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What does it mean?
Shared secrets build intimacy between people.
In plain terms
Keeping secrets together makes you closer.
What can you take from it?
Confiding in others builds trust.

Where it applies

  • sharing personal info
  • building bonds
  • testing loyalty

Putting it to work

  • share selectively
  • listen well
  • respect trust

Questions to consider

  • Whom do you trust with secrets?
  • What binds you to others?

Another view

Secrets can also burden.

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