Reddit Stories - Double the Drama_ UNVEILING Two CAPTIVATING NARRATIVES in this Video!_

Episode Date: September 19, 2025

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I hope you enjoy this story. Just a kind prompt prior to the video starting, you will listen to two narratives in this clip and both come with fresh developments. Moving on to the initial tale. I invest excessively much time in my bunker and now my wife is mad at me. My grandfather was an incredibly talented man who also suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, and he was convinced that the nuclear apocalypse was going to end the human race at some point. So he built his own bunker and then buried the entry.

because he was convinced that both the KGB and the CIA were watching him and wanted to keep the bunker a secret. Yes, he was a crazy man, my dad inherited his house but never lived there, so when I had my first child in 2018 and got married in 2019, my dad made me an incredibly generous offer for the house. I bought computers that were more expensive than the house. The bunker became kind of an urban legend, mostly because my old grandpa used to tell a lot of crazy stories, but out of curiosity I went looking for it and found the entrance. The old man really did it. So, thanks to being stuck at home during the uneventful 2020 and 2021, I started remodeling the bunker to look less like a fallout vault and more like my own man cave,

everyone loves it, especially the kids, my nephews and friends' children, so the house is decorated to my wife's taste, while I can do whatever I want in the bunker, play gaming. Fix computers, set up a whole home server, work from home. home, etc. However, lately she has been complaining about me being distant and spending a lot of time there and less time with her and our child. She is pregnant again, so she said she was worried, but I just promised to spend more time at the house. After a few weeks that wasn't enough for her and she accuses me of abandoning her. I'm asking for judgment here because I'm trying to be there for my family, but this bunker feels like it's the only thing that's really mine and where I can

actually have a break. But my wife has said she's going to seal the entry. otherwise I might miss the birth and not even notice, should I just move all my stuff into the house and forget about it? Am I really being neglectful, or is this just her pregnancy hormones talking? To be clear, I do help with the house chores and spend time with my son when I'm there and I have an intercom in the bunker so my wife can just call me if she needs anything and I'll go up there immediately. ETA everybody is asking me this.

I spends at least six hours at the bunker on weekdays, I work there so I think is reasonable, and at least. least four hours on weekends, but yeah, or right, I need to make arrangements. I forgot to mention, our son goes to kindergarten so my wife has time to work and sometimes be alone at home. ETA 2. Guys, I swear I'm taking notes, I'm just trying to understand what I should change about myself and how to talk to my wife about this. Remember that I spend at least six hours working, not scratching my belly, my manager allows me to log out early if I finish my work for the day but can't log out if I've been working for less than six hours, I also spend time talking with my

team on Slack. ETA 3. So many of you are picking up on my language. I would appreciate if you explain calmly why my choice of words is so bad so I don't fuck things up when I speak to my wife. Mini update, I had a talk with my wife. Overall, I think it went well since she told me everything, but there are so many raw emotions right now and I was sent to sleep in the spare room. She had no mercy on me, but we needed this talk so we can have a clear path for our future together. More about the bunker. The entrance is like 900 feet away from the house. There was also a tunnel connecting it to a hidden place on the basement, but it collapsed I don't know how many years ago, so we sealed it. Yes, the city inspected it and is okay. I didn't bother with the tunnel because

it seems to be badly built and there was a risk that could keep collapsing if we tried to fix it. We also had to add more columns and reinforcements to make sure it won't collapse. I was recommended to have. Yearly inspections. Clarify you say you work in game? Are you doing those at the same time? No, bro, when I mean working, I mean having a fight with my I DE until shit works, and when I mean networking, I mean talking to my team on Slack.

Speaking to your team is as important as doing the work itself, also can be spent reading doc. then after finishing, I can game for like an hour before going up. Yeah, I see how bad it sounds. You sometimes can be two hours, but hear me out. I usually don't play online games, but single-player games with a linear story and clear objectives, so it's easy to do the till next checkpoint, though modern games can be saved at whatever point. And logout.

Yeah, I think I should stop doing this or do it inside the house. Where did you work before you had the bunker? Before getting married I just went to the office every day but had my main computer in the bedroom. When we first moved into this house, I got a room to place my computers, during this time, yes, had more contact with my family but it was harder to make it feel like an office. Update 1, I talked to my wife, I asked her to be very honest and I promised to let her talk until she was done, first of all, it's not just about the time I spend in the bunker now, but she felt completely alone taking care of our little baby while I spent almost all of

my free time remodeling and building and when it's done I'm just down there. I explained to her that it was basically my office now. She understood and apologized and then continued to explain herself. I'll just quote the gist of it because we talked for hours. I haven't been my own person since my first pregnancy. I feel like a doll. Every day is the same. I'm bored, frustrated, angry. Just when I thought it might get easier, I get pregnant again, how many years until I can just be me again. You have a big hole underground where you you can play and not care about the word. I haven't read a book in years. I can't read two pages, without falling asleep. Yes, the house looks nice, but what about a place for me? I don't want a

Kindle, I don't want audiobooks to listen to while cooking or driving, I want a physical collection, where do I put them? When was the last time I went to a library? When was the last time you gave me something made of real paper? For context, she's always been a bookworm, loves books, and the aesthetic of having shelves full of them, but it's true she hasn't read in a long time, I gave her a Kindle for our anniversary and I pay for her audible subscription. I thought those would be good substitutes, but they're not stop thinking that a screen can solve everything. I need you with me, I married a human, not a sim, download some emotions. I want to write again, but how? When? Will you read my first crappy drafts or just take a look and say it's okay? Can you have our son in the

bunker for a few hours a day? He's bored here, he won't be bored down there. It was hard, but I needed it and she needed it. I'm going to move my gaming consoles into the house and see if I can set up Steam link to stream games from my gaming PC to our TV or something. We agreed to go on dates outside the house, and I'm going to take on more responsibilities around the house. I want to address something. I was told by my parents that I had to help with the house, help with the kids, but then I come to Reddit and it turns out that helping is a problem. You talked a lot about mental load, this was the first time I heard about it, who was supposed to teach me that? Helping, not having addictions, being loyal and always being there seemed like what every

good husband does. Now I realize it was just the bare minimum. I feel like I have to relearn everything, and it's hard to realize that I'm a bad husband and father for thinking that the bare minimum was all I needed to have a long and happy marriage. I became a Reddit villain by being clueless, but I accept that. I'll see you again soon, thank you all. Update two, hey guys, I hope you remember me, I'm the bunker guy, not much has happened in terms of big events, but things are getting better. After the talk I had with my wife, I started taking more responsibility around the house. I've been taking on as much as I can so she can rest, except I'm a terrible cook, so I have some frozen and instant food that I just heat up and call it done, but I've been taking our son to

school and picking him up, spending more time with him in the bunker, he loves it. I've been gaming in the living room because I move my consoles there and successfully set up Steam Link. So overall, my wife is sleeping more and has a few hours to just do nothing. She is much calmer now. She said she loved being able to just chill on the couch and not have to worry about anything. This pregnancy has been rough on her emotions, so I'm glad to see her like this. She also spent some time with me in the bunker, doing her own work, sleeping, or just hanging out. She even got the Sims and started playing again. The first thing she did was build an almost exact replica of our house. We also did a lot of cuddling down there and even had sex. I have to admit, I'm loving every second of this new

dynamic, even though there are still a few things that need to be changed and tweaked. I offered to build a room for her in the bunker, but she says it gets a little claustrophobic after a few hours and she likes sunlight, so that was declined. Then I suggested building a shed for her, she said nothing, but after a few hours showed me a shed she built on the Sims, a hexagonal brick structure with a U-shaped couch in the middle, a door, and bookshelves on every wall, connected to the main house by a fenced-in path. I think it looks nice, so I will send it this week to the same people who helped me rebuild this bunker so they can convert it to C-A-D.

Nothing is perfect yet, I have a lot to learn and haven't started couples counseling yet, that will be in about two weeks, but I'm trying my best. I have been an idiot for way too long and have a lot to make up for. Thank you all again. Now on to the next story, story two. My stepfather wasted my time, so I decided to go on our family vacation without him. I honestly am at a loss for words, I just don't understand why this is happening to me. I'm 30F, me and my husband, 30M, have been married for five years, together for 11, literally

had a movie-like relationship, just a constant honeymoon phase, of course, it got boring here and there, and there were bumps along the road, but I would have never thought of this, ever. Yesterday, I was looking up a recipe on Pinterest using my husband's phone when he got a message from a contact called internet company, but it was a video, which I thought was weird, so I clicked on it, within the video there was a little girl saying dad-da and a woman in the background that got super excited. I couldn't believe it, I scrolled up, tons of texts, all about different things, when he'd be visiting, if he could pick, a girl's name, let's call her Kelly, Kelly up today, daycare four, let's call her Dina, date nights, all sorts of stuff, I couldn't believe my eyes.

I managed to find the woman on Facebook, all it did was really hammer it in that this was really happening. I tried to convince myself that those weren't his kids. Maybe he was just cheating on me with someone with kids. Please let him be cheating on me with someone with kids. This woman had two daughters, worked an office job, and posted pictures of her daughters and what she made for dinner every night. I took a breath and messaged her. It was so, so much worse than I could have ever imagined, these two girls were both his, one being 11 months and the other being four years old, I already was panicked at the thought of him cheating on me for four years. Until I asked how long, 10 if I n'i years, they had been dating for 10 years, he kept up a double

life for 10 years, I don't even want to fathom how, apparently this woman had no idea, he always claimed he had to live away from her for work, he visited every weekend, which FYI I work 16-hour shifts on the weekend, and returned during the afternoon. and go straight to bed, she showed me countless videos and images of them together. I just couldn't believe it. How could he do this to me? Why would he do this to me? We have been trying for a kid for four months. I was so excited to go through this experience together, but that's wrong. It wouldn't have been together. I'm so glad I'm not pregnant. I can't imagine living this lie while pregnant. I just can't look past this. I feel like such an idiot. How could I not tell? Why wasn't I

concerned about never seeing him on the weekends. Why didn't I wonder why he took such frequent business trips? Why didn't I question why he was getting so many texts from an internet company? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why did he waste my time like this? Why did he hurt me like this? Why the hell did he do this? I don't even know how to confront him. I can't sleep. I can't even be around someone like that. Someone who could do this to me. I'm so heartbroken. I can't ignore it. My life is a lie. My life is ruined. I don't know how to even try to move on. Update 1. I've gotten into contact with a divorce attorney. I'm obviously going to divorce him to all the people saying we should just be sister wives. Pretty small update. But I wanted everyone to also

know a bunch of info, because the same questions keep getting asked. So here's the actual update. I haven't confronted him. After dozens of comments advising me not to, me and the other girl, I'll give her a fake name now, I guess, so let's call her Jenny, no her name is not Jennifer, have been talking, she has agreed to not confront him only because we are married. I did in fact learn that my husband was supporting this other family of his, and apparently Jenny makes a very low paycheck, so she was in his financially dependent on him, me and Jenny also got two sides of my husband, me and my husband's life was eerily good, I guess you could say, never had any huge arguments, in fact we rarely argued ever.

And if we did, it was usually about me wanting him to get a different job, because I was led to believe he was only making 31k a year, which is super low for his occupation. We had an amazing intimate life, all the normal couple bases, but apparently, he wasn't so nice to Jenny, he was far more distant, literally also, yelled at her all the time. Treated her like trash, only for him to bring her amazing gifts and take her out on amazing date nights and tell her how much he loved her the next week, what the hell, but that's the thing. But that's the same. We're not. But that's a lot. But that's the same. We're not. But that's a lot. But that's not IT, he loves his daughters oh so much, even though he's screwing over their mom and acts like such a good father, that makes me mad, like super mad. I can't even fathom why, he's not 100% trash, shouldn't I be happy? But I'm not, I'm so mad at him, it's eating away at me that I can't just scream at him about how horrible he is. Now, here's a whole bunch of info, to answer a bunch of questions, how didn't you notice money missing? Our finances were kept separate, we all also got a pre-up when we got married. How did he keep up visitation during COVID? Apparently, he didn't. Jenny said that he mostly only called, and face-timed. If she dare brought it up,

he'd just hang up on her. Real good guy I know. Why were you on his phone? Gasp, could it be? My phone was almost dead, so I used his. Yes, I noticed he had calls from her, but she was saved as internet company so I paid little mind. Oh, and funny thing is, I'm saying, a spam call in his phone, which fun fact, was a joke between us because I used to call him five times every day during our early 20s. People used to literally call me spammy. I occasionally got mad at him. Because how would he know if it was spam or not? Pretty effing mad I didn't get weirded out faster. How didn't you figure out via social media? Slash how did you find her? 1. I usually only use Facebook to look at stupid memes and talk to friends.

Two, I had her phone number. That's how, why didn't you text her instead of messaging her? Got this one as a private message, but I talked to her on Facebook because I didn't want him to see my number on her phone somehow. I know, paranoid and whatever, why don't you just convert and be sister wives? Why? Why would I do that? How didn't you notice? slash why did you get married so young? Ike, maybe I trusted my parter of 11 years. We got married young because he wanted two, and we could. How could he have the energy to keep up a double life?

I'm not him, I don't know, honestly, it's beyond me why he would be with me and her at the same time. It makes more sense for him to have been with her full time than me. What about family? He told Jenny that he cut his family off years ago. He didn't, and Jenny grew up in foster care, and was never adopted. Funny thing is, his family probably won't care that he cheated on me, they'll only care that they were dare kept away from their grandbabies. Update 2. Hello everyone. I am back. I've moved out of our house. I'm staying with a friend.

We're getting divorced. I confronted him with said friend, just simply because you never know what can happen, but at least I got some form of closure out of this. First off, he wasn't sorry at all, didn't even ask me to stay, just huffed and said okay. if this is what you want. When I asked him why, he just looked up at me, didn't say a word, I asked him how, how he could keep this up for so long, what did he say? Because you both went along with it. So of course I asked further, as many of you guessed, Jenny knew, for some odd reason she was

okay with this, I still don't understand why she would lie to me instead of he don't know just blocking me or something. I'll admit I was upset, very upset and confused, so I asked again why would you you do this? He told me that he, was cheating on me with her since the beginning of our dating, that she was just a fling though, and he didn't expect either relationship to really last, but it did. Woo-hoo, when I asked him why to cheat in the first place, because I was young, could get away with it at that time, so why not? He fucking disgusts me, I asked why he married me instead of her, because you were the better choice. When I asked him to elaborate, he definitely

elaborated, Jenny didn't have a good job, so she was a bad investment. You, Jenny was uglier. Once again you, Jenny wasn't as good as me, she wasn't as clean as me. She wouldn't be as good of a partner as me, and so on, I asked why he would even have sex with her if he liked me better. Because she was more kinky, for your information, I am not kinky, at all, I'm very vanilla in fact. I asked about the kids, of course. He clarified that the first kid was an accident he literally did the air quotes, Jenny poked holes in a condom, which he found out about but never confronted her. Of course I don't know if I can trust this. He had a second one with her, because in his mind, he could handle one, so why not too? What type of dumb fuckery is that?

When I asked about how he treated Jenny, he confirmed that he did in fact, only see her on weekends, but claimed to have never treated her poorly. He said he treated her as the mother of his children and respected her as such, but never treated her as a romantic partner. Apparently she's only there to screw, not to love, at the end of it all. He asked if he could talk to me privately, I couldn't find a reason not, so I sent my friend out of the room. He told me that he still loved me and that we could work this out if I really wanted to, that he would abandon Jenny and his daughters but still pay child support, I said no. To which he let out the most dramatic sigh I'd ever heard in my life, before saying have it your way then, then wearing the most

most smug smile I've ever seen, like he'd won the biggest battle of all time, I was left conflicted, I cried in my friend's car all the way to his house. It's like my, now ex. Could just change everything with a flick of a switch, I can feel myself already wanting him back, but I'm not going back, I'm never going back, I've got a lawyer, so does he, the papers are signed, all that's left is court. I can't believe how much my life has changed this year. I went from getting giddy to go home to see my husband's smile. To dreading it, hating it, wishing to never see it again. I don't know whether Jenny really knew, but I'm guessing she did. I mean, how did she not know for 10 years? But that being said, how didn't I know for 10 years?

Whatever, I just wanted to let Reddit know that this is what's happened. This didn't happen recently, but I forgot about the whole Reddit post. I've got other things to worry about if you didn't notice. Uh, I don't know what to trust. I don't even want to reach out to Jenny. I don't even want to know the truth anymore, you know Matthew. If you manage to see this, honestly, I applaud you, congrats, you did it, you ruined everything, you got away with it for over a decade, and it's finally over, I wonder if you'll go back to Jenny or just find some other girl to trick, to destroy, all I care is that you leave me out of it. I'm looking forward to moving on and minding someone who actually loves me.