"My mum doesn't know who I'm marrying": Secrets, families & the parts of ourselves we keep hidden
Dial Emma
Emma Reed Turrell
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to season two of Dial Emma! Each week, I'll be answering your dilemmas with honesty, empathy, and a few therapeutic truth bombs to help you make sense of life's stickiest moments. If you've ever wished you had a therapist in your back pocket, Dial Emma is here to help.
In this first episode of season two, I'm delving into love, secrets, and the emotional weight of family expectations through two dilemmas. One listener struggles to imagine herself coming out to her family in the lead-up to her wedding; another yearns for her sister's absent acceptance of her same-sex relationship.
I explore the importance of self-alignment and authenticity in relationships, how to navigate the emotional terrain of revealing hidden truths to loved ones, and the impact of hiding parts of ourselves from the people we love.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is sponsored by British Airways and Tobago. |
| 0:05.2 | The British Airways Experience is more than a flight. |
| 0:08.4 | It's about making every single journey as original as you are. |
| 0:14.1 | Hello and welcome to Dial Emma, the podcast where your dilemmas meet my therapeutic insights. |
| 0:20.8 | I'm Emma Reed-Torrell, psychotherapist, Author, and Well-Recovering People Pleaser. |
| 0:25.4 | Each week, I'll be unpacking real-life questions from listeners just like you. |
| 0:30.0 | The big ones, the small ones, the ones that keep you up at night, |
| 0:33.5 | offering practical tools and gentle truths to help you find your way through. |
| 0:38.3 | So if you've got a question, you don't know how to ask out loud. |
| 0:41.8 | You've come to the right place. |
| 0:51.1 | Welcome back to Dial Emma. |
| 0:52.9 | Today we're talking about the parts of ourselves we keep hidden from the people who've known us the longest. |
| 0:58.5 | Whether it's a fear of rejection, the dread of confrontation, or simply not knowing how to start the conversation. |
| 1:06.6 | Family secrets can weigh very heavily. |
| 1:10.7 | In today's dilemmas, one listener is preparing for a wedding |
| 1:14.0 | without her mum knowing the truth about who she's marrying, and another is wrestling with whether |
| 1:19.9 | her sister's silence is prejudice, personal, or something in between. So our first dilemma. |
| 1:30.2 | My mum doesn't know I'm gay, but my wedding is next year. |
| 1:35.7 | Dear Emma, I'm 32 and engaged to the woman I love. |
| 1:41.5 | We've built a life together, a cozy flat, shared friends, Sunday morning routines |
| 1:48.2 | that feel like home. We've been together for four years and I can't picture a future without |
| 1:54.0 | her. The only problem is that my mum doesn't even know she exists. It's not that my mum and I aren't close. |
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