"I Fear It's Over": 58 Messy Secrets People Could Never Reveal To Their Closest Friends

My neighbours next door went away for several days and left their cat outside in freezing temperatures and sent no one by to feed it.

I fed their cat and took it to the Humane Society (and signed a no euthanasia contract promising to take the cat if no one adopted it). It was adopted out the next day.

When the neighbours asked me if I had seen their cat I never told them.

I hate being functional while being so depressed all the time.

I'm traveling and just found out I have pre-cancerous cells and need a minor surgery to get them removed. I'm getting the procedure done abroad and not telling my family, but frankly it's for my own selfish reasons not because I don't want to worry them. I just know if I tell them I'll end up having to soothe their anxiety over it instead of being able to focus on my own recovery and I can't be bothered to put up with that.

They've said before "If you ever get really sick/injured while abroad you'll tell us, right??" and I lied and said of course, but in reality unless I'm actively dying I've learned it's much better to handle these things by myself.

That I am incredibly resentful that I am my elderly father's caregiver and work full time on top of managing my own chronic illness. I am angry. I am tired. I am lonely. I don't have ANY help. I am a single 58 year old woman with NO LIFE. I keep up a facade for work and with my family. They can't and/or won't help. It's a very dark place to be.

My husband and I gave our child up for adoption. Most people didn't even know I was pregnant. We were really poor and our apartment was small had broken AC and had roaches plus we had no support system. We knew we couldn't provide a good life for him. It broke our hearts. Now we're better off and wish it would have happened now but you can't change the past.

I’ve been living in my car for three months now, and nobody knows. I just tell people I got a new apartment, but it's complicated to visit. I park at Walmart most nights and shower at the gym. It's not so bad, but the loneliness creeps in sometimes.

I hate my family even if I know they did their best with what they had, but I still reek resentment for the emotional neglet and unfairness for some treatments.

I frequently report my sister in law to child protection because she’s genuinely unstable and treats her autistic son like trash and decided she would have another baby to top it off. If I tell my partner I fear it’s over fr.

That my wife and I have just opened our relationship.

After two kids we've had eight years without any intimacy. A week ago she asked me to leave her, because she cannot give me what I need. I held her and told her that I would rather live a life without any intimacy than a life without her. I told her that I liberate her from any duty and pressure. I told her that she does not have worry about that any more - that she is free from that, but that I will always love and never leave her.

Then she told me that I am allowed to go out and find what I need.

For the first time in years we held each other like a loving couple.

But hmm... Now I am allowed to... whatever. But, how? Will I ever? Not sure.

No matter what. It feels good and she is happy as well.

I’m angry at everyone for being in their 2nd, 3rd, 10th relationship while I’ve never had anyone. Men are generally just not interested in me and the few that have been are complete weirdos. I’m angry in a “I just want to love someone” way, it’s so lonely.

My ex filed for full custody of my kid. And I am not fighting it. I've reached my limit on trying to earn the love of anyone, even the child I gave birth to.

I want my mom to pass away as soon as possible. She’s a horrible, narcissistic witch and visits with her stress me out to no end. My dad recently opened his own business, which sounds like it’s doing really well, so taking care of my younger siblings don’t seem to be an issue, so at this point, I wish my mom would just pass away and leave the rest of our family alone. She’s the kind of narcissist that’s able to put up a perfect front for everyone else, but underneath, she’s a homophobic neurotic freak with tons of mental issues that I can’t keep up with.

I have a certain amount of resentment in my heart towards my parents who never made financial plans for old age leaving my 2 siblings and I financially responsible for them. I have made so much debt just to keep head above water. I havent know how it feels to have a month without worrying about momey because I give 25% of my salary to them. Sometimes I have to take loans just to afford medicine for myself.

I wish I could have a child but I never got married and I cannot even afford to feed myself let alone another mouth. This gift has been taken away from me due to my financial burden.

Please don't do this to your kids.

My husband left me because he got a coworker pregnant and has moved in with her. I don’t even know how to tell my dad. I feel so embarrassed about the situation.

I have been having a tremor in my hand and weakness in my arm for months. I'm too afraid to find out why but it's progressing.

I'm really sad, so very very sad. I'm tired all the time. I found out my mum has lung cancer yesterday and I had 10 minutes to sort myself before picking my toddler up from nursery and put on a big smile for the rest of the day until everyone goes to sleep and I can just cry alone. That was just the icing on the cake of my sadness. I don't think it'll ever get better. .

If I get pregnant again, I’m most likely getting an abortion. I’ve had 4 miscarriages and lost a newborn, 4 of those 5 pregnancies were with fertility treatments (2 rounds of IUI and 2 of IVF). At this point I feel like I know the story ends and I don’t want to go through the hope, anxiety, despair, and grief again. An abortion would give me more control over my body and the outcome.

And yes, I am on birth control and my husband usually wears protection so the chance of it actually happening is very low.

Wife is pregnant. Just tested positive for hpv(not a surprise, we knew about that long ago) and the docs found irregular cells that point toward cervical cancer. My MIL has cervical cancer during her second pregnancy. I’m not freaking out, MIL had it surgically removed after the birth and was fine. Docs here said not to freak out, we are waiting for our appointment for testing. Not worth telling people the cancer part as we aren’t certain it is cancer. Not telling the HPV part as that’s just private.

I probably have bulimia but if anyone asks I'm trying to lose weight through diet and exercise.

I kind of have a crush on a guy at work - but i'm in a relationship. i'd never act on it and I feel a sort of shame about it.