I don't know about you guys, but I've had the experience of traveling overseas and I try to access something. Say a show on Amazon or elsewhere.
And it says,
I'm almost aggressive about it a little bit. You know, it's like, what am I supposed to do with all of this now?
You feel better, you've unloaded. What about me, Candidate?
And I think it's very cultural. For me, certainly coming from Europe, we don't necessarily think that saying everything and putting it all out there.
And through telling and transparency are the only markers of importance.
I think we think that sometimes keeping things to yourself is just as important.
Not everything must be said.
And here, this notion that connects with that is also that intimacy is about saying everything.
It's kind of wholesale sharing.
Right.
And if you don't say everything, then you must be keeping a secret.
Because the opposite of transparency is secrecy and there is a complete loss of privacy.
And this is true in the intimate realm of relationships as it is true in many other sectors of our society.
Privacy is at risk.
And so people respond either with the other extremes.
Yes, I do think that there can be too much sharing.
Just to know, in a, say, patient setting, if you have someone, male or female, because certainly women cheat, and I've been cheated on before.
I mean, it happens certainly when someone is grappling with whether to tell their partner or not.
How do you walk them through that decision?
What is it that you want to tell your partner?
What is it that you want to tell?
You want to tell that you fell in love with someone else.
You want to tell that you realized having a fling with someone else, how much you loved her or him.
You realize that you have been lying to yourself all these years.
Matter of, does it fit this particular couple?
Does it work for them?
Or is there one person who is quietly hurting over a long time and kind of giving in?
But there is a power dynamic because the word we haven't used is that in all these negotiations, there is an element of power.
You know, there is power when you bring in other people.
There is power when you feel that the other person can leave you.
There is power when you have faced with the hurt of a person who is constraining you.
There is a dynamic of power in all of these issues.
And the question is, is there an equity in the decision?
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