Secrets and Lies: Surviving the Truths That Change Our Lives

Secrets and Lies: Surviving the Truths That Change Our Lives
ISBN-10
0307742245
ISBN-13
9780307742247
Series
Secrets and Lies
Category
Self-Help
Pages
198
Language
English
Published
2014-10
Publisher
Anchor Books
Author
Jane Isay

Description

Secrets, large and small, are a fact of human life. This book explores the impact of keeping secrets and the power of truth. Secrets can damage our sense of self and our relationships. Even so, Jane Isay has found, people survive learning the most disturbing facts that have been hidden from them. And secret keepers are relieved when they finally reveal themselves-even the things they are ashamed of-to the people they care about. Much depends, Isay writes, on the way of telling and the way of hearing. Jane Isay was both a secret finder and a secret keeper. After fifteen years of marriage her husband admitted he was gay, but together they decided to keep it a secret for the sake of their two sons. Building on her personal experience, sixty intimate interviews, and extensive research into the psychology of secrets, Isay shows how the pain of secrets can be lightened by full disclosure, genuine apology, and time. Sometimes the truth sunders relationships, but often it saves them. Powered by detailed stories and Isay's compassionate analysis, Secrets and Liesreveals how universal secrets are in families. The big ones-affairs, homosexuality, parentage, suicide, abuse, hidden siblings-can be ruinous at first, but the effects need not last forever, and Isay shows us what makes the difference. With specific guidelines for those who keep secrets and those who find them out, Isay's book reveals the art of surviving a secret.

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