“My husband’s youngest brother and his wife had a baby, then four months later, she was hooking up with the oldest brother.”

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NOTE: This post contains mentions of sexual assault, domestic violence, child abuse, sexual harassment, and other disturbing situations.

"She's been really smart about everything. After she found the cameras, she took her and her kids (two older teenage boys) to her mom's to stay, because, of course, she didn’t know if there were other cameras. She and her sister then went back, checked everywhere and everything, and made sure there were no other cameras before bringing the kids back.

And she kicked him out immediately. Like, she packed his bag, put it on the porch, told him what she found, and sent him packing to his mom's. He's not allowed back in the house. He's whined, 'but whhhyyyyy,' and she's like, 'Because you recorded us having sex and recorded me naked without consent last time you were in here.'

Oh, and now he’s trying to hide assets so that in the divorce, she gets less. Fortunately, if you hide assets and they are discovered, the spouse gets like 80% of that instead of 50%. She hired a forensic accountant. She'll find them."

"He scrambled, but to my surprise, told her and had that conversation. He said the next day that he wanted to dump me to 'try again' with her. I was upset, but there was the obvious suspicion in the back of my mind that he was lying.

So I spoke to her. Turns out he did not tell her at all. She dumped him instantly. He lost a six-year marriage by cheating and tried everything possible to keep her trapped in it, including burning down the extremely unlikely bridge to a new relationship and life that I was offering.

I don't really feel bad, aside from wishing I had told her earlier. I was too optimistic that bad people can change. I still think they can! Just that that particular guy was not going to try."

"Now she and her new boyfriend are scammers. They scammed his dying dad (he had cancer) out of a car they wrecked and stuck him with the payment, stole from another family member of his on her deathbed, and more. 

Oh, and before she left the state, she got fired from her caretaking job for stealing from a young nonverbal man with autism. She then worked for a cleaning company, where she started stealing cash and items from old ladies' houses.

She also locked her kids in their rooms, and had just about every living rodent you can think of infesting her house. She tried to leave her pet cat to die, but someone rescued it!! The cat is okay!

Oh, and an extra tidbit is that she has two daughters from her first marriage (not the one that she left for the PlayStation guy, but her first one). While they were young, he was caught talking to an FBI agent about what he wanted to do to his CHILDREN! He promptly got arrested."

"Anyway, this child's mother is young, mid-20s at this stage, and the grandmother does most of the child-rearing. She's separated from the criminal grandad but still seems to do well out of the arrangement — he bought her house, pays for veneers, Ozempic, Botox, etc. Probably enough money to keep her silent.

It turns out that Granny has been screwing her daughter's boyfriend (the child's father) on the side. Now they've decided they want to make a go of it together and basically disappeared into the ether."

"I got $1000, and nothing else. The land, property, etc.? Worth over a $500,000. That was 18 years ago.

It's alright — the pictures etc, my grandparents had already made sure I took. I did not fight the will. I was broken. 

Fast-forward to about two months ago, and I got a call from said Uncle. He needed a kidney and knew I'd had genetic testing done. Guess who the only exact match is? Me.

I told him I would happily donate one of mine, provided he upholds the original will. And most importantly? Tell everyone what he did. All of it.

I told him simply that I was no longer the broken soul that needed help. My life exploded, while he stood by and laughed. I was not being cold; I was being just and fair. 

The latest part? They wanted me to come alone, two states away, so I could 'say goodbye properly.' No, thank you. I pointed out that I have nothing left to say. But please let me know when and where to send the flowers."

"He graduated from high school at 17 in the spring of '25. In the past year, he's been living at home and taking community college classes. He recently started playing Dungeons and Dragons with a group of people of varied ages.

Because he's a relatively new driver, we have him on Life360 and can see where he is coming and going. We noticed he was spending more and more time at a particular DND friend's house. After a little while, he was just there pretty much all the time. He popped home to change for the gym and do laundry, and that was it. We were okay with this; if he were away at college, he would be living his life as a college student, so no big deal. Then his seasonal job had kicked back in. They'd given him a promotion and more responsibility. After about three weeks, he quit because it was too much for him. He blew off his dad, who had rearranged his weekend to be with him. He did a dine and dash at a family barbecue the next day. And so my wife (his mom) confronted him.

She asked him a lot of questions, and it got a bit heated. We found out that the woman who owned the condo he'd been hanging out at was 31 (he had previously said that she was in her mid-20s). Her husband had just left her, and they were just starting the process of getting a divorce.

She told him to go to his room and called his father. We didn't see him come out of his room for the rest of the night. The next morning, my wife woke up to a three-paragraph text about how he can never live up to his mom and dad's expectations, and he needed a place where he could go where he felt safe — things that we've never even heard him mention before. Also, the language he used in the text did not sound like his words.

My wife contacted a family crisis counselor who gave us some good advice. Since our kid left it as, 'I'll be the one who gets back in touch with you guys when I'm feeling ready,' that's exactly what we are doing. He never said goodbye to me, he never said goodbye to his younger sister, he never told his dad what he was planning to do...nothing."

It's been just about two years since they got married, and my sister got pregnant a year into the marriage, so they now have my eight-month-old niece. My BIL is currently deployed, and my sister, SOLELY because she couldn't survive without sex and male attention for the span of his deployment, used 'volunteering' somewhere as a lie to go see some other guy on base she thought was cute. She says she wants to divorce her husband when he's back from deployment. Her daughter is currently staying with her MIL for a few months because my sister 'couldn't take being a single mother' and hates our parents, therefore refusing to let them take much part in helping raise her daughter. She's going to 'test out being a single mom' over Thanksgiving and Christmas, which is around when she'd have her daughter back from her MIL.

No one knows what's happening to my niece, though my sister INSISTS 'Hell no, I'd never give them MY daughter. We agreed on 50/50 custody.'"

"I also found out that all those times my dad went out at night to get medicine for my mom were actually him bailing one of my uncles out of jail, or fishing him out of a bar. That's also why my uncle disappeared for some time; it's when he went to rehab (which my dad paid for, since my uncle was drowning in debt).

Also, apparently, because my mom and dad lived with my grandparents for some time, my dad gave my grandma his entire salary during that time. This was done so she'd handle the spending, and allowed my parents to save and eventually buy the house I grew up in. However, the money spent on the house was less than what my dad had given to my grandma. No one knows where that extra money went. Grandma died a long time ago and took the secret with her.

This relative seemed dead set on telling me every bit of radioactive secrets my family has, but I stopped him. Much as I appreciate understanding the family better, I think it's best that my generation and the next generations are given as clean a slate as possible."

"The entire wedding — guests and all — were kicked out. The poor bride and groom lost their deposit and had to pay damages. They also got permanently banned from ever attending or hosting an event there. It was definitely the most eventful wedding I have ever attended."

"I hope he didn't steal that house off you."

"Unfortunately, he did. I put the majority of the money down, and he filed for divorce right after we closed. He bought me out for basically nothing, and I was too distraught to fight it. But my life has fully improved, and now I'm just enjoying the gossip, lol."

"I found out about her when she came to my residence around 6-7 a.m., screaming my name, running up the stairs, yelling, 'I know you're in there, I just wanna talk! It's me, Jane!' I had never heard of her before. She told me everything — she knew about me but had never told me. I threw up.

It's still fresh, and I am in a lot of emotional pain and torment, really. But I'm glad my parents were there for me.

Before judgmental comments ensue, this was a man I knew before and trusted very much. I was there for him from the day he was arrested to his release date. I made a mistake, but learned many lessons."

"The poor sibling who'll get hurt and probably think we told just to get back at their parents 😭 We think the only reason we'll tell is if the sibling or their children ever get sick, so there's a need to know situation.

The crappiest part, IMO, is that the parents never actually bothered to find out the truth, which makes us suspect they both lean towards the kid not being the dad and don't want confirmation. And my husband found out when he was about 12. His parents never talked to him about it except the day he found out, never got him into therapy, and just left him feeling isolated from his siblings, guilty for knowing, confused, etc., etc. And now they're treating him like shit for asking family members not to grab his wife, try to kiss her, make sexual remarks to her, etc. Parents of the decade!"

"The money she was asking for was largely our inheritance from our dad, who passed away barely a year prior. She had divorced him over 16 years ago (she left him for someone else). Just to add another layer of complete fuckery on her part."

"Re: 'pig butchering scheme': I'm going to ask you how this works because I have never read these words together and I'm baffled but extremely curious."

"It's a reference to how people used to fatten up the pig for 'harvest'. It is a financial scam where the scammer spends a good amount of time painting themselves as a friend or mentor to the target to set up emotional dependency before deploying the actual intention, which is to steal money. Sometimes, butchers pretend to love the 'pig' romantically.

Anyway, the scam is not immediate; that is why it's called pig butchering. It takes some time to 'fatten up the pig' and act like their friend so that when they finally start asking for money, it doesn't feel weird, because they've never asked you for money before and you've 'known them' for a while now. This is why those signs that say 'don't send money to anyone you don't know' don't register, because in their mind they DO know this person; they've been chatting about non-money stuff for months/years, and they don't clock that really, this IS still a stranger to them."

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