Anything your parents have let slip now you are an adult that you were oblivious to as a child?

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My dad said on the phone "oh, there's that mountain we climbed on the telly. You remember when I took you and your brother away for a holiday and mum stayed at home."

I didn't catch all of what mum said - but it was something to the effect that she wasn't best pleased to be reminded of the time they split up.

I had no idea - I just thought dad got more leave.

WOW Elenor Rigby - now thats a story

I found out a cousin in our family got pregnant by a lad who was only 13. This was in the 1960's. Don't think the sun got hold of the story
The couple are happily married now and have 2 dcs

My grandmother swore blind her friend had a virgin birth. She told us this on several occations.

When I was in my 20's my mother explained the woman had been drugged, kidnapped and returned pregnant.

That the 'magic money beach' at Eastbourne didn't really exist, my parents and grandparents had just been burying money in the sand when we weren't looking - although I should have sussed that by the time I was 30, I suppose!

My Great Aunt and Great Uncle weren't married - he'd left his wife and caused a scandal! It was the 50's though...

DH's Great Aunt left her husband and her 2 children, and went to the States where she went on to marry and have 3 more children. Neither family know of each other's existance, and MIL who nearly 80 and of the old school has insisted we don't say anything. It's very, very

I never knew until 4 years ago that my Dad was married before my Mum and had a stillborn ds.

That my mum had an abortion when I was about 9. My dad let it slip a couple of years ago, then looked worried and asked if I knew. I had suspected at the time, so wasn't surprised at all. I'm quite impressed that 9-year-old me had kept her mouth shut (adult me is not very good at that sort of thing). My mum doesn't know that I know.

Lilac, DH found out a similar thing about his pet rabbit too!

This is about dh's grandparents.

When they both became very elderly and couldn't manage the stairs in their house it was suggested that they sell the house and move into a flat. They then confessed that they didn't own the house, but had been renting it for 65 years! Not one of their 4 daughters knew this.

I don't seem to find out any in my family, but I know they are out there, I know I have a cousin who isn't related in the way my gran describes, but I don't know whether she is a blood relative or not. my dads cousin started to research the family tree but stopped because he found too many skeletons! I'm really intrigued, sure I will find out one day

I have an older half sister.
Mum told me when I was in my twenties.
Pregnant at 16, from a very religious family, there was no question of being allowed to keep it.
So she was spirited away to a 'unmarrried mums' home in another town. She named the baby and wrote her a letter. Breastfed her for several weeks before the baby was taken off her and handed to the couple waiting in the other room.

Gut wrenchingly sad.

That George the tortoise didn't actually run away because I was so naughty (not that tortoises run anywhere!) - he just died!

Aah bet you cried yourself to sleep about George running away PC

I discovered upon his conviction that I am related to a serial killer.

When he was sent down, the papers were full of his life story - and it turned out his mum came from the same tiny, tiny village as my dad, and she and my granny shared a last name. There's no doubt we're related but I don't really want to know how closely...

I didn't realise that the nights we spent toasting bread in front of the gas fire was when Mum had nothing else to feed us and that by the time we had spent 15 mins making one slice of toast we didn't really notice that we hadn't eaten anything else for dinner, true I never had a clue we thought it was just a bit of fun.

Well my Uncle J got run over by a tram during the war and left a pregnant fiance whereupon his brother my uncle M married her and then spent the rest of their lives together going on to have 3 more sons a daughter and the only one who is the spitting image of uncle M is the only one who he didn't 'father'. No one knew until the will was read btw.
This same uncle M went to war and during a 'torture' session where battery acid was being poured onto his legs an allied bomb fell nearby and he managed to escape. There was a dead german soldier in foxhole where he spent some time hiding, he was very respectful for him and when he saw that he was keeping a diary he decided to carry on on that date and wrote everything down in there and NEVER spoke about what was in ther again. Again no-one saw it until the funeral.
We would like to get the first half of the diary translated so we can get a picture of two sides of the same war so to speak.

Wow that diary sounds fascinating Mamas

Mum said when I was 19, that she had never loved me!

Great!!!

I kind of knew already. It helped that she finally admitted it...

Am trying to counter the effects in order to have healthier relationship with my own kids. Not sure if it is working yet.

Flightattendant

I was at a PIYO farm when Mum mentioned she got pg as a teenaged asfter a bit of fun {her phrase} with the man who became my Dad (she lost that baby and severalothers after).

Was a bit

but not as much as when she ,mentioned she had considered poison for my dad but changed her mind, yes indeedy

That my honorary uncle is in fact my real uncle.
Single Granmother had a fling with someone in the war, think he was an American. Became pregnant and her brother and his wife adopted the baby.

It only came out when my gran was worried that my aunt was getting too close to the man she thought was her cousin (when in fact he was her brother). She {gran} died a couple of years later so we might never have known.

mamas definitely get it translated