Advice on sharing disgnosis with family

AnaSimone

Hello. I would love advice on sharing my diagnosis with family.

A couple months ago I (30, F) was diagnosed with early stage breast cancer and I'm currently getting chemo treatment through the summer, then surgery, radiation, etc. My husband I live away from his family (6 hr plane ride). He hasn't told/doesn't plan to tell his family about my cancer. His reasoning is that since they live far away, they wouldn't be able to do anything to help anyway and he don't want to worry them. He plans to tell them after all my treatments and surgeries are over.

I have lots of support from my parents, husband and friends. However, I feel that this is a huge thing to not share with family. We speak to his family often and I feel really strange to have to hide what I'm going through during the most difficult part of my life.

Thanks so much for any advice you can give me