In our world, keeping things hush-hush is almost a way of life. But when does the practice get out of hand? Here, the folly and fallouts of keeping family matters strictly confidential.
It’s no secret: Every family’s got secrets.
Whether it’s something major like a medical condition or a minor skeleton in the closet — like the fact that ten-year-old Chavi still sucks her thumb at night — we all have bits of information that we’d like to keep quiet. But for some secret-keeping is more than a simple exercise in privacy; it’s a way of life.
“Everything in my family was a secret” attests Shimon K.* who is now happily raising a family of his own. “Throughout my childhood I found myself constantly lying and patching together stories to cover up for the million of things I was forbidden to disclose.”
The secret-keeping continued even after Shimon became an adult.
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