Secrets

My Grandmother told us she would tell us all The Skeletons in the Cupboard before she died
But she never did She just left us guessing !

I have a secret that I will take to my grave. It’s something that happened 47 years ago when I was a Student Nurse.

I once had a friend who spilled the beans on some ones secret
Who was another friend of mine and I was very angry.
I am not good at keeping surprised secrets such anniversary or birthdays etc I forget and slip up. But if I am told something by family or friends that’s a worry or serious I keep stum.

I am hopeless with secrets and am an oversharer but I have been asked to keep something really awful as a secret for the time being and it is killing me! Not because I want to tell for my benefit but I think the community needs to know. They don't need to know the sordid details, they just need to know what happened in general terms so they and theirs can be protected. At the moment that person the secret is about is being protected by everybody keeping quiet and their partner is not having to face reality as long as the neighbours don't find out.

I found out an earth shattering secret about my dear departed Father. I have 3 brothers and my Mum is still alive. For a while I considered telling them, but decided that it would mean that 4 more people would be devastated. It never ceases to amaze me how people can in effect lead double lives and more often than not take their secret to the grave....

Don't we all.

I know a secret about my DH during his early youth before we met, that his family (parents and siblings) never knew. They would probably have disowned him if they had. I would never tell anybody else. It's something I don't exactly approve of, but I understand about it. And it meant something that he felt able to tell me about it. We have been married for 40 years.

I have always been secretive, though the secrets aren't potentially damaging, they're just things that if revealed might cause people to laugh at me, which I hate, or devalue me in some way. (It comes from my childhood but that's another story). Things like: I'm addicted to self-help books, magazines and eating Cadbury's caramel spread straight from the jar with a spoon - things that most people, especially my husband, would consider 'beneath me'. My husband's mum however kept a serious secret from him - that his uncle was in prison for murder!! That has affected my husband badly and he hates being lied to. So I daren't reveal my secrets!!

If someone says to me ‘can you keep a secret!’ I say ‘I’d rather just not know it at all really’, which is true!

Loads of family secrets (from both sides) from 50 or 60 years ago (or even further back) including the fact that my father was not his father's biological son (explains why he was so horrible to him). Then there's more recent secrets - lots of friends confide in me; wish they wouldn't (it's getting harder to remember who knows what).

dunno, if I was told any secret, was it a secret once more than one person knows of it? not for me.. I am quite an open person

I'm not telling!

Yes, I’ve got a few secrets only one about myself and some about friends, I would never divulge to anyone, one about a former friend but that doesn’t mean I’d divulge it I’d take the secrets to the grave, I would never promise to keep secrets if was was going to blab what’s the point,

I’m not surprised Kircubbin, passing on a secret because ‘you thought they already knew’. Wouldn’t have been a secret then would it?

I have told someone else's secret to a person they knew as I presumed they already knew. She was quite shocked and later stopped speaking to either of us. Lately she met up with this friend but I was not invited.

My MIL told me many years ago a friend had discovered she was adopted and discovered her birth mother.
She asked my MIL to accompany her for their first meeting.
On arrival at the London Hotel they wee both aghast to be greeted by a very famous woman, a household name!
She gave her daughter 20 minutes of her time and a large cheque.
She was told never to make contact again.
My MIL took her secret to the grave.

My husband and myself recently stumbled upon someone’s secret.
We are now embroiled in a sad and sorry saga.
The weight of the secret is huge, it has caused us many sleepless nights and lots of tears.
The other couple involved are very aware of the angst it has caused and we are supporting each other.
If I could wind the clock back I would not be involved.

I know something very significant about a close family member, which would devastate other family members.

I have kept this secret since 2003, when my sister died.

I would love to tell certain people but they would be hurt and it’s not what my sister would have wanted ... so I have said nothing.

Maybe over time, it has become less important ...

I've known a secret if you can call it that from 1984. No one told me I was there when it happened. I would never tell friends family as it would cause heartache but I often wonder if one day they will discover the truth.

My OH is useless at keeping secrets my family say dont tell dad he'll wont be able to keep stum.

I am good at keeping secrets ,I would never betray a trust.

My DS has taught his children that I am not good at keeping secrets. However I have a secret in my life that I’ve had for over 35 years and haven’t told anyone. My sister has recently shared something with me and asked me not to tell anyone and I am respecting her need for privacy. So my son doesn’t really know me at all!

I know a couple of secrets shared from other people, and I will take them to the grave. Haven't even shared them with DH although he knows I have them but respects my promise never to tell. I wish people wouldn't tell me things but I'm known as someone who can hold their tongue. I'm almost relieved that most have come into general knowledge so are no longer "secret".

People's secrets are always safe with me. I never ever tell.

I'm great at keeping secrets for others snd generally forget unless reminded but I'm too open with my life and blab everything x

As a counsellor I keep secrets in my professional life all the time, it’s called confidentiality!

In my personal life I don’t know any deep secrets about any friends etc but if someone in the family speaks to me about someone else I would never repeat it