Key points People keep a wide spectrum of secrets from their partners. 96.7% of families keep secrets from outsiders, 99.1% of people keep intra-family secrets, and 95.8% of people keep whole-family ...

It turns out your brain has a very good reason for spilling the beans.

But it’s not always the secrets themselves that get us into trouble. It’s our feelings about those secrets that can darken and deepen over time. Those feelings can be grief, fear, shame, anger, ...