[Ashley.]

I'd like to say I have a pretty good group of friends that I met at Uni, however there are a lot of things they don't know about me. I didn't tell them these things when I first met them because it's a bit full on shoving personal **** down the throats of people you've just met, but after a while I suppose I just "blocked" the bad side of me out - I feel like a completely different person around my friends, and it's not until I'm alone when it dawns on me that my life isn't really that perfect... I suppose deep down I want to forget about the things that I've done and I don't want to be defined by it, if you know what I mean, but I feel like the longer I'm keeping these things tucked in, the bigger the hole I'm digging and I feel like when I do finally tell them, it would be a shock to them that I kept it from them for so long. They might think I don't trust them?

What are your feelings about keeping things secret? Are you the type to open up to close friends or keep everything locked inside?