Family secrets

Family does not mean keeping secrets, walking on eggshells, lying to keep the peace, pretending others are healthy when they are not, tip toeing around the truth, attending events that derail my healing process, defending poor choices, engaging in toxic behavior, remaining loyal to destructive patterns, or sacrificing my needs in an attempt to fix or save others.⠀

The babysitters of the world have shared the strangest, darkest, and most unexpected discoveries they made in families' homes, and even the tamest of these tales will make you wonder what skeletons your own family keeps in their closet.

"Once you were old enough, what were the dark family secrets you were finally let in on?" - u/Flash_Dimension From missing family members who were never actually missing to discovering that siblings are actually parents, people on Reddit are sharing the dark family secrets that they learned when they were older. Here is a small selection of the assorted secrets, and it is a w... #familysecrets #shockingrevelations #hiddentruths #darkpast #whoswho #revealedsecrets #truthuncovered…

"I was an only child my whole life. Then, when my dad died in my thirties, I learned my cousin was actually my brother."

"My great-grandpa presumably died when his sailboat sank in a lake. No body was ever found, though, and I don't think the boat was either. Some in our family think he faked his death, but no one knows why he would've done that."

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You can't hide from God! He SEES everything! Proverbs 15:3 The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.

𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁 𝗘𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗼𝘇𝗮, 29 and teaches at a highschool. When the new transfer student 𝗦𝗸𝘆𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗩𝗼𝘅 makes her way to the school, things took an entire turn when skylar started to fall for 𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘀 𝗘𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗼𝘇𝗮. ~ "❝𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝘁 𝗺𝗶𝘅, 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁. 𝗪𝗲'𝗹𝗹 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁.❞" "❝𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗜'𝗹𝗹 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁.❞"

"My aunt poisoned my grandma for her inheritance. Everyone in my family knows about it, but it's just not talked about."

Every family has one!

Most toxic families have a scapegoat. This is the person who gets targeted for telling the truth. Rather than look at themselves, toxic family members point at the scapegoat to take on all the sins of the toxic family. This post will tell you how to heal.

"It would tear the family apart if they knew."

What's Your Juiciest Family Secret?

This is absolutely priceless.

Unlocking the mystery meant confronting a meaningful but devastating part of my history.