'Out Of Gas'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Couple question: How much revealing do you expect from your SO? If their close friend tells them a secret, are you surprised if you don't hear it?
Conversely, when you say something offhand to one bit of a dyad, are you surprised when the other bit knows? If you frame it as a secret, is it with the understanding that, okay, the SO will hear too?
Saw this coming as clearly as the doll being guillotined on last night's Studio 60.
I finally woke up enough to realize exactly how bored I am.
shrift speaks for me, though I did have the added fun of getting to tell the entire office that because of network issues, they are SOL if they need me to do my job with anything like efficiency for at least 2 weeks.
For couples that are seriously committed or married, I assume that what one knows, the other knows. Not that every couple shares everything, but my expectation is that they may. Unless I specifically say "don't tell Partner." Now, just dating is a whole 'nother story.
In my own relationship, I can't think of any secrets we haven't shared, but we also tend to have low-drama family and friends, so not so many secrets, really.
I wimped out and am getting mr. flea to pick up the kids. He'll be later than the usual pickup, so now I have guilt. Joy.
Go, Kathy! Apply like the wind!
How does one join the Illuminati?
Bury $5,000 US in a cigar box in your back yard. Our underground agents will collect it shortly.
flea, you're sick, not wimpy.
Not that every couple shares everything, but my expectation is that they may. Unless I specifically say "don't tell Partner."
This. And even then, I wouldn't be shocked if they did, unless it was something SERIOUS. On the flip side, my girlfriends tell me things about their partners that I'm sure the partners think are secrets, if not explicitly so.
Go Kathy, go!
my girlfriends tell me things about their partners that I'm sure the partners think are secrets, if not explicitly so.
Oh, yeah, and this. It's a weird matrix of confidences.
Flea's answer is pretty much mine on secrets, though when there is drama I think we are probably even more likely to tell each other because we want to be able to discuss the drama with someone who isn't in the middle of it.
Oh, yeah, and this. It's a weird matrix of confidences.
Not for nothing, but there's only so much to talk about, and "OMG wait til you hear THIS" is way better than another aggravating day at work or whatever.