Yupp

But what do I do if I don't want my cheating bitch of a wife to know about my hard mined coinage?!?!

Privacy coins are designed specifically to make it harder for trackers to detect who is sending currency across networks. Mixers obscure those doing cryptocurrency trades by combining many users and transactions together. Claiborne said international banking and law enforcement groups have started focusing on regulating and developing counters to these technologies.