SECRET REGRET OF THE DAY: June 5, 2012

I wish I had been brave enough to tell Jason that I loved him in 1993. Instead he left, and didn't say good-bye and I ended up with my husband because when Jason left, it hurt so badly I just wanted to be with someone who loved me more than I cared for them, so I wouldn't ever hurt that badly again. I wish I was brave enough to call Jason now, because I never stopped loving him. I wish I wasn't such a coward.

SECRET REGRET OF THE DAY: June 4, 2012

I regret that I am alone...no spouse, girlfriend, dates and no friends. I regret whatever and everthing that got me to this state...alone and no one to talk to evenings, weekends, vacations. I could die on a Friday night and no one would notice until Monday morning (eventually) that I wasn't there. If you have someone to care for, be grateful. Better than having no one.

M/57

SECRET REGRET OF THE DAY: June 3, 2012

I regret not telling him that I love him. He was so sure when he said it to me the first time. I closed the car door and walked away. The second time he said it was the last time I saw him in person, and again I walked away. We're not even together anymore, but he'll be deployed soon. And I have to decide what I'll regret more. Telling the man that I love, that I love him, or saying nothing, and let him move on with his life.

FINAL ROUND: Vote Now!

Vote for your favorite new book cover design for the upcoming "Secret Regrets Volume 2: Moving Past Your Past" -- select your choice by using the poll at the right, or by entering #1 or #2 in the comments section here. Thanks for helping us out!

SECRET REGRET OF THE DAY: June 2, 2012

I regret giving you my heart and love, finally opening up to a woman and having it backfire. Seeing how sad you are as a person breaks my heart everyday and wishing I could have shown you how good family and friends would have made that empty part in your heart filled. I'm sorry your Dad treated you so poorly, you will always be scarred from it. I don't regret it teaching me never to take someone else's love and admiration for granted again. So Thank You, I hope you find what you are looking for someday. By the time you do I will be gone and in love with another woman. You were my first true love.
John 31

SECRET REGRET OF THE DAY: June 1, 2012

I waited until 40 to have a child. I regret not starting earlier and enjoying the beauty of a household filled with children.

SECRET REGRET OF THE DAY: May 31, 2012

I regret having an abortion when i was 16, yes I was young but now that im older and trying to start a family with the same person and cant easily concieve, it is tearing me apart emotionally. Somewhere deep down I feel as if im geting punished for my choices when I was younger. I feel as if its my fault even though he supported our descision yrs ago im blaming myself now. I wish I didnt feel this guilt and that I would have openly told my family when I was younger rather than keep it a secret until a few yrs ago.. Especially to know that my family would have supported me completly if I made the choice to keep my baby, but I was young and didnt wana disapoint them. I wish I would have thought it out more befor making a descision I would end up regreting for the rest of my life. Im sorry

SECRET REGRET OF THE DAY: May 30, 2012

I regret not taking things more seriously. I regret not being there for you when you needed me the most. I regret letting petty things get between our friendship. I regret not reporting the douchebag before he took your life. I regret not telling you I loved you when we were talking, just 30 minutes before your life was taken away. I regret that it took losing my best friend to realize how short life can be and how to not take relationships with people for granted. I love you! I will never make this regret again. EVER!

SECRET REGRET OF THE DAY: May 29, 2012

I wish I wouldn't have said I was just looking for fun. I regret not giving you my number. I hope to run into you again someday tater tot.

SECRET REGRET OF THE DAY: May 28, 2012

I regret not protecting you. This might sound silly, crazy even but to me you were NOT just a dog. You were NOT just a pet. You were a friend, a companion, and someone I depended on a lot during my childhood.

I'm sorry, Andy. Please forgive me.

Female/17

SECRET REGRET OF THE DAY: May 27, 2012

My family has known your family for three years now. I have always thought you were cute but it was simply friendship. Your wife & I became friends because we both are mothers and have children that are the same age. But somehow, this year everything changed. You have been having issues with your wife for a while and I have been having my own issues with my husband. We began talking more frequently and soon discovered how much we have in common and began flirting with each other on almost a daily basis. The more we talked, the more sexual the messages became. We have even sent pictures of our privates to each other. And although we have never had sex, I know that this is still cheating. Now, I regret ever getting in this position. Sure, I love the attention and the way you make me feel but I highly doubt that you and I would ever work because our families are friends with each other. I regret feeling the way I do for you. I never thought these feelings would make me want you as much as I do. I regret keeping secrets from our spouses just so we can keep texting, calling and occasionally seeing each other without our families around. I know how badly this could end if they ever found out.

And although I'd never admit it to you or anyone else, I regret ever falling in love with you.

29/F

SECRET REGRET OF THE DAY: May 26, 2012

I still regret getting scammed by you and not realizing it until it was too late. I regret maxing my credit card to send you the money you asked for promising me every day that you would pay me back. It is 4 months later and I now realizing the repayment will not happen and have to deal with a payment I can not really afford. I have to pay my credit card instead of health insurance. I am hoping every day that nothing goes more wrong in my life. I wish I would not have fallen for your lies so quickly. You knew that as a long-time widow, I would fall for your lies. You said repeatedly, do you think I could lie to you? Now I know, yes you can lie to me. Everything you said seems to have come out of the scammer's handbook. Oh do I wish I would have told you no from the beginning.

SECRET REGRET OF THE DAY: May 25, 2012

I regret leaving my daughter with her father in the best year of her life for another man who turned me into a crackhead and drained my bank account. Thank goodness I woke up, kicked him out, and got help for my addiction. I am 5 years clean and have my daughter back in my life again.

SECRET REGRET OF THE DAY: May 24, 2012

I regret continuing our relationship. Long distance doesn't work for me and it never has, and I regret not being honest with you about that. I want to end our relationship but I'm waiting for a good reason. I regret that I'm too scared to be without you and I'm waiting for another boy to take your place so I don't feel so lonely. I miss you and I really do love you but I can't continue this. I'm sorry for hurting you.
F/17

SECRET REGRET OF THE DAY: May 23, 2012

The last 11 years of my life have been very very challenging. I was involved in what I thought was a great relationship until he starting hitting to keep things in order (meaning me). He emotionally & physically abused me. I've had my nose hit til it bled. I've been body slammed until I cant breathe. I've been pistol whipped.

And the, I was shot in the neck and am now paralyzed.

I survived with my life, but I'll never be able to walk again.

So if there's one thing I can do, it is to use my experience to save someone else.  That's what I'm here for, especially my beautiful daughters.

I REGRET NOT BEING STRONG ENOUGH TO LEAVE THE FIRST TIME!

SECRET REGRET OF THE DAY: May 22, 2012

9 months I've been away from him. 9 months and not a day goes by hat I don't think about him or say something about him. I feel I gave up too soon and too early. He didn't hurt me "that bad" I overreacted. Sure he left a mark on my eye and I called the cops. But there are people who get hurt worse than this. Why do I feel like I let him down by leaving him and feel like I wont find anyone better. Obviously I can do better because I'm hoping not everyone is like him. But then I hear about people who stay with guys like him for years and I think I should have stayed because it wasn't a big deal. I forgive and justify everything he did like it was my fault. I have been told over and over I did the right thing by leaving but why does it feel wrong? Why do I feel like its STILL him I need. Why is doing the right thing feeling so wrong? Why do I still have to hurt and miss and think and want HIM, an abuser liar cheater manipulator, back? Everyday I think of all the things he did wrong and then I think of others in situations like that and see they got hurt worse than me. He assaulted me 4 times and only the last one left a mark. I constantly want HIM back and I don't feel like I will ever find anybody else, I even thought one time when he hit me that "I deserved that" it makes me sick knowing he doesn't care and yet I'm still here 9 months later alone with no one to make me forget him.

NOTE FROM BLOG ADMINISTRATOR: Please come back and read tomorrow's Secret Regret of the Day to see what can happen when you do stay in an abusive relationship...

SECRET REGRET OF THE DAY: May 21, 2012

I regret aborting his baby girl. We were so young and in love, but too scared to go through with the pregnancy. We didn't think we were ready.

We promised each other that if we made it through all of this, some day we'd settle down and make a family of our own. What he wanted most from life was to be a good dad someday, to leave a legacy and give his child the love his dad never gave him.

Not even a year later, he died in a car accident.

I wish I had her, that he would have been able to meet her, and maybe things would have been different and he wouldn't have died.

I'm so sorry. You would have been a great dad.

F/20

SECRET REGRET OF THE DAY: May 20, 2012

I regret that I can't save us, can't save our relationship. That after two and a half years you're ready to let go of everything we had. I don't want to give up, I want to keep trying, to prove to you that you love me, but I know I can't. I know you don't feel the same. You should have never promised me the world, the moon, that you'd love me to the end of the universe and back. We may be young, but those were stronger than you or I could ever be.

F/19

"It's a thoughtful read, and I encourage it." -- Dr. Phil

Dr. Phil recently dedicated an entire episode to the Secret Regrets book (click HERE for a show summary)!

Order your copy of the Secret Regrets book today on Amazon, Kindle, or Nook. 

Here's what Dr. Phil had to say about the Secret Regrets book:
 
"I'm glad to see it says 'Volume 1’ because I'm hoping there's going to be a Volume 2 and 3. These are real stories from real people, and there's some thought-provoking information in here. It's a thoughtful read, and I encourage it.” 

-Dr. Phil McGraw

ON SALE NOW!
Be sure to order the Secret Regrets book at Amazon while it's still on sale (CLICK HERE).

Or you can download the Secret Regrets ebook on you Kindle, Nook or iPad.

SECRET REGRET OF THE DAY: May 19, 2012

I regret having to post my regrets on here instead of being able to say them out loud.
I regret that I never told anyone about my stepbrother sexually abusing me, I regret that I have let it haunt me for 10 plus years and that I am letting him control my life even though he doesnt know.

I hate myself more and more every day for letting it happen, I am on antidepressents and cut myself but nothing numbs the pain.

If I told my mom she would break down and cry and I dont want to place any more stress on my mom then what she already has.

I regret that I cant handle this situation without a presecription pill.