" Nothing educate a someone like knowing someone you have a go at it and thought the world of was a complete piece of sh*t as a man . "
In a recent post shared tor/AskReddit, site useru/Jimbobsausageasked, “What did you regret finding out?” Here are some of the most-upvoted answers:
1.“At his funeral, my aunt told me that my brother wasn’t really my brother. My parents took in the son of a family friend when I was two and raised him as their own. When I was 12 and he was 23, he was hit and killed by a drunk driver. I was crying and my aunt told me to stop being a whiny baby and that I had nothing to cry about because he wasn’t even my brother. I looked up to him and I loved him so much.”
u / Mynameisinuse
2.“My mother moved back to her home country when I was nine. I was always told she could never come back to my country due to visa/immigration issues. She confirmed last year that this was not the case and she could come back any time. I realised she chose not to. Ouch.”
u / anothercrazydoglady
3.“That the stench we smelled on my block in the middle of 100-degree weather was not, in fact a possum, but rather, my neighbour, who had been dead in his backyard for over a week.”
u / No_Brush_7706
4.“When my grandmother died, my mom had me send her [the grandmother’s] engagement ring back to her second husband’s family. She had it for 25 years, so it was a bit of a project but I did it. When my mom passed away two years ago I found my grandmother’s will. That ring was the only thing my grandmother had left for me. I always wondered why she left me out of her will, because we were so close.”
u / Loreo1964
5.“Way back in the day, I searched my name in my long-term girlfriend’s chat log. I quickly found a chat between her and one of her friends discussing how stupid I was for not realising she cheated over the summer, and how sick of me she was. Ouchy.”
u / WNY4LYFE
6.“Finding out someone died when I thought they were just living a great life.”
u / jordan - lakers9394
7.“I inherited my wife’s late uncle’s computer. Let’s just say I had to delete a lot of unsavoury material that I’ll never tell my wife about.”
u / trainwreck42
8.“I overheard my best friend being asked why they let me hang around them. Their answer was that it was out of pity.”
u / varthalon
9.“I learned that if I don’t initiate contact with my friends they will never reach out or message me ever.”
u / octoroach
10.“I once found what looked like an animal bite on my ankle and I was worried about getting rabies. I looked up the symptoms and the first symptom was apparently anxiety. Let’s just say that was not helpful.”
u / Fart17
11.“People will treat you better when you have money.”
u / Nicoh071211
" I hope to one day find this out first hand . "
u / slowhand11
12.“That there are people who genuinely had a happy family. My family always fought growing up so I just assumed that everyone else’s did too and then they played nice in public.”
" I visited my college girl ’s folk and they were truly glad to be around each other and were interested in how each of them were doing . I thought they were putting on a show for me since I was there … but when I asked her later about it , she seemed appalled and informed me that it was normal behaviour . Sure enough , every time I was around them it was the same .
I think back being so jealous at the clock time and it took me a while to reconcile that my own fellowship was toxic . "
u / Ristar87
13.“My sister and I are adopted. One day our adoptive father decided I took too long in the shower and went into a full ballistic rage about how ‘you and your sister are useless go back where you f**k*ng came from!’ It only went downhill from there.”
u / Chosen_of_Nerevar
14.“I found out that I had a 21-year-old son that I never knew about and that his mother told another guy that he was his father. I regret finding out because all it did was cause drama and hurt between multiple families.”
u / agent_x_75228
15.“Finding out the one I loved had had someone else in his bed almost every week. Just end things and leave, don’t cheat for months and months.”
u / Ashamed - Vegetable-89
16.“I regret finding out that adulting isn’t a temporary phase but a lifelong sentence with no chance of parole.”
u / livingasaadhi
17.“That the law protects the wrong people in the worst situations.”
u / unintelligentburrito
18.“The secret life of rock stars. Growing up, it was nice just to see them as rock stars. Social media ruined everything.”
u / jayihdz
19.“I think I was happier before I found out how the stock market & financial system works. We regular folk are getting f*cked while some people make a year’s money in a day.”
u / Bigblue12
20.“My soon-to-be fiancé cheated on me with the person I was LEAST expecting and had zero intention of telling me.”
u / rainvirgo
21.“That some parents do not love their children. That hurt me.”
u / Keyblades2
22.“Finding out that my grandpa on my mom’s side of the family was a selfish, self-centred ass. I always idolised him as a young kid. he was a member of the government who travelled the world developing maps out of memory. Years passed by and I moved closer to be with him only to find out that he hated having a daughter and grandkids. Nothing prepares a person like knowing someone you loved and thought the world of was a complete piece of sh*t as a man.”
u / JohnnyGuitar74
23.“I learned that I was the product of an affair my father had.”
u / Legitimate - Most6739
24.“I learned that my dad refuses to get a job because then he’d have to pay child support. I wondered why it was such a big deal since I thought he only had one kid after my mom left him. Turns out he had five others with at most four different women.”
u / IamAssface
Shout-out tor/AskRedditandu/Jimbobsausagefor having this discussion.
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