Dare to share: how revealing your secrets to others can improve your life
by Michael Slepian from on (#608XA)
It will deepen your connection to your confidante and may improve your situation
If you've ever kept a secret from a friend, a family member, or a romantic partner (and you have), then the chances are good that these same people have kept secrets from you. Not all of them, and not at every moment, but some of them some of the time.
I can tell you with a fair degree of certainty that your loved ones' secrets are about ambitions, beliefs, habits, deceptions, desires, discontents and violations of trust. In my research, I've asked more than 50,000 people about their secrets, and these are the themes that we often see. What I can also tell you is that as isolating as it can feel to have secrets, we are hardly alone in the ones that we keep.
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