[QUOTE=ReineD;3936898]Not having been told the truth (when this applies) is a biggie. And it's not true (Liz57) that wives keep comparable secrets, unless a wife is supporting an out-of-wedlock child or is a call-girl on the side that the husband doesn't know about. This might be comparable.QUOTE]
Reine - Adultery is the probably the biggest and most frequent secret and lie a wife keeps from her husband. Statistics of women who admit affairs run from 15% to 50%. And unfortunately, infidelity of husbands runs even higher - 20% to 50%. Other secrets may include past loves and boyfriends, incidents of sexual assault or abuse, family problems, past health issues and past financial problems, many of which eventually surface. Some of these are also secrets kept by men. There may be a lot more secrets kept in relationships, and particularly in remarriages, than we would like to think.
