Sometimes the troubles people face can be stronger, weirder or less predictable than any movie. People in this article talk about things that happened during their ordinary life—troubling, moving and significant moments. They seem too incredible to be true, but they really occurred.
First scenario: I figured out my wife was looking for dates on a dating app. I made a fake account and got selected in her match. I had a little bit of flirty talk with her before I asked for a picture.
When I saw the photo she sent me of her at 20, it froze me to the spot. The photo made me feel really bad—it was the very first picture we ever took as a couple when we first started our relationship. The thing was, I had been cropped out.
When I got home, she was sitting crying. She gave me a box and told me to open it. She saw that her wedding ring was inside. I froze. She said she wasn’t happy and wanted to end the relationship. I revealed my identity as the person she was communicating with on the app.
A few moments later, she said firmly that nothing really changed. She knew her answer for a long while. She said she felt miserable during the previous two years. The reality of everything stared at me so fast that it seemed my life changed all at once. I did not know she felt like that.
Next story: Immediately after graduating, I got a job working in finance. He was not very welcoming when I showed him my grades—he did not even say anything happy to me. Months back, I found out he had, at one time, worked at the same coffee shop.
A new person was put in his position, connected to the manager and later fired. That hit him so hard. His depression caused him to stop working in the financial industry. My parents did not tell me because they loved me and hoped to protect me.
On the following day, I gave in my resignation. I couldn’t accept working with any company that had treated my father that way.
Story Four says that my cousin skip town when she was a teenager. Trace or message, but gone just like that. Twenty years later, she was at my dad’s funeral. Alive. Calm.
She told me she had never tried to run away. She was told to leave. Her pregnancy made the family ashamed and they kicked her out. Her child was raised solely by her. She has introduced her daughter to us. My heart stopped working properly at that moment.
At age 23, I was given the job opportunity, so I needed my birth certificate. Because my mom couldn’t find it, I decided to order my own copy. Because of this, I learned about being adopted. The curious part is?
I actually have a half-brother, who is the first born to my birth mother. She let me go when she was seventeen and then entered my life again. No one has ever explained this to me. My parents burst into tears when I spoke to them about it. The said they wanted to wait until the “right time.” Efforts to unite Russia were not successful in the end.
Because my parents did not have a son before me and missed him, they thought they would have a boy and that’s how I was born. My sister and I, when I was 14 and my sister was 16, had a fight. Having reached her limit, she said, “The reason you’re alive is that the other kid is dead.” A few years later, I got confirmation that my theory was wrong and she had been genuine after all.