Parents, what is the most messed up secret you're hiding from your children? 

That story of everyone making the dying young woman’s life normal made me sob

Story 42: Dude... t_______t Narrator's voice even trembled a bit there.

The story about the baby dying and the dad not telling his family… is the grave tended to by anyone? A neglected baby grave is one of the saddest things on Earth.

This brother and family that told lies to the sister dying... my goodness. I'm glad she got Cafe Rio and went Hawaii. And I'm glad she had a great brother. That story just tore my heart out.

I like that this narrator now has their own picture! That was very cash money of yall

Man, these women feeling guilty about having thoughts of getting rid of their baby, I wish that was where my mother had stopped. I remember her screaming at me that her friends told her to terminate and she should have listened to them. I really wish the stigma around mental health care hadn't been so bad. I haven't talked to her in 13 years now, and no real plans on changing that.

Thank god this one isn’t vertical. Makes it much easier to play in the background.

Story 42, 38:23 - oh god, this is so sad :( absolutely heartbreaking :(

Ughhhh I love playing these videos in the background while I clean

Story 42 had me in tears.

Stories: 😢:/ Gameplay: 🥰✨

Well, this is surprisingly inspiring! Here I expected a gawk-fest of lurid messed up family secrets and - instead so much of this just makes me think, "Isn't it great what people will go though because they love these kids and want to be supportive familiy?!"

If you have a terrible father, mothers shouldn’t do pretend things like send their kid flowers from him. I don’t agree with that lie at all-because it IS a lie. It’s sad, but if you have a terrible father you might as well know it up front. At least you have the actual truth and can begin processing it now instead of later. If that had been me- I would have understood why she did it and thought it was sweet, but at the same time I wouldn’t have wanted someone gaslighting me over having an absentee parent who didn’t care. I’d rather know that than be lied to that they care when they don’t.

Narrator's response to Story #7 is LEGENDARY. So much is said about that story in just three words...

got this as a x-mas present when i was like 13 so my dad was sitting in a chair drinking a Carona and he tells me to come here and he tells me that i have 2 half brothers from 2 different mothers with a long ass back story i guess he was just waiting for the right time to tell me and my little brother that

The people with guilt about considering termination of pregnancy, and changing your mind. This is nothing to be ashamed of. This is part of considering your options in your circumstances at the time. ❤️ No guilt is needed. Considering options and using the information you have at the time, in your situation at the time- is all part of making a decisions that is going to alter the trajectory of your life ❤️

Unsupervised outdoor cats often are just coyote food. Please if you have a cat bring it inside, even if only at night.

My husband killed himself but my two youngest daughters think he had a heart attack.

I think it’s kinda shitty to not tell your kids if they’re adopted/not biologically related to you. Like what happens when they’re old and take a DNA test and find out you’re not biologically related to them? They’re gonna feel like you kept a secret from them their whole life and that can mess up a relationship. Not to mention, when you go to the doctor they ask for health conditions in your family and they should have as much correct information as possible.

I have a 3yo. I’m keeping him away from my mom. My bio father and (step) dad have both passed away so one of my moms cousins who I’m close to is grandpa. I just don’t speak about my mother around my son. My mom is a drug addict and abusive to me. I haven’t spoken to her in years, well before I had my son. I don’t want him to be around her, subject to her mood swings (she’s a Karen) or see her being abusive to me, I don’t want him thinking, oh that’s how we treat mommy. When he’s an adult if he asks I’ll tell him, she’s only 20 years older than me so she might still be alive. If he wants to meet her at that point he can but I won’t take him to visit now. She doesn’t deserve us and I don’t want him to be around someone like her.

That one about the sister's decline was so heart breaking 💔 😢

Oh hey, I got a story for this one. As the child. My parents kept the fact that my dad wasn't my biological father. Which, yeah, sure, I figured that out on my own years earlier. But then when I snapped at my mother over some bullshit she was going on about she told me about my biological father to guilt trip me. Saying I was just like him. And then proceeded to tell me about how he's a murderer and was dishonourably discharged from the military (He was an officer) for murdering one of his co-workers. And she explained all his psychopathic behaviours like trying to murder her, my sister, and even me when I was a baby. Needless to say, this fucked me up for awhile. Made worse knowing she was planning on keeping this from me and wants me to not think of that bastard as a bad guy.

When I was 9 my grandpa was sent to prison for child porn. My mom didn’t bother hiding why, but she did put it gently when I asked why he went to prison

as someone who wasn't planned, im honestly glad my parents never hid the fact I was a "surprise" from me. It makes more sense given my brother was born so prematurely(>20 weeks early) and almost died more than once in the nicu. planning to have another kid after that sounds like asking for a miscarriage, so it makes more sense that i wasnt planned on

Story #42, I know that restaurant, so I knew it was close to home. But her name…I think she was in a lot of my classes in middle/high school. She was such a sweet girl.

Time for me to sleep an hour later than normal.

Knowing how much I love and adore my cat just makes me so sad for that little 5 year-old girl to eventually find out what happened to her kitty! I'll nevet forget how I felt when I learned that my dad had shot our dog Honey due to her skin condition and not wanting to spend so much money to put her to "sleep" when I was 14. I was kinda shocked to learn he could do something that seems so heartless to me. My cat is about 10.5 years old right now and I will be so devastated when he eventually passes away. I'll definitely be getting a photo of him tattooed on me when he does! He's thesweetest, most adorable one-eyed kitty on this planet! Also, that one mom's story of abuse by he ex was heartbreaking to me because I actually witnessed my mom verbally, emotionally, psychologically, and physically abused by my biological father. I remember stepping in between them and yelling at him to stop while my bio fathet had her cornered next to the front door and the time he chased her around our house, while my half-sister (we share the same bio father) rushed us to their bedroom when she was like 14, just so we didn't have to witness the fight. He ended up chasing her into their bedroom as the 3 of us kids watched from their bed as he pinned her to the ground on her stomach, sat on her back, and tried to strangle her from behind. Now THAT was traumatizing! I'll also never forget the time he snapped, "What are staring at" to my brother during a weekend visit. It hurt my soul to hear him speak to my brother with such anger/hostility. I'll also never forget learning from my mom when we were older, that he asked her if my stepdad would be willing to adopt my brother and myself just because he didn't want to pay child support that he wasn't even really paying anyway. My stepdad adopted us when I 9 and my brother was 8. I remember a girl I went to school with asking me why my last name had changed from 4th grade to 5th grade and explaining to her that my stepdad adopted me over the summer. My brother and I did not have any contact with him from the time we were adopted until the time I was 18 and about to graduate high school. The only reason he got into contact with my mom was because he had just been diagnosed with prostate cancer at the time and was given only 3 months to live. I understand he was frightened, but when we went to see him in the hospital, he only talked about himself the whole time and didn't ask my brother or myself what we had done or accomplished in the past 9 years, which was incredibly angering and selfish of him to me. However, my brother and I would visit him around Christmas time for the next 4 years or so afterwards. He ended up living for another 6 years. I will always be incredibly for the $15,000 he gave each of his 3 kids. My half-sister had already graduated college at that point, so she didn't need or use it for that, but my mom invested mine and my brother's shares so that we would be able to pay a tiny bit of our 4-year college tuition, while my mom paid for books and tuition for both my brother and I at a community college. Our bio father passed on in April of 2009 and I spent as much time with him and my half-sister as I could, as my college was really close to his ex-wife's house that he shared with my sister, because I knew he was scared to die, as I believe are most humans. Unfortunately, I had a pretty big blowout with my sister because she didn't feel my brother deserved his third of the share of our bio father's life insurance money because he rarely came around during the last year or two or our bio father's life. Even though she was named as the executor of his will and all that, I didn't think that was right of her because my brother is not good around dying people, especially one's he doesn't respect. My sister made me promise not to tell my brother about that "agreement" she made with me, though I knew I would tell my brother, eventually. I begged him not to confront her and told him I would share my half of our bio father's $10,000 life insurance money with him, even if that meant getting only $2,500 instead of $3,333.33. Of course, he didn't care and confronted her anyway and she kept the whole $10,000, which I'm almost positive she spent most of it on drugs and alcohol because I knew she had struggled with drug and alcohol addiction previously. I was so mad at her for keeping all the money for herself, even though my brother and I could have used it to pay for at least another semester of college, that I tore up an entire book that she had loaned me, and left it and a few other things in a box on her front porch without ringing the doorbell, knocking, or saying anything to her, so that she could find it on her time and understand how and why I was so mad at her. My sister and I have somewhat repaired our relationship since, but it's not ever been entirely the same as before and she moved from Fresno, CA to Las Vegas, NV several years ago and I have not seen her in-person since before that blowout over the money. She ended up spreading his ashes without my brother and myself, which I'm also still a bit upset about. However, it is what it is and I refuse to let myself be held back by anger and frustration over the situation. I know what our bio father woulf have wanted and it was NOT. ANY. OF. THAT! Also also, I don't know if the following is any worse than what my bio father did to my mom or me and my brother, but my mom's first husband was cheating on her with one of his photography students at the time and he convinced my mom that he would "come back" if she would agree to have an abortion, which she went through with. He never "came back" and divorced her instead (nasty a$$ douchebag) which is so disgusting to me that I'd want to break his nose if I ever met him. Also also also, when my stepdad and his 2nd wife got divorced, her parents parents convinced his youngest and oldest daughters that my stepdad, whom I call my dad, was an awful person and they haven't spoken to him in decades! However, he's very lucky that his middle child, a son, still has a pretty good relationship with him. So while I technically have 3 older step-siblings, I really only have somewhat of a relationship with my stepbrother. ,

story 42 gave me tears in my eyes...

This was a very sweet way to start this Monday morning. I was preparing for some nasty stories, but most of them were really cute and nice. Lovely! :D

I'm sick of these self righteous parents refusing to tell their kids that they aren't biologically related. Sacrifice your karma points to give them necessary medical info.

people hating on the new new narrator: theyre both good, have them both

Love your vids and your commentary. Keep up the great work!

Lol, I'm 13 to 16 years older than my younger siblings. I loved lying to them that I'm secretly their mother... not now anymore.

these hit different while i’m going to sleep

There are some BEAUTIFUL stories here! Thank you for sharing them!

I found out at 26 the man who raised me is 90% not my bio dad. He's a terrible person and left me with years of abandonment/relationship trauma. The man we're sure is my actual Dad looks almost exactly like me and died four years ago. I only found out because my sister accidentally said something about it. Everyone knew but me

I like this narrators commentary wayyyy better

I have a story. I'm a mom. My 3rd pregnancy ended in a miscarriage. That's not the secret. The secret is that my toddler, who is older now but still has a lot of issues, caused that miscarriage. By pushing me over. I fell badly, and it started about an hour later. No one knows. I will never tell my child. They don't need to know.

When I was 13, I found out that I had an older brother who was stillborn. Right at the same time as that revelation, my dad revealed to me that my birth mother tried to intentionally miscarry with me. It's been almost 10 years since he told that. And I am about to be a father myself.

The story about the girl slowly dying, becoming frustrated with her intellectual decline is making me weep. Like Flowers for Algernon, but with love and support and the innocence of childhood. Her family, friends, and school community are wonderful. Now I have to go listen to the rest of the story and finish breaking my heart.

The parents who almost gave up but decided not to, that's more common than you may think. Some may just have a passing thought, while others may start to act. Some do act and never actually return or planned to. The fact you chose to come back shows you do care and love that kid. There are so many nerves and PPD that comes with having a kid and honestly, I would probably do no better. Ive never had a kid, I don't plan on it, however, I'm adopted and know what it feels like when a parent comes back and regrets everything they did. They truly do try to make amends because they love and care for you. Sometimes it's too late and sometimes you come back just in time. But you're still great parents and deserve the recognition ❤ being a parent is hard and sometimes it doesn't set in until uts too late

I was in my late teens when I learned that my mom and dad we're not married and that I was illegitimate. And that this older guy who was usually with my dad when we hung out was actually my older half-brother. They basically tried their best to pretend that we were a normal family and didn't tell me until my dad passed away from lung cancer. I remember being a bit mad about this revelation though I did understand they did it to keep me happy. I still miss my dad, especially now since my half-brother turned out to be a bit of a deadbeat who wants nothing to do with me.

Years ago, my mother moved 4 hours away to be close to her dad and brother. After a while, she was experiencing depression. One day, I drove the time to get her and move her back home. She spent some time in the mental ward of a large hospital nearby. Probably about a month after her discharge, me and my siblings noticed she was extremely distraught. She gathered us in her bedroom and told us a secret she'd kept for her entire adult life. When she was a young teenager, her dad, my beloved grandpa, had abused her, and she was pregnant from it. She was taken and put into foster care about 5 hours drive away. In time, she gave birth to a son, who was immediately taken away for adoption. While in foster care, she met Dad. Grandpa turned his life around, and they were able to go on to have a healthy family dynamic. She married Dad, and life was good for years. Other issues came up with Dad, and they divorced, but the secret of my half brother uncle was eating her up. I love my mom. I love both her parents, and in time I was able to forgive Grandpa without him knowing that I knew.

4:11 Well, that came unexpected! Although I should know by now you like to just burst out singing once in a while. What I don't understand is the connection of that song to that story, if there is any. It seemed like the story prompted you to sing that.

Education of the effec,ts of postpartum disorders and some of them can last up to 3 years.

Story 11 - with all that anxiety about her age and having to care for a child - she got into a post partum depression. I am glad she had the support to get her through it and that she came around to her child.

In story 24 you calling the baby a thing made me laugh

I love this narrator ❤ Keep mixing it up between the 2.

did story 42 make anyone else cry or was it just me

worst secret? i can't ever tell them. no one should have that information about their dad.

Okay, someone, please tell me im not going crazy and that this guy actually sounds like the dude who narrates the percy jackson books on audible

My youngest half brother thinks i'm his cousin... his mom told him her husband is his father... plan to break the news when he's 18. it's broke me time and time again. i dont know if i'll hold it together when we tell him.

To story 24, there is zero shame in getting an abortion in one of the rare cases that you will both die if it’s not performed, at least based on the information you had at the time. Don’t feel guilty that you almost had to abort your own daughter to save your life, be happy that you both managed to pull through and are still here to this day.

My mom kept it a secret from me for YEARS about how my dog died. Said she died of cancer. Nope, mom had taken her to get euthanized for attacking the neighbor’s small dog. Still not over the lie or my mom’s action

38:23 WOW I mean Just WOW ''Danny, from the downstairs diner is cutting up onions to the max again''

I'm starting to like this guy. I feel like there's less of the corny jokes and more real opinion input. :3

When I would misbehave when I was like 5 or younger, my dad would turn off the power strip connected to my TV so I couldn't watch cartoons. He knew I wouldn't be able to figure it out. Absolutely insane, lmao.

Oh god ima love this one also story 1 um mom wtf 50:10 just from how this was written I can tell op Shuold not know and is not old enough to know

love these videos guys, great to pass the time, however, in case anyone who is involved with this channel reads this, please have someone watch these videos before you upload them, or get a better editor, or SOMETHING. cuz i've noticed in several videos that you repeat the same phrase twice in a row while reading a story, sometimes multiple times in a video, and it's pretty annoying, it makes it feel like y'all don't really gaf about putting any type of effort into these vids. everyone knows it doesn't take much effort to make reddit videos, so when you show you don't even take the time to make them clean and edited properly it just feels bad man

My dad said he wouldn’t fight for full custody of us if the child support cost was lowered. So that’s what happened. Wasn’t a large amount to begin with.

Amazing video btw, What game are you playing in the background??

This video reminds me of how my mom's cousin hid the fact that he had an older daughter from his younger daughter...

Story 51 is a rather wholesome secret very nice one

NOT Telling your children about their parentage, inspite/despite their heritage or behaviors/circumstances etc.. IS Totally okay, up to a certain point WE do know, that some children, of age 13, are sexually active, in todays' world And... Really, do you want to explain to your teenage son/daughter is sexually active/dating their brother or sister? The only case, that has a pass is if you were sexually abused by an unknown person I learnt about two women who cheated and whose children were not their husbands' and their daughters were sexually active with their half brothers First mom was a serial cheater, never said a word, her friend group knew, tried to talk her into telling the daughter... girl married the guy.. still together The other is not as bad as the first serial cheater, but did cheat on her husband, had the kid, they are now divorced, and the daughter is dating the brother, and she is going to become catatonic, in less than a month(the mom I mean) No amount of talking to, advices, or anything, from friends, family and acquaintances registers with her, she almost kidnapped the daughter too (and from what was seen, it was for an unforeseeable amount of time.. guess she thought, she could kidnap her, and she'd have slowly forgetten him) So yup... this ''we're b*%$ /as*h*%$ and we wanna have fun,'' DO have an expiry date, when you give birth

I found out at 12-13 that both my parents were married before they met (i knew my mom was because she had my half sister, then met my dad and had my brother, sister and me) but what i didnt know was that both of my parents were married to other people when they met, then both cheated on and left their spouses and married each other. My dad also didnt want kids and now he has 4, and i found this out at age 9 or 10.

Story 42 is so sad, she was so young it seems wrong. This is a time when lying is the right thing to do as they were trying to make a young girl happy before she passed away

i pray that couple can work it out! divorce is so awful so often.

I need to ask, do they mean about themselves or about the family? Because that's a vague question. A parent can be hiding the fact that they personally have a disturbing part of themselves, like perhaps a less than normal origin, then we have weird uncle no one let's baby sit broader disturbing family secrets, and then we also have a disturbing fact about the child themselves, like a traumatic birth.

lol. Story 13. GIven up for the price of a laptop? So sorry, O.P. Similar, here. I'mma have a book out about this eventually, but that's at least a good price. I was abused for my parents' drugs for as little as $3 worth. Imagine having your self worth determined by that low an amount. Nothing is off the table when your own parents devalue you THAT hard.

I had to explain to my kids the reason we dont have a family is because my mom sold us into slavery all of my siblings are gone besides one brother the one whos father owned us. They met him once as a homeless black man i took in to try to help but he started pushing that im privileged dont understand how hard it is for him as a black man so i kicked him out. Hes the only one of us who was free never abused in any way he was privileged his fayher convinced our mom if she was really an ally and wanted that token son she would sell her daughters to his family. In my brothers mind his family abandoned him and cared for us we were kept in a cold cellar. The only help offered to us was SSI which made us go from private to government property we don't have any legal rights he does and hes a dangerous felon.

Not my story exactly, but my sister’s. Just like in story 45, my sister’s mom kept her away from us for 4 years, a mix of lying to her that her siblings’ dad was also her dad, to calling everyone on my dad’s side horrible people (I mean, my dad’s side have their issues). This happened while I was a baby, as we are 3 years apart, so it was crazy finding out around 4 or 5 years old that “actually, you have another sister.” I care so much about her, as does my other sister who is not related to her, but still loves her as family (yeah, all of my siblings are only half-related to me, so one sister from dad’s side, one from mom’s, but still family. Though the more tragic story, I hated this. I had grown up thinking my dad’s side of the family was very loving and caring. Sometimes way too religious, but they treated me well, and I saw nothing contrary with my sisters, so I had thought we had a good family dynamic. Yeah… no. My half-sister on my mom’s side was essentially adopted by my dad, not officially but basically, but it felt like they didn’t really treat her like family. She had been ignored, bullied, told she was going to hell at 8, and even physically abused by my own grandpa, with grandma watching, just because a friend tricked her into swearing. She was banned from playing on consoles that other family members were allowed on, and the worst came when she became pregnant, as my dad’s side only really cared about her kid, and would only “offer if she would want to come” in order to guilt trip my sister if she did come, as she does not feel like she is truly wanted. They got mad at her for dumping the father, and she never felt comfortable enough to tell them that the father was emotionally abusive at times (he’s overall a fine guy, so even finding out about that was such a shock to me, but I trust my sister). She is suffering multiple mental conditions now, fearing going out and being around lots of people, and has to take depression pills. My dad’s response? “Just get out more, and stop taking those pills, they don’t work.” My sister came out to me as Queer, and I just fear how much they would attack her if they were to ever find out. I was only told this pretty recently, as either I was too young, lived out of town, or was dealing with my own issues (living with my step-dad was a nightmare). I just keep feeling so bad about all this, as I didn’t really notice, and I just keep feeling guilt of not noticing, feeling like I didn’t deserve all of the love they gave me instead of her. My other sister, she was treated better, but does get attacked for not getting married despite having 2 kids with her boyfriend, and her having to hide her own mental health issues from dad after seeing how dad treats it. All of us sisters try to be there for each other, as I’m even hiding my own mental health issues from dad (at first out of shame, but now because I am afraid of how my dad may treat me). My mom’s side knew about my dad’s side being jerks, but it was hard telling me that because I loved them. Now, I just feel ashamed loving them, but also just feel bad if I cut them off (they have other issues too). Right now I’m just trying to figure out what I feel is right to do, if it’s limiting contact, speaking to them about my issues with them, making sure to protect my sisters, or if it’s time to just never see them again. Doesn’t help that I’m recovering from my step-dad’s abuse, and have to be careful about what my little brother, his son, hears (oldest sister 5 years older than me, second sister 3 years older, and brother 11 years younger, as the first 3 of us siblings were born when my parents were teens/early 20s).

When my best friend was 16 she found out she had older 4 half-siblings from her dad. And not a dark secret but I found it funny: when my mam was born her dad refused to take care of her because she was a girl (he already had a son), then one day her mam got fed up and threw a frying pan at him, since then he was more attentive.

12:45 waiting for my parents to come out like that

4:11 you ate that up

My family is largely boring! About the only secret is that we had a big brother named Patrick. He lived only three days after a premature birth. Had he lived, he’d be 76 years old today, For some reason, people just didn’t talk about such things in 1949. Dad baptized him and he’s buried in the Philippines.

What is that backround game called?

Nothing great but pretty sure I was never supposed to know that my dad did several years in prison, he only told me because as a teen I was going down a bad path and I guess he thought that would help or something. My grandma had 1 or 2 abortions I guess, was something her kids learned right before my grandpa died and that caused a lot of fights, idk the details so not sure exactly why. There's a few others but those are the main 2, probably more that I'll learn when my dad or his siblings die knowing that side of the family, they're filled with more drama than a soap opera and I'm surprised they even talk still, there's always some argument about something foolish so I've learned to just stay out of it by now.

Hearing your own fucking story read out is shocking.

Story 16 is an example of one of the many reasons why having an outdoor cat is a bad idea

kind of icon that this narrator never does an outro lol

If someone drinks and does drinks to have a miscarriage should be arrested wtf

My dad has a screw around/ experiment savings account, or something similar to that.

actual responses to the questions : 2 sentences the edits and updates:10 paragraphs

only here to see if my parents confessed

Story 55 is typical abuse.

Yea I don’t think my big sister had me when she was 3

Octagon guy!!!!!!!!! 💀💀💀

The guy in 41 might be to worried MR.Morals are my passion

Oh my god, story 42. That really fucking sucks. Nobody deserves that.

Story 11 comment by op: Almost killing your child is a big deal. Imagine it was "I seriously considered killing my wife."

Had to stop after story 16 😭

Lmfao.. "benefits of dating a pregnant chick". Dude there aren't any except guilt free " little Debbie's" for a couple of months.

9:16 my grandparents (dads side) didn’t want me. But my mom thought she couldn’t get pregnant so she insisted on keeping me. And my dad decided to stay in my life so my grandparents just had to live with it. They love me tho, they just thought my dad was too young to raise a child

Story 26: toll paid.

Nice try FBI

"Son, I'm a furry"

for the narrator, it kind of sounds like you are mumbling pretty often. maybe try to speak clearer and louder?

Hey

I don't want to be a mom = Abort I don't want to be a dad = To damn bad it is all your fault now here is child support for 18-22 years...

7th comment (i think?)