Uncover the Shocking Secrets Your Parents Desperately Tried to Hide from You—Number 7 Will Leave You Speechless!
So, you’ve grown up thinking your parents are these flawless, angelic creatures—pure as the driven snow, right? Then one day, bam! The rose-colored glasses shatter, and suddenly you realize your folks are just humans like the rest of us—with feelings, secrets, and maybe a few skeletons rattling in their closet. Some have scars you never knew about; others carry burdens so deep you’d swear they belonged to a soap opera. Intrigued? A Reddit thread blew up with nearly 20,500 upvotes and thousands of comments where people spilled the juiciest, darkest parental secrets they stumbled upon. Makes you wonder—do you really know your parents, or have you just been starring in your own blind spot? Hold onto your hats, because these confessions will surely make you question all family dinners ever again… LEARN MORE
Growing up, you’ve always looked at your parents as if they were these pure and innocent puffballs. No parent could do anything evil in their children’s eyes – however, when those children grow up and begin assessing things with their somewhat world-molded mindsets, the pink glasses get put aside. You realize that your parents are humans with real emotions, scars and their own personalities, just like you are.
Some might’ve experienced past traumas; some deal with anxieties that they’ve actively been trying to hide from you, and as it turns out, more than some have secrets – it’s just a matter of how intense those secrets are.
Someone on Reddit asked fellow users: “what horrid secrets do your parents have and are oblivious to you being aware of?”. The post received almost 20.5K upvotes and 9.3K worth of comments where people took turns exposing their parents’ deepest and darkest secrets. Do you think you know your parents well?
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Not some horrid secret, but I sometimes hear my dad talking behind closed doors to my mom who passed away suddenly years ago. He typically tells her our life updates and that he misses her. My sister got married recently and I overheard him from outside his room telling my mom how beautiful my sister looked and how great her husband is that she never had the chance to meet. About how they had always spoke of that moment, watching their child marry, and he wished she was there with him to see us. We rarely speak about my mom at home, but 14 years later she’s still very alive in his heart. It’s gut wrenching at times.
When my grandfather passed away he left approx 140k$ american in a trust for me. It wasn’t to be touched until after my parents passed away so that it could gain as much money as possible from the investments he had arranged. (My grandfather was an oil tycoon in PA and no one in the family knew it until after he passed away.) I got a call from the bank one day asking how I’d like to handle closing the accounts. I had no idea why, but apparently my parents had been taking medical bills from themselves and altering them to have my name on them. Then submitting them to the bank to be “reimbursed” for paying my medical bills. They had bled the trust completely dry in less than 5 years. They used the money to remodel their home. I don’t think I have any recourse. But whatever. Im 35 and I have my own retirement. It just makes me mad that they would steal from me like that.
My dad used to talk about growing up really poor, having to get food from food banks, etc. It’s one of the reasons that now that he owns his own business, he donates to food banks and all sorts of charities all the time. Paying it back.
Well, it turns out that my fathers father owned a massive construction company, and made millions of dollars (in the 50s and 60s). My uncle was selling massive amounts of cocaine, and got busted. My grandfather bankrupted himself paying off judges and lawyers and all that to keep my uncle out of jail for most of his life. That’s why my dad grew up with nothing.
He has no idea that I know.
That my grandma has a picture of my mom. My parents separated when I was like two. My dad told my grandma to get rid of everything about her and we never spoke about her growing up. My grandma showed me the only picture she kept that my dad doesn’t know about. It’s the only picture of her I’ve ever seen
When I was a child, we used to be semi-close to my dad’s family. My grandparents came up (2+ hour drive) to talk to my parents about an “adult issue” and 10 year old me was told to stay in my room with the door shut. After that, we never spoke to them again, except for one letter that I got from them expressing sympathy when my other grandmother (who I was very close to) passed away. I had no idea what happened.
Years later, I found a cousin on Facebook and we happened to go to the same college, so we met for coffee. I found out that the reason we no longer spoke was because my mom opened a whole bunch of credit cards and racked up a bunch of debt in my grandma’s name that she never had any intention of paying back. My cousin and I kept it between us and she has no idea I know.
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