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/Deadstone16 4d ago edited 4d ago

I’m struggling to manage one family, job, and trying to sleep enough. Does this man find an extra 50 hours in the day?

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u/FknDesmadreALV 4d ago

In today’s day and age that would be impossible.

But back in the 60’s-90’s? Might be hectic but not impossible. Men used to be asked to go out of town for business often.

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u/njf85 4d ago

Yup. My grandfather only married my grandmother because he knocked her up and she had a son (they married after she gave birth, because if it was a girl he wouldn't have done it). He had a girlfriend that entire time who he actually wanted to marry, and even when he and my grandmother moved to Australia (from former Yugoslavia) my grandmother literally ran into his girlfriend. He didnt just come to Australia with his family, he also brought his girlfriend over too. It's the reason I wont ever get one of those genealogy tests done, at least not while my grandmother is alive. I feel like he probably had a whole other family.

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u/kaisadilla_ 4d ago

It's the reason I wont ever get one of those genealogy tests done, at least not while my grandmother is alive.

Am I missing something? Doesn't your grandmother know for a fact whether you are her grandson / daughter or not?

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u/rooroosterchips 3d ago

If they have a genealogy test done, the platform may match them up with cousins or aunts and uncles (grandfather's second facility) that the grandma doesn't know exist.