64 Secrets People Swore To Keep Forever, But Couldn’t Resist The Temptation To Open Up Anonymously

Well, there's something you don't know about me. I read an article saying that growing almonds was bad for the environment, and yet I continued to use almond milk in my coffee.

I bought several Rolexes by emptying my bank account. And my mom and dad never noticed.

I met a guy when I joined a gay/gay friendly soccer team who had just joined at the same time I did. He was really hot, but we didn’t get along very well. Eventually, after a few group outings we got to know each other better. We were both in relationships and a friendship blossomed. His bf however, was extremely insecure and very attention hungry. (Later i found out he’s also a pathological liar) anyway, the bf used to make lots of rude comments to me in regards to my friend. He was younger, so it made sure to remind me I was older and his bf would never be into anyone my age. He was very smooth and skinny while I was stockier and had body hair and a beard, another thing my friend was not “into”. His bf challenged me in a way that tapped into my vindictive side. I used my charm and wit and started having a secret affair with my friend that lasted for over 2 years. Up until his bachelor party the weekend before their wedding. There was also a short period where they broke up and my friend alluded that he might be in love with me. I told him I didn’t feel the same way and that this arrangement was just for fun, as we had agreed on. A week later they were back together and engaged a month after that. Since they got married we are definitely not as close and don’t even play soccer together anymore.

That the only thing that keeps me from going really low and trying to become something in life is my family. Not really a big wow secret but something.

I have never had Covid so I faked positive test with a red pen. Took a photo sent to work and husband any enjoyed five days of quarantine, watching movies and ordering door dash. I guess it was FOMO or just tired of taking care of everyone else.

I robbed a bank in Miami when I was a freshman in college in 1988 and got away with it.

I'm naturally very observant and have a visual-oriented memory, remembering minor details of past events; so I know a lot about not just facts, but even the lives of my friends and family, stuff they have no idea that I know. Things that they might even consider to be secrets.

When I was a kid I was more straightforward about the information I know, which always rubbed people the wrong way, and I was often called a "know it all."

Now, I keep my cards close, never showing my hand. I've learned that it's much more pleasant for everyone involved when I play ignorant and ask questions that I already know the answer to. Because of this, I also know what questions to ask to keep the other person talking longer.

It may sound manipulative, I don't know if it is or not. But I see it as this: instead of me being cold and dismissive (like I used to be) I can start a good conversation and show my interest, giving the other person the space to share with me anything.

I don't "know everything," I am the first to admit true ignorance. There is no shame in not knowing, only in refusing to learn. But I do know far more than most people understand about me.

Edit: Removed the dubious term "photographic memory" in favor of more specificity.

I’m a regular guy in my 50s in a conservative tradition but dress in woman’s clothes and use a wig and do make up a couple times a month to take videos and put in the internet. I have over 16K followers on TikTok and over 4K subscribers on YouTube. Just me modeling women’s clothes and sometimes doing a dance. Not sure this will go to my grave but so far no one who knows me as my boy self realizes this (at least not that I’m aware).

I heard mom telling my Dad she knew he had a daughter out of marriage. I was under the bed and mom doesn’t knows I know. Father is gone now but I won’t telling my siblings.

My bulimia caused a pipe to burst in the house while no one was home. $120,000 in damages.

Im not a bad liar but I have convinced people that I am. Even to the point that they say that openly about me. I orchestrated this. I am an excellent liar and nobody but the strangers on Reddit will know!

I prefer McDonald's over Wendy's but my wife would leave me if I told her.

I went through some pretty scary hallucinations for years in my youth. And by scary I mean so weird my brain wont accept not remember the full extent. In my late teens when I finally sought a therapist and help I was already getting better. But what I'll never share is that deep inside of me I'm not so sure what I saw and heard were made up in in my head. Even now if I dont get enough sleep I see them lurking in the corners of my vision, urging me to do terrible things.

I blame myself for my mum’s passing. If I had been stricter and put more effort into convincing her to get chemotherapy earlier, she might still be here today.

A manager I worked for. I respected the guy so much. He was married with several now adult children and his wife's was in the hospital. One night I saw him sneak off with a women he had just met.

It felt like a punch in the guts. I never mentioned it to him or anyone else.

I saw grandpa drop one of the cooked steaks, pick it up, put it on the plate.

It was me that defecated in my aunts pool. Didn’t mean to, i was 7 and it just came out like a torpedo.

I cheated in pretty much every exam in my first degree. For one reason or another I sat my exams separately from my class with an exams office person sat outside. I had the business card of the exams person in my pencil case and nobody ever questioned it. I had tiny little notes written in pencil on the back of it. Things like references and formulas that we had to use. Got the grade I needed to get into medical school where cheating was impossible and I never actually needed to cheat anyway as they tested actual knowledge and not your ability to remember specific references. Passed medical school without ever cheating again, now a doctor.

I've been married for seven years and about five years ago, discovered that my father-in-law had grindr installed on his phone. "That's weird," I thought to myself but didn't think too much on it as we were busy and really, what would I have said? Later on I learn that he's been regularly going to out of town conferences alone for "work". These were expensive my MIL was complaining about the cost, and they didn't really seem to add value to his work. Then I put two and two together.

Anyway, I don't condone cheating, but I have no idea how I would raise this to my wife. I don't technically have proof but besides learning these things and seeing him flirt with people, I'm very confident he's been sneaking off for affairs. It doesn't help that he's reaching an early dementia stage and is becoming increasingly erratic/forgetful.

I read my bf’s sisters chats with her parents talking bad things about me. They act so nice to me in person and it was a slap in the face for me. Our relationship hasn’t been the same since! Oh, they were also plotting to break us up:)).