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People Are Sharing The Things They Regret Finding Out, And Here Are The 30 Juiciest Ones

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People often say they prefer to know the truth. Honesty is one of the top-rated characteristics in a successful relationship, for example. At work, too, people want to know if they're doing a good job. One survey found that 88% of employees would want to know if their performance is poor.

But do we actually want to know the truth, even if it's a hard truth? Henry David Thoreau summarized his two years of simple living in the conclusion of Walden: "Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth." So, some prefer honesty above all else.

On the other hand, as Lizzo poignantly truth hurts. These people certainly know, as they shared some wild stories of finding out something they later wished they hadn't. The stories came pouring out after one netizen asked, "What did you regret finding out?"

Bored Panda reached out to the person who asked this question, u/Jimbobsausage, and they kindly agreed to have a chat with us. Read our short conversation below!

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#1

People Are Sharing The Things They Regret Finding Out, And Here Are The 30 Juiciest Ones At the funeral my aunt told me that my brother was really not my brother. My parents took in the son of a family friend when I was 2 and raised him as their own. When I was 12 and he was 23, he was hit and killed by a drunk driver. I was crying and my aunt told me to stop being a whiny baby and that I have nothing to cry about because he isn't even your brother. I looked up to him and I loved him so much. I miss you Russell. No matter what, you are my brother.

Edited to let everyone know this happened 40 years ago and I am okay. The b***h is dead. She got cancer and she did suffer and I did not go to her funeral.

Mynameisinuse , Pavel Danilyuk Report

Final score:

218points

Michael Largey 4 months ago (edited)

A brother who's adopted is still a brother. Just like an aunt who's toxic is still, unfortunately, an aunt.

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The inspiration for this thread came from u/Jimbobsausage's own experiences. "I started to pan over life and started to realize all the drama I've been through and what I regretted finding out that added more drama." The Redditor says that's what prompted them to ask other Redditors about the things they wished they could unlearn.

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"I found out that the skin disorder I have could be caused by cancer," u/Jimbobsausage shares with us. "But I'm checking to see if that's the case." For now, the netizen hopes for the best and awaits further testing. We here at Bored Panda all wish u/Jimbobsausage gets only the best news!

#2

People Are Sharing The Things They Regret Finding Out, And Here Are The 30 Juiciest Ones Triple whammy. My step mom was a raging alchoholic. My dad worked on the north slope (alaska). He was gone for 2-6weeks at a time.

She would spend the whole time he was gone absolutely plastered, and she was not fond of me living there. When I was 14 and she was p**s drunk and mad at life, she told me that my dad wasn't my real dad. That my mom was a cheating s**t and he took care of me out of pity. I called my dad after I got her to go lay down and he admitted it was true.

2 years later she killed herself by taking a ton of morphine and chugging a few fifths of vodka. I didn't think it was intentional but her sister came and handed me the suicide note where she said she was killing herself because she hated having me in her life and couldn't be with my dad without having me around. My dad didn't talk to me for 8 years after that.

I tried to go live with my mom afterward, and she said I couldn't live with her. She admitted that she was addicted to meth and couldn't support me and her habit. She died 6 years later.

Edit* for people's peace of mind, I'm in a much better place in life currently. I. I'm doing much better, and I've built myself a nice little life. While not flawless or without my own share of mistakes, I'm proud of what I've accomplished and how far I've come. Me and my dad have a much better relationship. Before my mom died, she got sober for nearly a full year. She was well enough in her recovery to meet my children before she passed and spent that year being the world's best grandma. Thank you all for the care, concern, and well wishes.

mrbigglsworth1 , Liza Summer Report

Final score:

187points

Hannah 4 months ago

You are a survivor. Such trauma. I hope you can live the rest of your life in in peace.

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#3

People Are Sharing The Things They Regret Finding Out, And Here Are The 30 Juiciest Ones That if I don’t initiate contact with my friends they would never reach out or message me ever.

octoroach , mikoto.raw Photographer Report

Final score:

147points

Widdershins66 4 months ago

It hurts.

61points

Magenta Blu 4 months ago

It is a relief. They don't have to pretend they care and i dont need to rip myself apart for fitting in

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Paul Rabit 4 months ago

I find we need friends that suit us. I have wonderful friends and we know would do anything for each other, but we will go for years without speaking only to pick up exactly where we left off. OP clearly needs more than that though, so I certainly wouldn't be a good friend for her! I just personally don't need a lot of contact.

9points

KatSaidWhat 4 months ago (edited)

I am learning that people won't phone me back or have time to go out / meet up but will say they miss me. So I'm waiting for any one of them to suddenly realise I have withdrawn and tell me they have missed me before asking if their phone broke. I am slowly just sinking into a life of solitude without the people who claim to be friends and family.

7points

Brazen 4 months ago

I am there now and my heart goes out to you. The only time my "friends" talk to me is if they need something, otherwise I am invisible.

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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 4 months ago

If they're not willing to initiate contact, they aren't your friends.

6points

Manicmary 4 months ago

Happens to me and it opened my eyes. I can make other friends or just not have friends, I don't mind.

5points

R Dennis 4 months ago

That's how I found out I only have one friend...

4points

Joss 4 months ago

I'm bad at making contact, but that doesn't mean I'm not loving and missing and thinking about friends or that I wouldn't be there for them in a heartbeat if they said they needed me. Some of us don't have the skills or mental/emotional energy to reach out as often as we think about friends and that doesn't necessarily mean we don't care

3points

Caitlin Davenport 4 months ago

Yes! Some people can't reach out because of anxiety, low self esteem, or they just don't have any spoons to do so. I am often the one that reaches out and l can tell they are my friends by how excited they are to spend time with me and how they treat me when interact. Don't judge people without trying to understand all sides.

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Lewis KR 4 months ago

What's the saying? Sometimes you have to give up on people, not because you don't care, but because they don"t

3points

Elchinero 4 months ago

dump em

2points

Sparks 4 months ago

I hate that.

1point

Couragetcd 4 months ago

The posts here make me really appreciate my hermit like tendencies.

1point

Ash Conner 4 months ago

Get new friends. You will find them.

1point

Tan Howell 4 months ago

One of the darkest times in my life was when I realized this about my family.

1point

Brandon Parisien 4 months ago

I ditched my "best friend" for this.... maybe he'll read this! Lol

1point

Zaach 4 months ago

I have let 'friends' go when that happens

1point

Seanette Blaylock 4 months ago

Honey, please upgrade to some REAL friends who actually value you enough to do their share of the effort involved in maintaining a friendship.

1point

Jan Moore 4 months ago

I'm sorry, I'm in that and it does hurt. I'm sorry that I can't give you a remedy.

1point

C.O. Shea 4 months ago

I moved on... those are not friends.

1point

Steve Hall 4 months ago

Those people aren't friends, just acquaintances.

1point

Beth Wheeler 4 months ago

I'm sorry but they aren't your friends 😔

1point

Bongokittycat 4 months ago

Same here, iv seen it much more in the last few years since I have become disabled, I suffer with severe anxiety and depression and often think it's me that's a bad friend, but my husband tells me if I wasn't a nice person he wouldn't be with me, always remember, it's not you, it's them.

1point

Katiekat 4 months ago

Time to fade away and find better, more caring friends

1point

LaserBrain 4 months ago

Get new friends

1point

Roger9er 4 months ago

'Friends'

1point

Magenta Blu 4 months ago

Right. Friendship is something that happens only in fantasy books and fictional movies

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Bewarethere@gmail.com 3 months ago

My family

0points

Bewarethere@gmail.com 3 months ago

Been there with my sister's and still going thru it and it hurts every f****n day. It wasn't that long ago either

0points

notreallyraine (they/them) 3 months ago

one time i tested how long it would take for my bf to reply without me double texting which i often do and usually he texts a lot but it took over an hour <3

0points

notreallyraine (they/them) 3 months ago

we're good tho hes awesome and caring i found out he was busy and forgot to tell me so :3

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Amberlie Mikelsen 3 months ago

Unfortunately, a lot of people are discovering this. It's because, for a lot of us, life just gets in the way. For the rest, if you're not in their sight at least once a day, they tend to forget you exist.

0points

Lizz R 4 months ago

Those aren't friends. Trust me. Been there. Never again.

0points

Wendy 4 months ago

That statement doesn't describe a true friend, everything can't be one sided

0points

Babbzilla 4 months ago

I started doing that at a young age. I know that hurt, but the real ones stay they're all you need. ❤️

0points

Crystal Spencer 4 months ago

Same. My husband and I have basically become hermits. I didn't realize how lonely felt older was. It's gotten really bad since covid.

0points

Lester the Space Duck 4 months ago

Yep.

0points

Debra Robinson 4 months ago

One sister is like that and my niece seems to hate me, completely ignoring me when I was messaging. Wow. Nephews too. Just, DAMN.

0points

Steve Robert 4 months ago

Does seem that way sometimes

0points

Feelings are fake 4 months ago

Oh my God you mean everyone has something to do and you aren't the sun in their world.

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The answers in the thread ranged from serious confessions about family members and dark secrets to more whimsical ones like 'Santa is not real.' u/Jimbobsausage tells us they were expecting more serious answers when they posted the thread, but they were fine with people being funny as well. "The funny ones were funny, and the serious ones were serious," they simply say.

The netizen says the most relatable answers to them were the ones about finding out something shocking about a family member when they pass away or learning that the people closest to you don't actually have your best interests at heart.

#4

People Are Sharing The Things They Regret Finding Out, And Here Are The 30 Juiciest Ones My best friend growing up got cancer and died at age 27. My husband was deployed to Iraq when she died, so I basically had to deal with it all on my own.

I had taken all my vacation time from work to travel back home and lay with her in bed during her final days. She didn't leave me anything in her will, but left everything to our other best friend - which is fine by me, but weird under the circumstances. I went through YEARS of struggling with intense grief.

About 3 years after her death, my husband broke down and told me they had slept together the year prior to her death, which was 4 years after our wedding - where she was the maid of honor.

I called a couple friends to confirm, and it turns out she had nonchalantly told EVERYONE.

I don't know which I regret more - finding out that my husband slept with my dying best friend OR finding out that our "best friendship" was a complete sham.

I got over my grief real quick after that, but I feel absolutely robbed of years of what I held close as good memories.

Intelligent_Offer330 , Thirdman Report

Final score:

147points

Nea 4 months ago

Too sad

61points

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#5

That the law protects the wrong people in the worst situations.

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Final score:

128points

Miranda Veracruz de la Joya Cardenal 4 months ago

The law protects the rich* people in the worst situations.

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#6

People Are Sharing The Things They Regret Finding Out, And Here Are The 30 Juiciest Ones That there are people who genuinely had a happy family. My family always fought growing up so I just assumed that everyone else's did too and then they played nice in public.

I visited my college girlfriend's family and they were genuinely happy to be around each other and were interested in how each of them were doing. I thought they were putting on a show for me since I was there... but when I asked her later about it - she seemed shocked and informed me that it was normal behavior and sure enough... each additional time i was around them it was the same.

I remember being so jealous at the time and it took me a while to reconcile that my own family was toxic.

Ristar87 , Agung Pandit Wiguna Report

Final score:

125points

Lil Miss Hobbit 4 months ago

I am one of those people with a happy family. The heartbreaking thing was coming into my teens and learning that my family is not the norm. Most families do not love and care for each other the way my family does.

73points

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Interestingly, this is the second thread of u/Jimbobsausage's we're featuring on Bored Panda. Previously, they asked other Redditors about the pettiest revenge that they're proud of. This time, their thread did even better, as it currently has almost 2.5k comments and over 6k upvotes.

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But it doesn't look like u/Jimbobsausage is chasing any Internet clout. "It's whatever, honestly," they tell us. All in all, the Redditor is just happy that people are engaging and talking with each other in a civil way.

#7

People Are Sharing The Things They Regret Finding Out, And Here Are The 30 Juiciest Ones I regret finding out that 'ADULTING' isn’t a temporary phase but a lifelong sentence with no chance of parole.

livingasaadhi , Engin Akyurt Report

Final score:

119points

Papa 4 months ago

If you feel that way, then it is a lifelong sentence. At 63 I've never been happier, so they feeling is not universal. Much of how you look at it is just what you choose to focus on.

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#8

People Are Sharing The Things They Regret Finding Out, And Here Are The 30 Juiciest Ones My mother moved back to her home country when I was 9. I was always told she could never come back to my country due to visa/immigration issues. She confirmed last year that this was not the case and she could come back any time. I realised she chose not to. Ouch.

anothercrazydoglady , Pixabay Report

Final score:

114points

ADJ 4 months ago

You mean your ex-mother, right?

66points

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#9

People Are Sharing The Things They Regret Finding Out, And Here Are The 30 Juiciest Ones Finding out the one i loved had someone else in his bed almost every week.
Just end things and leave, don’t cheat for months and months..

Ashamed-Vegetable-89 , Ron Lach Report

Final score:

111points

Nea 4 months ago

Its really simple seriously!

50points

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u/Jimbobsausage believes Internet spaces such as r/AskReddit can be a great outlet for people to vent their woes and frustrations. "It's better to tell your personal stories to an un-opinionated stranger, who you won't see or hear from again, than it is to those closest to you. That extends [to] family members as well," the netizen adds.

#10

People Are Sharing The Things They Regret Finding Out, And Here Are The 30 Juiciest Ones At 35 I finally realized I never had parents, and to this day don’t have a support system. It’s just me out here on a big rock floating through space. I have people in my life, even a girlfriend , but nobody ever feels close to me.

knapper_actual , Engin Akyurt Report

Final score:

107points

Lil Miss Hobbit 4 months ago

You do have people (your girlfriend for example) but you need to learn to let them in. Because you didn't have parents, you probably don't know how to bond. But you can still learn!

73points

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#11

People Are Sharing The Things They Regret Finding Out, And Here Are The 30 Juiciest Ones People will treat you better when you have money.

Nicoh071211 , Karolina Kaboompics Report

Final score:

105points

Barry the Otter 4 months ago

They're called a*s-kissers!

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#12

People Are Sharing The Things They Regret Finding Out, And Here Are The 30 Juiciest Ones No matter how good or kind or decent you are, people will make snap judgements about and condemn you and assume the worst of you.

geth1962 , Keira Burton Report

Final score:

105points

Barry the Otter 4 months ago

Unfortunately a trait many people have. Some more, some less. Pull your head out of your a*s and just chill.

20points

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#13

People Are Sharing The Things They Regret Finding Out, And Here Are The 30 Juiciest Ones When my grandmother died my mom had me send her ( my grandmother's) engagement ring back to her second husband's family. She had it for 25 years, so it was a bit of a project but I did it.

When my mom passed away 2 years ago I found my grandmother's will. That ring was the only thing my grandmother had left for me. I always wondered why she left me out of her will because we were so close.

Loreo1964 , FOX Report

Final score:

101points

Auntriarch 4 months ago

This is giving me a nasty hollow feeling in my stomach

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#14

People Are Sharing The Things They Regret Finding Out, And Here Are The 30 Juiciest Ones That the stench we’ve been smelling on my block in the middle of 100-degree weather was not in fact a possum, but rather, my neighbor- dead in his backyard for over a week.

No_Brush_7706 , Polina Zimmerman Report

Final score:

99points

Patrick H 4 months ago

Yikes!

32points

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#15

People Are Sharing The Things They Regret Finding Out, And Here Are The 30 Juiciest Ones That some parents do not love their children. That hurt me.

Keyblades2 , Keira Burton Report

Final score:

97points

Mr. Jones 4 months ago

I'm that kid. My mother did not love me at all, to the point that other relatives would tell her to be nicer to me.

53points

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#16

People Are Sharing The Things They Regret Finding Out, And Here Are The 30 Juiciest Ones Over heard my best friend being asked why they let me hang around them. Their answer was it was out of pity.

varthalon , Keenan Constance Report

Final score:

96points

SCamp 4 months ago

You mean your ex-best friend

81points

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#17

People Are Sharing The Things They Regret Finding Out, And Here Are The 30 Juiciest Ones That Jehovah Witness are a cult, was a hard pill to swallow, but no regrets leaving that life behind.

mrgarcia4u , cottonbro studio Report

Final score:

95points

Miranda Veracruz de la Joya Cardenal 4 months ago

Every religion was a cult at some point

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#18

The day I remembered I was a boys guinea pig..

My mother ran away from my father with a truck driver, and for the sake of anonimity, I will be calling him John.

John lived in Illinois, with his son. I was 6 years old. We stayed there for a year until I was 7, and in that timeframe my mother was the breadwinner. She worked, and he did not. This worked out because someone was always home with me.

What my mother didn’t know until she came home early one day is that I was thrown in mud. The dog she got me was tied to a telephone pole by his son to antagonize me, blame me, and I’d get beat. His son fed me cat food when I asked for cereal. John would send me to neighbors houses to steal things from them, or their lawn. I got caught stealing a turtle someone had in a box outside. When I came home, he told me to “go get it back right f*****g now.”

Point here is, for that year of my life there, I suffered abuse, neglect, and many other things. My mother came home early one day, and caught him throwing glass at me.

Fast forward to being 21, last year, I was in the car with my mother, and he became a topic. I had been in psychotherapy by now for multiple reasons, developed schizophrenia, clinical psychosis, anxiety, you name it, my father, r*pe, sexual assault, my d**g addiction, and alcoholism, (I am both sober from both currently.) Along in this conversation my mom mentioned his son but she said son(s).
For the next part it’s important I mention that in psychotherapy, I unveiled that I was sexually abused as a child, but I never remembered, or knew who, or why.

I was confused, and she went on to remind me, and it was then that everything flooded back in a rapid unstable wave. John did have two sons. The other son SA’d me, and my brain had completely blocked him out for 15 years. I started incoherently screaming feeling this, remembering this, I almost crashed the car.

I wish she never spoke of it. I could have gone my entire life never remembering it. It now sticks with me.

UnrepentantlyBitchy Report

Final score:

95points

Judy Reynolds 4 months ago

I am so sorry you had to live through both the abuse and the memories.

55points

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#19

People Are Sharing The Things They Regret Finding Out, And Here Are The 30 Juiciest Ones The secret life of rock stars. Growing up, it was nice just to see them as rock stars. Social media ruined everything.

jayihdz , Thibault Trillet Report

Final score:

82points

PattyK 4 months ago

Most of them are addicted to alcohol and various d***s. Johnny Cash once rued that he had to take sleeping pills to sleep and amohetamines to wake up. He was also addicted to other d***s.

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#20

People Are Sharing The Things They Regret Finding Out, And Here Are The 30 Juiciest Ones Santa is not real and my parents have real names. Been a s**t show of reveals ever since.

differentworld80 , Jesson Mata Report

Final score:

81points

Patrick H 4 months ago

It took me a sec, but I think they're making a joke that their parents' names are not actually "Mom" and "Dad".

43points

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#21

My grandmother's parents locked my grandmother and her brother in a room and starved them when they were little, and my grandmother's brother died of starvation at the age of 9. Idk How my grandmother survived and grew up.

XeanAhmet Report

Final score:

77points

Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 4 months ago

I knew someone in county jail who did this to her kids. They came out white, and the boyfriend was black. So she locked them up in the closet. She kept appealing her sentence with every loophole she could find, because she knew she'd get killed in prison. She'd been at the county jail for over five years. I don't know if she ever got moved to prison or released or what. She was in the jail when I got my prison transfer.

33points

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#22

People Are Sharing The Things They Regret Finding Out, And Here Are The 30 Juiciest Ones I found out that there was a rumor that I had SA'ed someone in high school. I found out about the rumor almost 8 years after I had graduated. This person that was the apparent victim in the rumor is a friend of mine. She didn't start the rumor. She was just as shocked as I was to hear it. We still talk to this day, she's a wonderful person but can't figure out where the rumor came from. Even though its obviously not true, it still bothers me 10 years after I found out. Because I know theres at least someone who thinks I'm some sort of monster.

That_Damn_Samsquatch , Yan Krukau Report

Final score:

73points

ucp 4 months ago

I (M) had a female friend in our late teens. Nothing romantic ever happened between us. She started seeing another lad, who was an acquaintance of mine. She told him that I had tried to force myself on her, and he threatened to hurt me. Severely. I don’t know why she did it, as I never spoke to that “friend” again.

32points

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#23

People Are Sharing The Things They Regret Finding Out, And Here Are The 30 Juiciest Ones When I found out a friend I grew up with had died. Then sat down and counted on my fingers how many people I grew up or went to school with are already dead. Jeez, I'm only in my 30's. Stop dying already people.

Efficient_Insect_145 , Alena Darmel Report

Final score:

70points

Fat Harry (Oi / You) 4 months ago

This thought gets me regularly. I'm 40, and yet several people I went to school with - including my brother - have died or are seriously ill. It makes me reevaluate life when I complain about the little things, and it certainly makes me grateful to be in a position to be losing my hair and getting some middle aged spread because some of those I went to school with were never afforded that opportunity.

26points

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#24

People Are Sharing The Things They Regret Finding Out, And Here Are The 30 Juiciest Ones Way back in the day, I searched my name in my long term girlfriend’s gchat log. I quickly found a chat of her and one of her friends discussing how stupid I was for not realizing she cheated over the summer, and how sick of me she was. Ouchy.

WNY4LYFE , Porapak Apichodilok Report

Final score:

66points

Kaspar Kristiansen 4 months ago

When you feel the need to spy on your SO, I'd say the trust is long gone already..

62points

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#25

People Are Sharing The Things They Regret Finding Out, And Here Are The 30 Juiciest Ones The horrors of war. I would've been much better off if I never gave it serious thought. Now I feel furious, miserable and completely powerless every time war is brought up on the news, which is quite often actually.

Funny_War5883 , Pixabay Report

Final score:

63points

Dogs on a train 4 months ago

don't watch the news and watch bluey instead. way better 11/10

33points

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#26

People Are Sharing The Things They Regret Finding Out, And Here Are The 30 Juiciest Ones Finding out someone died when I thought they were just living a great life.

jordan-lakers9394 , Brett Sayles Report

Final score:

62points

Abinaash 4 months ago

Happened to me with a neighbour in India while I stayed abroad, my neighbour was a very old but healthy and happy man, and one day out of nowhere he died of heatstroke and I didn't find out until I went back and didn't see him six months later. Absolutely heartbreaking for anyone who experiences it, hope it gets better for the poster.

29points

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#27

When planning a high school reunion a few years ago, we went looking for a classmate nobody could remember having heard from/about since the 90s. (We went to private school with fairly small classes so this is pretty unusual…)

After during some research, we learned he had died on 9/11. I felt pretty bad that it took me almost 20 years to find this out.

Intrepid_Detective Report

Final score:

61points

Patrick H 4 months ago

My friend and I went to our 10 year reunion learned that a younger classmate that was in band with us had died in Afghanistan after 9/11. We weren't that close to him but were still a little sad about the news. A few years later, we found out that he was actually alive. I have no idea if we just heard the wrong name or what.

27points

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#28

People Are Sharing The Things They Regret Finding Out, And Here Are The 30 Juiciest Ones That I had a 21 year old son that I never knew about and that his mother told another guy that he was his father. I regret finding out because all it did was cause drama and hurt in between multiple families.

*Edit - I've seen a lot of the same questions and just decided to add the answers here:

First I have not met him yet, so far he refuses to even meet me or his half brother. He was severely angry with his mother for hiding this for so long and said to her, "I don't care who he is, my dad is the man who raised me, he's my father and I don't want to ever meet that other guy." I've seen pictures of him and he does look like me and like his half brother, but I have no idea his personality or if we have similar interests. I hope someday we can meet him.

Second, I only found out when she got scared when she learned that I did the [Ancestry.com](http://Ancestry.com) DNA test to map out my family tree and she knew her son was about to do it as well and that the truth would come out, so she told me and him in advance of finding out by matching.

Third, she told why she didn't tell me, but first the backstory. This was a fling I had when I was 21 with my next door neighbor who was 33 at the time. I knew her my whole life and always thought she was hot, but she became attracted to me when I got into college, as I got in really good shape physically. I saw her checking me out on multiple occasions and got a chance to shoot my shot one night when my parents were out of town for a week (I was still living at home) and she was always outside working in her garden, so I flirted, invited her over and with some convincing she did. We pretty much slept together every night that week and she told me she was on birth control and stupidly I believed her. What she didn't tell me was that she already had an "arrangement" (here's where it gets weird), with a guy from her work that they would have a child together. She was very independent, didn't ever want to get married, but wanted a child, so she apparently found a guy at her work who was in his 50s and well off, who agreed to give her a child and co-parent, as well as provide everything financially to raise the child. I only heard about this "arrangement" from my mother about a month later when she apparently told them in conversation about this "arrangement" and that they were actively trying to get pregnant and that she might already be (she was). I honestly was suspicious if he was mine, but brushed aside those thoughts since she told me she was on birth control and would have been pregnant by then (which she was, but was lying). She told me the reason she never told me is because I was young, hadn't started my career and didn't think I was ready to raise a child either financially or emotionally. She also was embarrassed since she knew my parents for years, knew me since I was young and didn't want her father or my parents to find out. Also, since she already had started talking to this guy about that arrangement, when she found out she was pregnant, she immediately said "yes" to him and started sleeping with him right away so she could say she was pregnant as soon as possible so the timeline wouldn't be too suspicious. Apparently she kept him from the doctors appointments, so he just had to believe whatever she told him.

So....she lied to me, she lied to the real father and had another man raise and pay for our child his whole life. So understandably the son, the father and I are all very angry with her, as well as other family members.

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59points

Papa 4 months ago

I guess I don't blame the son for not wanting to meet OP. Apparently he has a good relationship with the man he thought was his biological father and he doesn't want to mess that up.

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#29

People Are Sharing The Things They Regret Finding Out, And Here Are The 30 Juiciest Ones Meeting with ex - We were together at the time - at her place spontaneously. I know when she gets home so I figured I'd surprise her, take her out to do something, etc.

She didn't get back. Unexpected and unusual, so I waited around across the street. In this situation I know better than to text and create push-back on any clue of her whereabouts. This type of unusual is *that* kind - the gut feelings and the sudden shock.

If I did anything to imply I'm around, she may not have shown up. And thanks to this, she showed up.

In a dudes car, 2 hours later. Dropped off, and lied about who it was. Her friend Jane isn't 6ft with a beard and glasses and definitely isn't a dude.

I regret having to see it. I'd rather a break up or a clean, no cheating, in person conversation.

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Final score:

53points

Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 4 months ago

Imagine people ending relationships responsibly. What a crazy world it would be.

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#30

People Are Sharing The Things They Regret Finding Out, And Here Are The 30 Juiciest Ones My sister and I are adopted, one day our adoptive father decides I took too long in the shower and went full ballistic rage about how "you and your sister are useless go back where you fkng came from!"

Only went downhill from there haha

Edit: typo.

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53points

Widdershins66 4 months ago

Awwwww that's atrocious! What a way to find out you're both adopted!!! I feel for you 🤗🤗🤗

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#31

That my dad refuses to get a job because then he'd have to pay child support. I wondered why it was such a big deal since I thought he only had one kid after my mom left him. He had 5 others with at most 4 different women.

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Final score:

22points

MommyofB 4 months ago

I'm sorry. That's sad! I hope you have people who love and support you.

2points

#32

That when my mom and dad were going thru a custody battle for me and my little brother, my dad was only really fighting for my brother and when asked what about his daughter he said "I've raised her".... I was like 14, almost 15. Thanks dad.

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21points

LB 4 months ago

Oh that's sad.

9points

#33

Overheard my best friend in HS talk me down to a girl I was interested in. We had been best friends for years. Never had a best friend since.

getridofwires Report

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20points

Michael Largey 4 months ago

Sadly, OP didn't have one before, either.

7points

#34

Found out my wife cheated. Immediately filed for divorce and kicked her out. I told her, her only options are to be homeless or the guy she cheated with can take care of her... now she's homeless and I give zero f***s.

Round_Ad_9612 Report

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19points

LinkTheHylian 3 months ago

Karma.

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#35

People Are Sharing The Things They Regret Finding Out, And Here Are The 30 Juiciest Ones That my dad wasn’t my bio dad.

Dad cheated on his wife with my mom (she says she didn’t know, idk). Dad and the wife had a son, my half brother. Dad left them to be with my mom and with me. It didn’t last - He was an abusive POS and my mom ended up getting full custody when I was in middle school. When he died I hadn’t seen or spoken to him in 10 years.

Then about 10 years after he died, I do an ancestry DNA kit and don’t see anyone on my dad’s side of the family. I texted my half-brother asking if he’s even done one of those kits, and he sends me to his maternal cousin who handles all the family genetic stuff. And the three of us discover I don’t match with any of them.

I felt horrible, like I ruined my bro’s family and for what? I wasn’t even his dad’s kid. We haven’t talked since. I don’t know if he holds it against me or not, but I can’t make myself contact him again. I feel too ashamed.

Then found out that my bio dad was a bartender my mom worked with. He SA’d her one night after work. It traumatized her, so she put it out of her mind and made herself forget about it. Suddenly she’s pregnant, she assumed it dad’s and everyone is excited, they’re gonna be a big happy family.

But what dad neglects to tell her is that he had a vasectomy and knew the kid wasn’t his (I know it’s still possible to conceive after, but he knew).

So then he spent the next 12 years torturing me and my mom knowing fully well I wasn’t his daughter. He even told me one time. He was angry at me, saying I told the family court judge lies about him (I didn’t), and I remember he scoffed and said “Why do I even try? You don’t have a drop of my blood in you anyway.” I was probably 8 or so, I just thought he was being mean.

When I found my bio dad, I didn’t know what he did to my mom yet. I emailed him, tried to get to know him. But he ended up being a jerk, unsurprisingly. He started raving about how much he hated women in one of the emails, which I said made me uncomfortable. Then I wasn’t able to respond to an email for 10 days, so he emailed me again and said “idk why you bothered coming into my life just to leave me again”, told me to never talk to him again. I replied just once to basically say “I didn’t come into your life - you had unprotected sex with a coworker you don’t even remember and never gave it another thought. You don’t get to demand my time.” Then I blocked him.

THEN I found out he has several kids in the area, and one of them was my maternal cousin’s high school sweetheart - so technically, she dated her own cousin! And I will never let her forget it lol (no blood relation, at least?).

Just one of a million families torn apart by a cheek swab, I guess. At least it couldn’t cause us too much damage - we were already broken! #winning.

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18points

Natalia 4 months ago

How has she ruined her brother's family?

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#36

Sometimes when a pistachio tastes sour, it's because they had moth poop or larvae in the shells. You have to check the inside before eating it.

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Patrick H 4 months ago

🤢

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#37

Finding out that my grandpa on my mom’s side of the family was a selfish, self centered a*s. I always idolized him as a young kid. he was a member of the government who traveled the world developing maps out of memory.
Years pass bye and I move closer to be with him only to find out that he hated having a daughter and grandkids. Nothing prepares a person like knowing someone you loved and thought the world of was a complete piece of s**t as a man.

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Magpie 4 months ago (edited)

My paternal nan was also an ar''hole. Some of my relatives still think she was a perky, wonderful character. Instead she was mean, selfish and poisonous person in general. Normal people don't call their daughter-in-laws wh'r's or tell their granddaughters how ugly and stupid they are.

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#38

People Are Sharing The Things They Regret Finding Out, And Here Are The 30 Juiciest Ones I once found what looked like an animal bite on my ankle and I was worried about getting rabies. I looked up the symptoms and the first symptom was apparently anxiety. Let's just say that was not helpful.

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Final score:

16points

Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 4 months ago

I just found out i have rabies /j

4points

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#39

People Are Sharing The Things They Regret Finding Out, And Here Are The 30 Juiciest Ones In details, how and when the girl I was about to propose cheated on me. Like, all the details.

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Final score:

16points

#40

That my ex wife enjoyed sex with my best friend more than with me.

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Michael Largey 4 months ago

OP should revisit the concept of what a best friend is.

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#41

How the world works, all the magic started to vanish along the way...

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Final score:

16points

Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 4 months ago

To me, the magic increases the more I learn. I expect OP means that they've gotten jaded over the years, but I took it to mean how everything works. I'm listening to a lecture about the sun as I'm writing this, and it just gives me the thrills.

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#42

When my psycho ex-step mom snapped, just before leaving our family without a word, she called a bunch of our extended family and outed my dad’s bedroom kinks. I’m totally supportive and made sure he felt comfortable and like nothing changed, but knowledge of my parent’s specific sexual preferences is something I wish I wasn’t carrying.

copernica Report

Final score:

16points

Mike F 4 months ago

That had to be a trip.

2points

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#43

I think I was happier before I found out how the stock market & financial system works. Us regular folk are getting f****d while some people make a years money in a day.

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Ephemera Image 4 months ago

Ponzi scheme, really.

4points

#44

I told my bandmates that I was unhappy playing the drums and wanted to give it up. The guitarist was mad about it and told me my gf was cheating on me. She confessed and I lost my friends and my gf that day. Our circle of friends decided to side with her so I lost everybody.

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LB 4 months ago

Good riddance.

15points

#45

They're the same selfish person they always were.

Final score:

15points

Judy Reynolds 4 months ago

Yup.

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#46

People Are Sharing The Things They Regret Finding Out, And Here Are The 30 Juiciest Ones That I was the product of an affair my father had.

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14points

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#47

That choosing to not have kids doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll have a financially stable life.

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ENSJ 4 months ago

True, but at least there is no child in that situation, so silver liinings I guess?

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#48

Sure, some things might be unpleasant or upsetting… but I don’t know if I “regret” anything… I’d rather know than live a lie… I’m a firm believer in the quote:

**“If the truth will destroy it, then it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.”**

… that being said, for me, a big *ouch* moment was when I was 11, I was looking for something in my mom’s room, and found a note she had written saying how ashamed she was of me.

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13points

Michael Largey 4 months ago

Why would the OP calling this a "big ouch"? If the truth destroyed his assumption about how his mother felt about him, didn't that assumption deserve to be destroyed?

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#49

This is something a bit lighter but a friend of mine was talking about a mutual friend we have who needed some roofing work done and another mutual friend said he'd do it for them on the cheap. He gave them a good deal and he was damn good at roofing. He was up there by himself from early in the morning until almost night. The friend who set it up was gone for the day but the family knew this guy and they never offered him so much as a glass of water or a thank you for it. The friend I'm sure did after the fact, but the rest of the family didn't think twice about using this guy for labor so they wouldn't have to pay regular rates on someone else. Normally he said he wouldn't care but he came by on his day off to help a friend's family and they never showed any gratitude for it.

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Hannah 4 months ago

This is the sort of thing that sadly a lot of people would consider 'low level' but actually it's acute rudeness.

15points

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#50

I'm no longer a Toys-R-Us kid.

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CD Mills 4 months ago

That one isn't on you though, they closed their stores, halting anyone from being one.

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#51

That my soon-to-be fiancé cheated on me with the person i was LEAST expecting. and had 0 intention of telling me.

edit for those asking: it was a coworker, but the one i was suspecting the least. i don’t want to give too much information just in case someone i know comes across this post, as my boss and them are both reddit users.

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Just-4-2day 4 months ago

Since your fiancé cheated on you, shouldn't they be called your "soon-to-be-EX-fiancé"

2points

#52

All of my friends weird kinks such as dressing up in women's clothes and watching excessive amounts of porn.

I don't care at all and certainly don't judge him for it but what bothers me is that it was his ex gf that told me about it.

She went on and on about how weird he was and how I have no idea. I feel like she was trying to get me to switch sides or something after their somewhat messy break up. I've known the man for 20 years for Christ sake.

Also, the cherry on top of that s**t sundae is that a few months later they were back together. Fun times.

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Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 4 months ago

Oh who cares what people r into as long as its consensual

18points

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#53

I was using someone elses toothbrush for weeks...

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Widdershins66 4 months ago

Lol, l can beat you! I was once brushing my teeth when it dawned on me the brush i was using was the one i used to clean the crevices of the toilet!!!! 🤮 The lovely pine fresh chemicals...

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#54

Finding out an ex of mine had passed away. We did not break up in bad terms but she was dating a friend of mine currently before she passed and I was more heartbroken for him since they were together a good amount of time.

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10points

#55

My grandmother passed away when I was a kid, and I remember at her funeral, a woman stood up and started yelling, “THAT’S NOT MS. CARTER! I’M MS. CARTER!” I saw how angry my mom, uncles, and aunts got, and I always wondered what happened.

That moment bothered me for a very long time, so when I got older, I started asking my mom, aunts, and uncles what that moment was about. They thought I forgot because I was so young and would never really answer the question. So, I asked my cousin, who has no filter, about that moment. Come to find out, my grandfather cheated on my grandmother with their oldest daughter, and she caught them, and from that intimate relationship, they had multiple kids.

That information blew my mind because my grandfather, as I knew him, was just my grandfather—a man who would go out of his way to visit and spend time with his grandson. For a little history, I was raised by my dad, so whatever drama my mom’s side had going on, I was outside the circle. I regret even asking because that destroyed my view of my grandfather. I saw him once after that revelation, and I never made the effort to see him again.

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PattyK 4 months ago

Cheated with whose oldest daughter?

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#56

That my mom kept any adult man in my life from giving me useful advice on how to be a man and now I’m dealing with the consequences of that decision.

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Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 4 months ago

Out of curiosity... what would that include..?

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#57

That the reason I’m deaf in my ear is from a tumor.

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Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 4 months ago

I mean better to know that 1

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#58

Found out I was adopted. It hurts that my biological parents abandoned me.

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8points

Rinso The Red 4 months ago

On the other side, there were people who CHOSE you , not just happened to have you and then tried to deal with it.

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#59

My brother's former wife would tease him and tell me about weird things they would do in the bedroom. 🤢.

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#60

How many calories are in a chocolate Costco muffin.

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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 4 months ago

Lol! If the muffin had a crack in it, or had crumbled, all the calories would have fallen out.

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#61

I regret finding out that someone I trusted had been dishonest with me for a long time.

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4points

Patrick H 4 months ago

Doesn't this just describe almost every post in this article?

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#62

What barnacles actually look like….

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LinkTheHylian 3 months ago

They look like Barnacle Boy.

0points

Kornelija Viečaitė

Hi there, fellow pandas! As a person (over)educated both in social sciences and literature, I'm most interested in how we connect and behave online (and sometimes in real life too.) The human experience is weird, so I try my best to put its peculiarities in writing. As a person who grew up chronically online, I now try to marry two sides of myself: the one who knows too much about MySpace, and the one who can't settle and needs to see every corner of the world.

Hi there, fellow pandas! As a person (over)educated both in social sciences and literature, I'm most interested in how we connect and behave online (and sometimes in real life too.) The human experience is weird, so I try my best to put its peculiarities in writing. As a person who grew up chronically online, I now try to marry two sides of myself: the one who knows too much about MySpace, and the one who can't settle and needs to see every corner of the world.

Gabija Palšytė

Gabija is a photo editor at Bored Panda. Before joining the team, she achieved a Professional Bachelor degree in Photography and has been working as a freelance photographer since. She also has a special place in her heart for film photography, movies and nature.

Gabija is a photo editor at Bored Panda. Before joining the team, she achieved a Professional Bachelor degree in Photography and has been working as a freelance photographer since. She also has a special place in her heart for film photography, movies and nature.

What did you regret finding out?

Skywitness 4 months ago

At my sister's wake, I found out my older brother had molested her and our other sister. He lives in another state and if somehow he's ever within 100 meters of my daughter, I will do him great physical harm.

22points

Seanette Blaylock 4 months ago

Need help, power tools, an alibi,...?

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AKA AKA 4 months ago

arsenic is a ouderles ,tastless colurless painfull killer

7points

Couragetcd 4 months ago

Limestone quarries are a great place to dump a body!

5points

Ken Schroeder 4 months ago

Wood chippers are amazing for destroying forensic evidence...

4points

Isaac Nemo 4 months ago

Alibi time! We were playing poker when it happened. Pepperoni pizza and Pepsi, sadly I lost all my chips on a busted flush. And that's the whole truth your honor.

3points

Multa Nocte 4 months ago

How could BP ever confuse "heartbreaking" with "juicy"? I am sorry for BP when they think it is "cute" to put a clickbait title on something that is actually sad.

21points

Moonchild 4 months ago

The story's are a vote system. The juicy ones may be at the bottom of the votes.

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Ephemera Image 4 months ago

Some of these are just heartbreaking.

13points

Stephanie R 4 months ago

When I was 10, I was having a 10 year old fit. I begged my mother to leave me alone, so instead she hovered over me in my beanbag chair, spitting through her teeth she hissed "you're the reason your dad is leaving us". This is how I found out about their divorce. Months later, she moved 2000 miles away and only took my little brother.

4points

Shauna Rovinski 4 months ago

Your mother is a POS. I'm so sorry.

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Bored Trash Panda 4 months ago (edited)

This is about my grandpa on my moms side. His dad ( my great grandpa) lit their house on fire with him, his siblings, and his mom (my great grandma) in it and took off. They couldn't prove it was him though. He ended up (illegally) marrying another women and had a few more kids. My grandma, mom and her siblings knew nothing about it until one of the kids from his second "marriage" tried to contact my grandpa (who had passed away in 79) when my great grandpa passed away. I only found all this out because one of my mom's (half) cousins from his second family contacted me on ancestry and I asked my mom about them.

2points

ZuriLovesYou 4 months ago

Well, that was depressing.

1point

marianne eliza 4 months ago

I regret having ever attended an open coffin viewing. That's the picture stuck in my head for 30 years. Now I don't go to viewings or I stay in the lobby,

0points

day light 4 months ago

my cousin passed away far too young (20) and I was only a few years younger than him. I can't remember his face from when he was alive, only the face he was making in his casket. he looked so defeated, like life used him up and threw him away. he was positioned like he was sleeping, but his face was just wrong. maybe I just didn't want to believe he's really gone

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Skywitness 4 months ago

At my sister's wake, I found out my older brother had molested her and our other sister. He lives in another state and if somehow he's ever within 100 meters of my daughter, I will do him great physical harm.

22points

Seanette Blaylock 4 months ago

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AKA AKA 4 months ago

arsenic is a ouderles ,tastless colurless painfull killer

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Couragetcd 4 months ago

Limestone quarries are a great place to dump a body!

5points

Ken Schroeder 4 months ago

Wood chippers are amazing for destroying forensic evidence...

4points

Isaac Nemo 4 months ago

Alibi time! We were playing poker when it happened. Pepperoni pizza and Pepsi, sadly I lost all my chips on a busted flush. And that's the whole truth your honor.

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Multa Nocte 4 months ago

How could BP ever confuse "heartbreaking" with "juicy"? I am sorry for BP when they think it is "cute" to put a clickbait title on something that is actually sad.

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Moonchild 4 months ago

The story's are a vote system. The juicy ones may be at the bottom of the votes.

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Ephemera Image 4 months ago

Some of these are just heartbreaking.

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Stephanie R 4 months ago

When I was 10, I was having a 10 year old fit. I begged my mother to leave me alone, so instead she hovered over me in my beanbag chair, spitting through her teeth she hissed "you're the reason your dad is leaving us". This is how I found out about their divorce. Months later, she moved 2000 miles away and only took my little brother.

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Shauna Rovinski 4 months ago

Your mother is a POS. I'm so sorry.

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Bored Trash Panda 4 months ago (edited)

This is about my grandpa on my moms side. His dad ( my great grandpa) lit their house on fire with him, his siblings, and his mom (my great grandma) in it and took off. They couldn't prove it was him though. He ended up (illegally) marrying another women and had a few more kids. My grandma, mom and her siblings knew nothing about it until one of the kids from his second "marriage" tried to contact my grandpa (who had passed away in 79) when my great grandpa passed away. I only found all this out because one of my mom's (half) cousins from his second family contacted me on ancestry and I asked my mom about them.

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ZuriLovesYou 4 months ago

Well, that was depressing.

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marianne eliza 4 months ago

I regret having ever attended an open coffin viewing. That's the picture stuck in my head for 30 years. Now I don't go to viewings or I stay in the lobby,

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day light 4 months ago

my cousin passed away far too young (20) and I was only a few years younger than him. I can't remember his face from when he was alive, only the face he was making in his casket. he looked so defeated, like life used him up and threw him away. he was positioned like he was sleeping, but his face was just wrong. maybe I just didn't want to believe he's really gone

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