What’s a secret you found by snooping around that changed your view on someone forever?

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[–]rman[S] 9 insightful - 6 fun9 insightful - 5 fun10 insightful - 6 fun -  (4 children)

Ok I got one: when I was 15-16 I lived in a very conservative household that always stressed abstinence before marriage... especially my mom, we’d go around in circles debating the topic; my mom showing me bible verses and I’d counter saying they don’t apply to my gender and so didn’t need to worry about it (I was a great kid I know)... anyway months after the debate had died down I was helping my Dad clean our garage and noticing some photo albums I started perusing through ... well toward the back of the album I noticed a stack of wedding photos all stuffed into a single pocket... I made it about 3 photos in when I couldn’t believe I was staring at what I now know to be my very pregnant mom in a wedding dress! This lie was so deep - my parents had photos of the wedding framed all at special angles that I never noticed... until now! And they would always play word games with me saying they were married the year before I was born ... I just never put two and two together that they were married in December - that was the first Non-Santa lie I ever figured out my parents told me and it couldn’t have happened at a more rebellious time for me lol ... I did what any respectable teenage son would do: I made my parents lie to me again before pulling out the photo. Never quite saw my parents the same after that ...

[–]Chipit 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

It's important to try to uphold your ideals, even if you don't always succeed. If you fail, get right back on that horse and try again. That is what is important in life.

If they hadn't gotten on the horse to try again, they would have just aborted you and you would have been parted out by Planned Parenthood for cash. Instead you got to be an insufferable jerk to the people who saved your life.

[–]rman[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Lol I totally was — you know a teen and all - we have a good relationship now - but damn was I probably annoying walking around calling myself a bastard for a while

[–]Chipit 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

That's not what a bastard is. It's a son who is not acknowledged by his biological father.

[–]rman[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Honestly I thought it was a child born of an unwed mother which would have made me wrong anyway — either way I want to emphasize that I was a dumb teen, so I was wrong about a lot of things :)