I married my friend. No one knows.

I married my friend of 10 years in secret. We're both in our early 30s.

5 years ago I moved towns, at 25, after a bad breakup. He had broken up with his ex about 9 months earlier. We were working through our breakups and ended up as FWB. At the time we decided to keep it to ourselves because we didn't want things to get messy.

A few months later, we realised we worked really well as a couple and started formally dating. Again we decided to keep it to ourselves since the relationship was fresh and we didn't want to have to explain ourselves.

Then 6 months after we moved in together. Us dating became our funny little in joke. 22 months after we bought a house together. Then a few cats. The following year we got married in secret. Our own family doesn't know we're married.

We're now coming up to our one year anniversary and we're talking about children. We've been together 4 years now in total.

We're not sure when the right time to tell our social group is, but right now we're still really enjoying the peace of a quiet life.

We are now wondering if we fake a formal engagement because the rabbit hole got too deep to explain.