Couples in committed relationships are well aware that privacy is hard to come by, especially when they’re cohabitating. Virtually nothing is a secret — and that includes ATM numbers, phone passcodes, and even the TV shows they’ve been streaming while the other is asleep.
It’s no wonder, then, that lots of people in otherwise fulfilling relationships seek a little bit of privacy for a personal hobby or guilty pleasure, if only for a few moments each week.
How do we know this? Well, thousands of these people have recently spilled their secrets in a Reddit thread that posed the following question: “What’s a guilty pleasure you hide from your significant other?”
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Sitting here thinking on it, I don't believe I keep any secrets from Lisa. That's one of the things I love about her so much - I don't have to wear two different hats with her. I can act the same way with her as I do my roughest or nicest friends.
With my first wife though, it was nothing but secrets. I didn't tell her shit about anything I was up to. I learned my lesson early on that.
The one secret I'm proudest of though, was one of the smallest things: I chewed Copenhagen the entire time we were married and she never knew until right up before we got divorced. It was actually pretty easy. I practice what I preach - swallow, don't spit - so I've never used a spit can. When I was home I just kept my can of dip in my reloading room and not on my person, so she never saw the outline of the can in my pockets. And I didn't chew huge loads at a time when I was home so my lower lip was never bulging out, nor did I have that shit in my bottom teeth.
She never found out until she was going through receipts in my truck, probably looking for anything at all she could use against me in the divorce like motel room receipts, and she ran across an itemized store receipt that listed a roll of Copenhagen.
I don't know what made her madder, her realizing she didn't know that entire time or me laughing at her because she never figured it out. Shit, I still laugh about it.
