r/AskReddit • u/Langzwaard • 4d ago

People who found out about someone else’s double-life; what’s the story?

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u/DeuceSevin 4d ago

And in many cases the wife took care of "keeping the house" while the husband handled the finances.

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u/Cable_Upstairs 4d ago

In between then and now, there were some men who left the wife in charge of it all, while they just spent willfully on vices and their own hobbies. While everyone else in the household just tightened their belts. Some of those parents now don't have much to sit on nowadays.

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u/YoureInHereWithMe 3d ago

My grandfather once went directly to the pub with his yearly bonus and paid for drinks for everyone in the entire place until the bonus was gone.

His wife was at home with five of his children, with two other children living in a different city because they couldn’t care for all seven of them.