How do you feel when Your partner does not say everything to you whereas you do?

@med889 (5941)
April 27, 2009 12:52am CST
I tell my partner everything and every little things which happen either at work, in my life, what I did on the internet and so on but he always hide these stuffs to me. Soemtimes I wonder if i should be doing as him. And today I have decided that from now on I will not tell him everything. I felt bad whn I know he should tell me and he didn't. How would you feel?
4 responses
@assunta (25)
• Philippines
4 May 09
i would feel bad, of course. it's like, my partner is not trusting me of things about himself/herself. When you keep things from each other, eventually, something about it may come up and dealing with it will be harder because you are not prepared for it. I mean, for you to keep it secret ? it must be something bad.
@med889 (5941)
4 May 09
Hello assunta it it is indeed bad however I feel I will still talk about that to him for the last time to see what he is thinking about and eventually to find a solution about it. Thank you for sharing dear;-)
@omiami (412)
• Malta
27 Apr 09
Hi there! I can understand how you feel. if it happens to me i would feel awful but this thing. But like someone in here already told you, by hiding things from him like he is doing with you, you wont solve anything. Maybe if you start doing so you will see that things will change between you two. In my opinion, the best solution is to talk to him but as i read from a reply of yours he still does the same. Well, maybe you should make some things clear and try to get an answer of why he doesnt share things with you. If I were in your place it would bother me a lot. I mean its nice to share some things at least about work and daily things that happen.But as I told you, I wont do like he does or else your relationship changes. He lives his life and you live yours. I think what will happen is that both of you will never get to know each other properly. Try to explain the real facts that you dont want to know his things, just for the sake to know what he is doing, but start sharing between each other and start to getting to know more about each other.
@med889 (5941)
4 May 09
Hello omiami, thank you for sharing, It is indeed wrong when you tend to say and eventually expect something in return. However everything will turn back to normal if we talk.
@coldmoon (1088)
• France
27 Apr 09
In my mind, the notion of exchange mustn't exist in love. Once I choose someone as the man of my life, I can do almost all for him without asking him to do the same thing for me. Honestly, I don't say everything to him. If I talk to him about my work, I just show him enough info to affirm that what I'm doing is not against the law and the morality. Of course he may want to know more, but I don't answer the questions which go too far (I have the sense of protect the privacy of my clients, for example). He respects my personal corner and on the contrary, I respect the his. Sharing the life doesn't mean killing all kinds of secret (if it happens, you'll become less interesting because he finds you having nothing to learn and to discover). Besides, there's something that should be kept in silence forever, you could regret to try to reveal it.
@med889 (5941)
27 Apr 09
Hello coldmoon, I appreciate your commnent. I think you are right. Talking about everything is cool but sometimes you feel to say too much when that person isn't even telling one quarter to his stuffs. Its better to remain silent sometimes.
• Philippines
27 Apr 09
It makes me feel bad as well when my partner does not tell everything to me. I don't think, though, that doing the same to him would help the situation. Maybe you can talk things over, tell him that it bothers you that he hides things from you, and probably ask him why he does that. Hopefully he gets to understand what you feel and he'll start opening up to you. The best of luck to you both!
@med889 (5941)
27 Apr 09
I talked to him several times but he continues to do so and once he told me that those things were not so important to tell me. But I do tell him everything though important or not. I think i will not tell him everything as from now.