But more serious secrets - those that are motivated by shame, or that could potentially impact a family member’s wellbeing - can haunt families for years and disrupt healthy familial bonds.īut how can we tell the difference between healthy privacy and harmful secret keeping? And if we do choose to open up about tough subjects, how can we preserve our family relationships - if it’s healthy to preserve them at all? Keeping certain things to ourselves can be a normal and healthy aspect of privacy. ![]() From issues as traumatic as sexual violence, to those as relatively mild (but still potentially contentious) as who we vote for, most of us have secrets we’d rather not share with our families. Even those who pride themselves on openness probably have a secret or two that they’re not willing to share - even with the people they hold most dear. If you’re mentally rifling through all the skeletons in your family closet, you’re definitely not alone.
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