40 Redditors Reveal Their Confidential Family Secrets

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.

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