“Unveiling the Shadows: 47 Disturbing Family Secrets That Will Leave You Speechless!”
I knew my dad married my mom when she was 18 and he was 32. What I didn’t know (until I got my mom tipsy recently) was that my dad met her when she was 14 and he was 28. They were married 45 yrs until he passed in 2020 so he had good intentions but he basically groomed her.
Growing up I was always told my grandad died of heart failure at 40, when my dad was 4, leaving behind 5 kids. I was never given any other details and my dad never wanted to talk about it, as it must be the most traumatic thing in his life. Flash forward to when my wife and I get married and she tells me “Wow, that thing that happened with your dad’s dad sounds crazy” shortly after meeting my grandmother Obviously, I’m totally confused as to what she means.
Turns out she’d had a conversation with my grandmother who explained to her that my grandad was the local milkman and basically went around town shagging every woman in town on his route while working. Also turns out he was also a petty thief known to the police, and had a bad rep with them. Supposedly he was caught sleeping with a local police officer’s wife on his milk route and was found face down in a puddle in a clearing well out of the way a couple days later with his heart stopped. The rumoured actual cause of death was that he was beaten to death by the police who made it look accidental.
Obviously, I asked if this was true and my parents/grandmother/family all confirmed it and just said they told the kids our age the simple “heart failure” explanation because we’d never be able to understand when we asked where grandad was. Crazy how much makes sense in hindsight, as my dad had zero tolerance/respect for thievery/stealing and infidelity when I was growing up. Had a hard relationship with him as well in my teens/twenties when I struggled with sex addiction and he didn’t want to hear it or deal with it or pay me any mind. Coincidentally, I’m named for my grandad and I had a big problem with shagging everything that moved too. Weird (or maybe not so weird) how things like that line up.
