"Watch Who You Marry": Married People Are Revealing The Secrets Their Spouses Kept From Them Until They Got Married, And I'm Speechless
When people get married, there's the assumption that they know who they are marrying. Well, sometimes secrets creep out after people say, "I do." So when a Reddit user asked: "What did your spouse keep secret from you until you were married?" so many people spilled the beans about their own marriages. Here's what they said below.
1."That he actually hates chicken breasts. When we met, we were very poor students, so buying a whole chicken to carve up was the cheapest option. He knew I liked the leg, so he would eat the chicken breast without ever complaining or asking for another cut."
2."Severe untreated ADHD. I found out five years later when my father and mother-in-law casually mentioned it while going through divorce proceedings. Every single day of my marriage made so much more sense after reading a few books."
3."Me, I kept the secret. I am absolutely terrified of water slides and didn't tell my wife until we were on our honeymoon. I was standing at the top of a huge water slide and having a panic attack. She was so excited to go to this park that I convinced myself it would be okay. Welp. It was not."
4."I don't remember how this started, but one day, years into being together, I realized I had never seen my husband clip his toenails. I asked him when he does it because I was curious — it seemed weird. I had never seen him do such a mundane task. Thus began years worth of him messing with me and refusing to tell me. Not for any reason other than I really wanted to know. And it drove me wild. It's such a simple thing! Why wouldn't he tell me? Argh!! Well, one day, we had to move our heavy couch unexpectedly, and I found what I called the Toenail Graveyard. He didn't trim his toenails; he tore them off — and APPARENTLY threw them behind the couch. The look on his face.... he was mortified. I was so repulsed that I think I just walked away. Now that the jig is up, he clips his nails in the bathroom like a normal human instead of tearing them off and hiding them around the house like some kind of demented feral beast."
5."I fancy myself a well-above-average ping pong player (I was a former tennis player). I usually beat my friends and colleagues, and I’m always up for a game. My wife has never really shown any interest in any sports or games of any kind. Several years after we were married, we found ourselves randomly at a ping pong table in a public space, and she suggested we play. She wasn’t terrible — better than that — she, in fact, could hold a rally, had decent form, and placed the ball. Me, as we started rallying: 'WHAT — HOW?' Her: shrugs. 'You never asked.' Honestly, her humility is pretty sexy."
6."He can do a perfect Donald Duck impression."
7."My spouse didn’t tell me how awful their singing voice was until we got married. They used to lip-sync to the radio in the car, and I thought they were just shy. It wasn’t until we were comfortably married that they finally belted out a song — and it was hilariously off-key. Now, it’s one of my favorite quirks about them, and we laugh about it all the time."
8."That he was on an episode of Cops."
"He was in the background, waving a vacuum hose. He used to sell vacuums in Vegas."
9."My spouse makes fantastic pancakes and didn’t tell me. Never once made them while we were dating. Six years of a pancake holdout. A few days after our wedding, my spouse is standing in the kitchen, whistling and FLIPPING pancakes. I was shocked anyone could actually flip a pancake. They said, 'Morning, babe,' and set out a plate of perfect pancakes. Refused to use store-brand syrup. Nope, we are a 'maple syrup' household. Buttery and not too sweet, and fluffy, beautiful golden brown. A faint cinnamon flavor. I make good pancakes, but this was ridiculous. I asked, 'Why haven’t you ever made me pancakes?' 'You never asked for pancakes; I make awesome pancakes. I won a pancake contest once,' was my spouse's response. The only way I forgave this secret is pancakes on the weekends."
"We now have an inside joke where I stand up and yell, 'Pancake liar,' and point dramatically. It’s been 12 years of perfect pancakes on the weekends for me."
10."After we got married, I found out my spouse secretly hated one of the recipes I’d make all the time when we were dating. They ate it with a smile every time, but once we were married, they gently admitted it wasn’t their favorite. Now, we laugh about it, and I make it only when I want a good laugh and an excuse to order takeout."
11."Married 20 years this year. He hates my favorite radio station. He just told me this year! My kids: Dad must really love you to listen to music he hates for 20 years!"
12."Literally the morning after our wedding, while we were still in bed having coffee, my husband came out with: 'I've been meaning to tell you this for a while, and... well, I really like country music!' Like, okay, lol. Never mind the fact that we had been together for nine years at that point. I'm not sure why it had to be a secret!"
13."That he ate my sandwich. We worked together before getting married, and one night, I brought a big ol’ sandwich and stuck it in the work fridge. I knew I would need the calories because we were pushing some heavy stuff around that came off the freight truck. So I’m working up a sweat, and it’s break time. I opened up the work fridge and yelled that somebody had eaten my sandwich. Who would eat someone else’s food? It’s never happened to me before, and we were a pretty small, tight-knit staff. I asked around, and nobody knew anything, of course. I finished out my shift, hungry and lethargic. I ended up marrying one of my coworkers who was with me that night. The sandwich dilemma was brought up in conversation TWO YEARS after we got married, and he casually admitted to it. I had a lot of feelings about that, and I still do. Lol."
14."He thought Episodes 2 and 3 of Star Wars were the best movies in the series. But what got me the worst was when he said the OG trilogy was bad because, I quote, 'The special effects are terrible and poorly done.' If he had told me this before we were married, we would not be married now. The bastard tricked me."
15."My spouse would get to Google by typing Google in the address bar, hitting enter, and then clicking on the first result. Obviously, my ex-spouse."
Did your partner keep a secret until you got married? Tell us all about it in the comments below.
Note: Some of these responses have been edited for length and/or clarity.
