The friend who spills everyone’s business to you isn’t making an exception for yours. You’re just next in the queue.

Someone handing you other people’s secrets is showing you exactly how they handle secrets. It feels like closeness in the moment, like being trusted, but the same habit runs in every direction. Whatever you say next becomes the story they bring to the next person, and you will not be there when they tell it.

You do not have to cut anyone off over this. Just notice what you hand over, and keep back the things that would hurt if they got around. Tell those to the friend who has never once told you something you were not supposed to know.