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Did you tell your parent(s) about your diagnosis?
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That is what makes the lie difficult. Our parents love us so deeply that they really suffer, can't do enough to help us, and feel as though they've failed to protect us. Your kids will try to spare you, north, better watch carefully.
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They may, but they've involved me in a lot of difficult stuff in their lives already, so I'm very hopeful that they keep trusting me.
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That was exactly the case with us. When we just married we shared some troubles with our parents and they ended being beside themselves, offering things to help that were impossible to realize and yes, their feeling of "not being able to help" was just unbearable to witness : ( . We ended up comforting them more than they could comfort us and we were worried that one of them would end up with heart attack and one with tremendous anxiety etc. , so from then on we plowed through life without sharing troublesome things. It is painful to witness parent emotionally suffer "because of us".