secrets

Everyday it seems that we are asked to keep secrets. Secrets at work, secrets with friends and family and secrets with ourselves. Sometimes they are worth keeping and sometimes they just had more fuel to the fire and destroys Take for instance your 16 year old cousin who looks up to you and then asks for the biggest secret of her life to keep.

While visiting family over the summer my 16 year old came to me and ask me one of the toughest secrets to keep from the family. She told me that she wanted to go on birth control and that neither of her parents would support it and that she needed a ride to the clinic. Now I was extremely close with her mom and knew by keeping this secret and helping her it would end all friendships. So aganist my better judgement I help my little cousin and keep the secret.

During the time the secret remained a secret my little cousin had all of the power in the relationship. I felt awful for keeping this secret. I felt helpless and keep waiting for the blow up over the whole situation. and needless to say that when it did come out it ended in a disaster and that this was just one secret that shouldnt have been kept from the start.