40 Harrowing Stories Of People Ruining Their Lives Over 1 Mistake

If we acknowledge how fragile the lives we lead can be, that can help us better appreciate what we have. Recently, someone on Reddit asked others to share stories of how people had ruined their lives, and those tragically broken lives can serve as cautionary tales for the rest of us.

Some of the stories are tragically cruel twists of fate. In others, we can only guess at what caused people to bring ruinous consequences upon themselves. The thing uniting all of them, however, is just how shockingly quickly these people’s lives were destroyed. Most lost everything, and for some, that happened within a matter of minutes. Treasure what you have, and learn from these stories to remind you of just how lucky you are.

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My husband had a nice job as a high level retail manager, before his store closed. He became a lead for less $ in an inventory company. He was generally considered to be a nice, but quiet. You'd see more of his personality when he was working on computers (self taught) or video games or pool. General consensus was that he was a good guy always ready to game with the kids. Less than a month after our 6th anniversary, I found a video on our tablet from a hidden camera in our bathroom that showed my 14 year old niece. It looked like he kept the image on the cloud and would add it to what ever device he was using and then delete it. He just missed that last step. I called the police immediately and he never came home again. They found more imagines on his computer and a 20 minute video, full front view of his face, as he tries to hide the camera. He plead guilty and received 40 years with 34 suspended. He will have to register as a sex offender and has some pretty stiff rules to follow(no alcohol, no items that can connect to the internet unless he pays for a company to put monitoring software on every internet accessible device. The day I found it , I sent him to work with a kiss. I found the images around 1130am and had surrendered the tablet and gotten the case started with the police by 1145. I have told every relationship Ive been in, husband included, that the one thing that will make me turn you in and walk away and never look back. He, truly thought, I would never leave him and was all surprised Pikachu face when I kept my promise. His actions caused him to lose everything he took for granted that he would always. Our daughter was 5, then, and for her he just disappeared one day. Now, I am watching her grow and mature into a beautiful person and he doesn't get the privilege of even knowing this beautiful child. I'm sure that separation has hurt him a lot, but you don't get trusted with any child, even your own, after you do something like that. Good riddance 34 years suspended sentence*

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40 Harrowing Stories Of People Ruining Their Lives Over 1 Mistake

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