One day when I was a teen, my mother came up to me and said, “I shouldn’t be telling you this, but-“

I quickly said “Then don’t.”

She stopped dead in her tracks and looked at me in shock. “What do you mean?”

“If you’re not suppose to tell me something, then don’t tell me. Don’t tell anyone.”

She slowly turned and walked away, dejected.

I stopped telling both of my parents anything personal or compromising at a young age because I couldn’t trust either of them to hold it in confidence.