Secrets and lies
A committed relationship or marriage should be a platform on which everything is out in the open. Each party’s past should be open for discussion and a level of understanding reached.
But not everyone is playing with a full deck of cards as there are things that some people would much rather keep to themselves either out of fear of their partners’ reaction to knowing, or they bite their lips and say nothing to protect their own interests. Are you hiding anything from your partner?
Sally, 32:
I have been married for a few years now and I have a bank account that my husband doesn’t know about. I had this account before I met him; it is my emergency savings and it’s not that I’m hiding it, he just doesn’t need to know about it.
Ricky, 41:
Well, my granny used too tell me that it’s not everything good to eat, good to talk, so yes, there are things that my girlfriend doesn’t know and I plan on keeping it that way. I can’t say what they are but I will say that what eye don’t see heart won’t leap.
Orville, 38:
I had a life before I met my lady and I don’t plan on mixing my past with my present. She doesn’t have to know everything.
Henry, 36:
You can’t trust everyone with certain information about yourself. Some things you have to keep to yourself.
Bridgette, 30:
I haven’t hid a thing from my guy. He knows everything. Plus what would I have to hide? My life is an open book.
Camille, 27:
Well it’s funny you should ask me this because I just started a relationship with this guy and I haven’t told him the truth about how many kids I have. I’m not embarrassed about it but people tend to judge me because I had my first child at 14. I like him and don’t want him to leave me because I have five kids.
Charmaine, 29:
In my last relationship I wasn’t as open as I should be and it caused us to break up because he said he couldn’t trust me. He didn’t have a good relationship with his mother at all because of the things he went through when he was younger. So I reached out to her and she and I became friends and whenever I travelled to Florida I would stay at her house and he didn’t know. She would buy him clothes and all sorts of things and I made him think I was the one who got them for him.
Corine, 34:
I have been hiding the fact that I haven’t been paying all the bills like I should. But I’m trying to clear them all up before he finds out.
Corey, 26:
I have told my girl all she needs to know. If it is that I haven’t told her something, it must be because I didn’t remember.
Daphnee, 28:
My husband and I have an open relationship, so hiding things isn’t what we do.
Julian, 44:
My wife doesn’t know that I have a child outside of our marriage. I want to tell her but I don’t know how to because she will leave me.
