Yahoo Lifestyle People Are Anonymously Revealing The Secrets They're Currently Hiding From Someone, And This Is NOT What I Was Expecting
Sometimes, there is actually a very good reason why people choose to keep a secret. So when Reddit user u/Asphoric asked: "What secret are you currently hiding from someone that you're willing to share on Reddit?" over 15 thousand people shared their stories. Here's what some of them had to say:
1."I've started to, on occasion, 'accidentally' (but on purpose) not hang up my phone correctly when getting off a call with my daughter-in-law. I then proceed to talk to my husband about how much I enjoy talking to her, how lovely I think she is, how glad I am that our son chose her, and whatever other boost I may think she needs. She doesn't have any family that uplifts her, just the kind that tears her down. I started doing this after my son told me about his wife coming to him in full-on snot tears because I had once butt-dialed her while talking to my husband about her."
"She stayed on the line to hear what I 'really' thought of her, expecting the worst because that's been her experience of family. Apparently, she was quite touched by the things I said, and my son told me it gave her a confidence boost that lasted weeks. So I do it more often now. Neither of them has any idea I do it on purpose, though. They just think I'm getting old and worse at managing my tech."
2."I am the seven accounts that donate to my cousin's streams. Little man needs something positive, and it's better if he thinks it's from internet strangers and not a sympathetic cousin."
3."My father is convinced that lilies were my late mother's favorite flower because their wedding venue was filled to the brim with them, and she was supposed to be the one who picked the flowers. He got her lilies for every birthday and anniversary and whenever she was in the hospital (my mother was in poor health most of her life). When she passed away, the funeral was full of lilies, and he still sometimes puts a vase of lilies beside her urn. The thing is, my mother once confessed to me that lilies weren't her favorite flower. She was fine with them, but she preferred morning glories and sunflowers. My domineering grandmother, however, told her those weren't classy enough for a wedding and hounded her about it until my mom gave in and let her pick lilies."
"Mom was actually pretty wounded by how dramatic the floral arrangements ended up being, which was another big, showy way for her mom to say, 'I'm right, and you're wrong.'
When she later voiced this, my grandmother brushed it off with, 'Please, no one's going to remember a thing about your wedding.' But my dad remembered. He got her lilies every day of their honeymoon, and by the end of the week, she'd gone from annoyed to deeply touched. He didn't know the backstory; he just wanted to make her happy, and in doing so, he kind of stripped the negative association away from them.
She told me she liked that he gave her lilies more than the flowers themselves. They turned from a symbol of being ignored to a sign that somebody was thinking of her happiness. She swore me to secrecy, and I'll take it to the grave. RIP, Mom."
4."I have rented a bouncy house water slide for my wife's 39th birthday. She has no idea."
5."I told my best friend I won a holiday in a raffle and wanted her to come with me free of charge. We stayed in a nice hostel and did lots of fun activities, and I paid for it all with a 'pre-paid credit card from the raffle.' I didn’t win anything; I booked it all myself and paid everything for her because she deserved a break, and I knew she couldn’t afford it, nor would she have accepted me paying for her. I would do it again ten times over; she deserves the absolute world."
6."I'm NOT colorblind. When I was very young, I didn't understand what colorblindness was. My dad is colorblind, and I thought that automatically meant I was, too. And apparently, everybody did. I was maybe in high school before I actually took a test, and I aced it. But by then, all my friends had been buying colorblind-compatible versions of board games, and we had all sorts of inside jokes about being colorblind. Honestly, it's been a bonding moment with my friends. So I just haven't told them, and I've kept up the ruse. For about 15 years now."
7."I split my cat's treats in half. She's a chonky girl... and she'll never know."
8."I am a teacher, and I am off for the summer. I get to spend all that time with my daughter, age four, and my son, who is not quite one yet. My wife works full time. My son is just starting to talk, and my wife and I have a friendly competition going to try to get him to say Dada or Mama first. What she doesn't know is that while she is at work, I spend the day talking about her and saying the word Mama a lot. We have been working on it together for weeks. The other day, she walked in the door after getting home from a long day, and he looked at her and said Mama clear as day. She was so happy and rubbed it in my face (playfully) that he said Mama first. Even did a little happy dance. I'll never tell her."
9."My husband has large feet, large enough that there are only a few places I can buy him shoes, and since the in-person place near me closed down, they're pretty much all online. All this to say: his shoes are $$$$. He also grew up poor. Like the kitchen floor was his bedroom poor. He stopped being able to find his shoe size in stores before he was in high school. Before he met me, he always only had one pair of shoes at a time, and sneakers were his everyday/work/dress shoes. He even worked fast-food jobs in regular sneakers because he couldn't find nonslip in his size. And because getting each pair was so difficult and costly, he'd often wear his shoes until they had holes in the soles before replacing them."
"When he was studying to be a mechanic, I got him a pair of steel-toed boots for his birthday. I splurged and got a good brand that would last for years. He recognized the brand and knew what they sold for, and he demanded I return them, as he was planning on squeezing into cheaper, smaller boots and dealing with it.
So I lied and said I had bought them months before during a sale. I got 'em at 40% off, then signed up for all their stuff for an additional 20% off. I had paid full price. I've bought him 'sale shoes' several times since then. One time, he even cried because I had gotten him a second pair of sneakers well before his old ones needed to be replaced. His shoes kept getting wet from some yard work he was doing, and he'd have no choice but to wear wet shoes around.
His last pair of work boots showed up with the first pair of sandals he has owned in over 25 years. Because there was a 'BOGO sale' that I totally made up, I just wanted to get him sandals because we camp a lot, and him using camp showers without sandals always grossed me out. However, I had never managed to find a pair in his size until then."
10."I won the lottery last month. Nobody knows. I hired a money manager and invested it all. My wife's birthday is next month, and I plan to surprise her with the news that we are debt-free and can retire immediately."
11."When I first moved to a new high school when I was 15, I ended up in a bad way very quickly with depression and such, like sleeping every hour of the day except for school kinda bad. That's not the story, though. I just felt like the school itself was really dreary, and I didn't have any friends, so sometimes, to just escape for a few minutes, I'd go to the bathroom that was usually empty during class and chill for a few minutes to gather my thoughts, I guess. Anyway, one time, I wrote a Post-it note that said, 'You are beautiful :)' and slapped it on the mirror and left. I don't know why; I just felt like I needed it, so someone else probably did, too, I guess? When I came back to the bathroom the next day, there were replies written on the note about how much someone had needed to hear that that day, etc."
"It made a dark time a little better to know I could make some other sad teenage girls at least smile, maybe. I did it a few more times that year every month or so."
12."I used a credit card and spent $1000+ to fix my partner’s car, I told her it was less than $300 so she wouldn’t feel bad."
13."My brother bought chickens because his little organic farm was struggling. I had suggested an honesty box for the excess eggs — he spent hours making his own red barn-shaped honesty box. Eggs went on sale, crickets. There was not much business at all. He was so defeated. All of a sudden, once a week, someone now calls by and buys all of his stock — it could be 10-12 boxes of eggs. That someone is me. I buy the eggs."
14."I mixed leftover white and red wine and served it up in a rosé bottle."
15."A few years ago, my girlfriend was feeling very sad about turning 32 the next day. We went to get some wine, and while she was looking at some of the bottles, I asked the cashier if she could card my girlfriend so she would feel better (the legal drinking age for wine is 16 here). She happily obliged, and my girlfriend was so happy that she did not stop talking about it for days. She still brings it up from time to time (three years later)."
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