My family are far from perfect. There are monumental secrets being kept by different members of my family. Some that are terrible and some that are pointless.
Being asked to keep a secret to hold the family together is the most degrading thing a parent can do to their child. Forcing them to see the person that abused them and excusing it as ‘it was ages ago.’
Something my Dad realised when speaking with Hannah is just how scheming my own mother could have been. Why didn’t she go to the police after I was raped at 15? Maybe it’s because she was scared I’d blab to them if they asked if anything similar had happened before.
