40 Redditors Reveal Their Confidential Family Secrets

Sometimes the safest and easiest place to spill the family tea is under the anonymity of Reddit.

Mary

• Published in Interesting
• January 9, 2022

Confidential stories are everywhere, and these days, sharing them anonymously has been a great way of taking off the burden of keeping it as a secret for how many years or generations. Keeping a secret is a difficult job to do and sometimes it takes a toll on those who are involved and definitely knew.

Is there even a good and bad secret? When do you have to keep something hidden from everyone and when should you don't?

Secrets can range from small to the biggest, from shocking to devastating, and the response from people who would learn about it also varies on the secret itself. But why do people keep secrets from their partners, siblings, parents, and their own families?

As Redditors share their family secrets on a thread that was created by a user named AbsolutelyHavoc, people have not only talked about the secret itself, but also given hints on why it has been kept as a secret. The revelation also involves how family members have reacted to it, the consequences that are both positive and negative which anyone can expect to happen.

Please scroll down to see how these secrets have affected each family, their relevance in your family's experiences, and other relatable things that exist among these scenarios. You might be surprised at how families can betray each other sometimes.

How the reveal began.

#1 Secret baby.

#2 Grandma's driving mystery.

#3 Mrs. Santa.

#4 Sneaky gravy.

#5 Rejected half-sister.

#6 The real secret agent.

#7 Welcoming a lost family member.

#8 The importance of tracing people's origins.

#9 They are meant to be after all.

#10 Results of inbreeding?

#11 Never should've believed it.

this is kind of messed up, but my parents told me my mom had a bad back because I pushed on her spine during birth. this was what I thought all my childhood. I think I was in my teens when my older brother told me my dad pushed my mom during an argument and she fell and had to have surgery.

I thought I ruined my moms back my entire childhood and those SOBs let me believe it :(

#12 Payment for the truth.

#13 Wholesome story of love over resentment.

#14 Real definition of a father.

#15 How could she do that?

#16 Found him when it's too late.

#17 Sibling over her children.

#18 He was fortunate to be healthy.

#19 Classic family secret.

#20 Wrong assumptions and its consequences.

#21 Human trafficking.

#22 Reunited after 40 years.

#23 Good versus bad brother.

#24 Maybe she had a mental illness.

#25 Institutionalized brother.

#26 Shocked but not sad.

#27 The one who ran away.

#28 "Papa smear"

#29 What's with the name?

#30 Relationship: Uncle brother.

#31 Feeling lost.

#32 He was the reason for missing sheeps.

#33 Behind the scars.

#34 Killer brothers.

#35 Dad's double life.

#36 Cold cases solved.

#37 Needed a break from their marriage forever.

#38 Missing piece of her family tree.

#39 Polygamy.

#40 Not just some random child.

Secrets are sometimes not good because people are burying problems instead of finding solutions and fixing relationships. They are like termites that feed on a family's foundation, and later on causes destruction.

Do you also have similar experiences with family secrets being revealed and how did you deal with it? Like and share this story with your family!

Mary