51 Wholesome Secrets People's Partners Have No Idea About And It's Way Too Late To Come Clean

Girlfriend ordered me a cheesecake to cheer me up after I had surgery. She didn't get herself one for some reason, so I offered her the whipped cream. She was all, "no no, I got that for you!".

So I just told her I didn't like whipped cream. She got so excited and went "Oh this is perfect. Because I LOVE whipped cream."

We're married now and every time I have a dessert with whipped cream, she'll get so excited when I give it to her. And that makes giving up whipped cream worth it, I think.

My wife had a lamp that was hideous. I didn’t have any lamps at my place. When we got married she wanted to bring it to our shared residence. I made an obvious joke about having an irrational fear/phobia of lamps. She took it seriously but I didn’t correct her. We have purchased a home and need a few lamps to brighten the place up. Now she has been slowly reintroducing me to lamps and I have progressed “significantly”.

I recently fessed up to my wife while we were playing one of those couples card games, we had a good laugh but here it is:

Early on in our relationship my wife was trying desperately hard to learn to cook. Her family never taught her and she lived her first 5 years of adulthood living in “girl-dinner” lifestyle. I cook, always have so it wasn’t a big deal to me but it was important to her.

She had made countless meals that were basically inedible… numerous times she would throw it away without even letting me try it.

Then I came home from work one day and she was SO Excited… she had made “stuffing chicken” which was just chicken breasts placed in a crockpot with a packet of stoffer’s stuffing mix. She said she loved it and couldn’t wait for me to try it.

Here’s the deal, she needed a win and I was ready to give it to her. But I HATE stuffing… hadn’t eaten it since the days of my parents insisting I finish my plate at a holiday gathering… idk I just don’t get soggy seasoned bread.

So… I did what I thought needed to be done to help my young wife’s confidence and what did I do? I RAVED about it… poured it on thick, even asking for seconds… thought to myself no harm no foul to give her the win.

Well… then I was stuck… and for over 12 years approximately 1-2x a month, I will come home to the smell of stuffing chicken in the crockpot.

I have in the past even gone to desperate measures and thrown away boxes of stoffer’s when I see it in the pantry and then denying any knowledge.

When I finally told her she fell out of her chair laughing. She had liked it, not loved it… and had made it just for me all those years.

Some of the youtube shorts he shows me on his phone aren't as funny as he thinks they are, but I don't say anything because he's just trying to brighten my day.

My sister has been with her husband for 17 years. He told her he knew how to snowboard when they first got together.

Every time she tried to arrange a trip for them he would sign up for shifts, say he was too sick or find any other excuse he could.

Last month she surprised him with a trip to a ski resort. They all got up to the hill, he rode the lift to the top, then froze.

He thought about the fake it til you make it, but decided broken bones weren’t worth it. He finally admitted that he lied to impress her and walked his butt down the ski hill. 🤣

She says I’m not allowed to give him grief about it, so I’ll share this story with everyone else, every chance I get.

That I know that the engagement ring he bought me isn’t a real diamond.

I don’t care. It was a first major purchase He made after his brain injury, and he was so proud of himself.

I love it because he chose it for me.

My bf has two young kids and lives in a separate state. They love McDonald’s. He thinks I use the points on my McDonalds app to get them free happy meals when really I just buy them with my money pretty much everytime because I know it takes the stress off him and puts a smile on his face and that makes it all worth it for me. I love them with all my heart🩵.

Not my story but something I found funny on Reddit a few months ago: A guy is playing with his daughter and she asks him what his favorite animal is. He didn't really have a favorite so he just said the first thing that came to mind "manatee". As the years go by she draws her dad manatees, gives him manatee stickers, things like that. Well when she turns like 12, the mom and daughter tell the dad that they are going to surprise him with a trip to Florida to swim with his favorite animal. I probably don't have every detail of the story correct, but the guy lied to his daughter about his favorite animal and years later they take him to swim with manatees. Hilarious .

I actually do have a side of the bed, and it’s his but I for some reason wanted to act all chill when we first started dating and when he asked me if I had a side of the bed I said no (like a psycho, like who doesn’t have a side of the bed) so now I’m stuck in a hell of my own making where I sleep on the wrong side of the bed.

Not mine but I heard a story where the person was buying a cake "just because" and bumped into an acquaintance, and then lied about it being their birthday, which turned into an impromptu party between the two, which turned into a relationship.

But they came clean once the real birthday came.

I told my wife I don't like olives on the very first date because I panicked when she asked and couldn't think of anything else to say. I actually love olives. It's been 8 years.

She now carefully picks olives off my portion of every shared pizza, pasta, and salad. She buys the olive-free hummus. She once sent back a dish at a restaurant because it had "hidden olives."

I am in too deep. If I confess now, the olive thing becomes a referendum on our entire relationship's honesty. So I eat my olive-free life and sometimes sneak them at work like a degenerate.

The "salt coffee" story from one of these threads has a special place in my heart, so I will retell it.

A dude is on a date in a restaurant. And, as the coffee was served, he accidentally grabbed salt instead of sugar and added it to the coffee. The girl pointed it out, but the dude didn't want to look like he just goofed like that. So he drank the coffee and came up with a story of how he spent his childhood in a town by the sea and how sea salt was everywhere and that he drinks coffee with salt on purpose because it gives him nostalgia. Cool story.

Fast forward many years, they are happily married. And the wife always makes him coffee with salt instead of sugar. Dude drinks it because he doesn't have the heart to confess that little lie.

But is it really a lie if you commit to it that much?

I told husband that hat I hate flowers. I think what I truly hate is the "look, I forgot to pick you up. Here are flowers" or the "hey, I betrayed you but here, take those flowers and shut up". My poodle puppy got me a flower today and I was so happy, he ripped it out and spat it at my feet 😄🙈 and I think that was the cutest thing ever. So maybe I don't really hate flowers but it's too late now.

When I met my now husband, I told him I didn't want a relationship because of a bad break up, and stuck to that for a bit before acting like he convinced me.

Absolute lies.

I knew from the moment his name showed up on my phone, on that sunny morning, the night after we started talking fourteen years ago, that I was in love with him in a way I had never felt before. Adore the man more and more everyday, and don't think I want a world without him in it.

It WAS me.
I did it. I farted. I tooted and I was too embarrassed to say it was me because it was a FIRST DATE and I didn’t know how to explain that my nervousness was giving me the SERIOUS tummy rumblies.

It wasn’t the person next to us.
It was me.

I’m sorry I lied.

I hate yellow flower bouquets (unless they’re like sunflowers or tulips) because I associate them with funerals etc. But he likes getting me yellow bouquets because it’s a happy colour.

I love that he buys me flowers, and I don’t want to hurt his feelings, especially when he got me a big bouquet from the florist on my birthday. But it was mostly yellow. I love pinks, peaches, purples…

Don’t tell him, ok?

I’m really not that into Star Wars.

How was I supposed to know they’d just Keep On Making the darn things!

I already watched the shows she wants to see and know the full history and obscure lore. So I act dumb when she has an eureka moment.

That I don’t like seafood like him….in reality the only thing I don’t like is fish sticks. it’s already out but I kept it for so long that I had to reject delicious fish soup and oysters and shrimp. finally on New Years they made grilled octopus and I had to crack, but he said he didn’t even remember I said that I don’t like it.

Our song got overplayed on the radio and I lowkey hate it now.