15 Unbelievable Secrets Hidden Until Now

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“One of my friend’s dad’s mistakenly texted me a message intended for his mistress (this was more than 15 years ago, and I was 19 (F)). We were on vacation with a HUGE group of people, including a bunch of my friends and their respective families. Keep in mind this was the time you had to pay for roaming services while traveling abroad, so the only way my friend and I got to communicate was through his dad’s phone and mine. One night I received a text saying, ‘I love you — good night’ from his number. I knew it wasn’t my friend texting me good night, and my mind went ‘CRAZY’ trying to figure out WHY and to whom he was texting this to. I spoke to my parents, and they told me not to say anything until we knew more. The dude didn’t even say, ‘Sorry, wrong number’ — nothing.”

“A week into the vacation, we were all hopping into vans to do a tour. I randomly ended up sitting next to my friend’s dad. Minutes into the van ride, he asked, ‘How far are we from our country?’ to which my dad replied, ‘An hour or so by plane.’ He pulled out his phone, I began to sweat, he searched for a name where the first four letters matched my last name, and I popped up first on the search. That’s when I knew he sent the text to me by mistake.

He proceeded to text the person who had a typical male name, ‘So close yet so far — I miss you.’ I was trembling — I didn’t know what to do. Was he gay? Was his wife aware? Was this an open marriage?

Two years after that, my friends and I were gathered in this particular friend’s house, talking about everything and anything. After a couple of drinks, this friend opened up about how her dad had an affair with a woman from their office, that he had her under a male nickname to avoid suspicion, that he had put a lot of things under her name, and that there was a horrible legal battle. They were pretty sure the affair started around the same time we went on that vacation.

I had to act surprised, hugging her with the rest of my friends like I knew nothing. To this day, she doesn’t know that I’ve known since almost day one.”

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