You know you are getting old when:

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BigBlueHen53 said:
Yes. When you visit with old friends you haven't seen in a while and you think, "Man, doesn't he/she look OLD!" And then you realize they're thinking the same thing about you. 😳
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YES - oh boy don't look up celebs who were heartthrobs in your youth! I saw a picture of Brad Pitt the other day and thought, "Well, he's looking old..." and then I realized... oh. (So am I.) 😒
 
The Moonshiner said:
Not that short. Not Tom Cruise short.
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IMDb says Pitt is 5'11" but IMDb is not to be trusted (Madonna isn't 5'5", either). Managers and agents lie about that stuff all the time - so do actors.

They used to have to use all kinds of tricks to make actors seem taller and actresses seem thinner, now they just do it with computers. 🤨
 
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Sally PB said:
I have heard stories of how this has ruined families.

Brothers who found out they were half brothers; one confronted the mom who was by now in a nursing home, in failing health and had always hoped her secret would die with her.

A daughter, home from college on Christmas break, who had learned she had Native American DNA, and wondered aloud at Christmas dinner where that came from.
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It's a huge convoluted mess, for sure. We were sworn to secrecy while his "other" grandparents were alive, partly because they were well off and DB didn't want to have the then-child treated poorly and/or cut off. Personally, I couldn't see that happening. I know the family well (a whole 'nother twisted story) and couldn't see that occurring, so I didn't buy that excuse. What I DID "buy" is that he was a happy, healthy kid & DB and "Mom" didn't want to screw that up.
He had a great childhood, but now he's more than adult enough to handle the news. Both grandparents and his "father" are passed, so there's no longer a reason to withhold the information. There IS, however, a very strong reason to come clean ASAP. DB is a 15+ year survivor of brain cancer and his wife (not mother) has a rare blood/bone cancer. Both are failing pretty quickly. I can't convince any adult to tell the kid - but he needs to know while he can still talk to my brother about it. My mother needs to see him, too. She's 85 and hasn't hugged the "boy" since he was six ... at my son's 6th birthday party.
At the risk of repeating myself ... affairs suck ... and so do deep, dark secrets.
 

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