How many times have you told someone not tell what you said?

Haha... Yes, this is quite common in our life. I did that also. I am not a person who can keep things in my mind, anything I want to share. Anyway, I will tell my best friend only, if I don't want it to be public, and I trust her can keep the secret for me. ^ ^

Hello rosepedal64 Yes once or twice with the same person, I am one of those people that can be really hardhead and people can warn me but I have to see for myself, so yes their was this one girl in my life that tells everything, I told her things that didn't really matter if she told someone because a part of me knew she would do this anyway, its really sad when you come across people like this, what good are you if people can't trust you right? I have one person in my life that I can tell anything and never hear it again, I say when you have a problem with some once, don't share another secret because as sure as my name is kitty they will tell.

I got myself in serious hot water at work once when I had overheard something not meant for my ears and I confided with a work colleague who at the time I thought I was close to, well she obviously passed it on and before long what I had heard obviously in private was around the office, it had got back that I had been spreading rumours well I was hauled into the managers office so fast and I was given a stern lecture and told I was lucky that they were not taking it further. I felt very small and embarrassed but it taught me a lesson, nothing came out of my mouth again that I overheard. I guess you learn the hard way but I never forget the gruelling reprimand I got, nasty!

If I have a secret, it's a secret and the minute I tell someone else, it's not a secret anymore. I have been told loads of so-called secrets by others which I keep to myself and they never go further than the tip of my tongue - and as I always keep my tongue well in during the hot weather because of the mosquitos, they are all safe with me

Probably to some people i could trust. you say that to people you can't trust or they will use it against you. that's why i rarely trust people because they simply don't know how to keep a secret

It happens a lot so I don't trust anybody with my secrets anymore.

yes, many times I told my best friend some top secrets about others and said her not to say anything to anyone but forgettably or innocencely she repeated the same to the very same person who was the main character of the secret. so, now i have stopped talking about others secrets as she cannot keep secrets and make it a common thing. in short she cannot keep her mouth shut in such cases.

I've never had someone tell me not to tell a secret, i've never been told a secret, but people have told me not to tell someone something, but it wasn't a secret.

hi rose. i have this brother that is going to take the bar next month. good luck to him. he's been out somewhere, we in the family never know where. but good thing, we had communicated back yesterday. that is something a secret to him. well, yesterday, though he never told me not to tell anyone where he is, i talked with my sister and told her about him. so far, that is a secret between us. we agreed not to tell anyone. i hope this will stay secret until the exam is over. i say this, to give example of a secret of ours. if this will brought out to other people, it is between me and my sister, and between me and you and other mylotters who could read this. hey, wait.. is this still a secret?

I know I've said that before, I'm pretty sure we all have. For the most part before I say anything, even if I add the 'don't say anything' clause, I always consider what would happen if they DID say something. I know that I've been guilty of telling people things after I said I wouldn't so I really can't expect other people to not do it. Basically if you really don't want people to know something then keep it to yourself!

I remember having told my secret to my friend many times, then she also makes such condition to other friends, like I am going to say you a secret but it should always between you and me, which is always a broken promises. I really feel betrayed and from now on, I really never trust even a close friends whatever secrets I have as it seem to leak.

Yes, you are right. This often heppened to me in my childhood. When others told me something and tole me not to tell anybody else, but I cannot help telling it to others and told them not to tell other people. This is indeed not secret anymore. So to keep secret never told anybody. Have a nice day!

I think I am probably quite lucky in this respect. I have used those words to people in the past, but generally I am a very honest person and so just end up repeating what I told that person to someone else anyway (but only if I trust them!) I know if there are experiences I am sharing with people, especially the darker ones, I will usually tell another person within the week lol! In the very distant part (high school time) I probably was back stabbed by people in the you mentioned, but I am such a quiet and paranoid person, with so few friends in the real world, that actually having this happen to me is quite rare and unlikely. I would probably have to tell my brother something, and have him blag it to people, but to the best of my knowledge he hasn't yet (or has told the people he mentioned my secrets to, to keep the secrets a secret, and I haven't heard yet the result of that grapevine yet lol). Most of the things I tell people are done on-line so there generally isn't a way it could happen that way, thankfully! It's one of the main reasons I do things on-line, I don't trust people in the real world enough these days to be that honest with them! I hope that doesn't happen many more times to you in the future :) Dranz

This has definitely happened to me. I can even recall an instance where the individual came back to me and told me the "secret" forgetting that I told them. I have one friend that really dissapointed me when I told her a huge secret. When the person it involved came to me about it I was floored. I asked my friend how she could dispose, not only the secret but who told it, and she said, " I didnt know it was that big of a secret and you didnt say not to tell". Ok so me saying, "I have a huge secret to tell" wasnt enough. WOW! I've since learned that either make it seem like not that big of a secret so the person wont have an urge to spread it or just keep it to yourself. Most times the reaction the the person who is telling the secret gives, has everything to do with the magnitude of it being spread.

hi rosepedal yes it did happen to me back when I and my'husband were planningon getting married. I did not want to tell my coworkers until after the fact as our super had a crush on my husband to be and we wer afraid she might fire him if she knew he was planning on marrying me.I knew if I told all myfriends someone would be sure to blab it. but idiot me I did tell my very best friend and coworker.of course she couldnt resist telling the others.So when the end of the month came and on our wedding day sure enough the dreaded pink slip was in myhubby's locker. She didnt want anyone else to marry him I guess. He had never made any overtures towards herthis was totally unfair but he got another job almost the same day.