My brother's wife cheated and he confided in me, but now at family gatherings I can barely look at her and my parents keep asking why I'm being cold, and I don't know if I'm protecting my brother's privacy or enabling everyone to pretend our family dynamic hasn't completely changed.
More people experience this than they realize.
Holding someone else's betrayal creates a secondary betrayal of the family system, where the secret-keeper becomes complicit in a collective fiction.
“Where Are You with Infidelity — all perspectives?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.