52 Life-Ruining Secrets People Are Keeping To Themselves

Every time my sister meets new groups of people (uni, work, friends) she tells them that she has a twin sister. She uses the twin as an excuse, not to say hi, not to stop and not to talk to people, etc. She also impersonates her twin.

Except that she does not have a twin!!!

I only know about this because once at uni, a friend of hers that I barely knew came to say how sorry she was that our twin sister had been ill and passed away. I confronted my sister and she admitted she had this elaborate web of lies going and was using it to get out to anything she did not want to do including some exams. W*f.

Gerald, retired colonel, thinks he's descended from aristocracy. He has a portrait of "Great-Aunt Agatha" above his fireplace – claims she was a lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria. I found his family tree on Ancestry. Great-Aunt Agatha never existed. His grandfather was a fishmonger from Hull. The portrait is a Victorian painting he bought at a car boot sale. If this came out, he'd be socially destroyed. In our village, being exposed as a fraud about your class is worse than a criminal record. He'd have to emigrate to Australia. I don't tell anyone. But every time he corrects my pronunciation of "scone", I just smile and say, "Quite right, Colonel Fishmonger." That's the British apocalypse – not prison, but the wrong ancestors at tea time.

My friend is gay but he married to please his family. He's a doctor and has a colleague boyfriend. They bought a condo close to the hospital and he divides his time between 2 homes.

I almost bumped into my boss’s boss’s boss one day with a woman whom I presumed was his wife. They were standing and kissing outside a venue in the middle of the afternoon, so they weren’t exactly sneaking about. The guy was generally a bit of a Jerk and I didn’t want to spoil my day, so kept out of their way.
A few months later at a work event i was introduced to a different (and lovely) lady as his wife.
Maybe it was all above board, and everyone knew about it, but I doubt it.

Someone I work with is sleeping with a married man. She is terrible and is absolutely old enough to know better. I am so disgusted when I see her at work. If your husband is a trainer at the north Frederick One Life your husband is sleeping with a 26 year old who is emotionally stunted and 1000% a pick me girl who is willing to destroy lives because he “picked her”.

We have an imposter at work. The person who applied and interviewed for the job is not the person who comes in every day.

A decade ago I worked in a team of about 20 people. After friday afternoon drinks, on my way home, I saw the assistent manager and the new intern drive up to a hotel parking lot together.

The assistent manager was approx. 10-12 years older, married and had kids, and the intern had just finished her school and moved into a new house with her boyfriend.

I worked there for another 2 years and during that time this went on and on. Both still in relationships.

I'd met his wife several times during company parties, but I couldn't stomach destroying her world by telling this.

They are still married, kids are teenagers now.

My high school's vice principle (think that's her role now?) sleeps with students. The signs were there, you could see how she spoke to some of the male students compared to others. My school hired a videographer for the prom and when my folks watched the DVD they pointed out the way she was dancing around and her eyes were scouting the male students. Found out a few years after high school from a few guys that confirmed they slept with her, one was 15 at the time.

Friend, a director at a global data company, disclosed to me when drunk the fraud scheme he is running between his employer and his own offshore businesses. He is a multimillionaire yet at his company he is a middle manager with average salary lol.

I have a true nemesis, we’ve been enemies for 15 years. Her 11 year old son had a broken leg this spring. Somehow I ended up being the only one who knows that SHE RAN OVER HIM. It was a tragic accident and I haven’t told a soul because she begged me not to.

Years ago I went overseas with my partner at the time and a few of his married male friends. The last night we were there the other guys had a large group of girls back to our accomodation and very openly got with all of them, bragging the next morning and saying it needed to be ‘a secret’. One of the guys had an IVF appointment the morning he got back, he and his wife had twins later that year. I always felt bad I didn’t say anything but I didn’t know these guys well or their wives at all. Found out a few years later he and that partner are divorced.

I guess this wouldn’t ruin their lives now, but things could have been very different for them both if she had known.

Does it count if it's already out, sort of? Coworker lied about his brother passing away suddenly, really convenient that it happed the day before he was confronted about something he did to another coworker. I know his brother personally lol. It's an ongoing HR mess as far as I know, but he got away with it for months.

A teacher I had once "dated" me for a few months. He was married, but kept it very hidden, like they lived in different houses and everything and I found out. He told me that it was open because they were both pretty independent and my naive self believed him.

I am 99% suer that they were not open, because he claimed it was "don't ask don't tell" and she started to act very weird towards me when we met. I am extremely sure that he would get in trouble because he is connected with the church as well. He broke it off with me because I kept questioning the situation.

He is also in a profession where it would completely destroy him. For several years after, I just tried to become successful enough to go public with it but it never worked out. I am certain I am not the only one, but previous ones were isolated and scattered across the world after finishing studies.

I could ruin two people’s lives. My best friend was sleeping with his gf’s step mom. My buddy has been dating the same girl since middle school. ( we’re all 20 now). His gf lives with her dad and step mom. We are all in the same friend group. Back in freshman year of HS gf’s dad married the step mom. So last year he tells me the secret and made me promise not to tell anyone. Of course I tell him he’s lying and don’t believe him. Then a couple weeks later or so, he sends me a picture completely out of nowhere. It was a picture of the step mom, completely undressed from the waist down wearing a t shirt while riding in the passenger seat of his truck. A few days later when we hung out, he begged and begged me to delete the photo. Made me open my phone and delete it while he was watching. I did delete it, but also saved it to another folder lol.

My ex partner has been duped by a guy at work into being “just friends”.

He has a terrible reputation with taking advantage of female employees. She knows this.

He’s also fairly senior. A few colleagues/ peers have mentioned to me that they see what he’s doing, and she should run a mile, as should he cross a line (which it seems to be heading in that direction) - that SHE will suffer and he’ll carry on in his role, because he’s far more valuable to the company.

I’ve tried telling her this, but as expected - she feels I’m just “the jealous ex”.

There’s going to be one hell of a “I told you so” moment. The secret here is that she’s unaware that EVERYONE can see this coming and are talking about it.

The biological father of my sister’s oldest son.

Sister had an affair with a married man (S) just after splitting with her partner (M). Got pregnant with S’s child then got back with M. He knew he wasn’t the father as they had been apart too long but he didn’t mind. They then had another son together before splitting up for good and he doesn’t have any contact (his choice) with the boys, who believe they are full brothers.

They’re teenagers now and given the amount of people who know the truth, it’s only a matter of time. Another year or two and the oldest is going to go back to the town he was born in, looking for his “father”, M, and he will find out the truth. M has an older daughter from a previous relationship and I believe she is in touch with my sister on facebook so no wonder my sister won’t allow her kids anywhere near social media - imagining a “hi, we’re your brothers” and her saying “well, one of you is”.

It’s going to be devastating for him (my nephew) and the fall-out for her (my sister) will be huge.

I used to work for this guy about 20 years ago & basically he was getting married so went on his stag do to Cyprus, and whilst he was there he met another woman. They liked each other so carried on seeing each other, he got married 3 weeks later & had the Cyprus woman as his bit on the side for 5 years. His wife wanted a baby but he said he didn't want any kids. He eventually left his wife & had a baby with the Cyprus woman. To this day his wife only thought he met her when they split up & not on his stag do. Karma hasn't got him yet.

I had a friend back in the day whose dad was in prison and despite their situation, their family still managed to buy cars, invest in businesses, and travel pretty often. My friend told me that you could still run certain businesses while serving time. I won't get into what kind of business it was, but I'm sure some people already know the kind of thing I'm talking about.

One of my friends had a affair with a really famous actress that’s in an public longterm relationship. It’s not only about the affair itself, but the actress really opened up about her life and the industry - including various not public scandals that would definitely cause some trouble.
What also matters is that my friend is 20 and the actress 40+, and it’s nothing you would expect.

A distant friend cheated her entire dating relationship and beginning of their marriage.

They’ve been together since highschool so for over 20 yrs.
Now they are happy and traveling- no kids and she is finally putting him on her social media.

He doesn’t know a thing, i despise women and men who cheat on their partners.
Just break up with them.

Also I’ve been going back and fourth about being anonymous and tell him but then seem to best friends at this point and really happy.

She can not have kids and he always wanted kids and he sacrificed not having them for her.