What's The Biggest Secret You've Ever Kept?.

[reecejackox]

When I was 7 , I lost my friends hamster and replaced it , my friend for the last 20 years still doesn't know.

 

[prairie_girl]

If I told, then it wouldn't be a secret...

 

[BrianL]

Yeah, I can't say it. I don't have many secrets, but I once had a friend tell me an interesting, true, personal, and kind of amazing story about their life but I have never shared it. It's not exactly a secret, and I'm sure plenty of people do know it - I simply don't repeat it because it is not my story to tell.

 

[fla4fun]

If I told, then it wouldn't be a secret...

Exactly. I remember one time my manager told me something confidential at the time and when it was made public a few months later, she said I was the first person she had met who actually kept a secret when they said they would. I figure if I am asked to keep something to myself, I should. If I can’t, I should tell the person before they reveal the secret.

The only secret I think I would ever reveal would be if someone confessed to me that they were either planning to/had committed a serious crime. My conscience wouldn’t let me keep something like that secret. Fortunately, I haven’t been placed in that position . . . yet.

 

[LuvOrlando]

I'll never tell

 

[NannyBeBe]

I knew that a certain gentlemen that I worked for had a mistress and had for many years. I could have told his wife but I never did. He and his wife remained married and I don't think his wife ever knew. All those involved have passed now and I'm glad I kept the secret.

 

[ronandannette]

Exactly. I remember one time my manager told me something confidential at the time and when it was made public a few months later, she said I was the first person she had met who actually kept a secret when they said they would. I figure if I am asked to keep something to myself, I should. If I can’t, I should tell the person before they reveal the secret.

The only secret I think I would ever reveal would be if someone confessed to me that they were either planning to/had committed a serious crime. My conscience wouldn’t let me keep something like that secret. Fortunately, I haven’t been placed in that position . . . yet.

I absolutely dread anyone ever telling me a secret. Dollars-to-doughnuts they have told others as well and those others may say something, even though I never do. When it comes back that people know, who gets looked at? I actually have a bit of a reputation for being the last one to ever know things and I'm perfectly happy like this. I would also personally never ever, ever confide anything to anybody that I actually needed to remain secret.

 

[antmaril]

I really can’t tell you. Sorry.

 

[fla4fun]

I would also personally never ever, ever confide anything to anybody that I actually needed to remain secret.

I agree. I remember my first trip to the UK, I was going solo and I knew my mom would be a nervous wreck. I also knew the people I worked with would have been talking about it non stop, which would have bugged me. So for almost a year, I was planning this big trip, and no one knew. I didn’t tell my parents until a week out, and I didn’t tell the people at work until I got back. It was hard, because the trip was about three months after the terrorist attacks of 2005 and it would have been nice to talk to someone about it then, but when that happened I was really glad I hadn’t told the family yet. That’s probably the only thing I have ever wanted to really keep secret for myself.

But, unfortunately for me, people confide in me like I am their hair stylist or bartender. I have held a lot of secrets for others.

 

[prairie_girl]

Exactly. I remember one time my manager told me something confidential at the time and when it was made public a few months later, she said I was the first person she had met who actually kept a secret when they said they would. I figure if I am asked to keep something to myself, I should. If I can’t, I should tell the person before they reveal the secret.

The only secret I think I would ever reveal would be if someone confessed to me that they were either planning to/had committed a serious crime. My conscience wouldn’t let me keep something like that secret. Fortunately, I haven’t been placed in that position . . . yet.

Or if someone told me they were being abused. Sure, I’d try and help the person as best as I could, but that’s not something I could just walk away from.

 

[tcufrog]

I can tell a former secret but not a current one. My biggest former secret was that a friend of mine is gay. He came out to me when we were in high school in the mid-90s. Back then it was a much bigger deal. I was only the second person he told.

 

[DLgal]

Nice try

 

[Diznotyzed]

Well, at one time I actually knew who dumped the load of cow manure in the rival high school's courtyard. It's been long enough now, though, that I've forgotten who it was.

 

[fly girl]

I have a couple of biggies ... but my lips are sealed.

Once I had someone break a confidence I shared, I vowed I would never do it to anyone else. Not even anonymously. Can't do it.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Ahh you almost got me...

 

[TippyThomas]

I guess I live a secret free life. I can't think of a single one that I have or has been said to me. Probably helps with lowering my anxiety.

 

[disneychrista]

I have a secret life that others would be SHOCKED to learn.

 

[mi*vida*loca]

I have a few but I would never tell. People tend to tell me things because I know how to keep my mouth shut. Or I just have that face that people want to open up to? I don’t know. I also grew up in a really rough neighborhood where the code of silence was just how we lived and it’s stuck with me.

 

[dez1978]

Or if someone told me they were being abused. Sure, I’d try and help the person as best as I could, but that’s not something I could just walk away from.

Now I’d def tell if it was a child or if children were involved. If a grown woman told me her husband was abusing her but didn’t want me to tell, I wouldn’t bc I’d be afraid of causing more harm. Like if she wasn’t ready to leave and I tell the cops and they speak to the husband and they both deny it, I’d worry that he’d then take it out on her worse afterwards. Just an example

 

[FigmentSpark]

I had a friend who was abused in all the worst ways by her husband. There are thoroughly evil people out there. When there was a chance to destroy my friend, this guy delighted in doing it with a smile and all the while knowing how to look the victim in the eyes of the court. This guy was so good that even though she was medically disabled and he was able bodied and educated (thanks to her), she had to work to pay him child support after the divorce. Years later, she told me a secret about that time with him that broke my heart. It was in the past and no good would ever come from revealing it, only more pain for everyone. She needed to tell someone and I have kept her secret vigilantly. But the pain she experienced breaks my heart whenever I think of it.