Secret Possessions Exposed
Have you ever stumbled upon an item that shocked you? What if it belonged to the person you trusted most in the world?
While you might have a few things of your own that you wouldn’t want the world to find out about, these folks took to Quora and Reddit to confess what strange item their partners owned.
1. Wish I Hadn't Seen That
When my current husband and I were still engaged but getting ready to combine households, I was deleting a bunch of files from his computers so we could sell them. He had some pictures of his ex-wife and him on there (nothing racy or anything like that). But one picture caught my attention.
It was a close-up of my husband with his ex, nothing special at all—except the absolute happiness that exuded off him. It stopped my heart for a second. His eyes, his smile, all of it.
He had been with his first wife since he was 15 years old. They were high school sweethearts and had two children together. They were married for 20 years before she told him she was lost. She had met someone else.
I had never seen him look so happy as he had in that picture.
It didn’t make me think he didn’t love me or that he would always love her more, I just wish I had known him like that.
2. Missed Prescription
I had married a sweet young lady from England who had two children from a previous marriage. One rainy weekend, we were snuggled on the sofa while I was reading a book she had on the Kings and Queens of England.
A folded bit of paper fell out onto my lap.
My wife looked at it, a bit puzzled, and said, “Oh, Dr Jones was my doctor when I was pregnant with Kim. He gave me that for morning sickness and I lost it. I must have left it in the book". When I read the prescription, my jaw DROPPED.
The paper was a doctor’s prescription for a drug called Thalidomide. Although its use in the USA had been banned, it was prescribed in Britain for morning sickness.
Thousands of babies born to mothers that had used it lost their lives in their first year, and many had severe deformities.
Our daughter is now a healthy woman because her mother had used a prescription as a bookmark and lost it.
3. Secret Love Letter
My husband took his own life and left me destitute. It is still difficult for me to imagine how anybody, especially somebody who is supposed to love you, can leave you penniless in the world.
Before he passed, he arranged for his pension to be paid to the Humane Society and left me $6,000 of credit card debt.
I sorted out my husband’s clothes and possessions with my brother. I found a lot of new clothes that he had never worn: a really nice suit, a gray, wool jacket, three sweaters and a beautiful pair of shoes that had never been taken out of the box.
Then when I looked in his wallet I found a love letter from an old girlfriend he had known before we met. He had been carrying that love letter around in his wallet throughout our 18-year marriage and I knew nothing about it.
4. A Secret Cash Stash
I knew a 42-year-old man who was a very successful dentist. His wife worked with him at his office. They were both very good-looking and physically fit. They looked like Ken and Barbie. One day, the dentist dropped onto the kitchen floor.
His wife immediately did CPR, but it didn’t help.
She would later be told that he had had a massive heart attack and was probably gone before he hit the floor. At that age, he had not been thinking about the end of his life and had not made any preparations.
He had many secrets that his wife would learn, and she was the defendant in several lawsuits after he passed.
She found $30,000 in cash in their closet. She never found out where it came from or what it was for. A year later, I asked her what she would say to her husband if he were still alive. Her response made my blood run cold. Without hesitating, she said that she would take his life herself.
