People Reveal Their Partner's Craziest Secret Possessions

When my husband passed I found a garage door opener in his car. We don’t use one and neither did his work parking. I have no idea what garage it opens

| * bigredroyaloak*

A notebook full of beautiful sketches of trees, rivers, landscapes, animals, and people. He didn't tell me he was an artist, so I was a bit shocked to find out that he was so talented.

| toastthematrixyoda

He’s hiding the Christmas gifts his parents sent us, even separate ones sent to each of us, and pretending they got us nothing. Not sure what that’s about.

| HamBroth

A rubber crab. My wife is freaked out by crabs. Her mom has been hiding it in her stuff for years to scare her and has become a game between them of hiding it somewhere the other person will eventually find it.

Occasionally I’ll be looking for something and stumble across it in a new place. The first time I found it was in the dog treats 2 years into our marriage and was very confused because she had not informed me of their game yet.

| pyroagg

My late wife’s wedding ring.

It was a beautiful ring, and she was despondent for losing it. It meant so much to her. She tried to backtrack her steps, which is how we ended up dismantling the kitchen sink. Finally, I declared it gone and got her a new ring. It was nice and had a more valuable stone. But she loved her first ring and missed it terribly.

A few years later she died.

A few weeks after her death I realized that our big king-sized bed was making me depressed, so I got a queen-sized bed and got rid of the king.

It was a big and heavy bed that we never moved. So when I took it apart, I found her engagement/wedding set lodged between the bed leg and the wall.

She had put it on the side table and knocked it off without realizing it.

That was about 13 years ago now. The ring, and her box of ashes, sit on a shelf in my home office. I’ve remarried. My wife and I just celebrated our tenth anniversary. My late wife and I were married for 21 years.

| calladus

A pickled baby that was supposedly his "4x great uncle" that was stillborn when his family was involved in a scientific field. It's in his basement and I refuse to go anywhere near it.

Some context is in order: His family preserved it in the hopes of one day finding a way to bring him back to life by some miracle. They managed to get away with it through some loophole that allowed them to list a formaldehyde container as a form of burial and so he's been that way for supposedly over 100 years.

| G4rg0yle_Art1st

His fake teeth. Had been together a year and lived together for 2 months. He hadn’t told me and was embarrassed but didn’t change the way I felt about him at all. Just had to reassure him that it isn’t embarrassing

| junojack

A list of reasons why she should leave me and why the guy she was cheating with was better than me.

| Brilliant_Succotash1

Six credit cards in my name I didn't apply for. A new accountant pulled a Columbo and busted the soon-to-be ex after discovering 60k in hidden CC debt.

Cut up all the cards in her wallet right there in her office and handed me the biz card of an attorney-client she recommended. "You'll be glad you did" was all she said as I got up to leave. She's still my accountant after 23 years.

| jackrafter88

Rare Gameboy games.

When we moved in together she knew I was bringing my workshop (console repair) to the basement and said she has some games in a box around there somewhere.

She had nearly a thousand dollars worth of Gameboy games, a PS2, and a Wii collection, among other stuff. She admitted that she never knew you could sell your games back to the stores, so when she finished playing them they went to the basement.

| ThatBankTeller

There was an old report that he had written in probably the third or fourth grade which would’ve been the early ’90s. It was about stallions (because of Bill and Ted I’m assuming) and on the first page it said “Wild stallions' natural enemies are wolves and semi-trucks.”

Oh, that poor man, the kids loved the entire report and they still haven’t let him live that one down. He’s lived on a farm his entire life and knew nothing about horses.

| awkwardlyherdingcats

A short note I had written to her on our 3rd date.

I was waiting in her car for her to come out of work so I wrote a short note about how much fun I am having dating her and how gorgeous she always looks. It was late in the evening so I stuck it in her sunglasses case for her to find at a later time that week.

Okay, this was from 15 years ago. Damn, I was romantic.

| CarlJustCarl

My ex-husband had tubes of fake blood, I thought it was weird I found them stuffed in the closet, I didn't say anything because it was not far off from Halloween.

Our marriage was over and I caught him cheating. I decided to leave. I went back to get some belongings and he staged an accident with the fake blood on the kitchen floor (he was a nut job) to make me feel bad for leaving. He waited until I showed up and had an open bottle of Tylenol and fake blood all over his body as if he ended his life.

I banged on the window and told him to get up and stop playing stupid games. Just like a miracle by God, he started twitching and life came back to him.

He crawls to open the door, mumbling he needs to go to the hospital, I step over him and get my stuff. I found the tubes of blood thrown in the bathroom trash can and threw them at him on the way out.

| ChineseChaiTea

A small plush lion keychain.

When I first started dating my husband, 8 years ago, I gave him a lion keychain that I had as a “stay safe” present while he went out to sea on the naval ship.

This was my first time experiencing him going out to sea, so I was worried and the present gave me a bit of solace while he was away. Furthermore, he explained to me that the lion reminded him of me because of my wild hair.

Not that long ago, he was cleaning his backpack out from work on the kitchen table, and to my surprise, I saw the lion keychain with the rest of his stuff. I told him how shocked I was that he still had that lion and to which he just replied “I mean, yeah?”

He then explained to me that the lion keychain has been in his work backpack all this time and he has taken it on deployments/underways too.

So that is the most shocking thing I found in my spouse’s possession…a small lion plush keychain that I gave my husband 8 years ago as a “stay safe” present.

| Blossom_Peach93

A collection of dolls. Like hundreds of them, all types, most made of cloth/stuffing, some plastic, some glass, some beanie baby style, but all "human", no fantasy or animals allowed.

She had been collecting them as a child and kept them going. So when we visit a new city or country, she will get a doll or something that is from that area.

We dated for like 4 years before we got married and I didn't know she had this many. Her apartment just had a room that she called the doll room and I never really questioned it. Now I have a room I call the collection room so I don't have to explain to people why I have hundreds of dolls and that my lovely wife is not creepy despite having tiny figurines.

So I didn't feel as weird springing my massive comic book and Star Trek collection on her.

| tsaico

When my ex and I lived together I found a box with a single set of dishes under his side of the bed. When I asked him about it, he said he was keeping them just in case he decided to break up with me so that he could leave at the drop of a hat at any given moment. I remember the conversation, he seemed so nonchalant about it all. Turned out to be a total sociopath.

| Room_temp_butter

His ex-wife's wedding gown. He had used it for a Halloween party and then stashed it away in the attic.

| HobbitonHo

My Ex-boyfriend had a tin full of his toenail clippings that he for some reason saved. There. I said it. I might hurl again

| Otherwise_Pace3031

Probably the 3-year dead rat in half a jar of mayonnaise.

Yeah, the 3-year dead rat in half a jar of mayonnaise.

| JackieTrans

He would go in the closet randomly for like 10-15 minutes at the most random times and I’d hear him open and shut a drawer. He left for work one day and I opened the drawer expecting to see [something crazy.] Nope! Audubon Society reference books for insects and arachnids.

He was looking up bugs he’d seen throughout the day. My heart almost exploded. It was the cutest thing. He had never mentioned it and didn’t fit for a while until one day he ran in and said he got bit by a weird spider and told me to get the book out of his drawer. It’d been so long that I forgot about the book.

I got it and it was just a run-of-the-mill spider. Then he showed me all his Audubon Society books. So now he’ll get his books out and look at all the bugs he saw while he’s in the living room. It’s his and my daughter's bonding time.

| Anonymous

A notebook with a partially finished letter describing in detail how she cheated on me and how she wasn't happy in the relationship. I called her at work and asked about it and she confirmed it was true.

I was packed and gone before she got home. Moved 3 hours away with my best friend and had a great time since then.

| Good-of-Rome

On the day I kicked him out I was removing his things when I found hidden bottles of urine in the back of the closet.

Naturally horrified I started checking and sure enough I found even more behind the couch, the curtains, the radiator, there was urine hidden in bleach bottles and under the sinks in the back of the cabinet.

I found one in the freezer and since I was throwing out my entire fridge retching I'm gonna assume there too. No idea why to this day. None zero. No hints,absolutely nothing.

| SomeLadySomewherElse

[A boyfriend]I had a couple of years back had hired a private investigator to follow me around and take photos of me going in and out of buildings, talking to family, at a Starbucks, at the gym. I found all of these photos in his suitcase when I went inside to borrow a legal pad.

I don’t think I’ve ever felt that brand of violation ever in my life. It was like everything I knew about him just got twisted.

I waited a day, then I confronted him about it, then the rest of it came up, more secrets. An Ex-Wife I didn’t know about, and a daughter, who plans to ask me to transfer colleges abroad to some college I didn’t know.

We’d only been dating for 4 months but it still made me feel like I fell into a nest of spiders thinking it was an open field. I left him very shortly after, mostly because I just felt like nothing about him was real anymore. I didn’t want to know more. I felt at the time that the less I knew about him, the safer I’d be.

| Clavicula_Impetus

A creeper van.

When we first started dating there was always an unmarked white van parked somewhere around his apartment. As a woman who values her safety, I stayed well clear of it.

Come to find out 3-4 months in that it's his, which he used to drive his stuff across the country when he moved here. He didn't drive it but kept having to move it because he kept getting chalk lines on his tires by the local traffic cops because someone kept reporting it for not moving, despite the fact he had nowhere besides the street to store it.

He didn't want to tell me about it because he thought it would make him look creepy. He only told me when I eventually let slip I thought it was sketchy.

He ended up selling it to buy my engagement ring.

| puff_pastry_1307

Ex-wife —found her burner phone. I’d been paying for the cell service and at that time you’d get a printout every month in the mail of phone calls etc (which is another story), on this cell phone was a bunch of dudes she was talking to behind my back, also videos of the guys… I wanted to puke.

| Z-man1973

My fiance and I broke up after months of her being emotionally and verbally abusive, promising to change but never changing and getting worse.

When she moved out, I went through her books to donate them. There was a piece of paper inside one, used as a bookmark, and it had a list that she made before we got together of qualities and traits that she was looking for in a partner.

Almost all of it described me. Even the part that said something like, "When we disagree with an opinion, he stands up for what he wants.”

It's so interesting how people think they know what they're after, but when they get it, they don't want it.

| Anonymous

Not my husband but an ex of mine I shared an apartment with briefly.

He had this old briefcase he put in the back of the closet. It was locked and it just irked me. I wondered what he could be hiding. My imagination ran wild.

One day I was on the phone with my bff while my bf was at work and he was like “You have GOT to pop it open! Get a screwdriver!” So I did. I popped that thing right open and found multiple notebooks filled with handwriting.

Oh my God, are these journals? A diary? Private thoughts? Should I not be reading this? I was about to just put it back but my curiosity got the best of me and I opened a page just to see what the writings were before I closed Pandora’s box forever.

What I found shocked me.

It was hundreds of pages in multiple notebooks with brief synopsis of every single episode of Seinfeld that ever aired. With the episode numbers. In chronological order.

| eyesonthemoons