ALL families have their issues, but one is just a little edgier than most — especially since they were raised side-by-side.
One man’s life was turned upside down when he learned a jaw-dropping secret about the “sister” he grew up with.
Redditor Snarfhard detailed the family drama in a post on the platform.
“I’m guessing this isn’t the strangest situation ever, but sometimes it feels good to talk about it,” he said.
“I’m a 36-year-old man now with a wife and toddler, but it still permeates into almost every aspect of my family life.
“My ‘sister’ was 16 when she had me and hid her pregnancy under baggy clothes until it was far too late to abort.”
Snarfhard said that the revelation came when the person he thought was his mother died in the hospital.
It was there when his cousin broke the shocking news to him at age 18.
“[My cousin] suddenly turned to me and said, ‘That’s not your mother, she is,'” he said. “Pointing [at my sister] the whole time.
“I’ll never forget the look on his face.”
Snarfhard added that peculiar statements from his brother-in-law should have been a red flag.
“It’s always strange looking back,” he said.
“So my ‘sister’ married and had another child three years after I was born.
“I would often go on road trips with them to her husband’s family and her husband, my ‘brother in law,’ would always say cryptic things like, ‘If you were my son.'”
Another Redditor had trouble grasping the situation, asking how it could occur in the first place.
“But why did they hide it from you?” they wrote.
“I could understand if she was hiding it from your ‘mother,’ but if they were both in on it, why?
“I hate to sound judgmental, but this all sounds incredibly cruel.”
“There’s just never a good time to open a giant box of worms,” Snarfhard replied.
“Do you do it when things are bad, and make things worse? Or do you do it when things are good, and potentially make things bad?
“I don’t agree with their decision to hide it from me, but I can understand why it was hard for them to tell me the truth.”
