Sometimes the secret that frightens us most turns out to be nothing like the story we imagined. But that does not mean our fear is meaningless, or that the people who love us have the right to leave us guessing.
Love needs patience. It needs compassion. And it needs honesty.
Because the greatest threat to a family is not always the terrible thing we fear is happening behind closed doors.
Sometimes, it is the silence that grows when the people inside those doors stop trusting one another with the truth.
