True, I actually find it beneficial when the law enforcement / CRA are able to trace the payments. It keeps us safe and honest. They don't have time or motive to check them, unless for investigating serious crimes.It is a little worrying when someone goes so far as not wanting to send Bitcoin. Your S/O shouldn't be able to trace that. Also deposits make me feel safe knowing that this person doesn't intend to hurt me because of the paper trail.
I was replying to VM's suggestion that Bitcoin is completely discrete. There is a danger of the false sense of security here. I remember some men committed suicides after Ashley Madison customer data was leaked. However small the risks are, I believe in disclosing them, so the people can make their informed choices.
In practice, the biggest Bitcoin risk so far was from hackers/insiders on an exchange. Other than theft, it can expose the customer names / payment history to the world, but not who recipients were - unless on the same exchange. But if SPs are not careful to begin with, they may have published their Bitcoin addresses and let trace the payment from the leaked customer name to SP's ad. The exposure would be to the whole world, not just the law enforcement or S/O. Small risk, high impact.
My earlier post on why I dislike (not reject) Bitcoin:
Not that anonymous, high commissions, transactions slow sometimes, unstable exchange rate, taxable capital gains and losses that are a major pain to calculate correctly (and CRA will try to enforce), chances to lose your crypto if an exchange gets hacked or your digital wallet gets corrupted or the anonymous crypto developers decide so.
Too many annoyances for it to be a preferred method of payment, I think. But ok to use as an option if nothing else works.