Secrets have a way of coming out eventually, but when the secret isn’t yours to tell (or really know), most people do their best to keep it to themselves – and that goes double when someone else’s life could hang in the balance.
That said, the internet is full of strangers, so there’s no harm in sharing. So, if you’re curious what kinds of life-ruining secrets people are sitting on out there, these 15 people don’t mind sharing.
15. That’s a weird secret to have.
My friend had s*x with his wife’s sister long before they got married. She has no idea.
Wife is the one who has no idea. When it happened my friend and his wife had just started hooking up. I don’t think he ever thought they would get married.
14. Time for a raise.
I know that the director of the school I was going to had a same-s*x affair with my math teacher.
His wife never found out.
13. Ugh why are people.
I’m in the navy and I know a lot of people who have cheated on their spouses.
I’m sure if I spilled the beans at least a few of them would have their lives ruined.
12. I think a lot of us are keeping this secret.
I seem to be the only person who knows that I have no idea what I’m doing. Don’t tell my employer.
11. I guess Mom just couldn’t handle it anymore.
My mom told me my step-father is not my step-sister’s biological father. My step-sister has no idea.
Update: Wow! This completely blew up. Here’s a little more information:
My step-father knows he is not the biological father. He found out when my my step-sister had some blood work done as a baby. She’s O negative. That isn’t possible based on his blood type. He confronted his now ex wife about it and she said it didn’t matter. She said my step-sister was the result of an affair that was a one-time thing and that my step-father raised her as his own and that shouldn’t change.
Also, I will NEVER tell her. It’s not my secret to tell. Besides, my step-father IS her father as far as I’m concerned. She’s smart, kind and a hard-worker in large part due to him raising her, so I don’t care if they don’t share the same bloodline. He’s an amazing man and I consider him a “one of my dads” too.
10. What a douche.
A coworker bragged (at work) about losing his virginity the night of his bachelor party.
His wife still doesn’t know and thinks they lost their virginity to each other on their wedding night.
It’s a VERY big deal to her and would most likely end in their divorce if she ever found out.
9. This hurts my heart.
My GF’s grandfather has a secret family.
He emigrated to my country from the US when he was younger, and kept in touch with his ex (I wanna say wife? Could be girlfriend.)
But he is also dating a woman here, who is the mother of a very prominent political figure in my country (has a decent shot at being our next prime minister). He travels back and forth from my country to the states, to visit “family” and play “golf” and the woman left behind has no idea.
(The one living in the US actually knows about the other one, but the one in my country is fairly religious and would probably not approve…)
8. Time for a vacation.
A former colleague denied vacation requests for staff so he could instead approve a request for a subpar employee that he kissed at an office party.
He’s on an H1-B and if he were fired would have to go back to India and his wife would find out what happened. He’s too lazy to apply for a visa change to get off the H1-B and is a sh%*ty manager in general.
7. This is incredible.
I went to university with a guy who became a very successful drugs dealer on the dark web. He made tens of millions, then quietly retired somewhere in Asia and opened a vegan restaurant. His wife and kids dont have a clue.
Last we spoke he said he still held most of the Bitcoin he collected back then and it’s worth “9 digits” now. I dont want to say much more, he’s the nicest guy who just unwittingly stumbled into a dubious windfall.
6. I can’t believe how common this apparently is.
Me and a few others, unbeknownst to him, spotted the head of my department sloppily making out with a young intern at a work gathering.
He’s in his mid 40s, married with two kids; he’s no longer on an H1-B but did start out on one.
A week later, he asked me to interview her for a position which made no sense since she was in a totally different department/discipline to ours
5. Humans can be so awful.
My adopted daughter’s biological mother had severe mental health issues, and her drug addiction killed her. These stemmed from the fact that she knew she was the product of an incestuous rape, and it was not kept secret.
I don’t ever want my daughter to find out, because I’m afraid of what it could do to her psychologically.
4. That last bit is a downer.
Years ago was trawling sketchy personals listings and came across my then Starbucks manager.
He not only posted this face, but I could also see his sh**ty tattoos so it was definitely him.
Anyhow, he was servicing men and women starting at $100.
I never told anyone and I hated the fact that I’d seen his p**is.
3. So small towns can keep secrets.
I learned from my best friend that my cousin (40 ish m) had an affair with a 20 year old girl (one of my friend’s friend).
My cousin is engaged and have 3 with his fiancé.
I’m from a small town, if I told someone, if would not only ruin their life, but EVERYONE would so know.
His mom is from a high standing family in the area. It would be a disaster
2. This is all terrible.
My brother had an affair with one of my friends mums.
She used to give him a lift to work when he was 18 years old, and she started being suggestive on one drive so they pulled over and you know what. This continued for a long time, over six months. She ended up getting obsessed with him and he blocked her on all social media and his phone and basically buried his head in the sand. Her husband is a huge skin head scary guy that owns one of the pubs, and her son is a lifelong friend of mine.
None of them know. He only told me as she, seemingly, didn’t tell anyone. It’s pretty weird having such a weighted secret
1. I would be sorely tempted.
My ex-boss / ex-best-friend is a covert narcissist who loves lies by omission. He dodges taxes in the stupidest ways by depositing payments from roofing jobs complete with sales tax directly into his personal bank account and then just not reporting it as if they never did the job, and deletes the invoices even though invoice numbers are sequential and he would get found out in a jiff under an audit.
He lies to the Union about how much work is done and under-reports things so he pays them less. He lies about the guys working on his roofs since they’re not really part of the union, but they used to be so he likes to think he can get away with it. He lies to his commercial roofing insurance about the amount of hot work that he does to save on insurance.
Worse is he once dated an underage girl (17?) when he was in his late 20’s and lied about his age for years. He lied to his current lawyer fiance who he now has a kid with about how much he used to deal pot when it was still illegal, and having been arrested for trafficking twice in his life (once charged as a minor and gone as an adult, once dismissed as an adult for “first time” offense with community service hours served). Even worse, is that he likely never told his wife-to-be about that time he dated that underage girl and lied about his age.
Yeah, I can destroy his business with a call to the Union, a call to the insurance, a call to the tax people, a call to his competitors about his lack of safety procedures or paperwork so they can bring the workplace safety inspectors, and utterly rock the rest of his life with his partner and son by exposing that she, yet again, is marrying a giant liar who can’t be trusted with anything. And yet he saw fit to piss me off and still try to affect my unemployment
I’m…speechless. There’s a lot of drama out there, folks.
What secret are you keeping? Share with us in the comments!
