Every single person and every family has secrets. It’s inevitable. However, not all secrets are alike. Some of them are simple and straightforward, like who stole the pie while it was cooling on the windowsill. Others are deep and foreboding. The kind of stuff that can cause nightmares or even wreck entire families if the truth got out.
Redditor u/EgglessYolk ignited a very serious discussion on the internet after asking everyone to spill the tea about the family secrets that they only found out once they grew up. Scroll down for a big dose of reality and just how dark things can get when everyone finally decides to be honest about their family history.
We reached out to the author of the viral thread, Reddit user u/EgglessYolk, who was kind enough to share their thoughts on family secrets and how transparent relatives should be about them. You'll find Bored Panda's full interview the the OP as you scroll down.
#41
My grandpa’s brother died when I was a child. I hardly knew the guy so I wasn’t too interested in the service. I vaguely remember my parents warning me not to stare at some of the men but I figured that was a “good manner” moment. Fast forward to my later teens/early adult and turns out, yup, we were **surrounded by members of the Italian mafia**. Everyone in my family was tense (even the departed’s wife) because they all knew he had *some* connection to them, but didn’t exactly know as he never spoke of it to anyone
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53points
#42
Dark-ish, but I prefer to see it in a romanticised light: my maternal great grandmother was the chief of a gang of highwaymen (think early 1900's). I would LOVE to know more, but apparently it's a touchy subject for my Nana so I don't push it.
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53points
#43
My dad left when I was 7 and we were always told that it just didn't work out with my parents. We saw him off and on for about 2 years after he left then never saw him again. He had remarried and she had a kid that became his step son that my brother and I would hang with when we would go to my dad's house, then when I turned 13 my mom finally told me that the step son was actually his son from having an affair with that woman. So that kid was my half brother and I had no clue.
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50points
#44
My MIL got married (in her late 60's) to her current husband about a month after his first wife died.
My 22-year-old niece commented about how short their courtship must have been.
"Only if you don't count the decades that they were having an affair," I replied.
My niece was flabbergasted that this had happened. Her Mom walked by, and my niece said, "Mom, did you know that Grandma had an affair?"
"You mean with , or a different one?" she replied, casually.
We had to have a sit-down and talk through any other obvious secrets that she may have missed (her Aunt never had kids with her first husband because he was gay, her-step Grandmother had been her Grandfather's secretary right up until the time he divorced her Grandmother, etc.)
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47points
#45
I wasn't let in on it more like I found out about it but my siblings have a different dad than I do, that was common knowledge and not the secret at all. The secret was that their dad actually didn't die in the hospital of a terminal illness, he died of s*****e when he threw himself from the window of the hospital he was slowly dying in.
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42points
