15 True Life Stories That Could Be the Basis For a Real Blockbuster Movie

Have you ever met people who have interesting stories happening to them all the time? As if they are not ordinary people, but heroes of an interesting movie. Our new compilation is about just such people.

• An acquaintance asked me to help her organize a wedding. I told her right away that her groom is a mama’s boy, and her mother-in-law will be meddling in their lives all the time. But the bride believed that once they said yes, the groom would turn into the perfect husband. Well, the wedding took place. A few months later, the couple went on a wedding trip. An acquaintance had points with which to upgrade the class of air travel. The newlyweds arrived at the airport, and there their mother-in-law was already waiting for them. The husband said that he and his mother would fly in business class, and the bride — in economy. Then he shared his plans for the hotel: he and his mom would be in a room for young people, and his wife would be in a cheap room with a single bed. Their marriage lasted six months. © RottweilerBridesmaid / Reddit

• I was on the train when a man sat across from me, staring. I left and got off early to lose him. 5 minutes later, my husband called me in a panic: “Were you on the train?!” I said yes.
  He shouted, “Return to the station now, you have met my boss and didn’t even say hi to him. He just called me and was upset about it !” I was confused. I asked him what he meant. But then I froze when he sent me a photo of his boss—it was that same guy who’d been staring at me the whole train ride.
  I told my husband his boss was a creep who had made me feel uncomfortable. He tried to brush it off, saying the guy just has a weird way of looking at people and didn’t mean any harm. Then he added that he’s been working toward a promotion for months, and this isn’t the time to upset his boss.
  He told me to go back and say hi—that his boss was probably still at the station or walking slowly to the office. I told my husband I don’t need to suck up to anyone, especially someone who made me feel so uneasy—and I hung up.

• My grandmother allegedly had an affair with her sister’s husband and ended up pregnant. She had the baby, left her with a family member, and a couple of weeks later, the baby died.
  I’ll never know what actually happened. When my grandma was still alive, I asked her about it directly. She didn’t give me a straight answer—she just danced around it.
  It would make sense, though, considering she and that sister had a very adversarial relationship. I was told this by their brother, who happened to be schizophrenic, so who knows what the truth is. © ItsAboutTime125 / Reddit

• My beloved husband left me without any explanation. He just disappeared. I couldn’t find a place for myself, I called all his friends, colleagues and relatives. I called my mother-in-law, and she picked up the phone and said: “Yes, my son came because he was fed up with you. And in general, he is still young for marriage and children, he still walk and walk. So pack his things, bring him back and soon!”. We had lived together for 5 years before that. I didn’t pack my husband’s things. I thought maybe my mother-in-law had said mean things to me on purpose. In the end, she came to get my things. And then I got a package. I opened it, and there was a divorce certificate. My husband never had the courage to come and tell me in person what he did not like about our family life. © Podslushano / VK

• When my grandmother died, we read her diaries, and my mother learned that her father was not her father.
  Instead, goody two-shoes Grandma had been having a thirteen-year affair with his best friend, and he was Mom’s real dad. © ZahraTalaveres / Reddit

• My mother lied to me about my stepdad being my father. Only when they broke up when I was 13 did she reveal the truth, intending to hurt him. He had cheated, so she wanted to take away the thing he loved most: his baby girl. It was incredibly cruel and selfish.
  At 33, I finally met my biological father. He told me my mother got pregnant on purpose to try and keep him, and that he had paid child support for me my whole life. When I confronted my mom, she wouldn’t answer me, deny it, or look me in the eye. © prettyone_85 / Reddit

• I did a 23andMe kit and matched with a guy a little younger than I am as a first cousin. Absolutely nobody in my family knew my uncle had fathered a child after he and his first wife divorced.
  My uncle has been dead for almost 20 years, but his twin daughters have since met their half-brother, and he is getting to know our entire massive family. © aria51 / Reddit

• I graduated from law school and got engaged to a girl we had dated as undergraduates. We applied for the same masters program and started working in the same office in Canberra. 3 months before we got married, I found out she was cheating on me with our mutual boss and broke up with her. A bitter legal battle over the division of property began. Canberra is a small town and I kept bumping into her everywhere I went. It was spoiling my life so I applied for a job overseas, on the island of Tuvalu with a population of 11,000. The job was prestigious and they only took two people on a two-year contract. I was approved. And the second candidate turned out to be, uh. my ex-girlfriend. I spent the next 2 years in a tiny office on a tiny island with the person I hate most in the world. © larriedbutmooking / Reddit

• On the day my dad died, I discovered he had a secret family—a different wife and a thirteen-year-old daughter. While accessing his Facebook to post details about his wake, I found messages to his other wife.
  My world fell apart, and I was at a loss for how to tell my mom and my two brothers. To make things worse, all his relatives knew about this and never told us. © weekend_rockstar / Reddit

• I had this friend, found out he’d spent a weird amount of time looking at my Facebook along with this old crush of mine’s. It’s really creepy, not to mention just the other day he broke into my gym locker and then started interrogating me about my locker password... I think he’s stalking me or something, and it’s freaking me out. © IamA_Werewolf_AMA / Reddit

• When I was around 2, my mom’s mom was watching my sisters and me while my parents were at work in the city. She refused to let us see our parents for any reason, and we ended up staying with her for about half a year.
  Turns out our parents were trapped in the city for two days because of a horrible snowstorm, so my nanny went to the courthouse and claimed they had abandoned us. She took temporary custody of us, and my parents had to wait six months to be deemed “suitable” parents. © BloomieBoii / Reddit

• Recently, my fiancé has been acting strangely. He was distant, he started texting someone all the time, but he tried to hide it. I found out that he recently spent a lot of money and changed the password on his phone. Then 2 weeks ago he suddenly said he had to go somewhere at night. At first he said he was going out with friends, but I found out he was lying. He refused to say where he was going. I asked him directly but he said he wasn’t cheating on me. We got into a huge fight. Turns out he was going to the airport to meet my parents. They live in another country and I haven’t seen them in 3 years. My fiancé paid for their tickets — wanted them to attend my birthday and our wedding. Now I feel like the worst person in the world. © zx-z / Reddit

• My niece had back pain for a couple of months. One time she visited us for lunch. She had horrible back pain and stomach pain and was crying in bed from the pain.
  Once we took her to the hospital, she gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. She was way more surprised than us. © ZeoBorlis / Reddit

• 13 years ago, I had my oldest son, who was born one month premature. He was in bed 13. Another boy was in bed 9, born two months premature. I have them both on home video because we were both there every day.
  Fast-forward 13 years. I am now that the other boy’s stepmom and the boys are as close as brothers could be. © positivegal1 / Reddit

• I found out that my father knew my now-stepmother years before knowing my mother—a cruel and heartbreaking story. He thought about his young love his entire life, so my mom was, this whole time, a band-aid love to forget her.
  Turns out they divorced, and my father finally managed to see his love again. They now live happily together, and it is both cute and very hard to accept for my siblings and me. I discovered it in a Word document randomly placed on the family computer a few years ago. © Gagabot / Reddit

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