Consider the Other Person Before Self Disclosure

"Now, something else you want to do when you're disclosing information is consider the other person; the person that you're disclosing this information to. And there's several things that you need to be aware of. First, don't disclose the information too fast. Meaning, it could be okay, okay, okay, and what, what? Don't overwhelm the person with your information. Something else that you want to do is you want to watch for non-verbal feedback. Watch them; are they reacting negatively? Are they freaking out? If that's the case, that means maybe you need to pull back on your self-disclosing. Maybe this is way too much information, way too fast. Something else you want to do with the other person is allow them to reciprocate. You're sharing this information; you're disclosing this information, but watch their non-verbal cues. They may need to say something. They may need to interject something. Allow them to do that. Let it be a give and take in communication, rather than you just vomiting all this information about yourself all over them."