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{{quote|''Wear your broken arm inside your sleeve.''|'''Chinese proverb'''}}
[[Keeping Secrets Sucks]]. We all know that. However, sometimes, the only thing that sucks more is telling those [[Dark Secret|Dark Secrets]]. Not as common as some other [[Stock Aesops]] due to its status as a somewhat [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop|Family Unfriendly one]]. It serves as either a [[Subverted Trope|subversion]] or [[Averted Trope|aversion]] of the common belief that friends don't keep secrets from friends. The idea behind this is that everybody has certain things that they'd really rather not have to say, and it isn't right to force people to say those things just to satiate one's curiosity. Say [[The Atoner]] wants to start over after his [[Dark and Troubled Past]], for example. Or say someone doesn't want anyone to find out about a tragedy that affected them previously and offer [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!|undesired sympathy]]. On the other hand, this usually does come with an exemption for if there's something they're keeping secret that affects you directly.
It can also be used as a handwave in order to keep [[The Masquerade]] going. Basically, a stranger comes to town and ingratiates himself in a group. Usually, this will be a main character. In order to explain why no one in the group is curious about just why this person [[Walking the Earth]] has just wandered into town, this aesop is invoked. Sometimes, this can also be the explanation for an [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]. See also [[There Are No Therapists]].
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* ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]''. ''Everyone'' on the Bebop has issues (except Ein). Everyone knows that all the other people have issues too, but not what caused them. And none of them ever pry because Jet and Spike both believe heavily in this trope, Faye and Ed don't care, and Ein's a dog so it's not like he can just play therapist. The overall arc of the show is seeing how their old deeds come back to haunt them and how this slowly, gradually, makes them open up to each other.
* At the end of ''[[Eden of the East]]'', after Saki successfully finds {{spoiler|Takizawa's mother, who abandoned him when he was five}}, she vanishes without a trace. Saki brushes this off with "I guess she has reasons she can't tell anyone."
* Averted in [[Saiyuki]], surprisingly. At first glance it seems like this would be the case, since all four main characters [[With Friends Like These...|don't always get along]] and all have some extremely fucked up issues they definitely keep from everyday conversation. A couple situations help subvert it though. The first is that Goku HATES people keeping secrets from him, as seen when Gojyo's backstory is revealed (though it is Hakkai that tells that particular tale, Gojyo isn't the type to mind Goku knowing). The other is that the one who's most touchy about his issues, Hakkai, and who [[Stepford Smiler|tends to bottle things up]] had all the others playing active roles in his backstory. In a [[Word of God|profile]] of Hakkai Minekura did states that Hakkai desperately wishes he could employ this trope sometimes.
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* In ''[[The Inheritance Cycle]]'', Murtagh was fully prepared to spend his entire stay with the [[La Résistance|Varden]] in "some rat hole chewing on hardtack" due to his refusal to allow them to read his memories. Although he had confided in Eragon beforehand, he didn't want the knowledge to spread that he was {{spoiler|the son of Morzan, the Rider who helped bring [[Big Bad]] Galbatorix to power.}}
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