What do you keep from your parents?

My mum still has no idea that I met OH online even though I'm 22, been living with him for nearly 2 years and we're having our first baby in December.

Nothing.

I did as a teen, but once I became pg at 17, we have had a very open relationship. We talk about everything.

Nothing specific I can think of. Maybe how much money I spend on Starbucks!

A lot of the stuff I got up to after all the issues with my ex and while I was in the grip of severe depression. It would only hurt them to know and its over and done with now.

I also only told them about the abuse I suffered in my marriage two years ago. My marriage ended over 10 years ago but I hadn't told anyone until then except a counsellor.

We are usually very open but mum doesn't handle my depression well and so I try and keep that from her as much as possible. I think I just don't want her to feel worried about me!!!

I keep stuff from my mum when she can't do anything practical to help. She is such a worrier and as we are so far away it is often easier for all concerned just not to tell her stuff, rather than to tell her and have to deal with her long distance anxieties as well as the issue itself.

On the whole we have a much better and more open relationship now, than when I was living closer but in some cases I work on the theory of 'what the eye doesn't see.....'

Oh, and I NEVER tell her my weight!

I tell my Mum literally everything, I don't keep a single thing from her.

However, OH doesn't speak to his parents like I speak to my Mum. They just don't have that sort of relationship and he keeps loads of stuff from them. He didn't even want to tell them we bought a PS4 as he thought they would moan at him for wasting his money.

Pretty much everything tbh, I don't like to worry them and I like to keep my stuff private.

Hence why I just dump everything on my lovely Otters when it all gets a bit too much, I know you lot can handle it.

I talk about most things to my Mum and we're very close.

Only things I don't discuss are if my healths not great, I don't like her to worry about me so if I was going into hospital etc I'd keep it hidden if possible.

My mum knows nothing about me. She can't really hold a conversation anymore so I guess by default I keep everything from her.

When I was younger it was stuff I knew I would be in trouble for - smoking (once!), tattoos, piercings. Then when I got older I wanted to keep some stuff private ie not introducing boyfriends until I was sure they were a keeper (not many). Now I'm at an age where I worry about her health (she suffers from ulcers and is 70 - the same age my grandma was when she died suddenly in her sleep) so don't tell her stuff I know she would worry about. Last year when I got made redundant I didn't tell her until six weeks after I had left and had a few job opportunities as I didn't want her worrying. s'funny that I nag her more now more than she nags me - generally about her diet as most of her health issues stem from what she eats and being overweight.

OH tells his mum what she needs to know and not much else. He is quite a private person and she tends to turn things into dramas that are regaled with added embellishments to the rest of the family.

My parents have no idea of the extent of abuse I got from my ex husband. If they knew the full story they would probably kill him.

My mum doesn't know I have a credit card.

Smoking, from my dad. Every time I saw him he'd say "You stink of fags" I'd simply reply "No I don't" ... it was like denying that there was an elephant in the room. I don't stink of fags any more and there is no elephant. Phew. Got away with that one.

I was reminded this weekend that when my sister moved in with her boyfriend after knowing him a month just after leaving uni she told my mum they were 'just flatmates'....in a one bedroom flat. She believed them more because I think she wanted to than because it seemed feasible.

As someone with teenage stepkids it is quite funny being on the other side of it as I'm sure sometimes the kids think we are daft. I try and calm OH down so he doesn't react to everything by reminding him they are much more honest than we were with our parents when younger. My SD told her Dad that a guy he didn't like was just a friend but the next day changed her relationship status on facebook to 'in a relationship with' the guy. She forgot she is friends with her Dad on facebook. Doh! The scarier thing is that he could find out so much about this young lad than our parents would ever have known about our boyfriends. Pictures of him smoking weed, bragging about doing things to hos' etc. So much of it just teen ego bragging and prob not all true but it meant her Dad ruled him off before ever meeting him.

Oh yeah, I guess my mum doesn't know that my former flatmate and I were 'friends with benefits'. But I don't talk to her about sex stuff full stop!

I'm currently hiding the fact that we might be moving house from my parents because I can't face the lecture from my mother about moving house in the same year as getting married. ?

My parents still don't know about the tattoo I got when I was 17. They also don't know quite how much I drink!

Ha, mr ddpunk's mum didn't know we were living together until long after we were engaged! He's a good catholic boy just as well there's a sea between us!

i talk to mum about most things but sex is definitely off the agenda!!