Every family has their issues, right? Not all of us are comfortable sharing the mixed-up details of our family secrets. Research shows that family secrets are complicated. And there’s no hard-fast rule on revealing this kind of truth — mostly because it’s made up of different people’s different truths. Sound complex? That’s because it is. Family secrets are layered and built out of different perspectives and different value systems. Revealing the secret could become messy, if you can’t explain the situation properly or don’t have a viewpoint that your partner can understand or relate to.