Everyone has had one, you may have one now, sitting there in the back of your mind, or on the tip of your tongue, waiting to go out. Secrets are all around us. How does carrying secrets affect people and their relationships with others? There can be both negative and positive results. Choosing secrets for the subject of my research, -being an obvious theme in the readings- seemed both interesting and easy to gather information. Secrets are common experiences, so there are different opinions on this topic and they affect some people in different ways than others. So, there is surely a lot of information available, but what I come up with are the feelings and problems that secrets can bring into a relationship or into a person's life, using the information gathered in the books, real life experiences and research to prove. points on my theme. As shown in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and Mindi Scott's Freefall, secrets can have a negative effect on relationships between people, but once revealed, one feels a sense of relief about it. The bearer of a secret faces many obstacles. to feel inner peace. When someone keeps a secret they also keep themselves from peace, keeping things bottled up inside usually makes people unhappy. It can be mentally exhausting to have to repeatedly think about that thing that's haunting your mind. There is evidence of this in my reading and research but the example used is from the play A Doll's House. When Nora -the main character and Torvald's wife- and Krogstad -Torvald's employee- talk about her secret, he tells her that she should not think about abandoning the children or harming herself. When she asks how he could know what she feels, he explains that... middle of paper ...... ung-adults Ibsen, Henrik. “A doll’s house.” World Literature: An Anthology of Great Short Stories, Poetry, and Drama. Ed. Donna Rosenberg. New York: The McGraw-Hill Companies, inc, 2004.142-202, Print. Isay, Jane. The secret that became my life, Psychology Today 2011. web. April 2. 2014 http://www.pshychologytoday.com/articles/201312/the-secret-became-my-life Lickerman, Alex. The danger of keeping secrets. Psychology Today 2012. Web. April 16, 2014. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/happiness-in-world/201209/the-danger-keeping-secrets Scott, Mindi. Free fall. New York: Simon Pulse. 2010. printSlepian, Michael, EJ Masicampo, Negin Toosi, Nalini Ambady. The Physical Burdens of Secrecy, American Psychological Association. 2012. Internet. April 16, 2014. http://ambadylab.stanford.edu/pubs/Slepian-Masicampo-Toosi-Ambady_Physical-Burdens-of-Secrecy_in-press_JEPG.pdf