Hi, and welcome to the forum.
I was secretive too and sort of 'let' the other half progressively cotton on. Though he doesn't know the scale of our preps, it's great to no longer feel the need to deceive by being secretive.
There will never be an easier time to 'fess up.
Graceful Degradation! Prepping's objective summed up in two words. Turning Disaster into Mild Inconvenience by the power of fore-thought