Sometimes I make quick judgments that a person is trustworthy, and I tell them something, and then get all worried that they aren’t trustworthy. So far, I haven’t been hurt badly in this way. I think one or two times people got a bit nasty to me, and there have also been a couple of times when people blabbed it all over, although they usually got told by most people they shouldn’t be blabbing private stuff. Interesting. So the blabbers usually got hurt more than I did.
Though in those two cases, I was not sharing things about myself, but opinions about the other person, in private.
I can not think of a situation where I was hurt by sharing private things with others. Most people seem to respect the vulnerability and share things with me, as well. Kind of mutually assured destruction. If you blab, then I blab, and you’re as bad off as I am. Or worse.
But I never blab. That’s partly because my memory is bad. Partly because I would never do that. I value the trust people place in me, and no matter how much I want to share something I know just to show I’m in the loop, I keep my mouth shut.