@Riley014 Is this you---using a different username now? It seems an unlikely coincidence that we would have two recent posts from different users on this particular topic.
https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/i-m-getting-married-and-my-parents-can-t-find-out...
This thread is very old. When the user forum changed from Answer Xchange to Real Money Talk in June 2019, a lot of very old posts migrated over with 2019 dates on them, including this one. You are unlikely to hear any sort of reply from someone who posted here years ago, but maybe they will respond to let you know if they are still happily married, or if trying to keep their marriage a secret led to lots of trouble.
If you can be claimed as a dependent on your parents' tax return, and you say you can be claimed as someone else's dependent on your own married filing separately tax return, then unless your parents actually SEE your tax return, that will not be the way they find out you got married. But they are still likely to find out before you are "ready" for them to know. Be careful....you may cause more trouble for yourself and your GF by trying to keep marriage a secret.
I have clear memories of my freshman year of college when my roommate tried this----it only took a few weeks until her parents discovered the "secret" marriage and oh, what a mess it became.
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