Secrets I’m keeping from my mate

THERE’S a quote that says we all have secrets, some we share and some we have to keep to ourselves. Being in relationships, many couples aspire for their lives to be like open books, but in reality there are things we keep to ourselves which our partners will never know, even if our lives depended on it.

Below readers tell All Woman some of the secrets they are keeping from their significant others.

Maria:

He doesn’t truly know how many people I’ve had sex with and there are things I’ve done sexually but would never do with him because it was a one-off thing.

Carmen:

I slept with my boss.

Suzette:

I had a Fallopian tube removed after I developed fibroids. We have a child together and I know he plans on having more children, but I haven’t told him that bit.

Brian:

I helped her niece to procure an abortion. It’s illegal and she would be livid because she’s against it.

Edward:

I will never tell my girlfriend that I admire her friends more than I do her. She always finds it strange that I have no problem with them being over at the house for hours, but truly all I want to do is sit and stare at them and think about them in a sexual way. I have random pics of them in my phone but she’s always included so it just seems as if I’m taking candid shots of her with them for memories.

James:

I have a masturbation problem, but I’ll never tell her that. Somewhere deep down I wish she’d ask me to do it for her while we’re having intercourse, but she has never asked so I have never offered to do it in front of her. But that’s a secret I hope she never finds out.

Deborah:

He doesn’t know that I suck my thumb and I make sure not to sleep over at his house or have him sleep over mine because then he’d definitely know.

Michael:

I’m having an affair with her mother.

— KH