It is said that "drunk words are sober thoughts" and often, intoxicated people will blurt out something they'd not usually say while sober. It could be an insult, a flirtatious comment, a compliment, or at worst, a dark and dirty secret. It's a known fact that alcohol can lower someone's inhibitions, impair their judgment and cause a load of regret.
When someone recently asked, "What’s something someone told you while drunk you wished they hadn’t?", hundreds of skeletons came tumbling out of the closet. From scandalous affairs to family secrets, and even some serious criminal activity, netizens didn't hesitate to get other people's baggage off their chests. Bored Panda has compiled a list of the craziest drunk confessions to pop up in the replies. Grab a glass of water on the rocks, and keep scrolling for some saucy drunken stories.
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Me and a friend were bar hopping and she started going on a rant about how the age of consent is to protect little girls from creepy men so theres no reason it should be used against women having sex with boys. She continued that if it wasn't for prison she'd have sex with boys as young as would have her. She's in her mid 50s. The whole time i was thinking "wow, I see now why the age of consent laws go both ways.".
Yeh...This should be obvious. Look up passport grannies that go to Africa to abuse underage boys... Also, some Subreddits for "gacha games" where people gamble their money to get underage sexualized characters... Those games gave me an awful vibe as many MANY adults were into them. I could not survive 4 seconds in a subreddit mostly for women... after reading one sentence. Where one unhinged pedophile was having a misandrist rant which ended with her somehow justifying that her lust for underage boys was OK because she is not an "animal" like men... Yehhhh.....Evil non self aware "people" come in all sexes, sexualities, colors, shapes etc... It is an unfortunate part of Humankind as a whole. They were disgusting.
It's supposed that humans are the jewel of the creation. The god, if exists, must be a sadist turd.
Load More Replies...Cripes. I’m 64, and any Man under the age of, say, 50-something, is way too young for me. Hell, my husband is only 3 years younger and sometimes it’s like he’s too young for me. I couldn’t imagine trying to have a relationship with someone not only young enough to be my son, but young enough to be my grandson!
I used to think 15 y/o boys were hot... and then I turned 16. Now, at 59, it's like you said, even a 50y/o can look too young to me. And the idea of a 40y/o just gives me the ick.
Load More Replies...Why did it take this situation for them to realise why consent goes both ways? That's worrying.
My guess OP didn't think earlier that some middle-aged women wanted to sleep with teenagers.
Load More Replies...There is, unforunately, a non-zero amount of people who think that women can't be paedos, and that women raping little boys is the boy leading on the woman.
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When I was 14, my sister told me that I was the product of an affair and that my dad wasn’t my real dad. I brushed it off bc she was very mean spirited and always said f****d up s**t growing up…4 years later my parents came clean about it all because my biological dad was about to get out of prison and was beginning to write letters to my mom telling her that he would find me and tell me himself if they didn’t.
Long story short, my mom was 24 and dad 45 when I was born. They got married only a month in and my mom had a one night stand shortly after in the parking lot of a club, it’s where I was created. My dad found out right away when she got pregnant and even though he was mad as all hell, he was desperately in love with her…he decided to raise me as his own and try to keep the family together (he was stuck in a mid life crisis at the time and had not dealt with his trauma or ptsd from fighting in Vietnam). I think he really loved having such a young, care free, beautiful woman to take care of.
Their marriage lasted only a few years after I was born but he stayed my dad and had split custody with my mom. Even paid child support. He is my guardian angel bc he is an incredibly stable parent and still around at almost 80!
Growing up I was always much taller and very different from him and to be honest, I questioned if we were related at times but never vocally. When they came clean and told me, it was very emotional day…cathartic for them both to finally tell me the truth. My immediate reaction was to hold my dad tight bc I felt so grateful he stayed in my life. Don’t think I could have done the same!
I met my biological pops a few times but he is a very sketchy addict/con artist. I was no longer interested in seeing him after that and got even closer to the dad who raised me…
But back to the focus here, I never forgot that my sister dropped that on me drunk when I was so young…it was apparent to me that everyone was keeping this secret in my family and I didn’t find out until I was 18. Felt like a huge joke but I know it was in my best interest to protect me…Needless to say I have trust issues to this day. My dad and I are very close, my mom and mom’s side of the family (including my sister) - not so much.
Woof that rant was therapeutic, thank you!
Any man can be a father. It takes somebody special to be a DAD. I said this at my dad's funeral. I was lucky. So were you.
Mom and sister sound like real classy ladies 🙄 nonbiologiccal Dad sounds amazing though 💙
When I was 9 or 10, my dad woke me up in the middle of the night. He was sitting on the foot of my bed and he’d had a few. He was a single father—my mom died when I was very young and my siblings all moved out—and when he noticed I was awake, he just looked at me and said, “You know…I just want you to know that my life would have been so much easier if you were never born.”
Then he got up and left the room, lol.
Edit: Thanks, everyone, for the heartfelt concern. To just provide a blanket response, this was my reply for someone on this thread, and I just wanted to put it here for for both the “screw that guy” and “how are you now” folks:
“Nah…revenge isn’t all that great. Why keep the cycle going when it doesn’t have to? The thing I learned from growing up with a parent like that—and there’s lots more stories to tell, lol—is that some people are just lashing out because there’s something deep and fundamentally wrong inside of them. You can either let it be contagious and infect you, or you can kill that monster with kindness and empathy.
Everyone deals differently, but it’s worked for me, lol”
I hope you all have a great day and genuinely hope everyone here can take whatever trauma they’ve been through and use it as a catalyst to help others.
Why the F would you go out of your way to do that? I am all for empathy but children being hurt and abused is where i draw the line for "unforgivable".
Yes. I had a (now ex) friend sitting with her kid in her lap, looking at him and telling me that she wished every day that he hadnt been born. She wanted a girl instead. The child was dressed in a pink dress as well as the older boy. I felt so sorry for them. Kids can choose any clothes they like, but this was an attempt from the parents side to pretend they where girls.
My mother always said that to me, right before the beating began; she loved her babies but hated her children...
I'm with you 100% (poster- person 😎). There is a reason for ALL behavior. The bigger, more evolved person uses compassion and empathy. We cannot let our ego run things. I admire you for all you've learned!! So many never will. You're one of the lucky ones. You go!! 👌🏼🙏🏼👏🏼
When Jamie Foxx sang “Blame It On The Alcohol”, he was speaking on behalf of the many drunk people who have done or said something they probably shouldn’t have. But researchers have found that blaming it on the booze is not a valid excuse. A 2011 study, published in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, revealed it’s not that drunk people don’t know what they’re doing, but rather, they just don’t care.
My S.O. went out for drinks with a girlfriend. When I picked her up she was hammered drunk. Anyway, she couldn't stop talking about the bartender.
He had the same exact hairstyle as me, the same beard, dressed similar, same kind of demeanor. The difference was that he was extremely attractive. I said something about sounds like a cool dude, she said:
"He's just like you: only he's actually hot. If I could I would f**k him tonight."
Here's the deal folks, I have no problem accepting that I am freakishly ugly. It's been a running joke in our relationship about a -4 getting with an 8. But hearing her say that kind stung differently. I've thought about that night at least once a week since then and it was 5 years ago.
I would have said OK go get him....I will find someone beautiful on the inside and outside you b*****
Ugly is an inside thing. You deserve better than to be spoken to like that.
I'm sad that he started by saying "my SO" instead of "my former SO". That means he stayed with her after that. I know people say stupid things when they're drunk. But I think this is a case of her showing her true colors. Hopefully OP at least took a step back to look for other red flags. And hopefully he didn't find any. I really doubt there weren't more flags though 🫤
The update-Wow, I wasn't expecting this much of an enthusiastic response. I simply gave the broad brush strokes of the situation. This did cause a lot of hurt, and led to a lot of serious discussion when she was sober. We have worked through it boys, and we are fine. To add further context, she wasn't stating that she intended or desired to cheat, rather that if she was single she would have thrown herself at the guy. We live together, and honestly I would be very shocked to learn she found time to cheat. Additionally there is a lot of nuance to the relationship I can't briefly explain here that gives me trust and confidence in her and the relationship. As to my overall well-being and self confidence, you are misreading the situation. I've been trapped in my disgusting mutant shell for over 40 years. If I didn't have a sense of humor about my looks, I would be pretty miserable. As you get older, there is something to be said about knowing your limitations and working within them.
Load More Replies...It's a rare person who's actually freakishly ugly to everyone, or anyone for that matter. Most humans actually partner off even without some model level looks. But if your partner doesn't think you're attractive enough to be with - shuck the partner and find someone who won't try to convince you, that you're a freak. Signed Ugly Duck in the mirror, still handsome to at least one person
It's inconceivable to me that a person can love someone and not find them beautiful. Beauty is all I see in the face of every person I love.
That he was in love with a 17 year old girl, and had been since he had met her at 12 years old. Guy was closing in on 40.
THIS is the kind of stuff you don't tell your bartender.
Had a neighbor who told me he had been waiting for me to grow up so he could ask me out. I had known him since I was 9. Creepy doesn't begin to describe it.
"Love" Yeh that word does not mean what this thing thinks it means... This might be coming from the darkest corners of my mind but I think Animals like that need to be locked up and studied. Figured out what part of humanity to remove to not produce them anymore. It is very Eugenicy I know...But that is a thought I have... At least I know it is dark...
Guy should be talking to a therapist, not a bartender. Anyway, probably going to be downvoted into suspension, but it's a hill I am willing to die on: nobody chooses to have pedosexual preferences. People should be judged and condemned by their actions, not their thoughts. The world would be a safer place if pedos could out themself to allow safety measures to apply and seek therapy, without being condemned regardless how responsibly they deal with their issue. Also: as a psychologist I can assure you that so far studies have shown that the preference seems to occure pretty random. So dream on with your minority report fascist fantasy...
Load More Replies...What Celine Dion ending up marrying her manager who’d known her since she was a young girl!! Gives me the creeps!!!
Yeah but, they genuinely had a weird and true connection and they both waiting for a more acceptable age (her at 19-20) before they got together- albeit it was a naughty way to get together as he was still married, but as a huge fan of Celine, you need to case by case her story. My mum met her future would mate and forever partner with a weird age gap and they were friends forever after that and then when my mum left my dad, they got together finally and have been together for over 25yrs. Sometimes and VERY RARELY people can be decent in these circumstances. But listen to her story on her life and not other peoples opinions on it, cos we can all make up and imagine horrible stuff without talking or hearing the person directly.
Load More Replies...Bartenders and hair dressers are the original therapists, as people trust them and sometimes just need to connect with a human for short term empathy. It helps to keep in mind we are responsible for our choices, NOT our urges.
This! You put it so much more succinct and better than I could!
Load More Replies...Didn't some paper have a countdown until Emma Watson was legal? Maybe I misremembering the celebrity, but it 🤮 was a thing.
Men have countdowns for every female child star and have done it for basically ever.
Load More Replies...On the fence on this one. Nobody chooses their feelings, and what do you do if you have let's call it the mental disability of feeling attracted to children? It's the acting on it that is creepy and shameful. Drunkenly confessing it to a stranger...well, just let it out this once and then bury it again. While we should go harder against acting pedophiles we should also provide a system of help of those who feel like that but don't want to act it out.
The research team split 67 young adults into three groups. Two groups got placebo alcoholic drinks, while the third received real liquor. That group drank until their blood alcohol content (BAC) was around .09 percent, or just over the legal driving limit at that time. All three groups were asked to complete a task after drinking, whereby they had to identify flashing pictures. Each participant was asked if they answered the previous question correctly, incorrectly or was unsure. The researchers noted that all three groups made mistakes.
“People who were drunk were just as likely to admit their mistake as those who were sober,” said Bruce Bartholow, author of the study. He added that sober participants would slow down and adjust their behavior after an error. But the drunk ones carried on as usual, even after knowing they'd made a mistake. “People need to be aware of where they are drinking and who they are with to understand the implications of their possible actions,” warned Bartholow, seemingly addressing people like those featured on this list.
An older buddy of mine told me he and all his friends had run to enlist after 9/11, and that he’d pressured them all to do it. He ended up being turned away over a medical issue while they all went over to Afghanistan and died. That’s why he had changed from a fit, clean cut kid into the overweight, melancholy alcoholic he was. We were out at a playground late at night, and I’ll never forget it. I made the mistake of telling him it wasn’t his fault, and he picked me up by my collar and gave me a look of such rage that I thought he’d deck me for sure. Then he sagged and let me go. I guess some weights are as hard to put down as they are to bear.
He made me swear never to tell and I haven’t. He was one of my hometown’s favorite people, someone who was warm and kind to his very center, and he was truly beloved despite his addiction. He died a couple years back in a car crash while drunk, on his way home from playing Santa for the kids.
I had a friend who... after a while got upset at everything, he then told us he was enlisting and going to afgan, he said the second he hoped they shoot him, I hadn't heard from him for over 20 years, last I heard he did go..... And I hope he did die, cause it turned out he R*ped another of my friends.... Joel.... Dont come back
My dad was denied enlistment during WWII because of a medical issue and all his buddies enlisted. He never mentioned who made it or who didn’t, but he was a bit sad he couldn’t join them. He ended up having a lifetime career as a civilian employee in one of the military branches. In hindsight, I should have told him that if he had enlisted and didn’t make it back, me and my other siblings wouldn’t exist!
I'm having a hard time believing this. A little over 2400 American soldiers died in Afghanistan, mostly in the first decade. Over 800,000 served and yet, ALL his friends died?
Dude may have only had a handful of friends. If they enlisted and were deployed shortly after 9/11, this is very believable.
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My mom: "You don't understand, all my children are dead."
Me: "I'm still here."
Mom: "when everyone you love dies, it changes things. I'm not a mother anymore.".
I'm really sorry you had to hear this. No one deserves a parent like your mother.
when your father still talks about your deceased brother after 5 years, and laments the fact that he has no heirs, as the surviving child is gay, and therefore not as important as the deceased child
Reminds me about my abusive mother. When I was about 19, she cursed me "to go through all the hell and pain she had gone through". Moved away years ago and went low contact with my whole family. Recently, she snapped at me that she never received any support or affection from my father or her parents; and that is why she had been treated me so cold and mean: so that I could feel the same way she had felt.
Dementia? If not leave brochures from Medicaid nursing homes lying around.
On several occasions my gay friends who do not know one another, have confessed to wanting to sleep with me or fantasizing about me after drinking.
I know how it feels now when women have close friends turn around trying to f**k them. It's distressing and gross at the same time and very quickly ruins a friendship.
Note that there is a difference between asking someone out / confessing you have an interest vs telling them about your fantasies. The first one might go badly for you, sure, because there are complications to navigating a friendship where there are feelings that go just one way. But the second is involving them in a sexual conversation against their consent, and it's REAL gross. Also, you might guess that the person who is interested in you might fantasize about you, but it's easy to brush away and pretend they don't, but you can never get away from knowing 100% that they do. Don't do it folks, regardless of either person's gender.
A friend of mine went swimming in a river with his hiking group a couple of years ago, butt-naked as they didn't bring swim clothes. One of their group is openly gay, and he side-eyed my buddy (almost 2m, pretty muscular - good-looking, by all means) all the time. My friend told me about that later and mentioned how weird it felt to be assessed like that. I told him "yeah, and that's how women feel basically all the time when in public". You could see the gears turning behind his eyes, and after a good couple of seconds he went "oh... wow... now that you say it...". It did open his eyes a little on what a gaze alone can mean to somebody.
This is 9 mo. old, but I will say something I did that opened someone's eyes too, although some might not believe it happened. I went to a restaurant for drinks with several friends, all straight (I'm gay). After two of them followed the waitress with their eyes until she was no longer visible, and then talked about it, I told them "that's how I was checking you out when you went to the bathroom". They know me well, so they know that wasn't true, but at least one of them, I remember, expressed how that was something he had never thought about.
Load More Replies...So ... some people who have never actually propositioned you got drunk and admitted that they find you sexually attractive? That sounds horrible. Or like a hugely successful movie if you leave out the drunk part.
I honestly don’t see the problem here as long as they accept that the guy posting this doesn’t feel the same way about them. I get that it might be kinda awkward at first, but as long as thier not trying to flirt with him I don’t see why the friendship has to end
Well I am bisexual and got stress cause I told my friends,I would never seduce or f**k them, cause I don't want to ruin friendships... Ended they were pissed off cause I obviously find them ugly 🙄 I am bisexual, not a predator on everyone pretty
Just because you confess you have fantasies about SO doesn't mean you're going to jump on them - big difference ! :)
Was out drinking with an older relative who told me a story about accidentally killing a kid while serving in a war. Pretty f****d up story. I could tell it was really weighing on his conscience even 50+ years later.
Glad he was able to get it out... I can't imagine having that weigh on you for so long. All because some unhinged folk made the conditions for a war to be inevitable.
My bf and I, on our first date bonded over our trauma 😂. Mine, medically, his being in the wars… he has NEVER told ANYONE, not even his family what he did or saw, but he was just telling me like word vomit and kept apologising.. I asked him why.. he said because he doesn’t talk about It or tell anyone, even the psychs they forced him to see.. I asked if he felt bad, scared or worried telling me all of it and he immediately said no, put his hand on my mid back and we kept walking and talking and he told me more.:.. The trauma that man had seen… it’s a miracle we see have our living veterans in Australia, the US etc, and I understand why they won’t speak to anyone,, because I KNOW for a fact the government doesn’t give a shít about them!! But wow, he’s been through it… Now we’re just working on when he shuts down mentally, emotionally and verbally.. I give him his space, but I still text and let him know I’m here and I’m still going to be here when he’s ready to hang out again…
Load More Replies...My stepfather was in the Korean War. He was in town one day and saw a man walking a 3 legged dog. (He also loved animals.) When he got home he broke down and described another soldier who had a leg blown off. One night he and family friend spent a couple of hours drinking martinis and he broke down again and began talking about a kid he had accidentally shot. You can say he shouldn't have been drinking at all, but I noticed in his case and another that these guys were self-medicating and came from an era where talking about trauma was not encouraged.
I can't understand why after all the centuries of war they haven't come with a better way of dealing with PTSD. They have better ways to kill but not a better way to deal with hell these kids go thru.
I'm Catholic and we get a lot of flak for some of our practices. But for a believer, the absolution granted upon confession is a gift beyond measure.
I guess that must have worked out quite nicely and conveniently for all the soldiers who participated in the Crusades, which were religious wars INITIATED AND SUPPORTED by the Catholic Church. Literally millions of innocent Muslim women and children were slaughtered by Catholic soldiers in order to "retake" Jerusalem in the "name" of God. I'm so glad that confession can absolve murderers of the slaughter of innocent victims. You can go throw your talk of "absolution" in a lake - your church is stained with the blood of innocents.
Load More Replies...Alcohol has long been seen as a "truth serum," encouraging hours of "brutal honesty" that you may, or may not, live to regret. There's an old Latin saying that goes "In vino veritas." Bluntly put: "In wine, there is truth." The phrase is reportedly attributed to "Pliny the Elder, a Roman scientist, historian and soldier, though similar aphorisms can be traced back even further, to ancient Greece."
A former buddy of mine asked me how much I would charge him to kill his BabyMama. He mistook a prior mercenary career as something that I'd entertain. And funny enough. 3 people over the course of my life have actually inquired about that. F****n nuts.
Wonder if these people got reported, if someone wants it done bad enough they will keep asking around until they find a taker.
I'm asking because I genuinely want to know but what would the police do? No crime has actually been committed so there's nothing to investigate.
Load More Replies...So ... just because you once offered to kill people for money other people mistakenly thought you might kill for money?
They ask you for a reason. They're not asking their hairdressers. You were the mercenary.
It's easy to think the solution is to go to the cops but, how can you prove it was said?
A coworker once confessed they were cheating on their husband with a colleague, who was also a friend. Her son was my best friend of some ten years. Her husband was my boss. The person she was cheating with once saved my life in a sticky situation. That was not very fun.
More than that, her loose lips are threatening a fair chunk of collateral damage to multiple parts of your life. Advise her to keep her mouth shut, assuming her legs won't do the same.
Load More Replies...I think the OP should be flogged for not including a flowchart with that.
A coworker and the boss were having an affair. I knew but, being 15 at the time, I said nothing. When they ran off together the bosses wife sacked me for not telling her.
Secrets... are more often than not, pure poison. Badda bing badda boom.
A recently-divorced groomsman at my wedding was slouched drunkenly against the wall of our dressing room as we were getting out of our tuxes after the reception, and blurted out…
“My greatest regret from my marriage is letting my wife f**k me in the a*s with a strap-on.”
Which, to be clear, we’re all open-minded, progressive individuals so no biggie. But we weren’t expecting THAT, right THEN.
If I'da let my ex-wife up me poop chute with a strap-on it'd definitely make my Top Ten Regrets list
Load More Replies...It doesn't even have to be quid pro quo. If you're in a relationship you sometimes do things you don't really want to do for a variety of reasons, including sometimes doing things your partner wants even if it's not your cup of tea because you want your partner to be happy.
Load More Replies...The guy has a lot of issues. It’s one thing to not be into something but it’s completely different to let one night color your entire relationship.
That is the thing. Maybe he was forced into it and this is some cry for help/ confession kinda thing. You would be surprised how many cases are of guys saying they got raped or forced to do stuff they did not want... only to be laughed at. This could be that... cus as you said why else would it be stuck in his mind. Issues indeed!
Load More Replies...At break time a co-worker suddenly blurted out in front of everyone that he was teabagged at a party recently. Not the worst, but not something you share with a bunch of machinists who by nature are a bunch of a-holes on a good day. He suddenly picked up the nickname "Teabag".
Maybe she called him names while doing it. He could have just told the tip of the iceb--oh s**t, what if it WAS an iceberg?!
Load More Replies...“Alcohol stifles reasoning skills and contemplating repercussions," notes Rehabs.com. "As a result, people are more likely to tell the truth while intoxicated, offering up brutally honest, unfiltered opinions. And without the fear of consequences, alcohol can give people the courage to do or say things they ordinarily wouldn’t entertain.”
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism's Aaron White says alcohol makes us more likely to say whatever's on our minds. But adds that it's not always the truth. "In some cases, it could be what you think is the truth in your intoxicated state," he said. Either way, it's safe to say alcohol makes us more likely to say something we might regret when we are sober.
When I was 10, my parents divorced. Mom took us to Cabo for Christmas and got white girl wasted at the pool bar at our hotel. This old dude kept buying my mom drinks and I voiced my concern. Old dude laughed at me for trying to stop him.
After a while, my mom floats over to me and proceeds to tell me that I’m her favorite child and that she never really liked my brother. Tried to tell her she didn’t mean it, but she just kept saying I was her favorite child. Weirdly f****d me up as a kid.
This so f****d up when they are 10+- yo kids. After they leave the nest and start their adult lives it could be ok I guess... As at that point they are "people" with agency. Even then ppl can be unhinged vile and irrational about it like the dad from lord of the rings and how he "dealt" with his kids Boromir and Faramir...
was a joke in the family between my sis and brother {Them and I felt it didn't count me as i was adopted so obviously was a Fav lol} My brother {6 years younger than my sis and shes js just 2 years younger then me} always got everything he wanted, my sister usually didn't or got his stuff if he got a new one, but they a;ways say "he is the fav child But She is the Good child" she got away with a lot of stuff lol
I was at a bar and was chatting with this married couple I'd just met that night. We'd both been drinking a fair bit, but the wife was probably the most drunk.
A one point this guy walks in and comes and sits with us as he apparently knows them. Shortly after, the wife and I go up to the bar to get another round of drinks and she says to me "well this is awkward. My husband is sitting next to the guy I'm cheating on him with".
Why would you say this to someone you just met?
Cause she wants to get caught - she’s too chicken to end it responsibly.
I'm not ashamed. And he deserved to know. My local pub. New boyfriend sitting next to me. Chatting up dude next to him. They were enjoying the conversation. ,"Honey, will you come out to the smoking area? ". Where I told him I'd tapped that. Don't lie. My now husband was cool about it but I would have died not telling him. He deserved to know
I am not sure I follow XD I don't understand what you said.
Load More Replies...Probably. Better than telling your husband's best friend. telling a stranger something gives you catharsis and leaves no traces.
My girlfriend told me while she was inebriated, that we were “together” but not really together. That was the end of that relationship.
Maybe she needed to be drunk to pull a trigger she'd wanted to pull for a long time.
Load More Replies...I could very well be wrong but I think she meant they were friends with benefits and he'd thought they were in an actual relationship?
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My now ex girlfriend told me while we were having sex that she f****d another guy the night before.
WHILE !?! She's saved you some time, regardless, a tough transition. ALCOHOL... my former husband (and current BFF 👍🏼) is from Trinidad, where alcohol is referred to as 'devil's soup'! One of their MANY wonderful sayings. I wish you well. 🙏🏼😎
I was in earshot but it was not told directly to me. My mom had a little to drink this thanksgiving and tried to whisper to my brother that he was her favorite. My brother was upset by it too and we called her out on it. Not that it does much good. She has dementia and I do a lot for her, but she still hates me quite often unfortunately.
When my mom was in her last days, she called each of us in for a last private talk. The topic varied with the child, but she told every one of us "Don't ever tell the others, but you were my favorite." She knew damn well that we'd compare notes about those talks at her funeral. She went out laughing.
People with dementia often say hateful things they don't mean. They can fail to recognise the person they've been married to for 50 years. It's hard but from personal experience I know you have to ignore most of what they say and do when dementia takes hold
So true. Their minds jumble things and boundaries blur. This could be the result of nothing more than OP having a haircut similar to the mother's fourth grade bully. So that person and her child become one to her. Sadly, there's just no way to know what she really feels.
Load More Replies...My grandmother got a bit drunk on her 85th birthday and while I was driving her home afterwards she told me she had a dry vagina. :O (TMI Grandma!!) I nearly wrecked the car. After I took her inside I sat there laughing so hard I cried. I told my mom she had to drive the next time her mother drank alcohol. :)
My mother works with people with dementia, I occasionally came to work with her and I got along with the people really well. There was this one old lady and we spent like 2 hours playing games and talking about her horse riding career, she told me she wished I was her daughter but I laughed it off. Then her actual daughter came to visit, and suddenly this sweet old lady got so angry because the daughter wanted to take her for a walk. She screamed to her daughter what a disappointment she was and she was so mad that her daughter never had any interest in horses and that I was her daughter now (I’ve been working with horses for years). Her daughter looked at me and said “it’s fine” but when I left soon after that I saw her crying in her car. I haven’t been back since and I’ll never forget the daughter’s face, I suppose even if you know they don’t mean it it doesn’t make it hurt any less.
Of course, she may not have even known which child she was saying that to.
Oh they know. They might not be able to remember the names and most specifics. But they keep a core feeling about their close ones. Now you shouldn't take anything they say literally but they know, or feel, who is who.
Load More Replies...Sucks being the 'favorite'. I am, and was told by both parents, who'd been divorced 30 years. A dysfunctional family, but... Wish I didn't know. Mom also told me I had the highest. IQ Parents... Life... Learning... and on...
Don’t blame your mother. It’s the disease. It hurts because you would never imagine her saying those things. She wouldn’t believe it either. She is confused and afraid. Paranoia, anger, memory loss, frustration, depression are all part of dementias at one stage or another. Please learn about the disease. It will help you understand that it’s not your mom, it’s the disease.
My mother often told me that my brother was the favorite towards the end of her life when she wasn’t clear on who I was any more. Great feeling to be the primary caregiver and hear that the like your siblings more when they aren’t even there.
Just remember, you have the baseball bat now, and she has the plastic hip. Jeffrey (1995)
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My mom told me I was an accident. I was “proof the rhythm method and pulling out doesn’t work” and that she briefly considered abortion. I’ve heard so many people say that hearing that from a parent would be traumatizing and offensive but it doesn’t bother me at all 😂 my mom and I love each other so very much, she’s incredible.
I was an accident, parents had 2, a boy and girl, didn't need a 3rd. I am the one who loves them to bits. My brother passed but when he lived he had a whole asked list of all the things he wished they were and disappointments. My sister, exactly the same. Not saying none of their gripes weren't true but considering they married at 16 (f) and 19(m) and in abject poverty, travelled half way round the world as immigrants with 2 suitcases and 3 kids, never hit us, always clothed and fed us, helped with all our first cars, homes, weddings etc...I just don't see why my siblings have the right to be down on them. They did the best they knew ffs.
Ungrateful and looked down at your parents because they weren’t given what other kids had 🙄. I’m the same as you. I was the unwanted 3rd. My mum admitted it accidentally was as though I’m stupid and can’t do maths lol. The older two are literal narcissists. One is married but treats her husband like cráp, and is ALWAYS YELLING at him and the kids, the second is an oxygen thief junkie, waste of space.! I do everything I can to help my parents, including splitting all of the bills with them. I stay living at home at my age so they don’t have to live on soup and toast all the time:.. My mum is also unfortunately an enabler and let’s the junkie live here at 43.. it pays nothing to live here but she won’t kick it out because ‘she brought it into the world so it’s her problem to deal with,. It’s not fair for her to make the world deal with her problem’… 🙄 again, at 43…….
Load More Replies...I guess it comes down to whether the parent sees having the baby as a life-ruining mistake or a happy little accident (to borrow from Bob Ross).
Load More Replies...I tracked down my birth mother, she told me I was the result of a date r*pe d**g, and that her mother had told her to get rid of "it", meaning me. She chose not to. I have had no further contact with my birth mother, at her request, but in the last letter I wrote to her I told her she has a granddaughter and two great-grandchildren. I hope the news made her tribulations worthwhile?
Communication is OK. I'm glad you two are secure in your relationship and that this information doesn't bother you. Context.
Reminds me of Hal and Lois from Malcolm in the Middle: Hal: I never wanted a vasectomy. There are plenty of other methods out there. Lois: Oh, yeah, they work. We've got our rhythm method child, our diaphragm child, our condom child. Oh, yes, and our two abstinence children!
My mom told me on my 18th birthday that I was an "accident" and she loved my (now deceased) sis more than me.
My uncle shot my grandad when he was 5 years old. Dad told me drunk. My uncle has always been the most miserable cold person and it was that moment I realised why. Insane situation I wish I didn't know about.
Edit: This was in the UK not America for people asking. Yes he died and I'm fairly sure it must have been an accident.
It could've happened during/after WWII. I'm 48 and my four grandparents were born between 1891-1910.
Load More Replies...That is some strange wording at the end there. "Fairly sure it must've been an accident", heck, at 5 years old, most children are just starting to get a vague idea of what death is. Even if the little boy was angry at his dad and intentionally shot him, he had no idea about the very real consequences of that action.
Well I am very sure as no 5 YO kid would be capable of fully understanding what they were doing. Even assuming they are a super gifted savant kind of kid... The life experience is necessary for intelligence of that level to lead to maturity.
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Someone very close to me had a traumatic experience at work and gave themselves alcohol poisoning trying to cope with it. While taking care of him, he gave me all of the gory details of what a child's body sounds, looks, and smells like during the process of burning to death. He has no memory of having told me - and I've never admitted it.
Or other kind of first responder. That or they have a *really* bizarre job.
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My cousin is unhappily married to his wife of 4 years and damn near every time I’m hanging out with him, he informs me he and his wife are fighting.
Anyways, one night we were grilling and having some drinks and he told me that his wife had put her hands on him (violently) and that he kicked down his front door shortly thereafter because she had locked him outside of his house.
We went from hanging out every weekend to maybe seeing each other once a month after I found that out. It’s obvious they aren’t going to divorce and are both playing a never-ending game to see who can make the other more miserable and it’s just exhausting being around a couple like that.
I am dating his wife’s friend which is the only reason I ever see them anymore.
You have not described a mutual effort to make both people miserable, just the guy being tormented here. I would need to assume she also has valid issues for it to be shared blame.
Lexekon, have you ever seen some one kick down a door? It is very scary and violent. I'm not claiming to know her reason for locking him out, but taking the front door off the hinges with brute force isn't the diplomatic way to deal with that. As a survivor of that kind of abuse, I can tell you that the trauma of knowing I could never have defendable, safe space has fueled more lasting fear than the physical abuse. We def don't have the whole story here, but trust me, they BOTH have valid issues. Both of them should be separated and get professional help.
Load More Replies...Typical response to DV on men. Brother works up the courage to tell someone his wife hit him, OP's response is to distance themselves because it's "exhausting".
🤨 We learn as we go... IF we're brave and smart enough to push 'fear of outcomes ' to the side. Always listen to your gut (intuition), not your head! ✨Try it and see what happens.
Someone told me once that they boinked their sibling, almost in a bragging manner.
They didn't remember saying anything about it the next day, so I didn't bring it up again. We haven't spoken in a long time.
My mother seduced my dad at a halloween party so she could have me as a baby to replace the baby she aborted.
Never happened you mean. Never go for a one night stand to have a kid when the other person is not informed of the o Plan. Very rapey if you ask me...
Load More Replies...It could be a spontantious abortion, that there was something very wrong with the fetus and her body rejected it, or it died in the womb
Let's hope mom is doing better. She made an ethically dubious choice in mental crisis, but it could be that all is good now.
Abortion isn't "ethically dubious". It's the mother's body and her choice.
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Got absolutely hammered and told me he was no longer attracted to his partner / mother of his child, thinks he is "only into black girls" and that he was afraid to tell me because I have divorced parents, and that he was "just going to ride it out."
His partner does *everything* for him. Like, absolutely everything for him. He totally takes her for granted and it's been a source of tension between us for a while now - on my end because I didn't want to see him f**k a good thing up and just assumed he was being a man child. Which is like...that's a fixable problem. Now I don't even know what to say to him.
All I said was that if they split up while his daughter is still a toddler, it will minimize the damage. If he just "rides it out" it increases the likelihood that he leaves at a worse time, that he cheats, or that he just teaches his daughter that being miserable in your relationship is normal.
He then said:
"Ya but like, I don't want her to wind up like you."
Ah, yes, like a well adjusted dude who supported his mother and younger sibling after his dad abandoned his family, had to find his own role models and learn everything on his own, has become successful and prides himself in always being there for the people he cares about / who care about him, to the degree that I'm listening to his wasted a*s at 3AM on *my* vacation, and is the god father to his child. To be clear this is not his first like, "divorce only happens to *certain* people" kind of ignorant comment.
The next day he didn't remember what he said and I live 6 months out of the year on another continent so I've just kind of let it slide but...friendship ending I think. But he was hammered, grew up extremely coddled in a wealthy 2 parent home...has no idea what he's even f*****g talking about, so ya...trying to let it go. Not sure I will / can though. Unfortunately.
edit - not to mention the whole "only being into a certain race" thing is...not awesome. But that's kind of a secondary issue.
"In wine, the truth". One of my favourite sayings, that.
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I am the king of being told by drunken friends/co-workers: "I USED to be so into you/attracted to you".
And it's always someone that I had a massive crush on at the time they said they were into me. So many missed opportunities.
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - Wayne Gretzy
I personally regret telling my best friend I saw 3 witches executed by rubber necklaces while I was in the peace corps because they said I was lying. Sometimes it is better to say nothing.
If it's what I think it is it involves torching someone who is trapped with a tire.
Load More Replies...Try following Land Of Hope on Instagram or Facebook. They save children accused of being witches. It so sad what people do to these children but Land Of Hope gives them their smiles back.
In many African, Middle eastern and Sth American countries, witches are claimed to exist as evil and are still punished by death by rabid town elders. Those are the types of places a peace Corp would indeed be deployed by request of sane governments that need help.
Load More Replies...Women accused of witchcraft got tied up, stuck into tyres and then set to fire would be my guess
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My girlfriend once drunkenly told me about her ex's large penis. I'd be lying if I said I haven't thought about it every day since.
That may sound comforting at first, but it comes down to a series of choices she made. Why would she even mention that, if she were happy with her current situation? Very likely the OP's same question inside...
Load More Replies...Having a huge dinghy doesn't mean you know how to put in the dock correctly. 😉
When I talk about large penises it's usually to complain. They can be quite painful.
Yeah, then YOU say your ex had the most beautiful (fill in the blank).
"I had a crush on you for years, but... I have a boyfriend now.".
Came back to the UK after 2 years in Canada and bumped into an ex-colleague I had really, REALLY fancied but never had the courage to ask out. Went for a coffee and she said she could never figure out why I'd never asked her out . . . . Too late, she was heading out for a new job in Hong Kong the next week :o(
My dad (70s) once told me that he saw his dad at the drive-in with a much younger gf while he was still married to my Nana. Somehow she found out about it and located the girl’s family. When my Nana ratted out the other woman, the girl’s family actually sent her back to Mexico as a punishment for embarrassing them.
Not sure having the other woman shipped off back to Mexico did anything about the husband's tendency to cheat, but it's not what the wife had in mind when she told the family anyway, and the little "while he was STILL married to my Nana" makes it look like she grew wise to that eventually.
I loved Mexico when I was there, not sure I'd consider that a punishment
That's quite possibly the most ignorantly privileged thing I've read today. You presumably went there AS A TOURIST, to the nice locations groomed for tourists. I'm assuming you didn't go into any of the shantytowns where 10 people live in a single-room shack made from scrap metal and bricks, with no utilities. Yeah, I'm sure YOU enjoyed Mexico. Many native Mexicans grow up in incredible poverty and do anything they can to emigrate and escape it.
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We had a friend who didn't smoke much weed we'll call him Tom, we have a party, he smokes weed. Tom doesn't feel good so he goes and lays on the couch to try to sleep it off.
We have another friend we'll call Al. Al drinks a lot, to the point of incoherence... Like one time he shows up at a new year party at my house with a 60 year old lady that looks a lot like his mom, gets floor licking drunk and shits his pants.
Anyways, Tom's laying on the couch and Al comes in, he figures Tom's sleeping so he will bare his soul. He talks for 5 minutes about how bad he wants to f**k his own mom, getting into graphic detail..
Eventually he goes to the washroom and Tom immediately gets up and comes outside to tell us what Al told him.
So not told to me directly, but I wish Al would have kept that to himself.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH The composure shown by Tom is on a level i cannot imagine!
Likely a shock response. Like someone that witnesses a horrible accident. The brain just cannot process what its experienced for a moment.
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Drunk at Epcot on the 2nd or 3rd day of our honeymoon, my ex proudly announced to a staff member that she got married to see Disney world and didn’t actually love me.
I thought “maybe she’s doing a bit” because the nice Disney people were trained to congratulate us on the bride hat and the first Disney visit pin, so we were getting a lot of attention - maybe she thought it would be funny to make the underpaid high school students uncomfortable.
>!*It was not a bit*!
That horrible little bitc! I hope you divorced her pretty quick. Sorry she did that to you.
Because she's a gold- digging little wh*re and didn't want to pay for her own vacation. BTW, she said it in the comment itself.
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That I was hot and sexy and she liked built guys like me with chest and arms and belly like that, and rubbed her hands all over to check my muscles and build.
While her husband stood to the side.
Like two hours ago.
Eh i don't kink shame. But i do consent shame. She better have asked if she could handle you like that.
Unless this ended with "my husband likes to watch/share" then this is all levels of wrong. Really hope the OP gave consent for her to be touching him.
A cancer diagnosis of a dear friend. We weren’t supposed to know. So had to act as if we didn’t know anything. It was very distressing.
If you were not supposed to know, how did you get to know about it? I'm guessing the one with cancer wanted you not to know so he/she would not be treated any differently. Sometimes, pity can be suffocating.
I'm guessing a friend of the friend with cancer let it slip to the rest of the friend group.
Load More Replies...Fakest chemopic ever. They don't put the drip in your elbow, because chemo ruins your veins and they need that vein for bloodtests.
...And you're basing that on what? I've survived Cancer 2 times and may be going through round 3 after all of my tests come in. What they can do is an ultrasound on your arm to locate A vein that can be used. I've had IV'S all over my body, due to the amount of times that I've been stuck. I just spent 15 days in the hospital due to Hypokylemia Neuropathy, my potassium dropped to 2.2 (the lowest should be 3.5) and when I was admitted my blood pressure was 82/51 and had went into Renal Failure. I was rushed to the hospital Nov 2 and was so out of it that I didn't even remember who won the election until days later. I had to go back on Dec 5 and stayed another 3 days. Right now I'm going through so many tests, which 75% has involved IV'S of some kind. The point is that it is possible to have an IV or a stick in that location.
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I had an ex girlfriend I was with for almost 2 years by that point, she was drinking with me and a friend, she got tipsy with us at an artist's showcase. The artist and I were having an awesome conversation, his work was phenomenal, leaving my friend and ex to see the art with the other guests.
My ex comes over to me, grabs me by the chin and says "hmm, you know I've never seen it before, but you're kinda hot."
My old friend being a good friend at the time promptly shut it down by saying "that's not the compliment you think it is.".
My father, at his retirement party, called my only sibling his favorite son during a big speech at the end of the night.
"My mom said she didn't have a favorite. Disappointing, as I was an only child."
My uncle at his golden child's wedding in his speech mentioned he was so happy to finally have a daughter in the family.... while standing next to his actual bio daughter on her birthday (yes her golden brother planned his wedding on his sister's birthday)
Well, if OP is not son but daughter, it wouldn't be quite as bad, I guess.
Really a sad, revolting Dad. Or, maybe he is angry with you about something?
When my mother turned 50 my grandfather's speech started out with commenting on the horrible weather, then he said he didn't recall the weather on the day she was born but on my uncle's day of birth the weather was fantastic. Then he talked a bit more about my uncle, mentioned that me and my two sisters turned out well and what jobs me and my older sister had, then asking what my little sister was up to with what he assumed was a discreet whisper. And that was it. Nothing about my mom.
Last year I went to a concert with my then gf and some friends. One couple had to cancel last minute, so my brother and one of gf's coworkers came along.
Her coworker (married with kids) seems to have some projection issues when she's been drinking (there were other examples, but this is what Reddit wants to hear). She started telling me about the various people in their work social circle who cheated on their partners, then told my gf that she wanted to f**k my (engaged then, now married) brother.
It made meeting more of their coworkers the next weekend much more awkward for me.
Oh come on, her behaviour makes her a morally corrupt person, not an object.
Load More Replies...So she dished on all her co-workers dirty laundry and made a drunkenly inappropriate administration of attraction to a man that wasn't her husband.
That I’m hot until I take my hat off. Bald and proud lol.
Usta have a friend who was bald save for the monk’s fringe around the back. He showed up at my mom’s house one day in a hat. Mom runs to me, gushing that an EXTREMELY handsome man is asking for me at the door. Was astounded to see she was referring to bald friend, and astoundeder that she was right and I’d never noticed! 😱😰 Ever since that day I take extra care to examine people who initially strike me as unfortunate-looking lest I thoughtlessly dismiss a gem again. Had him in the palm of my hand and didn’t know the treasure I had. (Yeah, I was young and shallow then; it was the last day of THAT nonsense!) (I console myself with the fact he wanted kids and I never did.)
"I should have dated you", a girl I has a real connection with, when we were both in relationships... .
Sort of the ‘I wish I had someone like you. Not you, but someone wealthier.’
first im point out Im a gay man, My best friend was my soul mate, but she was female and i was not into her likethat {even tho she was into me for a bit before it turned brotherly and then she was like nah}, You can have "connections" and such without being together.... I miss her, but her ...bf... pulled us apart, he said s****y stuff to me when my adopted mom passed away { saying stuff like "Good that she died, She died to get from me, she deserved it"...} and when I asked her to please stop him, she wouldn't, said she was tired of holding people's "leashes" back, so I told her I would tell him.... she wouldn't let me... I told her she was tired of holding others "leashes" But she would hold "mine" and I left, been 2 years, She's still with him....he's psycho and if I see him in person.... there's no telling what i would do
Just know that you are better off without them, in your life. I'm sorry but she does not sound like a friend, nevermind a best friend. You deserve to have friends that love and support you, unconditionally. If you are to see him or them in person, I'd either just ignore them because they aren't even worth your time or just smile and wave, as you walk on by. Don't let them think that they are getting away with not paying rent, while occupying any of your headspace. I hope that makes sense, but pretty much phuckem both. Haha
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My cousin wants a much closer relationship than I think we should have.
Maybe I'm a bit too dirty minded, but I think this picture doesn't quite fit the text written below it
It's not you, they f****d up the picture selection on this one.
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Take off you're shoes maaan you're wearing the government on yer feet!
It's just really stuck with me.
"Wearing the pavement on your feet"? What the heck does that mean?
Load More Replies...Yeeeeah, I gotta stop clicking on these "People share horrible stuff" lists.
One guy once got drunk and told me how he'd kicked this little old dog to death. It was his GF's family dog at the time he did it. He hated that it was old and sick. Never saw a man turn more unattractive to me faster than that.
That either the above posts came from some alternate Universe or a good number of humans are incredibly depraved.
Too many of these involve alcohol. When are the stupid idiots going to learn that alcohol is dangerous? 🤦🏼
The title does actually say "Drunk people spilled these 41 secrets, regret it greatly" So I'm guessing they were all drunk.
Load More Replies...Yeeeeah, I gotta stop clicking on these "People share horrible stuff" lists.
One guy once got drunk and told me how he'd kicked this little old dog to death. It was his GF's family dog at the time he did it. He hated that it was old and sick. Never saw a man turn more unattractive to me faster than that.
That either the above posts came from some alternate Universe or a good number of humans are incredibly depraved.
Too many of these involve alcohol. When are the stupid idiots going to learn that alcohol is dangerous? 🤦🏼
The title does actually say "Drunk people spilled these 41 secrets, regret it greatly" So I'm guessing they were all drunk.
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