Have you had a friend or family member tell a secret on you? What did you do?

Shhh don't tell the secret.  - Please don't tell my secret to anyone.
@SketcherD (1114)
Canada
November 18, 2008 10:02pm CST
I had secrets that I thought were safe with a friend/family member. I told this person please don't tell anyone especially my Mom. This person went to my mother within a couple of months and told my mother everything. I was furious. When I confronted the person who told my secret she got indignant with me saying that she had to tell my Mom because my Mom kept asking questions that she didn't know how to answer so she told the secret instead of saying nothing at all!!! I have never trusted this person again. She knows I do not trust her but what am I to do, she broke my trust? This person has done other non trustworthy things over the years but I can not seem to get her to realize that I can't trust her anymore even though she has apologized many times. She makes it sound like I am the bad person because I have trust issues with her. I do not understand how someone who has been untrustworthy numerous times over the past 20 years can make herself and others try to believe that I am the one that is in the wrong not to trust her again! What is that all about??
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18 responses
• Canada
19 Nov 08
Well, we always encounter that stuff in our relationship between the family and friends. They tell you the secrets for they have Trust you that you won't say it and scatter it to others. Secrets is a part of our lives and it connects sometimes to the relationship we have, the more we care for the secrets the more we cared for the relationship we have with them. It feels happy when you have someone who can tell your deepest secrets and someone to trust on but you have to be careful with that part too. Some relationship have broken because of revealing the secrets fortold. You never know if the person is truthworthy, because most of times secrets revealed when you start having conflicts with each other, and they use it as a card to bring you down. The only person that can keep our secrets is our Parents. Whats best for us is to put border within a relationship you will make with someone, Don't give it all, Save something for your self so at the end he/she won't have nothing to use from you at the end but if you can't help it then face consequences and accept that the reality might happen
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@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
19 Nov 08
Thank you. Well I truly have stopped telling this person secrets let me tell you!! I know she will never be trusted by me again that's for sure. But it still drives me nuts that she gets mad at me because she knows I think she is untrustworthy of secrets. "You can tell me" she says quite often " I won't tell anyone!" YA right I always think!!! You will only tell the people that I don't want to know about this and noone else!! LOL
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
19 Nov 08
haven't you ever heard the old saying " the guilty dog barks first"?i wouldnever trust her again.why didn't she just tell yourmom she'd have to ask you instead of spilling her guts. your mom should have ask you to instead of pumping her.
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
20 Nov 08
i have heard that expression all my life. i drive my sons crazy with some of my old sayings. have a good one.
@ghazal2k5 (920)
• India
20 Nov 08
Usually i don't give a damn about such people. If i trust someone and they break my trust then its over. They get their a&s kicked. If i were in your shoes then i wouldn't care much what she is thinking or what she is telling others about me.
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@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
20 Nov 08
You know if this person wasn't a family member as well I would have dropped her like a hot potato as well but it's too hard when it's a family member/friend. So I have just been very careful from then on.
@katkat (2378)
• Philippines
20 Nov 08
I have a friend back in grade school who share with me her secrets and up to now I haven't told anyone about it even if I don't have a communication with the person I'd still keep my promise not to tell anyone. For me a secret is a secret once you promised not to tell you should abide with the promised made. I have friend since my first of college that tell me her secrets and I haven't spill the secret of hers even in our closed friends. I have one friend that I told about my secret but she tell it to one of our friend. That's fine with me as she told it to one of my closed friend too and I have trust that person as well. Now there are 3 person who knows my secret and all of them are my closest friends. They haven't spill it and keep safe for over two years.
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@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
20 Nov 08
It's a good thing that you have 3 really good friends like that. I am glad you have that many that you can trust like that. I hope they keep things a secret for as many years as needed for you.
@ellie333 (21016)
19 Nov 08
Hi Sketcher, To be quite honest if you know this person was so untrustworthy in the past why did you chose to trust them with your secret this time? It is not a mistake you will be making again though is it. So what if they have apologised, they cannot be trusted so only tell them a secret if you want it to get back to someone, use it to your advantage in the future. Don't worry what she has made others think, YOU know the TRUTH. Huggles. Ellie :D
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@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
20 Nov 08
Well I guess I didn't think she was quite as untrustworthy as that!! I thought I could trust her with this important but I was sadly wrong!
@katrhina23 (1282)
• United States
19 Nov 08
I do have a friend like that. Well she is now my "former" friend since I cant trust her anymore.
@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
20 Nov 08
Well as this person is an in law as well as a friend it is kinda hard to have her be a former anything. LOL So I just am very careful of what I trust her with now.
@syankee525 (6261)
• United States
19 Nov 08
i had worst. but not getting into what that freind did. but often trust is very hard to rebuild with others. yeah i wouldn't feel the same way as you. if the trust broken hard to fix it. i only tell a few people everything and others i be like oh hell no not saying anything to them
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@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
20 Nov 08
Yes you are so right. It is really hard to rebuild a trust that has been broken between friends.
@gracie04 (4549)
• Philippines
19 Nov 08
i guess you did the right thing.. sometimes my sister shares some of her secrets and of course as her big sister, i support her and give her advices as well.. she has a bf and our parents don't know about it.. you know, our parents our kind of strict when it comes to things like that.. yay!
@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
20 Nov 08
I wish that my Mom would realize that this girl should have kept her secret instead of pulling the secret from her!!
@TerryYuan (229)
• China
19 Nov 08
keep in secret.
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@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
19 Nov 08
Thank you for your response.
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@23uday (2997)
• India
19 Nov 08
Hi frnds, have you had a frnd or family member tell a secret on you?what did you do? My frnds or family members tell a secret to me i will listen that secrets and i will keep it as a secret one.The secrets are secrets only.If we tell to secret anybody that they will face great problem.
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@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
20 Nov 08
Thank you for your response. I agree with you this person should have faced a big problem but when I confronted her she got mad at me. I couldn't believe her indigence of breaching MY trust. It has never made sense to me and probably never will.
@iesel182 (17)
• Indonesia
19 Nov 08
A secret is a secret, better not to tell it to anyone. just keep it for yourself
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@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
20 Nov 08
Welcome to myLot!! You are so right. A secret is best kept to oneself. Thanks for the response.
@dhatam7 (258)
• India
19 Nov 08
I really never trust anyone on telling my secrets & always keep them to myself, but yes, most of the people in my family & friends trust me for their secrets bcoz I never tell anybody my secrets. I have heard that women & girls should never be trusted for a secret bcoz they will tell the secret to others, but I have one big big secret of my life & that is only known by a girl & she has never told it to anybody. Of course, I just trusted her for this one secret. But, if possible then tell your non-important secrets to a person & see that he/she keeps it secret & then trust him/her for a bigger secret.
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@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
20 Nov 08
I thought this girl understood that this was a huge secret and she should never tell it!! But apparently I thought wrong.
@alyssa_c (440)
• Philippines
19 Nov 08
This has happened to me lately actually. I have been carrying a secret this year and only a very few people knew of this. One of them has been a friend for as long as I could remember, and even our parents are friends! Well, it was a shock for me when one day I bumped into an acquaintance of mine and asked me about the 'secret.' I asked her who told her and she said it was my long-time friend. I really felt betrayed by what she did. I have always know though that she was a bit of a chatterbox, and a source of all the juicy gossips about other people. It turns out that she spills the beans of her close friends, too. My bestfriend had always warned me about her but then I never really listened because, for me, Ms.Longtime Friend was loyal to me. Like you, I could never, ever, ever trust her with anything again. I've confronted her about it and, guess what, she just laughed it off as if it didn't mean a thing! We would never really know who to trust and who would stay loyal to us, even if we know that person since childhood. It certainly would make you want to think twice before trusting someone again.
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@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
20 Nov 08
Oh nice!! I can't believe that your friend laughed it off. It's like my 'friend' getting mad at me!! Wow some peoples kids!!
@mengrufa (239)
• China
19 Nov 08
One's privacy should not be let out unless it is permitted. Many people want to talk others ' gossip as if he know everything , I dislike that kind of people , and I don't like the person that want to tell me the secrets of others. Whenver this happen , i just run away , and never want to have something to do with him.
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@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
19 Nov 08
I agreed totally. If someone is going to start telling me secrets of others I know that this person will tell secrets on my as well. I guess I trusted this person too soon. I should have been much more careful about her.
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• United States
22 Nov 08
my mom's really really bad for that-with anyone in the family. we have a saying if you want something spread,tell her. i don't think she's being malicious,it's just it seems she doesn't know better,or realize the damage she could do.
@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
22 Nov 08
Yes and see my Mom was part of the problem as well. I gave her a growl about pulling the story out of this person as well. She really had no remorse over it. She thinks she was well within her right.
@ShellyB (5241)
• United States
20 Nov 08
I know a few persons like that. I think that you are right and she is wrong. I do not know what she can do to make admends to you but her way is not it to me. The only blessing here is that you will not fall for her lies again. Good luck.
@ShellyB (5241)
• United States
22 Nov 08
I am ok. Just kinda busy and suffering from headaches and a teenage daughter. And yes, that could be a country song
@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
21 Nov 08
That is true ShellyB I won't be fooled again!! (hmm sounds like a song doesn't it) BTW are you alright?? I haven't seen you on here very much lately!
@fasttalker (2796)
• United States
19 Nov 08
I am so sorry that you have encountered this. I have been in those shoes myself and it isn't fun. I trusted my own sister with something once and as you were, I was betrayed within just a few months. I confornted her and we did eventually move past it but I still don't trust her and she knows I don't. We talk and she confides in me but I would never confide in her again. Just an understanding that we have. Probably the reason this person is out trying to convince everyone that you're the bad guy is because they are trying to justify their own actions. She knows what she did was worng and as long as she can convince someone to agree with her that you are the bad guy then she doesn't have to own up to the fact that she made a mistake. Does that make sense? LOL TIme will make it better but le it be a lesson to be very selective in the future about confiding in someone. Sadly enough there are very few people that you can confide in and no worry about it getting out somewhere. Good Luck and hopefully it will get better with time!
@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
20 Nov 08
You are absolutely making sense to me. I agree with you 100%. The only person I trust now is my husband. LOL Thank God I have him.
@mods196621 (3652)
• Philippines
19 Nov 08
I had a friends and relatives who always told their secrets to me and up to now nobody knows about it. Once a person trusted one thing bear in mind that it was a secret and she trusted by that person. If the secret reveals it was created as big mistake of the trusted person. The secret still a secret forever if possible. Only God can know our secrets. And He was the only Trusted Friend ever.
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@SketcherD (1114)
• Canada
19 Nov 08
You are right He is the only one that anyone can really trust isn't He? I agree that a secret should be kept forever if possible that is why I was so upset by this betrayal.
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