- Since we were kids, my brother got the best of everything. My parents even paid his college tuition while I worked to pay mine. All my life, I blamed them for favoring him because he’s a boy.
Now I’m 43, and recently, I told Dad, “I’ll make sure to treat my 2 kids equally, unlike you!”
He teared up. Mom tried to stop him, but then he made a disturbing confession. He said, “It’s time you know—I’m not your brother’s father.”
I was stunned as he explained that when I was three, he and Mom briefly separated. During that time, she got involved with a wealthy man and became pregnant with my brother. Their fling lasted a few months before she returned to Dad.
The wealthy man didn’t want to be involved in my brother’s life, but he offered to send money each month to support his son. Dad wanted Mom back so badly that he agreed, even though it meant his own daughter and her son wouldn’t grow up with the same advantages.
The worst part? My brother has no idea.
- My aunt robbed the bank she used to work for. She then had to sell her apartment to pay the money back. This same aunt was caught cheating on her husband in the same bank. She is from a small town, so it was a scandal.
The funny thing is, she is the last person you would suspect to do those things. But she did. © callmetangerine / Reddit
- My great-grandfather ran a racket selling stolen coal and hid the money by buying land and part of a hotel in Florida. They found out after he died when the other hotel owners wanted to buy out my great-grandmother’s share of the hotel.
She ended up with the whole hotel and then sold it, along with the land, a few years later. How she did it still isn’t known because the kids didn’t know anything about it until she died. © Unknown author / Reddit
- When I was little, I loved Babysitters Club, and I remember reading one where there was a secret sibling. I thought that was awesome and always wished that’d happen to me. Guess who later found out they had a secret half-sibling?
I had an older brother whose dad took him when he was young, and, it being the 70s and him on the birth certificate, my 20-year-old mom couldn’t do much without exorbitant amounts of money for lawyers, which she didn’t have. She eventually met my dad, had me and my sister, but kept filing paperwork and trying to find him.
Anyway, we met after I searched for him on AOL Instant Messenger (there’s more to it, but that’s how I found him initially), and I love him a ton. He saw our mom for the first time in 36 years last year. He’s great. © romero0705 / Reddit
- I have an aunt I was never told about because she suffered from a mental disability. When I moved to the West Coast, I lived in the same town where she was staying at a medical facility and visited her. I helped to organize trips with her and her roommates to go shopping. I took her to the zoo.
The most magical day was when her meds were properly balanced, and she was fully lucid for a whole day, so she spent it talking with her brothers and mother. I was glad to see it. © Patches67 / Reddit
- I am the only one who knows what my grandma did to my mom (her MIL). She treated her horribly, saying that she was going to steal us from Mom and that she didn’t deserve to be part of this family.
She was the one who suggested my dad cheat on my mom, and I can’t tell this to anybody because my mom said that this should be kept a secret (she doesn’t want to cause any drama). Something I still don’t know is why she told me this when I was 8 years old. © idkwhatnametochose0 / Reddit
- My grandpa cheated on my grandma with her sister. Allegedly, a child came from that affair, but my grandpa never claimed him.
I found this out when my dad died, and I saw a picture of my dad, his siblings, and a ’cousin.’ I said, “Wow! He looks just like you guys. He’s definitely kin.” One of my uncles was like, “Yeah, he might be our brother.” © space_apartment / Reddit
- My grandma’s little sister was dropped off at their house as a baby—she’s the baby of my great-grandpa and some lady from the bar he owned. My absolute saint of a great-grandma raised the baby as one of her own.
And now, with personal DNA kits everywhere, they found out they have another sister. My grandma doesn’t want to meet anyone else (she said childhood was bad enough with everyone knowing her dad was sleazy). Grandma’s little sister, however, was open to a relationship with the new half-sibling. © clrwCO / Reddit
