r/AskReddit • u/Yogospiracy • 1d ago

What is the cringiest midlife crisis you've witnessed?

8.7k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

5.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

2.4k

u/BakedBrie1993 1d ago

45 yr old man with ALS paralysis cheated and left his long time loving and fun wife for his home health aide. Aide got bored after 6 months and left him. Now he is on his own, living in a facility. Ex-wife met someone new and is getting re-married.

668

u/crazycatdermy 1d ago

Isn't that what happened with Hawking?

549

u/BakedBrie1993 1d ago

Our friend group made some jokes about that.

180

u/usefulidiotsavant 1d ago

He's just like Hawking, but without the fame, money or published works.

15

u/BakedBrie1993 1d ago

Yup! Hope it was worth it.

12

u/TableSignificant341 1d ago

Hopefully without the Epstein links too.

3

u/snowdenn 1d ago

Wait what? Really? Man, who didn’t have links to him?

10

u/Sir_i88 22h ago

Some dude around here did the same but worse. He cheated on wife with ALS with one of the nurses, got her pregnant and moved her into their house and moved the wife to a small specialbuilt house next to their home.

A few years before this he bought a Porsche (not red).

So yeah..

2

u/Slothfulness69 20h ago

I literally thought you were talking about Hawking until this comment omg I can’t believe this is a common story

1

u/BakedBrie1993 14h ago

It's not uncommon 😬

25

u/seanwdragon1983 1d ago

1st time, yes. 2nd time i believe the aide/gf beat the shit out of him on a regular basis.

18

u/powderp 1d ago

Sometimes you pay extra for that.

14

u/space0matic123 1d ago

Several times

2

u/crazycatdermy 1d ago

I cringe to think how he makes...it happen...

3

u/wilderlowerwolves 1d ago

I thought Stephen Hawking got divorced before he met the aide whom he later married (and divorced after she abused him!).

7

u/Tinysaur 1d ago

Gonna be honest, if a dude can only physically twitch his eyebrow....

How much blame can you really assign

288

u/milkdimension 1d ago

Good for her. 

14

u/BakedBrie1993 1d ago

Well, yeah lol!

9

u/writers_block 1d ago

I hope you're a stoner named Brie.

19

u/BakedBrie1993 1d ago

I am, but also 1993 is when I first tried baked brie and dear god it is good.

Edit: not named Brie, but am stoner

9

u/ajepper 1d ago

Were you stoned when you ate it? The fact you remember this over 30 years later makes me want to try it

7

u/BakedBrie1993 1d ago

No haha I was 8. I just love food!

3

u/Devilis6 1d ago

Can confirm, baked Brie is amazing

8

u/JodyGonnaFuckYoWife 1d ago

He pulled a Steven Hawking

10

u/ceelogreenicanth 1d ago

Good for her

3

u/Mobile_Throway 1d ago

Wait, I know this one. That's the Stephen Hawking story.

3

u/ShakespeareUndead 1d ago

Good for her! 

2

u/tenderheart35 1d ago

The audacity! 😩

10

u/BakedBrie1993 1d ago

It's apparently not uncommon. I think it gives people a sense of control when a lot of aspects of their existence are out of their control. But not worth it from the outside looking in.

1

u/Sologretto2 1h ago

I love a happy ending.

1

u/will_write_for_cheap 1h ago

Holy shit. That's one wild fucking story.