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September 15, 2025 12 mins

Is it okay to tell your friend's secrets to your significant other? Fred and the crew discuss!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
He says, always been upfront with his wife. He doesn't
buy into this bro code thing suggests that man should
keep secrets from each other. So one day, his longtime
friend of twenty five years approached him with a private
confession in mind. But the man immediately made his stance clear.
If it shared with him, it's also shared with his wife.
That honestly didn't sit well with his friend or their

(00:20):
mutual circle. The friend felt betrayed, rallied others, and now
most of their shared friends are siding against the guy.
Now it doesn't it doesn't say here what the secret was.
And again this is someone who paraphrased that the Reddit
post or if he told him that ahead of time

(00:41):
or after the fact, like, hey, thanks for telling me
that you're cheating on your wife. I'm going to tell
my wife just so you know, I'd like to believe that.
If that's your deal, then it's like, hey, man, I
got to tell you something that you'd be like, hey,
just so you know, like my wife is considered part
of me now, and so if you tell me, I'm
going to tell her, So just be aware of that before.
Let's just assume that's what it was that he did

(01:03):
give his friend the heads up? Is that fair? And
in your relationship? Is that what you assume? I want
to know from you guys? Of course you can call
it text eight five five five one three five. If
I tell you guys something, and we're friends, and I
know all of your partners but except for Big Tim,
I've never met the gay but I know all of
your partners. So if I tell you guys something, should

(01:23):
I just assume that it's going to your partner? Is
that fair to assume? Or do I have to tell you?
I don't want you to tell that person? Like are
my friends telling their wives everything I tell them?

Speaker 2 (01:34):
It depends on what you tell me.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
If it's like something health related or something you're going
through like mental health, physical health. And I'm not repeating
that that's not for me to share, Okay, But.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
If I'm cheating on someone, You're gonna run home and
tel Shane.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
That's hot tea. Yes, yeah, I mean probably yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
I mean because you're messing up already, So why do
I have to keep that secret?

Speaker 4 (01:56):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:57):
I probably don't want you to cheat.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
See, But this comes back to like for me, when
you get in a fight with your partner and then
you go tell your friend. You know, most people are
telling their side of the story. Most people are not
telling an objective perspective. Most people want their friend to
side with them. Most of your friends will side with you.
Sometimes maybe if you tell them the actual story, they
might point out something that you could have done differently.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
But then the problem is you you.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Know, an hour or two or a day or a
week later, you make up with that person or it's over,
and then your friend holds onto the memory of the
last story you told them, and that could potentially affect
the way they look at your partner. And so I
feel the same way about you know, like I've had
a friend who's going through kind of a tough thing
and he's a family friend, and we know all parties involved,
and so I'm not sharing with like my mom and

(02:42):
dad the full extent of what I know, because what
happens if everything is resolved, and then it's like they
don't they're not getting constant updates, they're not fully immersed
in this situation. And then let's just say, are they
just supposed to forget because they they probably fit one
side more than the other. And if they're only getting
information from one side, and this is a family friend

(03:04):
who's gonna come around and blah blah blah. Then you
know it's unfair because to the other person, because they're
only getting one side of the story. So like, I
don't want my family to think differently about anybody because
they are only getting some information, right, So I don't
really share anywhere near as much as I know because
I don't want this person to be in that situation.
And I feel like that's what happens when you share

(03:25):
a story secondhand with someone else in your life, you
know what I mean. It's like what you're saying, you're
giving them the information and then you're trusting them to
forget and move on. But they may hold on to
that and then they have bad feelings about someone forever.
Like let's say, okay, let's say my I'm in a relationship,
which that in itself would be hysterical to me, right,

(03:45):
that would be why, and and Jason's cheating on Mike,
which would never happen, And I tell her that, and
then and then but there's more of the story, or
there's a whole lot more context, or I've known you
for fifteen years, so I know that the relationship can
be up and down or what. I'm just making all
this up and then you guys resolve it. But my
friend over here doesn't have my girlfriend hypothetical, doesn't have

(04:07):
all that context, doesn't know the ins and outs, doesn't
see you every day, so all she knows is you
cheated and now you're back in a relationship again. Like
that might affect the way she thinks about you. And
that's not fair to you. No, no, it's not. And
that's why I'm very selective of what I tell Mike,
because I can't hold a grudge, like to save my life,
like anyone can do whatever to me, I get mad,
I get over it whatever, I get.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Mad at you for that. Like Jason hold a grudge.
He is the complete opposite.

Speaker 5 (04:32):
Like if I tell him anything negative or someone did
something especially to me or to someone that he cares about,
he will hold on to that and remember that for forever.
And so I'm like, okay, like we're going I have
to be very selective.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
I'm gonna share Hey Sam, good morning.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
Hi Sam. So you tell your husband everything no matter what? Yes,
is that fair? You know?

Speaker 4 (04:57):
To me?

Speaker 6 (04:58):
Like my partner is my through thick and thin, and
I tell him everything, and even if he doesn't agree
with me, like that's why he's there, so we can
kind of be soundboards off of each other, and so
you know, it kind of keeps me balanced. But at
the same time, like I like sometimes I want advice
or sometimes I you know, we just want to talk

(05:19):
about stuff. So it's one hundred percent like I trust him,
he trusts me. And if we say don't tell anybody
else and we don't, and then that's it.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
I get that, like when you're in a relationship that
you're kind of supposed to be one unit, and so
you should be able to bounce anything off of that person.
I guess, Emily detected, you're losing me. I guess all
I'm saying is if there's one person and one person
and you're sharing this information with other people and they're
not seeing all perspectives that I don't think it's fair
for you to be sharing information because they're only going

(05:50):
to sort of side with the side that you're telling them,
you know what I mean, Like, unless I have all
the information that I don't think I should be sharing
because I don't want you to hold onto long term,
you know, things, because I only told you a little bit.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (06:04):
Absolutely, Yeah, tainting that.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
You're tainting that you're peeing in the water. You're peeing
in the pool.

Speaker 6 (06:11):
Everybody peas in the pool, Fred, Come on, whether you
say it or not, everybody peas.

Speaker 4 (06:15):
In the pool.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
All right, Well, he's gonna take.

Speaker 6 (06:17):
You three sides to the story.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
A large body of water maybe, but not a pool.
Thank you, Sam, Have a good day, have a good one.

Speaker 6 (06:24):
Love you guys.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
And I'm thoughtful enough to go downstream when I do
it too, for the record, Yeah, very thoughtful.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
M Kelsey, Hi, Kelsey.

Speaker 4 (06:31):
Hi, Hi, Hi? How are you?

Speaker 2 (06:33):
Hey? So what do you think this?

Speaker 1 (06:35):
Do you think that you should tell your partner absolutely
everything that you learn about other people?

Speaker 7 (06:41):
I'm not sure whether you should or not. I mean,
I think that's something personal.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
The only real thing.

Speaker 4 (06:46):
That I had to say.

Speaker 7 (06:48):
Feel like, if you hear something about someone and it's
not something that someone told you directly, then that can
cause major issues. I think that anything that you hear
that you want to share with just about anybody, you
should probably validate before you start sharing it, because a
lot of people get into arguments with people or something

(07:11):
like that. And then they start making up stuff and
then once your partner hears that, it's like, oh what, Yeah,
you know, I just think it's really especially as far
as cheating and stuff goes, they think that it's really
important to you know, verify the information before you start
telling anyone.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
I also think you have to keep your your circle
really small when it comes to relationship arguments and stuff,
because again, like you're you're likely to be telling your
side of the story, and the person's likely to react
in favor of the story you just told them, not
only because they love you, they're going to try and
see the good in you, but they're going to listen
to the story you just told that probably is devoid
of all the details about it. And so then you're

(07:47):
getting that now you're being enabled by this advice. But
then the real story is maybe somewhere more towards the middle.
So then you then you find resolution, you get back
with that person, and now your friend is over here
going I can't believe you took that jack a back,
but they didn't know.

Speaker 7 (08:04):
Yeah, I can fully agree. I've always said that there's
your story, and then there's the other person's story, and
then somewhere in between is the truth. And I don't
think that you ever, because emotions are involved in regardless
of what you're telling someone basically all the time. So
there's always and you know what, I don't hang out
at somebody else's house. You know, I don't know their relationship,

(08:26):
and as I shouldn't, so, especially like you're saying, with
relationships as things like that, it's really important to understand
that exactly what you said, there are there's actely three.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
Sides of the story.

Speaker 7 (08:38):
There's one person's side, the other person's side, and then
there's the truth. And sometimes, you know, I think most
of the time you don't need to know the truth.
I don't need to be that intimate with people in
their personal relationships because I'm kind of in the situation
with my daughter because her, her and get along. I
get along with both of them, obviously obviously her, but

(08:59):
you know, the thinking about it is is I don't
really think that maybe their relationship is super.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
Great for her.

Speaker 7 (09:06):
However, you know, I'm not in their house after dark, hercus.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
That's the problem.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
Right, So like your daughter comes and tells you, hey,
you know so and so did this to me, and
You're like, well that sucks. And then they go get
married and you're like, wait a minute, but I thought
he did this to you, you know, but again like
how did that start?

Speaker 2 (09:22):
What are the details? What I need to know? All
the infra?

Speaker 1 (09:24):
And you you hold onto this as her mother, right,
even though you should be a trusted source. But but
now you have to hang on to that as they
move forward and they get over it and you may not.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
Hey, Kelsey, I got to go. Have a good day.

Speaker 7 (09:35):
Okay, have a good day.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
I'm glad you called. Hey, Rachel. Right, you tell your
husband everything, no matter what.

Speaker 4 (09:43):
Always he tells me everything. I tell him everything most
of the time. It's like they said before to get
you know, an opinion of Hey am I handling this writer? Hey?
What do you think about this? I had a friend
tell him that the best thing he did for his
marriage was too cheat on his wife.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
Wow?

Speaker 4 (09:59):
So of course he of course he told me that,
and you know, did they be friends after that? Yeah?
But was there you know, certain things we might not
do with him or stuff like that. Yes?

Speaker 2 (10:10):
And that's what I mean.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
So Okay, So your husband's friend cheats on his wife, right,
and tells you this you're like, wow, okay, why don't
I like cheating? And that makes me think differently in him?
But okay, fine, whatever he did it. And then your
husband's like, hey, I'm gonna go out with so and
so tonight. Is there no part of you that's like,
I realize you trust your husband, but like this guy,
this guy, this dude has you know, loose definition of

(10:37):
what a marriage is.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
And I don't know.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
And while my husband is trustworthy and a good person,
like I don't know, I don't necessarily want to hang
it out with that person. That being said, if you
trust your husband and you know that he wouldn't cheat
on you, and he never gives you this information, then
you have no reason to suspect anything. So everyone's fine.

Speaker 4 (10:54):
So the way my husband is though he also, you know,
didn't appreciate the comment. So if we hung out, it
was mostly as like couples instead of just one on one.
It was okay, let's so they you know, they stay together.
So let's go you and me and we'll go to dinner.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
That's so comfortable. Now dinner.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
Now you're sitting there eating your soup and you know
all the details that you didn't need to know because
they've moved forward. And if he hadn't told you, then
you wouldn't have to suffer through that meal knowing that
this dude was out here with Floozy, you know. And
that's I don't know, Rachel. I'm not sure about this.
Thank you, have a good day.

Speaker 4 (11:30):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
I don't know that you need to know everything you
tell big tim everything.

Speaker 8 (11:35):
A big tim a listening to me. That's what I'm
gonna talk to you all. But I think that people
tell you tell your friends something. They're telling two people
that they trust. So when I tell you something, I
expect you to tell Mama Fred and get therapists, you
know what.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
I I just know what's going to them too.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
You know, you think I'm over here an executive coach
and talking about you. Yes, I go to my executive
coach each week. You think I'm talking about you.

Speaker 8 (12:00):
Jason's gonna tell Kaitlin and probably know you know what
I like. So that's happen.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
We can say kind of equal it depends well maybe
I mean, it's probably fair to assume, but yeah.

Speaker 5 (12:12):
There's always a kiky segment in his executive coaching season.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
We sit down an executive coaching.

Speaker 4 (12:17):
She did.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
We sit down in the first like, what what did
she do? What did she tell you? The first fifteen
minutes we have to dissect what do you do? More
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