Why do married couples keep secrets from each other?

We keep no secrets. When California highway patrol called my husband to say they recovered his stolen car I did not know about it... but who tells someone about a car stolen over 4 years ago, recovered at 5 years after being stolen. We said anything and everything right from the start and neither one of us got scared... so now we are married.Why do married couples keep secrets from each other?
It would truly depend on the secret. Obviously if it's a surprise birthday party for your spouse you will keep it a secret. Some things from your past, before you met and/or started dating your spouse, are best left in the past because of the emotional reaction it can cause. For example, my husband had sexual relations with his sister in laws niece. He told me about this when we first started dating, but sometimes I wish he hadn't. Now every time I see this woman I can't help but sit there and think that she at one time slept with my husband. And, in the back of my mind, it makes me wonder if he feels anything being around her again. Of course those are irrational thoughts, but they still exist. Now other secrets I don't really believe in keeping from your spouse. Sometimes I forget to tell my husband something I find irrelevant, but if he asks I don't keep anything from him.Why do married couples keep secrets from each other?
A marriage is a partnership, a union. There shouldn't be major secrets, but there is nothing wrong with keeping a part of you to yourself.





I don't know my guy's email passwords (but he has it saved so that I have access to his emails, although I don't check them, too much crap) and I have my journal that he knows about but I keep locked away.





Marriage shouldn't be a loss of sense of self. You should always have something that's all you.
Define secret. Husbands and wives don't have to know EVERYTHING about eachother. How on Earth are you supposed to keep a sense of ';self'; if you share EVERY minute detail about yourself? It's ridiculous. A secret or two is fair (depending on the info) and wanting to know EVERYTHING is controlling and will ultimately end the marriage.
Some married couples keep secrets because they know that once the secret comes out then the other person may end up getting mad. I have one secret that I can not tell my husband. If he were to find out then he would not trust me ever again. It was something that I did before we were married and I was with someone else.
There are many secrets in a relationship that need to be kept in the past. Because they will only put a strain on the relationship. But I think that during the relationship there should be no secrets between a husband and a wife.
We don't have secrets, unless it is some kind of surprise for a later date, like a surprise birthday party! Secrets don't make friends and your spouse should be your best friend.
Couples should be open and honest with one another. There's really no need for secrets in a marriage.
Some things are best left unrevealed. What you don't know can't hurt you. Besides, every married couples has secrets. This is normal and nothing to fret over.
It depends on the secret, and who, if anyone, will end up getting hurt by it. feel free to message me for more info. it really does depends on the ';secret';.
Every kind of couple keeps secrets
so they can continue their happy marriage..
here's a secret your husband musta kept from you. You are a dope.
We don't keep secrets at my house.
We're all human. These are things humans do no matter how wrong it is.
Because we are who we are first...people with faults.