People Share Secrets They'll Never Tell Their Spouse

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Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor
Jun 13, 2023 4:00 PM EDT

I don't trust somebody that has no secrets. I know that it's important to share private personal details with your close family and friends, and I'm no stranger to being an oversharer. I will literally tell people I barely know the most horrifically embarrassing things that have ever happened to me without thinking twice about it. I think that most things that are at least a little bit funny are worth sharing with others. However, I do have some secrets that I am not letting go of for no other reason than I want to have some deeply personal things left. 

It's difficult to write about the things I'm unwilling to tell others, but some people really have no problem with sharing their secrets anonymously. Posters on the subreddit r/askreddit shared some secrets they were unwilling to tell their spouses but were apparently cool with telling the whole internet. 

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    Font - r/AskReddit u/spinx248 23h ● 18 NSFW What's a secret you'll never tell your spouse or SO?
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    Rectangle - poppinwheelies . 14h That one time when went camping for 3 nights I left the garden hose on at home full blast and we got a $700 water bill. ... Reply 48.7K 8.7k
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    Handwriting - TurtleGlobe . 10h That I left the Nintendo Switch you gifted me on a bus. The Switch that you see me using is a replacement that I bought on ebay. Reply 3.1k ...
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    Font - Sarah-JessicaSnarker • 13h 2 Awards Remember when we were engaged and visited your mom in the hospital, and she let a fart so rank that your eyes watered and we still talk about it 20 years later? That was me. Reply 13.7k
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    Font - Arrowings 15h 1 Award That I chipped our wonderful granite quartz counter (that he picked out) and filled it with white putty. I will take this to my grave. ... Reply 9.7k
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    Rectangle - ALighterShadeOfPale. 15h Sometimes when I shake the kleenex outside, the spider isn't in it ... Reply 3.9k ↓
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    Font - camafu 14h ● Early on in our relationship, I made breakfast for my then Girlfriend and her kids using some pancake mix she had in the pantry. After making the pancakes and serving to them, I went to mix up a little more to make mine...and I realized there were some maggots in the dry mix. They were pretty much done eating, and telling me how good they were...I decided that ignorance was better than telling them. Taking that one to my grave. Reply 8.6k
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    Font - missnewbooty_ . 15h That I farted and him checking the entire house as well as asking the neighbors if they smelled anything because he thought "it could be a gas leak" was a waste of time. Reply 3k
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    Font - kingmagog 12h 4 Awards Every pay check I take out $25-$30 in small bills and slip some bills into her pockets while I'm folding laundry. Money is tight, and it's the source of a lot of anxiety for her, so to see how excite/ relieved she gets when she finds it makes me happy ... Reply 8.2k
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    Font - Grokker999. 15h That I pooped in the ocean while snorkeling off of Hawaii. And that was the reason for all the beautiful fish swarming around us all of a sudden (bon appetit dear fish!) Yes, indeed, it was magical. Reply 5.4k
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    Font - flabkingpro 16h 3 Awards I failed school, I had to take a basic education course before getting into uni and that it took me 8yrs to graduate from a 3yr degree Reply 10.9k
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    Rectangle - DatLucha 15h sleep better alone than with her (she loves sleeping together). ... Reply 16.4k
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    Font - _OptimistPrime_. 15h I saw on the call display that the jewelry store was calling. I let him answer it. He immediately left to "run an errand" and came home and took me out skating, where he romantically proposed on a frozen pond under a flood light on a February evening. We'll be married 20 years this year. I can't tell him I knew the whole time. I just can't. ETA: we had gone a few weeks before to pick the ring out and we had talked in depth about getting engaged. It wasn't a complete s
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    Font - torquemycork. 17h 1 Award One time i thought I locked my keys in the car. (They were in my pocket. Yep. I figured out halfway through and by then i decided to die with this secret. Sometimes I detach the ignition key off my huge keychain to make it easier and I peeked through my car saw the keychain and didn't even check my pockets and just assumed I left all my keys in the locked car. Stupid.).
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    Font - we had to walk 2 miles to her friends job up a hill in super cold windy as fuck conditions, in like flip flops and definitely not suitable clothing, and then we got a super awkward drive to her house from her friend, then we had to drive 30 minutes to my house, get my keys, go back, and give the other dude some gas money. It took us like 2 hours and we were both exhausted and wanting to go home at the start of it and then I had of course to drive back and drop her off and then get gas and
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    Font - Doug TheBugg - 15h 4 Awards One time I left my younger daughter (middle child) in a hot car and forgot she was there. My wife and my oldest daughter had gotten out and went into a theater where the oldest daughter had her dance recital. I parked the car about 100 feet away and for some reason, maybe because my wife and daughter got out, my stupid brain just decided to go into kid-free mode.
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    Font - To say I panicked 10 minutes later when I remembered would be an understatement. I was mid conversation with someone and when I remembered her I just turned and ran. No explanation. I sprinted to the car, but knowing it was only 10 minutes I knew it would be ok. There she was. A little sweaty, but just sitting there and looking around. Smiled when she saw me.
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    Font - This memory haunts me. I frequently lose sleep or have to pull my mind off it. The thought of what would have happened and how easy it was to forget her will never leave me. Always double check for your kids folks. Even if you think you're good or have a great memory. Reply 23.7k
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    Font - jamesflies 17h 2 Awards That I'm the one who calls her every year and sings her happy birthday in a funny voice. If she's figured it out, she'd probably say that's what she'll never tell. ... Reply 12.8k
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    Font - exWiFi69 13h ● 1 Award I knew you were going to propose. You left an email up on the computer where you sent a ring to a friend asking her if I will like it. I immediately close the email and went on about my day. We went on the 2 week long trip to Hawaii. One of the days you told me to dress up and I wore this cute white summer dress. I still remember the way you looked at me. You looked at peace. We drove up the coast to the beach your friend recommended. As soon as we pull in it dawns
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    Font - Gustav-14. 17h 1 Award That sometimes I stay 10-15 mins in the car before coming up the house. Not ashamed of it or something but I like some me time to be private and not judged. Addendum: it's mostly so that the stress from outside I won't bring it to our home. Not good bringing negative energy/emotions when facing your kid at home. ... Reply 21.9k
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    Human body - jrkordan084. 17h ate the last Reese's peanut butter egg and blamed it on one of the kids Reply 10.2k
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    Rectangle - shiroinyan1 15h 1 Award I always think that one day he'll leave me. That at any moment he'll find another woman and leave, and he's going to leave my heart broken into a thousand pieces just like it was before I met him. Reply 1.5k ...
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    Font - NedTaggart 16h Ok but promise you won't tell her...she has a pair of shoes that I really don't like, but she does, so I just keep it to myself because they make her happy. ... Reply 3.4k
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