Real-life situations that read like crappy soap opera scenario rejects

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Give us your best(worst?) real-life folks that have gotten caught up in actual situations that sound unreal…

“Scotty” - a West Coast redneck who continues to play around with a mistress for years even during two marriages and multiple serial, quazi-monogamous relationships. At last count, mistress had 7 kids by 5 different guys - Scotty is daddy number 3 to kid number 4. Oh, he also continues to sleep with exwife number one whenever she’s in town, even though she’s remarried to somebody else…

“Kevin” - Just flat-out abandoned a 20+ year marriage to run off out of state with a 500# BBW. Never explained why or dropped any clues he was planning on doing this. They’re still together over 10 years later.

“Louis” - Been married 8 times, last marriage has been going on for 16 years and seems to be his ‘one tru love’. :wink:

“Denny” - 6 assorted marriages, two were remarriages to the same lady. Latest seems to be stable (at least he hasn’t cheated on* this* one… yet).

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Joan-cheated on her husband before their wedding. Marriage lasted about a year. Got into a relationship with a psychiatrist that was in the same practice as the one she was seeing for depression. Has two kids with him. Got pregnant by another guy and moved in with him. He turned out to be abusive so now she has moved back in with her mom.

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The wedding of my first boss’s longtime friend. She married a foreign guy young enough to be her son. Everyone thought he was just using her to get a visa. Turns out he was obsessively in love with her and crazy jealous. He would flip out whenever she even talked to another man. She divorced him about a year after they got married for being too controlling and cramping her style. Then she married the divorce lawyer.

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“Steve”: After leading yet another successful project, Steve starts a new job in a new town. He quickly acquires a new house and a new boyfriend, “Johnny”. Unknown to Steve, Johnny is a career criminal and drug dealer looking for an accomplice whom he can easily manipulate into helping him commit and cover up his newest scheme - taking over the territory of a fellow dealer, “Marty”.

After luring Marty to Steve’s home with the promise of sex and drugs, Johnny shoots his competitor instead and forces Steve to hide the corpse in his home. Under threat of harm to himself and his family, Steve then cooperates with Johnny in a series of crimes across several states. When Steve is caught passing counterfeit money for Johnny, the pair are arrested and briefly held before being released on bail and returning home.

Back at Steve’s house, the relationship turns violent and, following an argument, Johnny tries to kill Steve. From the safety of his bedroom, Steve calls police. Johnny is arrested and taken to the police station.

While being interviewed by police, Johnny suggests a deal. He tells a detective that he knows about a body hidden in Steve’s house. Skeptical, the detective agrees to check the house. To everyone’s surprise, the body - Marty’s - is quickly discovered and removed. Steve is arrested, and both he and Johnny are charged with Marty’s murder.

A lurid trial, complete with a videotape of Johnny, Steve, and Marty having a drug-fueled sexual encounter, follows. The jury convicts Johnny of murder, while Steve is convicted of related charges but cleared of involvement in the actual killing.

(This is the tragic and completely true story of a former colleague)

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And another true story…

“Bernard”: Bernard has been happily married to his wife, “Marie,” for 40 years. One day Bernard isn’t feeling well - nothing too bad, nothing he can’t wait out. This is a bad call on Bernard’s part - a couple of days later, he’s feeling really sick and Marie has to call an ambulance for him. In the hospital, doctors discover that Bernard has severe infection and will require surgery. While he’s being admitted to the hospital, Bernard’s condition worsens dramatically and he’s rushed into the operating room.

Because of the advanced state of infection, Bernard’s surgery and recovery don’t go well. For the next several weeks, he drifts in and out of consciousness, experiencing spells of delirium. After several close calls, he is deemed stable enough to go home, with the understanding that he’ll need more surgery later to un-do some of the emergency procedures.

Bernard’s recovery is slow, complicated by more infections and pain. Even after his doctors declare his recovery to be complete, it’s obvious that his personality has changed. Before his illness, he enjoyed traveling with his wife, playing with their grandchildren, and socializing with friends. Now he’s secretive and unable to concentrate. To his wife’s distress, he appears to spend a significant amount of time viewing gay erotica. She discovers nude selfies on their shared computer, and there’s evidence that he’s been using a variety of websites to seek out men for sexual encounters.

Eventually, Marie has indisputable proof that Bernard has invited an anonymous stranger to their home for sex. She confronts Bernard and they argue. Bernard hastily gathers some clothing and other possessions, loads up his car, and drives off.

For the next week, Bernard travels across the country. He communicates with his son via text messages, but won’t speak to anyone and claims to have no idea where he’s going. Eventually he settles in a motel in a state that he’s never visited before, where he has no friends or family, giving no explanation.

Eventually, Bernard and Marie settle into this new state of normal. Marie continues to enjoy the life she had, minus Bernard. Bernard lives in happy isolation, doing whatever (and whomever) he pleases.

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“Harold” - After a long marriage, Harold begins to cheat on his wife. With a woman . . . on a different continent, thousands of miles away. Slightly inconvienent. After a decade of this, the wife finds out; she doesn’t divorce him, but the tension still bubbles. Harold is still making monthly trips over to said continent; he spends half his life with his wife, and half with his mistress, with both parties willing and knowledgable.

But there’s a twist. Harold . . .

is in his 80s. And so is his wife - *and *his girlfriend.

There’s much more craziness to that story, but I don’t want to be too specific.

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“Dick” (you’ll see) and Jane, married couple in their mid-30’s, unable to conceive a child. After years spent throwing money at unsuccessful IVF attempts, they joyfully adopt a baby in an ‘open adoption’ with contact maintained with the birth mother. Not but a year or two following finalization of the adoption, Jane discovered Dick maintaining a lot more contact with birth mother than was required, per the agreement. The affair rocked the marriage, Dick and Jane split, Dick ends up living with birth mother. Jane sends her child to stay with Dick and birthmother every other weekend. Jane = ouch.

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“Mark” - My college roommate who began dating a girl, Leslie, early in our Sophomore year. Towards the end of the year, they break up, he is devastated and hurt, and we all disperse for the summer. We come back and find out that she has decided she is a lesbian.

Leslie then begins dating Julie, a Senior. Since Mark is now okay with Leslie (realizing he just couldn’t compete, since he didn’t have the desired parts), the three of them begin hanging out. Leslie is spending a lot of time working on a project during the Spring, giving Mark and Julie time to hang out alone. Eventually, Mark and Julie started hooking up and fooling around behind Leslie’s back, leading to a huge fight where the two girls break up, but still occasionally mess around and Mark is downgraded back to “friend status.”

Julie graduates and goes to law school hours away, and I hear that she and Leslie are back together, if not official. Flash forward to an autumn afternoon where I’m in the laundry room of my dorm, and I see Julie. She’s there to see Mark for the weekend, and Leslie doesn’t know. A few weeks later, Julie is back on campus visiting again, but this time to see Leslie and Julie takes me aside to let me know that she’d prefer if Mark didn’t know.

Some ten years late, and here’s where things stand:

Julie and Leslie are married with two girls, and Mark is married to someone he met after college.

I swear this is all true. Made for very interesting stories when visiting home and catching up with high school friends.

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John and Sally and their two young children are (by all appearances) a happy family, active members of the community, and doing generally well. Then, out of nowhere, John is arrested for robbing a local bank. A while later, while awaiting trial, he is driving an RV at night down the coast, drives off the road and off a small cliff and is killed.

I feel so badly for Sally and the kids. I’ve only met them a few times but she seems like a really nice person and her kids are adorable.

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Before I moved out of home, I used to believe that movies were unreal and non-representative fiction. Then I moved into a shared house…

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“Bob” is married to “Gloria” and is a 50 yo wannabe rocker playing in a cover band on the weekends. At one of his shows he meets a 21 year old groupie named “Nancy”.

Seemingly out of the blue to his family Bob declares his love for Nancy and leaves his wife and kids to go live with her.
Nancy is blindsided and devastated. She goes to talk to Nancy’s husband “Wayne” to find some answers.
Wayne is as blindsided as Nancy and as the two discuss their predicament he ends up moving in with her.

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I think you confused the names of the wife and the groupie there.

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My friend got into a fight with my other friend’s fiancee’s lover at my friend’s fiancee’s bachelorette party. (This open marriage didn’t last when the woman accidentally had a baby with another man.)

Another story - okay, this isn’t something I can absolutely confirm to be true, having heard it from a friend who heard it from who-knows-where, but - apparently one of my teachers was divorced twice, and his two ex-wives married two of his cousins.

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Guy marries first wife. First wife has only dead boys and a girl so he divorces her. Guy marries second wife. Second wife only has a girl so he chops her head off. Marries third wife who dies after giving him a son. Marries fourth wife but decides she’s ugly so he divorces her. Marries fifth wife but accuses her of cheating on him so he chops her head off. Marries sixth wife who gets happy when he dies on her.

I think we all know who this person is.

:smiley:

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David gets engaged to Tammy. The engagement is broken off when David is discovered to be boinking Sharon. However, Tammy is David’s true love, and they get back together.

At the wedding, nine month pregnant uninvited Sharon waddles in - yes…a fistfight breaks out between the bride’s family and the grooms family.

Why yes, I grew up in a town of Minnesota Rednecks…

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I read about this. The body was in a rubbermaid container, right? And they lived in a row house or an older house of some sort?

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You don’t think it would be devastating to have a wannabe rocker move in with you?

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Yeah, and they did do a TV series. But he didn’t do the headcutting himself, you know…

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“Tammy” marries “Rob” and they have two children quickly. Four years into the marriage Rob has an affair, which Tammy finds out about. They stay married, but Tammy now plays around. Finally, she finds Dave. Every day (at first after work, but now she is retired) she goes to Dave’s house and spends the day with him. IMHO, Dave is a shithead, but I guess he has redeeming features. Tammy and Rob have now been married for over 48 years and Tammy tells me that Rob is her best friend; she just prefers spending most of her time with Dave. She also tells me that she hasn’t had sex with either one in over a decade! Strange, but true. She feels empowered to do this because Rob had, you know, that affair 44 years ago.

I don’t think you could make a credible fiction out of this.

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I used to think Fellini movies were strange fictions about odd people in Fellini’s imagination. Then I spent some time in Italy, most notably Rome…