An introduction into my secrets

In the past few weeks I have had a harsh realization....people never tell the whole truth when it comes to matters of the heart. When we become parents, we somehow fail to tell other parents the harsh truths about parenthood. I am not sure if we do this to protect them, or because no one told us and we had to figure it out on our own, so they should have to do the same. Either way, we keep these little indiscretions to ourselves and continue to believe that others view us as perfect families. But it is these little secrets we keep that also isolate us. We convince ourselves that we are the only ones who have issues with our children, spouse, parents, siblings, work, neighbors and thus we should just keep them to ourselves because they are no one else's business. But this blog for me is to put my issues out there in hopes of finding a place where I am not so alone. My intention isn't to gossip, whine or start drama. I really just need a place to express life as I know it...and right now, it isn't so pretty. So, these are the secrets we never share....