I would be too embarrassed to let anyone I know IRL that I frequent this website. The faggoty color scheme alone keeps me continuously looking behind me when other people are in the room. I am paranoid and insecure like that.
My boyfriend has no clue I post here. I'll click away from the page.when he walks behind me if I'm on a particularly weird thread or on the new post page because it's usually just sex threads. We're not prudish or anything but I think he would assume this was a weird sex site judging from the new posts page and wonder what the hell I was getting into.
If I had my way, I would have gotten rid of the sex forums a long time ago. They have only made this site a magnet for perverted weirdos and spammers.
Yeah I think that's why my boyfriend thinks this is a weird site, too. He's fairly religious (I'm not) and I think has scanned through some of the sex threads and came to the conclusion this is not a healthy place for me to be.
I think she said something along the lines of "you leave me out of your posts with all your perverted friends"
I get emails from this place all the time and my wife just says, "You have more emails." She never looks at them so she has no idea what's on the site. But she knows I've been on it almost everyday since way back when. Every now and then she asks what all the typing is about and I just tell her I'm argueing with someone about gun control or something then she says, "Isn't that dangerous?" and I say "Nah, nobody pays any attention to me anyway." And then she sez, "I understand." But I don't pay any attention to her either, so it all works out.
No problem. He thinks it's fun and I tell him stuff about the posts all the time. We even had someone I met here come and live with us for a month.
She knows and doesn't care. I've been participating in forums for over a decade and run my own. We're old farts who've been around the block a time or three. We can't be bothered having secrets from each other. At our age, it's too hard to remember fibs and alibis anyway.
My ex didn't want to know anything about it. She had a forum that she's been posting at for as long as I have been here. We had an agreement not to visit each others forums. The ex before that claimed to love it here, she signed up herself but didn't last long.
I am currently an unencumbered bachelor, however.. I have NEVER told any of my girlfriends about this site. And most of them were cool as shit who would've loved this place. I just keep it separate I guess. Probably one of the reasons why I go through girlfriends like boxers and socks.