Don’t-Tell-the-Wife Secrets All Men Keep

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Don’t-Tell-the-Wife Secrets All Men Keep
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I was in the ninth grade when I learned a vital lesson about love. My girlfriend at the time, Amy, was stunningly cute, frighteningly smart and armed with a seemingly endless supply of form-fitting angora sweaters. And me? Let’s just say I was an adolescent Chris Robinson to her budding Kate Hudson — and well aware of my good fortune. Then one day, as we stood in line for a movie at the mall, Simone Shaw, junior high prom queen, sauntered by. Suddenly Amy turned to me. ‘Were you looking at her?’ she asked. ‘Do you think she’s pretty?’ My mind reeled. Of course I was looking at her! Of course she was pretty! My God, she was Simone Shaw! I paused for a second, then decided to play it straight. ‘Well, yeah,’ I chortled. Five days later our breakup hit the tabloids (a.k.a. the lunchroom). There comes a time in every man’s life when he discovers the value of hiding the grosser parts of his nature. He starts reciting the sweet nothings you long to hear: ‘No, honey, I play golf for the exercise.’ ‘No, honey, I think you’re a great driver.’ ‘No, honey, I wasn’t looking at that coed washing the car in the rain.’ We’re not lying, exactly. We’re just making things…easier. But Glenn Good, Ph.D., a relationship counselor, disagrees, and maybe he has a point. ‘These white lies are pretty innocent, but they can turn confusing,’ he says. ‘Many women think, If he’s lying about himself, is he also lying about something else? Is he having an affair? To establish trust you have to tell the truth about the innocuous stuff.’n And so, in the interest of uniting the sexes, we’ve scoured the country for guys willing to share the private truths they wouldn’t normally confess. Some are a bit crass. Some you’ve always suspected. Some are surprisingly sweet. (Guys don’t like to reveal the mushy stuff, either.) But read on, and you may discover that the truth about men isn’t all that ugly.