Privacy and Secrecy in Relationships

Seeing the difference between privacy and secrecy. Depending on where you sit on the attachment spectrum, you may have a complicated relationship with privacy – both your own and others’. We’ll discuss where the line is between privacy and secrecy, and what to do if you find other people’s privacy uncomfortable or triggering.

Topics covered:

• What’s the difference between privacy and secrecy?
• Anxious attachment and the need for information to eliminate uncertainty
  the trust wound
• Avoidant attachment and protectiveness around privacy
• Important caveats where there has been a known breach of trust