Family relationships are as fragile as a house of cards, delicately balanced on forced smiles, unresolved issues, and a collective agreement to just not talk about the past. Everyone knows their role—there’s the favorite, the peacekeeper, the rebel, and occasionally, the one who decides to throw honesty into the mix like a wrecking ball at a tea party. The unspoken rule is clear: keep the peace by keeping your mouth shut.

But every family has someone who doesn’t get the memo, and when truth starts spilling out, things get messy fast.

In most families, truth-telling is less about clarity and more about carefully avoiding deeply buried emotional landmines. Everyone knows that some topics stay entombed under layers of duplicity and passive-aggressive casserole exchanges. But every now and then, someone, usually the one who has the least to lose, decides to light a match and watch the fireworks.