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What’s a secret you can’t tell your partner?
All Woman, Relationships
 on December 10, 2023

What’s a secret you can’t tell your partner?

ALAISHA THOMAS 

LAST week we had people prying into their partners’ phones to discover the wildest secrets — some which once revealed, proved why it’s important to leave other people’s business alone. This week people tell the secrets they absolutely just can’t tell their partners, because some things are best left unsaid.

We asked, what’s that one thing you can’t tell your partner?

Lionel, 45:

My family didn’t believe my son was mine, so we all got money together and one day after school I picked him up and took him to get a DNA test. Once the results came in we were all satisfied, and could relax, knowing 100 per cent that I wasn’t being conned. If I told my fiancée she would be upset and hurt, so it’s best to keep that to myself, and the fact that we had some doubts.

Dan-Dan, 55:

My daughter is 25, I’ve been married 26 years. She looks nothing like her dad or me, and to be perfectly honest, I’m not sure if he’s her dad. There was another man at the time but he didn’t stick around. She has never asked, and she loves her dad, but other family members of mine have commented on it. He has never said anything either, but sometimes when I look at her she has certain mannerisms of that man of so long ago.

Faith, 44:

When my husband and I first started dating, I got pregnant and had an abortion that almost killed me. I drove home after, and for the next several weeks, was in the worst pain, feverish, and lost a ton of weight. I knew what was happening but I didn’t seek medical care. My man thought I had the flu — I didn’t reveal just how sick I was. I even blacked out at work several times. I recovered, but when we started trying for a baby after we got married, I had two miscarriages. I lied to every doctor about my medical past. We have two kids now, but I could never tell him about that incident. I only thank God for not making me die.

Marcia, 50:

I have a criminal record from an incident when I lived abroad — a small thing, but it’s still on the court files. It was years ago, but my husband and I are now upstanding Christians, and each time I’m filling out a visa form I wonder if they will dig it up, and my past will come back to haunt me.

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