COLIN LAMB wrote:
"The little lies you tell will build up to a crushing point, and one day you
will discover how wrong you were."

Well, actually, I have been happily married for almost 30 years. I am
faithful to her and she knows it. I am a collector and she is not. I fly
and she is frightened of flying is small aircraft. She golfs and I do not.
She tolerates my radio junk. She does not like it and thinks I have more
than I need, but she tolerates it because she loves me. She spends money on
some things she likes and I could care less and do not even know what it is
for. I have a separate building full of my junk and she has no problem
with that - she just does not like it when it starts accumulating in the
house.

So, the only problem is the things she knows about. One of the bedrooms is
my Search and Rescue room, where I have everything I need all over the
place, where I can quickly grab and go. She knows about it and does not
like it and considers it clutter. But, she tolerates it because she loves
me. She would much prefer that I move it somewhere else. Many of her
friend's husbands are neatniks - but they are also boring. In the end, she
prefers me to someone like them.

And, she does not want to know how much I spend on radio junk or flying.

Colin K7FM

Explained that way, your relation ship seems to be a good one.

It isn't dishonest to withold information from someone that wants
to be left out of the loop.

But, that isn't what I was clucking about. The stories that went prior
to yours about how to train your wife by lying to her about repairs
on friend's stuff, or sneaking it into the house, are the ones that
are trouble waiting to happen. We are mostly all adults here, we should
act like adults.

-Chuck