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What's surprised you about your parents?

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ZigZaggyZoo · 09/01/2020 13:58

Just found out my mum took a brick laying course many years ago (she worked in retail). Just for fun apparently. Who knew?

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Theworldisfullofgs · 09/01/2020 14:00

That my dad was married before during ww2. Only found out after he died.

But then again, I've only recently found out that my grandfather was a bigamist.

DramaAlpaca · 09/01/2020 14:03

Finding out what amazing ballroom dancers they are, or used to be when they were younger and before dad's dodgy knees. It was like watching Strictly Grin

lilmisstoldyouso · 09/01/2020 14:41

That they were a one night stand, and had sex within two hours of meeting each other Shock

They met up again the following summer and then started a relationship.

Also a surprise, the fact that the night they DTD for the first time, was the day after my mothers 15th birthday, my dad was 19 BlushConfused

Don't know how I feel about my dad technically being a sex offender!

According to my mother it was "perfectly fine" because back then "it wouldn't have been proper to do it with a boy your own age, and anyway, it was before sex was considered bad"

WTF!

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