zulaika wrote:
If the secret involves the wife and her lack of children...or lack of girls, or any other nonsense that threaten her relationship with her husband, trust me she will find out one way or another

so best for the husband to come clean on these types of close quarter family charter.
Zulaika, are the family members - who are thorn in that family's business - women? If there is an older sister who wants to settle score with her brother's wife, oops, my goodness, she can be a thorn in that family's affairs. Especially, if the guy is a wimp who can't tell his family members off, and there are many guys like that. Tell that woman to draw a red line in the sand that her husband needs to come clean, but tell her as well not push it too hard where it causes a divorce
The mentality we bring into the West is the one we had practiced back home, where children and wealth dictate over happiness in the family. The word 'Goblan' is very odd name within the Somali community that no man or woman wants to be labelled with. I saw several family breakups as a result of this mentality, subhana'Allah.