What if your bestfriend kept a secret from you?

@kharen (1488)
Philippines
May 13, 2009 12:13am CST
You and your best friend had known each other fro years and years and years. What if you found out that he kept a very essential secret from you but not from his girlfriend? They already broke up when you knew about it and the secret was just no ordinary secret. It's about a complicated part of his identity, something that he must've shared to you. But he didn't. He explained that he kept it from you because it's very complicated and he doesn't want you to freak out and he doesn't want you to be in danger for knowing it early on. Will you just accept his explanation or ignore him until he would tell you what it was?
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10 responses
@med889 (5941)
13 May 09
He can be a best friend to me but if he says that he did not want me to freak out with his explanation and hence give me some really good reasons then I will understand him, being friend with someone does not mean that the person should be telling you every little things which happens to either between him and his girlfriend or on himself, Freedom is very important too and he must feel ready to share something with you before you tell him that he should have been telling you.
@kharen (1488)
• Philippines
13 May 09
It's just that you have been close with each other. So close and haven't had any secret kept between the two of you. Then as time went by, you had the feeling he's keeping something from you. You let it go for a while, trying to understand that maybe he couldn't tell you about it immediately. And then one day, you knew about that secret and that he told his girlfriend about it first rather than you knowing it.
@med889 (5941)
13 May 09
Oh now I understand more of this matter, but when he was with his girlfriend,maybe he felt more close to her than to you and he has told her the secret so you don't have to be very upset dear,just accept that he can do that, he is a human being after all.
@kharen (1488)
• Philippines
13 May 09
Then shall wait for him to tell.
@xannebull (1793)
• Philippines
13 May 09
just respect his decisions, there are times that we have to keep things from our best friend. and not all situations and happenings in our life must be shared to them. there are things that must be kept in private, maybe he doesn't want you to get involved with the problem he's having or maybe he doesn't want you to get an awkward feelings with him that's why he just kept it all by himself.
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@kharen (1488)
• Philippines
13 May 09
Well, he must've had trust on you, right? You're very close to one another like being tied as one close and then he kept a secret from you just because of some reasons. How would you react about it on the first place?
@KrauseHome (36448)
• United States
14 May 09
For me, it would depend on what it was. If they felt it was in my Best interest to not tell me due to of how I believed, or thought, then I would understand their wanting to keep it secret. There are times when people do not always share everything with everyone for Fear of what others might think or feel about them, or frown down on them for what they have been thru as well. Personally I think that this should be a situation left to 2 individuals for sure, and no one else to judge.
@eiram25 (1076)
• Philippines
14 May 09
as a friend,i think i can accept his explanation.i still think he has the right to choose the person whom he wants to tell his secret.i think you just need to give him more time.we might not know it,he might have the guts to tell you what that secret is.i just think he isn't ready yet.as friend,you need to be more understanding. happy mylotting!
@Hedwig (283)
• China
14 May 09
I will accept his explanation and remain his best friend. In myopinion, if I am in some trouble and there is nothing my best friend can do to help me out, I will keep it a secret. It is not because I don't trust her, but because I think there is no need to bother her with my own problem.It will only make her worry about me.
• China
14 May 09
1 curiosity is a kind of natural instincts,however know everything is not a good things. 2 believe your friendship if you think is valuable. 3 girlfriend is different from bestfriend.sometimes maybe he also tell you the secret but his girlfriend didnot know. 4 keep generous ,with love to change him.
@kharen (1488)
• Philippines
21 May 09
But the thing with number 3 was that you knew him almost all your life and his girlfriend just came about 4 years ago and then she knew all the essential secrets of his life and you didn't. That would feel like kind of unfair, wouldn't it?
@kosykosy (160)
• Ghana
13 May 09
I don't think it means he doesn't trust you, guys have compartments in their lives, maybe you and this secret just weren't in the same compartment. He trusts you and still wants you as his friend, but he just didn't think it was necessary to tell you, maybe because you have a temperament that would make you make a big deal out of this. Ps, I know how horrible this feels, its happened to me before, but if you value your friendship with your friend, try and forgive him and move on to a deeper mode of friendship.
@kissie34 (2294)
• Philippines
14 May 09
I will just accept his explanation even though I really want to know his secret. I respect my best friend privacy and he besides he has the right to keep a secret to me or choose who he would like to share his secret. But of course i will felt bad because he means to me and I want to know everything about him. Me and my best friend no matter how close we are and how we known for years still there are times that we shouldn't tell each other especially if those things are complicated. No matter how much you value and true each other there will always a time that there are something that needs to kept among ourselves and not to discuss or share it with others or even to our closest friends. Maybe, your best friend isn't ready yet to tell his secrets to you. Its not that he trust his girlfriend more than you but maybe he is thinking that its not yet the right time for you to know. I think you are involve in that secret that's why he don't want it to share to you. Just give him a privacy and the right time will come for you to know his secret. What is more important you still be friends and you will always there for him no matter what happen.
@fwidman (11514)
• United States
13 May 09
Just because you are friends, even the best of friends, does not mean that they have to tell you every single detail of their lives. You should just accept their explanation and move forward. If he told his girlfriend it's obviously something she needed to know. Unless you are now his girlfriend I'd say the secret is none of your business
@prinzcy (32322)
• Malaysia
13 May 09
I don't really understand which secret make me in danger for knowing it. If he refused to tell me then he meant to protect me. I guess it's a good thing. It's not like you can't be trusted or not. Just put yourself in your friend's shoes and think whether you would do the same if you're in the same situation. Then perhaps you can understand why he did that.