Jenée Desmond-Harris: I admire this letter writer for trying to do the right thing here, because I wouldn’t even think about ...

Whether it’s a secret crush, an illicit affair, or a murder, most people keep secrets, but most people are bad at it. Effective, to-the-grave style secret-keeping is a skill like anything else ...

Keeping a positive secret, he said, “is like turning the dial up to 11 on that process.” Catherine Pearson is a reporter for the Well section of The Times, covering families and relationships.

For one, keeping a secret room from the rest of your family would take a lot of work. There’d have to be a long vacation during the construction, and at the last second you’d have to stay ...