What secrets are you hiding from your parents?

1. I'm not trying to hide it but I'm not going to just tell them out of nowhere but I used to skip like half my classes my senior year of high school and slept in a secret room in the school. Fun fact: That secret room had a lot of our rival schools old trophies in it. I spent a whole day one time going through them.
   — RaptorsCdwoods


2. My mother is incredibly militant we never use "The big light" in the front room, we must only ever use lamps. To the point where she took the bulb out of it and for years we haven't had one in there. Well last time they went away on holiday I put a bulb in there and she still hasn't noticed. I never use the big light, but I could, I could...
   — Megaross


3. My biggest and most recent is that I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.
   — jbmclaughlin15






4. I hide a lot of my childhood from my mother, she left when I was quite young and I didn’t reconnect with her till I was in my late teens. A very long story short my father was extremely abusive to the point of molestation. If I told my mother it would destroy her, and she would never forgive herself, so instead any old scars were “accidents” and a dark period of “self harm”, which is still a bad thing but nowhere near the earth shattering truth.
   — gingerviking94


5. Pretty much everything. No contact for 16yrs now. But means I have to strictly filter anything I let my grandparents know, because my life and family details are not something I want them to let my parents know. Anyone raised by a narcissistic personality and an enabler will relate. Screwed me up enough tyvm, you do NOT come near my kids.
   — cynical-mage


6. That I have stage 4 terminal breast cancer. I just turned 40 and am the youngest of their three children. My parents are in their late 70s / early 80s with plenty of their own health problems. Worrying about me would serve no purpose. Lying to them sucks though.
   — KAV_loves






7. How much I drink. They know I enjoy the occasional gin and tonic, but they don't know that I drink it out of the bottle most days
   — ToTheMunAndBack


8. That my now-husband supported both of us completely while I was in med school (we were only dating 1 year when this arrangement started, we got married 2 weeks after graduation). My parents think I took out loans to cover rent, books, food, etc...but the husband and I had a serious conversation about it and he made enough money to support both of us without more loans. They'd be disappointed because they always wanted me to be independent, but it worked out in the end for us.
   — DrBasia


9. That I have a lot of tattoos, as in my spine, back, sternum, both hips, both sides, and my leg. She has no idea and it's been 5 years
   — looktothesky13






10. I'm lonely and depressed.
    — agreeingstorm9


11. This is going to sound REALLY stupid, but i have always been hiding the fact that i do want a relationship/family one day. It started out with being young and finding that kind of stuff awkward so i never showed any interest in boys. But now i'm in my early 20s, i still keep quiet about it because i dont want my mother to think that im sad about missing out on relationships, because that would make HER sad. I have always suffered from very severe social anxiety, and depression for years, so i dont see myself ever having a relationship. I'd rather have her believe i'm immature/asexual than for her to think i feel lonely and sad. It's the weirdest secret ever, i know. Then again, expressing my desire to become a crazy cat lady instead of having a family isnt THAT much of a lie...i just leave out the part that i wanna be a crazy cat lady WITH a family
    — kawaiisaranghaeyo


12. My husband and I have been married a full year longer than they think.
    — evilbunnyofdeath