Do you keep a lot of secrets from your parents? Things that you just think they’re better off not knowing?
Maybe they’re little white lies or maybe they’re big, explosive, dark secrets that would shatter their world.
AskReddit users went on the record and revealed what dear old mom and dad don’t know about them.
1. We’re actually married!
“I’ve been married for 6 years. My husband and I have been together almost 40 years but we were crazy kids who didn’t need a piece of paper to prove our love. After a health scare my husband’s sister made a comment that implied she had a closer legal relationship than I did. It was offhanded but it made us think.
We already had wills, medical power of attorney, etc., paperwork done but we decided to get married just to make it more cut and dry. Only a few people know we’re married. Our kids and a couple of close friends. And now some people on Reddit.”
2. A terrible secret
“They accused me of coming home ‘strung out.’ I was actually sexually assaulted and just looked like sh*t.”
3. Parents don’t need to hear some things
“I was raped nearly ten years ago. I have PTSD but told them it’s just a panic disorder.
There’s a running joke in our family about how I’m so jumpy, they don’t know it’s a startle response.
Some things, a parent just doesn’t need to hear about their child.”
4. Sad
“I still have cancer — my mom thinks I’m “cured”
She has Alzheimer’s so we’re not correcting her.”
5. Keep it covered
“That I have a tattoo.
It’s been 4.5 years and they have never seen it.”
6. In the dark
“I’m glad my grandfather is dead.
He was abusive, but I don’t think my parents realized the extent of it.”
7. Emotional abuse
“My mom doesn’t know that the mental/emotion abuse she inflicted on me as a child almost made me kill myself at thirteen/fourteen. She is a very big denier of these actions and manipulations during my childhood but I’ve gone through therapy and have made my peace. We have a decent relationship now but it will never be what I have with my father.
He’s the reason I stayed on this earth and even then I don’t even think he realizes that he literally saved my life when I asked him to fight for my custody at fifteen. I think he knows to some extent but I don’t want to ever ask if he knew bc I know how painful it is for him, he already struggles with the fact that he didn’t fight for me when they split (I was three). He chose to let me decide for myself and didn’t want me to resent him for taking me away from her without my own decision. I
hit my breaking point and he jumped into action with a lawyer and saved my life. I try my hardest to reassure him that he was trying his best and regardless I still turned out okay but I know he still beats himself up over it.”
8. Worried
“How I constantly worry about them dying.”
9. You don’t know me
“Everything, they never took the time to get to know me.”
10. This is scary
“My parents don’t know that I’ve “awakened” to the fact that we are in a cult and that they are blind devotees. 🙁
I wanted to leave but I don’t them to disown me. They are lovely people but they have devoted themselves to this stupid cult that they turn into monsters whenever someone criticizes the religion.
They think I’m “fortunate” because I was born “saved” into this stupid cult but in reality they’re being controlled by the cult’s narcissist leader and siphons their money twice a week.”
11. Not just roommates
“That I share a bed (and more) with my “roommate.” “
12. Hiding it well
“My dad always comments on how confident and chill I seem.
I’m usually experiencing a lot of anxiety, mostly about money and my future. Hard to let those feelings show, though.”
13. That’s depressing
“That I regularly search the obituaries for their names.
I don’t want to have anything to do with them, but I’d like to know when they are dead.”
14. Affected
“That they didn’t provide me with nearly enough emotional connection growing up.
Sure I was provided for, but I was never really connected with on an emotional level.
I wish they knew how much that affects me.”
15. Scandalous!
“That I failed out of college and have been pretending to go to classes.”
Wow… those were some HARROWING stories, right?
Which one of them really made you think?
Share your thoughts in the comments.!
