been confidently asking for more with every job hop and now I make a TON more thanks to his blunder. Salary transparency is empowering.

I accidentally found out my friend’s “long distance boyfriend” wasn’t real.

For almost a year she would show us screenshots of their conversations, send us selfies they “took together,” and talk about visiting him. Everyone believed it because the guy looked real and the photos looked normal.

One night we were hanging out and she asked me to help her edit something on her phone. While scrolling through her camera roll, I realized the photos of them together were actually edited pictures using random photos of a guy she followed on Instagram. She had been photoshopping herself into his pictures and even faking chat screenshots.

Turns out the guy had no idea she existed.

She kept the story going for months until someone in our group actually found the real guy’s Instagram account and realized he lived in a completely different country and was in a long-term relationship.

To this day she still pretends they “broke up.”

That my super conservative judgmental aunt had an abortion when she was 16. My mother, who is 8 years her junior, ended up having my older sister when she was 15. My aunt refused to help her with anything and judged her, they also pressured her to keep my sister. Years later, I’m like 15, and my mom and my aunt had a huge fight, like screaming and throwing [things] everywhere fight at my grandmas because my mom was getting a divorce and my aunt was against it. My mom went home a wrote a long letter just airing out all of my aunt's secrets, all the men she had slept with, cheated on her husband with, and [broke the news to] my catholic family, that she had not one, but two abortions by the time she was 18.

We didn’t talk to my moms side of the family for like a year, than my aunt apologized, ironically enough she went to my mom for advice on how to divorce her husband, and now she’s like insanely nice to my mom, and my sister and I and our kids, like we went to vacation where she lives, she hosted all of us for two weeks, she paid for dinners, huge Lego sets for my kids, and all I could think of was this is allllllll guilt gifts!

The 'juiciest' secret is that those two lawyers you see screaming at each other in court and calling each other incompetent are almost definitely grabbing sushi or a beer 20 minutes later. We’re usually good friends, but we have to put on a 'show' of hating each other because if our clients saw us laughing together, they’d think we weren't 'fighting' for them. 90% of it is just theater.

My father’s reaction to my mum being diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer, was to start an affair with my sister’s German tutor.

I walked in on them kissing when I came home early from my after school job.

My father said that it was up to me whether to tell mum, but I should know that if she [passes away] with a broken heart, that would be my fault.

Never told her. She [passed away] a few years later of something else and the day of her funeral was the last day I saw him.

My siblings don’t know any of this and have cut me off, for going no contact with him.

When people ask about family, I just say that I was an only child and both parents have [passed away].

My step brother ended his 12 year relationship with his high school sweet heart because her mom was obese and he was worried the gf would get fat one day too.

Oh finally a question I have a good answer to!

When we were younger, my older sister and I shared a cellphone (we were probably 10/12 years old). She got in trouble and our parents took it away as a punishment, so she convinced me to bike to target with her to get one of those pay as you go phones. Of course being the younger sister, I had basically no ownership over this phone - she just wanted my allowance to chip in. A couple of days go by, and she's waking me up in the middle of the night saying that she found an indentical pay as you go phone in our dads office, and that he was cheating on our mom. I didn't believe her, but also wasn't able to go back to sleep, so eventually I went downstairs and confirmed that it was true. I was so distressed for days realizing our family was going to implode. For context, our dad had cheated on our mom years prior and they got divorced over it, and were pretty early into their reconciliation, so I knew what was coming.

A few days later, my mom finds my sisters new cellphone ww bought, and goes to my dad holding it up saying "look what I found". I'm sure he stomach fell thinking she found his phone. Anyways, she quickly explains that she found it in my sisters room (they realized quickly I didn't have much of a part in this), and my dad decides to be the one to tell my sister she's grounded. He starts to tell her, and she hits him with a "well what about your extra cell phone?".

Anyways, that was the last time I saw my parents together aside from graduation and my wedding!

I was going to transfer a new album I bought onto my iPod, and I stumbled across an email from my dad's girlfriend. I had to wait until he left the house that evening to tell my mom. That made summer vacation really rough.

My previous manager of my previous employer (2017-2019 timeframe) accidentally cc’d me on an email chain with the CEO discussing shutting down our largest branch and laying off 500 people. I found this out months before it was planned to occur.
I was given a couple “promotions” soon after; an effort to keep me quiet. I didn’t tell anyone but I also found myself job hunting during at least half of my working hours soon after.
I got out of there and within a year the whole company folded.

I found out my boss was cheating his wife because he accidentally screen-shared his 'Personal intimate photo with his secretary’ during a Zoom call. I didn't say anything, but I've been getting great performance ratings and salary hikes ever since.

In the early 2010s I found out through a blabbermouth acquaintance about a private company being purchased for a few hundred million bucks by a larger public company before the knoweldge was public. I thought this would make the larger company's stock rise, so I colluded with a mate in another country to buy a decent pile of their stock at short notice. Made about 150k. Super illegal.

My paternal grandmother got a letter from her then-husband while he was in Vietnam where he confessed to cheating on her with a Vietnamese woman, so my grandmother went out and cheating on him with a Latino migrant worker and that's why my dad and I are so much darker than everyone else in our family.