Wanting privacy isn’t the same as hiding something. Everybody needs a room with a door.

Privacy is a normal requirement, not an admission. Somewhere the idea took hold that a person with nothing to hide should have nothing closed, which turns closeness into monitoring and makes everybody worse at both. You are allowed thoughts nobody has read, a conversation that stays between two people, a door that shuts. None of that is a betrayal of anyone.

Say one boundary out loud this week in plain words, without building a case for it. Then honor the same thing in reverse: stop reading over a shoulder, stop asking who that was. Watch whether trust gets easier rather than harder.