Secrets! We all have some things that we don't share with just anybody. Secrets that we want to keep to ourselves. Hidden in the closet, or should we say skeletons in the closet that we don't want anybody to know about.

I was watching the first episode of the new season of "Desperate Housewives" recently on television. The story revolved around how these friends were keeping secrets from one another. It then struck me that aren't we all leading similar lives? Don't we all have some secrets that we keep from those who are closest to us?

I often wondered if it was wise to "tell all" to your spouse either before marriage or just after marriage. There is a tendency for some people to think that they need to divulge all their "secrets" to their spouse so that they do not find out about it at a later time and create complications. So, start a relationship with honesty and a clean slate. OK, so now you have shared all those "nitty gritty" details like past relationships, boyfriends, girlfriends, and anything else you want to tell, and what happens?

Does it really help, in the long run? Sometimes, I think secrets are best left as secrets. Why the need to know what happened to you before you even met this new person in your life? And then there are some people who have secrets even while being in a relationship. Should they be keeping secrets from one another?

Aren't relationships formed out of trust and faith and honesty? So, if you are going to be honest in a relationship then why the need to keep secrets? Doesn't that amount to cheating?

But, again, sometimes I think, maybe its good to have secrets. Why not. Nobody has said that you need to bare your soul to anybody. Its your soul. Bare it only if you want to. If you think it will do you any good.

We all have secrets. Silly, and or shocking secrets. I say, Let secrets lie buried. Unless somebody digs them out!

What do you say?