CallaFirestormBW
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i was never daft enough to enter into a relationship with a gossip... This is an important piece. I think that there is a concern that, in sharing information/conversations with someone that one is in a relationship with, that the confidences of that conversation will be broken. I think that, for most people, myself included, despite the fact that we share near -everything- with the people in our lives with whom we're intimately involved, if someone were to share something in confidence, it would -not- end up as 'gossip fodder'. One thing that everyone in our family is really good about is that none of us are gossips. Now, if I had some information that was too sensitive to share with the family with identifying information attached, I might, if it were something that was really bothering me, share it with someone in my family -- but there wouldn't be a name attached to it... it would be given more as a hypothetical situation OR I would go to a fellow clergy and bounce it there... but I think there is a concern that, in sharing such discussions, etc., with someone else, the security of that conversation would be breached, and that isn't always the case. Now there are things I won't share in places where I don't have intimate knowledge of the people I'm with, but my family isn't one of those places. I don't gossip, and really don't like others gossiping around me, but to me, sharing conversations of import to me, including exciting or troubling conversations, especially where those I care about might be involved or where I am seeking feedback on how to respond to a given situation doesn't seem to qualify, to me, as gossiping. Dame Calla
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