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58 People Reveal The Secrets Their Partners Think They’re Hiding, But Have Been Obvious All Along

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We all have parts of our lives that we don’t want other people to know about, and they don’t even have to be life-changing. Sometimes, they’re just little white lies that we don’t want to go through the trouble of dealing with.
But when it comes to relationships, is it acceptable to keep secrets, or should couples be completely open with each other? Moral questions aside, if we have something we’re hiding (or forget we’re hiding), our partners might actually find out eventually. And so, we’ve brought you some stories from Reddit about people who discovered their significant others’ big and small secrets.

#41

he visits my blog every morning and every night. one time I mentioned a post I made and he pretended he hadn't seen it "oh I haven't looked at your blog in a few days... but I mean if you want me to, I'll go read it." I think it's really cute. (and sometimes I blog little things about him as if I think he won't see just to make him smile).
5points

#42

After five years, I still catch her touching up her make up as she’s parked outside before she comes in and she’s never mentioned that she does this. Makes me feel bad when I’m already in shorts and a t-shirt.
5points

#43

My wife loves sweet tea. Whenever we go to the store, we always get a gallon of Milos sweet tea. She drinks it so much to the point where I get none. Every so often, I buy 2 gallons of sweet tea. One of the brand she hates (because it tastes bad) and the other of Milos (which I hide from her until the coast is clear) and when she is at work, I pour out the nasty sweet tea, and pour the Milos into that falling, resulting in her never drinking it. Kind of a jerk move but she will not stop drinking all the sweet tea before I get some.
5points

#44

Not my current SO, but a year and a bit ago i dated (read as: had an open relationship with) a girl. The reason why I thought it was an open relationship was because I knew she was also sleeping with her best friend. A few months pass and she wants to get more serious, I ask about her friend and how he took the news and she tries to act like she doesn't know what I'm talking about. Turns out she was "cheating" on me the whole time while she thought we were "exclusive". Clearly that "relationship" didn't last long.
4points

#45

Person holding a pill bottle, representing secrets partners don't know they hold
My ex used to pretend to have various illnesses, but I saw him get his 'medication' once and they were just various vitamins from tesco.

He had a problem but it wasn't anything he was claiming to have. I didn't even see it as a warning sign, hindsight is 20/20.

Edit: He may have had Munchhausens but a more likely explanation is that he was an attention seeker. You don't have to diagnose everyone, reddit.
Edit 2: Everyone with munchhausens is attention seeking, not everyone attention seeking has munchhausens.
4points

#46

My husband thinks I can't hear him fart when he's smoking cigarettes on the back porch. It's kind of endearing.
4points

#47

I know he considered leaving me two years ago (10yrs together now)

He has no idea I know. He had a plane ticket booked and everything.
4points

#48

My SO has some substantial debt from a couple poor decisions right after high school that she thinks I don't know about. She's not the best with money, and she doesn't know how much our apartment or any of the bills related to it are. We're evenly splitting the bill across all our roommates, but she hasn't paid her full share in about a year and a half. She thinks she has, because I've been the one telling her how much she owes each month, but I've been paying about $300 for her on top of my portion and the portion for my siblings. But she's too proud to ask for help with her debt, and I don't want to make her feel insecure by drawing her attention to it, so I've been doing things behind the scenes to help her out.
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4points

#49

That his best friend since college, whose wife just had baby no. 2, just broke off the “emotional” affair he was having with a coworker. I’m glad my husband was a good friend, I know he counseled his friend to make the right decision for him and his family, and the friend took his advice and broke it off about a month before the baby was born. I’m hoping it at works out for them, and I’m so so so proud of my husband for being such a solid and stable guy.
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4points

#50

For Christmas I bought my husband a DVD of a concert he went to. While I’m at work he unwraps it, watches it, then rewraps it before I get home.
4points

#51

She enables her brother she swears she wrote off. Hes been in out of rehab so often they had to replace the door.
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3points

#52

250k student loan debt.
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2points

#53

Was not married but I found out about it.

Found out a then-gf was bulimic. After living together for a few months I came home, when she was at work, to cook chicken in the oven. I could not find the cooking dish to put the chicken on. I looked everywhere in the kicthen and all around the house. Last place to look was under our bed....I found the tray with crumbs of brownies. I immediately knew what was up. I confronted her right away when she came home and she screamed at me and said it was wrong of me to find out.
2points

#54

Not together anymore but she used to pick her nose and wipe the boogers on the underside of the standalone sink that I installed. Ever once and a while I would clean the sink and scrape them off and they would reappear. For a while I figured she knew I knew but still did it anyway, now I think she just genuinely did it without ever thinking about it.
2points

#55

My current SO told my best friends (and mutual friends of us both) that she was planning on kicking me out of our apartment because she wants to live with one of them and that she also wants to start dating the other one when she's kicked me out. Thankfully they warned me months back and so I've been stashing money and preparing to move out myself along with their help.
2points

#56

I knew what he was going to get me for Christmas in like November last year because he was showing me a list of what he was going to get our friends and I saw my name.
2points

#57

She was engaged with her toxic ex for a short while before they eventually broke up. Guy I used to work with who’s good friends with her ex told me. She never told me. I guess she’s embarrassed and I let it go. Never really worried about it.
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2points

#58

My ex cheated for the better part of our relationship. I knew about most of it but stuck it out for the kid. At one point she stayed at a friend's house for a few days, no reason why. Couple months later while going in her wallet I notice an ultrasound with date stamps for around the time she was gone. I assumed she had an abortion during that time. I finally worked up the courage to leave that "relationship" about a year later for many reasons. I have never talked to her about that. And don't ever plan to. But can't help wonder if it could have been mine? Probably not but you never know.
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