Avoid Self Disclosure to Non-Intimate People

"Now, when we're talking about self disclosure we're talking about revealing things to people. Maybe secrets maybe personal things, maybe skeletons in our closet. Something that you want to do is you want to resist the temptation to disclose really intimate things early in relationships or to non intimate people in your life or acquaintances. And a lot of people make this mistake. A lot of people, you know, maybe go to work and tell their boss about their sex life. o.k., that?s a recipe for disaster. Only reveal things to people that you feel safe with and only reveal certain information to certain people. As well as, be cautious about the early stages of relationships. If you, you know, I met a girl one time and the day that I met her she said to me "Hi, I'm Marty. I was sexually abused by my father." O.K. that is way to early in any relationship to reveal that kind of information. So pick the stage and pick the person before you decide to reveal the information."