The irony of it

I know the feeling. Sometimes you have to make pretty hard decisions. Whether to tell a family member's serious illness to people-my dad's cousin has cancer and she might die really soon. My mom told me how she didn't know whether to tell us or not. And I had a girl at my workplace, who had a kid whom she was bringing up with her 2nd husband... now, the real father of the kid is in prison... I don't know what for, but not innocently, that's a fact. She tells me she doesn't know whether to tell her son or not (the dad wasn't really caring about the kid, so they weren't meeting him, and the guy didn't even wanna see his son), because the kid... well, a kindergarten boy, has dreams like every kindergarten boy... he wants to be a policeman, to put the criminals in prison. She's just so heartbroken. She doesn't know if she should tell him that the dad is in prison and his real dad is a criminal...

Yes, I believe sometimes it is better to take the blunt of it and wait till it all blows over. When you get many people invovled it takes longer for an incident to be forgiven and forgotten. Sometimes though, if it is too painful, a persona can see a therapist for a while to talk about the issue, so that it doesn't well up inside of them too much while they are waiting for things to simmer over.