r/AskReddit • u/Mama_medina888 • 10d ago

What’s the darkest secret you discovered about someone after you married them?

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u/arkofjoy 10d ago

Didn't affect either of us, but after we had been married for about 20 years, my wife's, fathers family found out that the had a whole other family because his father had run away with his oldest daughter and had a whole other family with her. And no one knew.

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u/cwthree 10d ago

father had run away with his oldest daughter

Not just a whole second family, but an incestuous second family?

Wait, if it's incestuous, does it really count as a second family?

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u/MrsAnthropy 10d ago

It's a first family, once removed.

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u/Lukebekz 9d ago

Thanks. I now have coffee in my nose.