10+ People Who Ended Up Uncovering the True Face of Their Partner

Relationships are built on trust, but sometimes, people discover shocking secrets about their partners that change everything. In this collection of real-life stories, people share the unexpected truths they uncovered about the person they once loved. From hidden debts to secret families, these revelations left them questioning everything they thought they knew.

• My 5 y.o. showed me her drawing. The teacher, Miss A, had written, “Next time, do better!” I was furious—who says that to a kid? But when I told my husband, he turned pale, quickly crumpled the paper, and threw it in the bin.
  Later, I took it out from the bin and realized there was something written on the backside of the paper. I froze when I saw my husband’s handwriting. In small letters, he had written, “Sorry, I had to leave fast the other night... I don’t want my wife to suspect anything.”
  My blood ran cold. I had suspected something was off when my husband started working late, but I never imagined he was secretly meeting our child’s teacher. And then it hit me—Miss A’s note wasn’t meant for my child. It was meant for my husband. And, indirectly, for me.
  She wanted me to suspect the truth. She wanted me to leave him. Well, she got what she wanted. Now, I’m filing for divorce.

• When my ex and I lived together, I found a box with a single set of dishes under his side of the bed. When I asked him about it, he said he was keeping them just in case he decided to break up with me so that he could leave at the drop of a hat at any given moment.
  I remember the conversation—he seemed so nonchalant about it all. Turned out to be a total sociopath. © room_temp_butter / Reddit

• My husband and his friend came up with a plan to catch his friend’s wife cheating. My husband had a relationship with his friend’s wife, and his friend ’caught’ them. She got pregnant and, during the divorce, found out the baby was my husband’s. I found this out after seven years and three kids. © dvs_me / Reddit

• I discovered that his mother was alive. He gave me a sob story about losing his mother to a heart attack in a grocery store, and of course, I was all about comforting him. We dated and eventually married, but what could he say—’I lied about my mother dying’? So he just kept her a secret.
  I later found a card from her to him for his birthday, wedged in some books in the garage. I was horrified to find out I had a mother-in-law and hadn’t invited her to our wedding.
  We divorced after three years. She was a lovely woman and treated me very kindly, knowing I had no idea and believing I was horrified by the circumstances. She wasn’t surprised at his duplicity and later regretted not warning me about her son, but she had hoped I’d be a ’fix’ for him. I wasn’t. © condimentia / Reddit

• My now ex-husband hid from me that he had six maxed-out credit cards and had been dodging child support for a year for the child from his previous marriage. Don’t marry someone who is bad with money. © DystopiaNoir / Reddit

• I discovered that my now ex-wife purposefully tried to get herself pregnant with our daughter before we were married because she knew her mom couldn’t pay for her health insurance anymore, and she didn’t want to work. However, she knew that having a baby could qualify her for the state’s healthcare system. © Schikadance / Reddit

• After I divorced my ex-wife, I found out that she had given away two children when she was younger. I also discovered that her tubes had been tied the entire time we were married. We even met with a fertility doctor because she kept saying she was “messed up on the inside.” © civ187 / Reddit

• My husband hid the secret that he wasn’t actually taking his antipsychotics until our honeymoon. Innocent 18-year-old me didn’t understand how bad that truly was or that it would lead to a slow build-up to a really horrible psychotic break, where I would have to call the police. The good news is he takes them regularly now! © izziev / Reddit

• I found out after filing for divorce that she was hiding $81k worth of debt...from her first marriage. That she was currently having her wages garnished at $600 per month. And that she also claimed I was responsible for half! © RugbyN3rd / Reddit

• I found out that my wife had huge credit card and student loan debt—it was over $50k. She was making $9 per hour at the time. It took me years to pay that down, and she never appreciated the effort. © Unknown author / Reddit

• I found out that he was cheating on me with a friend I thought wasn’t into men. He invited her to the wedding.
  She showed up with her latest girlfriend (who was uninvited). It was arranged seating, and I had placed her next to a group of mutual friends. Turns out she had an affair with nearly every person at that table—men and women—and they all found out about it. Her girlfriend and she got into a fight and then left.
  Nearly two years later, and I’m still married to this man. We separated (for the second time) a week ago after I found his latest Tinder account and the dates he’d been planning with random women for when I’d be at work. © Unknown author / Reddit

Our workplace can hide a lot of drama and shocking moments. In this collection, we have gathered true stories from people whose workplace dramas can be more stressful than a live news broadcast.