“My Grandpa-In-Law Used The Family Computer To Email A Dominatrix” And 22 Other Exposed Family Secrets I’m Sure No One Wants To Discuss At Thanksgiving

Reddit user PhenomenalPancake asked the AskReddit community, “What’s an NSFW scandal in your family?” The thread quickly filled with all sorts of family secrets. Here’s what people revealed:

1.

“My grandfather was a nude photographer and serial cheater. He invited one of the women he cheated with to his wedding with my grandmother. Safe to say, many people were upset and very uncomfortable.”

—u/icaruslaughsashefell

2.

“I recently learned that my paternal grandfather had an entire second family in a different town. My dad has known most of his life but never said anything. Also, my dad’s grandmother ran off with a door-to-door salesperson three separate times and came back pregnant three separate times.”

—u/EhDotHam

3.

“My grandpa-in-law used the family computer to email a dominatrix, using the email he shares with his wife. He had to warn her not to make the restraints too tight, as he has IBS and could need to get up at a moment’s notice.”

—u/gilmorefile13

4.

“My great-aunt was married five times. Each of the first four died from various causes (car accident, heart attack, injury while working on their property, unknown cause in his sleep). The fifth died by suicide. The whole family believes she somehow directly or indirectly killed each of them in turn. I only knew her when I was a little kid, but she was certainly bitter and mean-spirited.”

—u/Alert-Accountant-515

5.

“A distant uncle was screwing his nephew’s wife. They got caught and married a couple of years later. She had two kids. My uncle has two kids. The kids are now stepsiblings and cousins at the same time. This makes for awkward family reunions.”

—u/DonSuburban

6.

“After my grandmother died, my grandfather married and had kids with her sister. No one on that side of the family talks about it, and I’m pretty sure I found out about it by accident. I would love to find out who these people are and meet them one day.”

—u/pinchmyleftnipple

7.

“My grandmother was a homewrecker in her nursing home and ended at least three marriages because she kept sleeping around.”

—u/firestorm713

8.

“My biological father had an affair with my mother’s best friend and our neighbor. Later in my life, he wrote a self-help book about parental alienation, blaming his kids for his mistakes.”

—u/Ok_Alygotsass

9.

“My uncle (who is a priest) was arrested for trying to solicit a gay sex worker who ended up being an undercover cop. This happened years ago and shook things up in the family since my grandparents saw him as their ‘ticket to heaven.'”

—u/dkreni2

10.

“My father found out he has a brother younger than I am (33M) a few years ago. Apparently, my grandfather, when he was 60ish, had an affair with a woman from another country, and she became pregnant. My father and his siblings found out after 20 years because my aunt took over his finances and noticed a significant amount of money was paid to a foreign bank account each month. His siblings decided never to tell their children. My parents thought we should know.”

—u/calvion90

11.

“My cousin, who was in her 20s at the time, married a guy in his 40s, who came with an adult kid, a son, 18 at the time, from a previous relationship. My cousin had a couple of kids with this man. A couple of years later, my cousin was caught in bed with her husband’s adult son, who was now in his mid-20s, while my cousin was in her 30s. My cousin and her husband divorced, and my cousin kept custody of their children. My cousin kept seeing the adult son of her ex-husband, and they had a couple of kids a few years later. The dude is now a stepfather to his own half-siblings, and his own biological kids are half-siblings to his own half-siblings. We don’t talk about my cousin anymore.”

—u/ThanksToDenial

12.

“My uncle was engaged to his wife’s sister first. He met my aunt on the night of his official engagement to the sister. Things kicked off from there. The first engagement was called off (allegedly before anything physical happened between my aunt and uncle), and my uncle and aunt eloped. My cousins hadn’t met anyone from their mother’s side until their early adulthood.”

—u/victoriageras

13.

“My biological father and grandfather were serial cheats. I was always told they slept around, but it sunk in after I joined a DNA/ancestry service and saw 42 half-aunts/uncles and 20 half-siblings. They were both military, so you can track their location based on the kids’ birthdays.”

—u/Radiant_Truck_8917

14.

“I am the result of an affair. My father and I didn’t find out until I was 13 through a DNA test. I still have his last name, and so do my kids, but I’ve since gotten to know my biological father and his other kids, and they’re all wonderful people.”

—u/freedomandbiscuits

15.

“My distant uncle made a porn movie in a well-known theme park in my country. The theme park found out; it was all over the news here. We share the same last name. My husband and I were watching a quiz show a few years later, and this was the topic of one of the questions.”

—u/lennekex

16.

“One of my second cousins tried to hire a hit man to kill his ex-wife because he didn’t want to pay all the child support he owed. The hit man was undercover FBI. He went to jail and lost his license to practice medicine.”

—u/storyofohno

17.

“My dad started sleeping with my best friend’s mom, which led to my parents getting divorced, my dad marrying my best friend’s mom, and now I have a stepbrother who used to be my best friend.”

—u/mstrdsastr

18.

“An in-law went to see a band and went missing for a few weeks. He wasn’t missing; he just went to his affair partner’s house after the gig and decided that the house that his wife and family were in was not really ‘for him’ anymore.”

—u/yew420

19.

“My dad slept with my pregnant sister’s fiancé. That’s how we found out they were actually both gay.”

—u/DucktapeCorkfeet

20.

“My grandmother cheated on my grandfather with her ballroom dance instructor. They divorced, only to get remarried two years later because she got pregnant with my uncle.”

—u/meta_muse

21.

“After doing a DNA test, a family member discovered he had a different dad from his siblings. Since his mother had passed away, he asked his aunt, who seemed perplexed that she’d never told him. Turns out she’d had an affair with a firefighter (also long dead). He was more amused than upset by the whole thing.”

—u/zerbey

22.

“Two of my second cousins are also my half-brothers. That means my mum messed around with her cousin’s man. My mum then married someone else while pregnant and pretended I was the other fellow’s daughter. Also, my bio dad has 18+ kids. I only know those two second cousins out of all of them.”

—u/_Luxuria_

23.

And: “My sister got a DNA test to see what nationalities we were and found first cousins (who should not have existed) on the side of my family where we have no cousins. My father has two siblings, but they are childless. Our only thought was that our bachelor uncle had feathered illegitimate children we didn’t know about. Then, my mom revealed that our grandfather on that side had another family. He had abandoned a wife and children before he met my grandmother. Apparently, my father is sensitive about the subject. We’ve never discussed it further.”

—u/Mushrooming247