Would you feel offended if one of your 'close friends' told you that they kept parts of their life from you?

It’s probably something she doesn’t feel comfortable sharing with you. It’s not a slight on you.
You’ve got to let the little stuff slide. This is the little stuff.

People have a right to their privacy. I have very close friends that I don’t share everything with, because somethings aren’t their business. You say that you want to know everything, but it’s not up to you. She should only share what she feels comfortable sharing. This doesn’t make her less of a friend, it just means she has things that she wants to keep to herself, and that is her right.

Okay, I see, that makes sense. Make me feel better too.
I’m just over reacting. *pheww, I guess it just kind of came as a shock to me at first. I don’t know…

I rely on my friends to know what to keep to themselves, just as I keep things to myself. Same with my children. Same with my husband. I have a private life of my own, and I don’t want to know every detail of anyone’s life. Period.

Not everything needs to be shared with your friends. There’s nothing wrong with having a few personal secrets.

Yeah, I just never thought anybody would say that out loud to me. It just feels weird, since I’m a very open person.

You question if she is honest with you, yet she was honest with you.

Lets put that aside because the bigger issue is not that she does not divulge everything in her life to you it is that you expect her to.

Normal healthy friendships and relationships do not mean you are fused to every facet of one anothers lives. This is very important for you to understand as some might consider such expectations to be rather stifling and in a relationship suffocating.

Learn to respect and appreciate that everyone needs personal space without taking offense. It will make you a much happier and healthier person in the long run.

@Dog, alright, I’ll keep that in mind. Thanks for the heads up. I’ve actually never thought of it that way. Glad I asked this question though. It’ll definitely help in my life.

Everyone has secrets, and a right to share, or not share.

Very nice analysis, @Dog. Well said. My compliments.

There are certain things that people tell certain other people. It’s just how it goes. You want her to tell you everything and because you found out she hasn’t it’s discouraging you. Sometimes people are just that way. I have a few REALLY close friends, that I consider best friends, however there are certain things that I can tell some, but not all. It’s not that I like someone more, it’s just that I feel that they’re more understanding about these things.

Just because you’ve been close friends for years doesn’t mean she has to tell you every thing about herself. There are aspects of my life I keep hidden because they are no ones business but my own. My very close or best friends don’t need to know certain information about me and vice versa.

Just one example of something I wouldn’t share with a friend: I have a tendency to try and work things out in my mind before I start discussing them with anybody else. (Other people think out loud.) So if there’s some subject that I’ve been working on for a while but haven’t reached a conclusion on yet, I may well wind up having it be a big chunk of my life, something that’s important to me, that I’ve literally never disclosed to anyone.