Bee and I are not secret-sharers, unless the other person is 100% ok with it...
But I've realized over the years that the standard seems to be that it's ok to share secrets with your SO!
If your friend tells you a secret, do you tell your SO?
Bee and I are not secret-sharers, unless the other person is 100% ok with it...
But I've realized over the years that the standard seems to be that it's ok to share secrets with your SO!
If your friend tells you a secret, do you tell your SO?
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts
My gfs and I have a mutual understanding that whatever we tell each other in confidence, it includes the SOs. They're all types not to really care about girl drama, so it's never been an issue for us!
pomelo / 5073 posts
I do. People who know me pretty much know that I tell my SO, my mom, and my BFF. I am not a very good secret sharer. Obviously.
EDIT: But, everyone knows that SO doesn't say anything at all. EVER. HE is a good secret keeper.
hostess / wonderful honeydew / 32460 posts
I'm AMAZING at keeping other people's secrets. I just suck at keeping my own.
I usually don't tell DH unless the person is okay with it and they usually are!
GOLD / squash / 13464 posts
Yes, and if I tell a married person a secret of mine I assume they will also tell their husband. However, if for some reason a friend specifically asks me not to share something with my husband I absolutely respect their wishes.
GOLD / wonderful pomegranate / 28905 posts
Yes, everyone knows how close we are. When I tell someone something I assume their spouse will know as well.
And yes, of course unless they specifically ask me not to tell their spouse.
clementine / 878 posts
Unless the secret is about one of DH's close friends, I usually share with him. And tell him that "he doesn't know this". Bad, I know. But I can't help myself!
eggplant / 11824 posts
Yes and I assume if I tell someone a secret they will tell their spouse. Spouses seem like a unit to me - I tell one, I'm basically also telling the other.
pear / 1837 posts
I can keep a secret from DH, but I don't usually bother. Most of the juicy stuff I hear from friends doesn't really interest DH, so sometimes I'll spill (but he doesn't care so wouldn't ever pass it on) but sometimes I won't since he doesn't care. If it's something that affects us and I think he deserves to know (i.e. my mom says "Your father is retiring but don't tell anyone") I'll tell him, even if asked not to. If he'll be interested but doesn't really need to know, and I'm asked not to tell him, I can do that (i.e. if my sister-in-law said "hey I'm pregnant, but I'm not telling husband till our anniversary in three days, don't say anything to anyone" I could do that).
I actually find myself being less guarded with single friends, because I know there's a good chance that if I tell a partnered friend something, the partner will find out.
pear / 1764 posts
@mrbee: I am a very good secret keeper. For certain things, I will ask if it is okay to tell DH. I am really bad at keeping my own secrets from my DH! I always spill the beans immediately! If I buy something I will sometimes joke that I won't tell him about it or how much it cost, for example, but I always do!!
hostess / eggplant / 11068 posts
I rarely tell secrets to my friends because I've been burned by them in that I once said, "Please keep this between us" and I soon found out that she had told her SO. When a friend is about to tell me something important I always clarify with them if it's private or shareable.
bananas / 9357 posts
Yes. And when I tell secrets to someone who's married then I assume they'll share with their spouse. It just seems like a given to me.
coconut / 8681 posts
I do tell him and I also assume that if I tell a married friend a secret it's essentially telling their spouse as well.
eggplant / 11287 posts
Yes, i always tell my husband. But usually the friend teling the secret understands that she is kind of sharing it with both of us. The only time i dont is if telling my husband really invades my friends privacy (hypothetical example: friend had an abortion).
wonderful olive / 19353 posts
Yup! Hubby and I tell each other everything, and it's under the understanding that neither of us "knows".
GOLD / wonderful coffee bean / 18478 posts
If it is something interesting I might mention it to him. I think it should be a given that anything you tell someone is fair game for them to pass onto their spouse.
admin / wonderful grape / 20724 posts
@Andrea: That's so interesting! I think exactly the opposite...
hostess / wonderful watermelon / 39513 posts
Yes, I always tell my husband! He tells me stuff too!
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21616 posts
I don't usually have/share secrets, if I do it's usually kept between me and my hubby until it's made public (if it ever is). Or else I'll tell my sister, but I would assume she tells her husband because it's the nature of our marriages. Anything she tells me, she knows I'll share with my husband. I guess it's a mutual understanding? I'm not close enough with anyone other than my sister to share "secrets" so I'm not worried about it because my sister is the most trustworthy person I know. Although, she has told my mom things on occasion (we're close with her too) when she wasn't supposed to, so now I know to clarify not to tell mom.
GOLD / wonderful coffee bean / 18478 posts
@mrbee: I tell my husband everything so I just assume that everyone else does too.
coconut / 8299 posts
Sometimes I'll tell him but usually not. My husband isn't the gossipy/secretive type so he doesn't even really care if I tell him anything interesting or not. He just nods his head and goes about his business. If he wanted to know though, I might tell him.
If I tell my friends something, I just assume they would tell their SO's.
GOLD / papaya / 10166 posts
I tell my husband... it makes me feel so much better to not be the only person who knows the secret - HA!
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21628 posts
I tell my husband. My friends know how close we are and when they tell me something it includes my husband. I also know it goes both ways. So unless we specifically say not to tell our husbands then they get told.
apricot / 302 posts
Depends on the secret, but yes, I normally tell my husband everything. He knows to keep a tight lip about things, so I have no fears in sharing things with him.
squash / 13199 posts
Yes I do tell my husband and for this reason I dont tell people my secrets but I assume they will at the very least tell their SO and if that person doesnt feel loyal to me they might tell someone else
pomegranate / 3983 posts
Yup, almost always unless I forget. I can't keep anything from DH. I feel like my friends assume that I tell him though so it's not a big deal.
GOLD / wonderful grape / 20289 posts
@mrbee: I never mind if someone tells my secret to their SO. But then again I never really have any good secrets. I guess the only one I've had was that I miscarried, I didn't want it spread around because I didn't want to talk to everybody about it. But I told close friends, and I'm 100% sure they told their SO's. But I don't see the SO's spreading it around so I don't care.
hostess / eggplant / 11068 posts
@mrbee: I totally agree with you on this matter. If someone tells me something in confidence, they told it to ME. If they wanted my husband to know, they'd tell him.
blogger / watermelon / 14218 posts
I always ask if it's ok to tell Wagon Sr. If it's not, I ask them not to tell me! I can't keep a secret from Wagon Sr.
persimmon / 1453 posts
I don't like lying (or keeping secrets), and have a hard time softening things to make them more socially correct. So I tend to tell my husband everything that passes my way.
If it's something a friend or acquaintance tells me, I don't necessarily talk to him about it because that's more of an outside relationship. But if it's something that's happening within the family, I always tell him.
Now that I think about it, I don't grant that same secret-sharing privilege to friends, siblings, or any other women, haha! DH is the only one that feels really safe.
grapefruit / 4800 posts
I won't if they tell me not to or if I think it might be questionable I'll ask if I can tell him. But most of my friends say go ahead and tell him because they want his opinion too.
hostess / wonderful persimmon / 25556 posts
Sometimes. We have a rule, though. If we start the conversation with, you cannot tell ANYONE this, it doesn't leave the house.
wonderful pomelo / 30692 posts
I tell my husband unless someone explicitly asked me not to. All my friends know that anything they tell me, I'll tell him. He usually doesn't listen or care though, haha. And my husband knows that when he tells me stuff, I'm going to tell my BFF unless he tells me not to, haha.
grapefruit / 4187 posts
I use discretion. Ultimately if he were to directly ask me, I would always tell him the secret. But I won't offer up things I've been told if he doesnt' need to know. Most men are good secret keepers since they don't gossip as much as we do and they don't care as much to begin with and my DH is no exception. And he's very respectful of other peoples privacy so he would never blab.
pomegranate / 3658 posts
Unless they tell me not to, I share everything with my husband. Even then, I sometimes make the call that my husband is an exception, but I'm sure to tell him not to pass it along.
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