The narratives we’ve compiled for you today serve as a testament to this. As you dive into these accounts, you’ll find yourself on a journey full of unforeseen twists and turns, proving that reality can be even more astonishing than imagination.
- My mom gave up all her parental rights to my dad and left us 8 months after I was born. He said she never asked about me. I haven’t met her or spoken to her.
A year ago, I saw her name scheduled for an appointment—I work at a big law firm. I was shocked when she came in and all of a sudden, without any greetings or eye contact, told me her name and headed to the reception area. I was kind to her and asked if she wanted coffee or tea, but she declined. She was a skinny and frail woman; I had always imagined her to be taller and stronger, based on the childhood photos I have of her.
After she left, I went to the lawyer’s office and looked through her file. She was divorcing her third husband and needed a good lawyer to get a substantial amount of his money, which was in the millions. I was also surprised to learn that she has two little daughters with him. Seeing her crushed me even more, especially since she didn’t recognize me.
It only confirmed everything my dad had told me—that she had moved on and forgotten about me.
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- I was in love with my best friend for a long time, but something was always in the way, be it my SO or his. We had dated once, but it didn’t end very well.
I was going to a party with a mutual friend of ours, and he told me that my best friend was going to propose to this girl I couldn’t stand that night. He told me where he was going to propose, so I rushed there to stop him—to proclaim my love for him, you know how it goes.
When I got there, I saw that he had everything set up: candles, rose petals, the NYC skyline—everything that would make a girl melt. I picked up a piece of paper he had placed on the ground, read it, and when I looked up, he was down on one knee, proposing to ME. © IZ3820 / Reddit
- Growing up, my siblings and I always suspected that our dad was gay. We would even joke about it sometimes. When I was a teen, my mom asked me how I felt about gay people in general, and how I would feel if someone I was related to was homosexual. I rolled my eyes and said, “We know Dad’s gay!” She looked surprised for a second and then said, “No, I am!”
My mind was blown—I never would have suspected, and we always just thought of her as “Mom.” After the shock wore off (and I gave her a big hug), I asked about Dad again. She said she couldn’t speak for him. He came out a few months later. © Unknown author / Reddit
- My brother—we’ll call him Steve—had a fiancée named Samantha, and they share a son together. One day, Samantha started locking her phone, coming home later, and showing all the usual signs of a cheater.
One weekend, she said she was going to a work event about 250 miles away and would be staying in a motel there. My brother Steve got suspicious and called the motel room late at night, around 1 a.m. A guy answered…it was our other brother. © Unknown author / Reddit
- I fell in love in high school and got pregnant my senior year. After much discussion and counseling, we decided to place our son in an open adoption with a family here in town. We became close with the family and get together with them a few times a year.
After dating for 5 years and living together for 2, I married my high school sweetheart, with our birth son and his family in attendance. Life couldn’t be sweeter!
Plot twist: We’ve now been married for 11 and a half years and have been dealing with secondary infertility for 6 and a half. I’m pretty sure we can’t have any more biological children. © TheGeeksWife / Reddit
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- I had a soap opera plot twist. One of my best friends started dating a guy who claimed to be from South Africa. About six months later, we found out he wasn’t actually South African.
He had faked an accent and a whole backstory. He was American and had grown up just a couple of towns over. She stayed with him for a while. © melishka / Reddit
- I dated a girl for 4 years, and she basically lived with me. I ended up helping her build a million-dollar house on the water (she was a millionaire, and I did all the plumbing). The week I finished her house, Hurricane Sandy hit. As soon as the storm passed, she dumped me. Two weeks later, I found out she had a new boyfriend.
It turns out she had been seeing someone behind my back for years and had several abortions because she didn’t know who the father was. So all that talk of us living together and having kids was empty promises. © Unknown author / Reddit
- Back in seventh grade, I made a friend who was in two of my classes. One day during lunch, I was talking to him, and then I looked around the cafeteria and saw him sitting at another table. I was like, “What the heck?” and then I turned around and saw him sitting at my table.
It turned out he had a twin, so I actually had one class with him and another with his brother. I didn’t find out for about two weeks. © SonOfTheNorthe / Reddit
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- I had been blissfully engaged to a wonderful guy, but he went to OCS this summer, got injured, came home early, and was changed. He returned as a different person. While he was away, I got really close to a classmate of mine. I was stuck at home recovering from jaw surgery, and he talked to me all day long.
He became my best friend, but I never thought I was attracted to him. After all, I was happily engaged. To make a long story short, my fiancé and I drifted apart, broke up, and I got married to my best friend last month. I never, ever saw that coming. We barely knew each other until May. © temple_noble / Reddit - First day at uni in a new city, I met a great guy. We shared the same dark sense of humor and became pretty instant friends. Months later, my father died suddenly. I went home to my family and missed a lot of uni.
After the funeral, I was sitting with my whole extended family when I got a call from my mate. I told him I’d been away because of a death in the family. He suddenly started asking loads of questions—who had died, if it was my father, what his name was. I was confused and asked him what was going on. - It turned out his parents had been at my dad’s funeral. He was a cousin I didn’t know I had. It was a wonderful moment of connection in a really dark time. It felt like something out of a storybook. © drpepperofevil / Reddit
- I walked into a new job on my first day and introduced myself to the manager. He said, “No time to waste” and assigned me a few weird tasks, so I started on them. I had been working for an hour when my phone rang—it was from the job I had just started. I answered, and the person on the phone said, “You are aware today is your first day?”
I said, “Yes! I’m actually here. David gave me some stuff to do.”
He said, “Who’s David?”
Apparently, a complete stranger had started telling me what to do, and I didn’t think twice about it. We had a pretty good laugh about it. © Unknown author / Reddit
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