Jonesy123 Wrote:He just didn't have anything to lose. Probably was married and she couldn't care less.

If you're young and single you have only things to lose if people know.

I'm not suggesting that anyone emulate his Willard's behavior (he was, after all, a clown by profession -- he played Ronald McDonald early in his career), but his self-ease is worth striving toward.

The Willard Scott anecdote exemplifies an extreme. But the other extreme is concealing personal information from your significant other. At some point the act of concealing morphs into an act of deceit where you're denying deeper and more meaningful parts of yourself. Successful intimate relationships are about the process of revealing yourself and the furthering of trust, not living a secret life petrified of being uncovered, as it were.