Honesty and holding back information

Honesty:a : fairness and straightforwardness of conduct b : adherence to the facts : sincerity

For someone of us, this comes easy and we naturally say the facts. For others it's hard to share ourselves and to be honest with how we feel and telling others about our emotions, and ideas. Communication is essential and so is honesty.

However, when you say certain facts about yourself is key. It's important to be honest, yes. But you don't want to tell someone your whole life story when you meet them. Your information is a vault of conversations and keys to unlocking information out of your date/partner/friend ect.

Things to avoid when you just getting to know someone. In order of avoidance.

• Extremely personal questions ex: what was the scariest thing you ever witnessed, this might be a traumatic memory and you can't promise to react correctly.
• How many people you are currently or previously seen: I know we are all curious and knowing a partners experience does matter, but it might be better to get to know them as person before you ask questions that can seem judgmental.

• Family relations: well we do want to know how close they are with family but it can lead to other conversations your not ready for yet, so hold off until you know you really like the person.

So the next time there is nothing to talk about and one of suggests the "Question Game", avoid the core information and try to stick with superficial and personal, the more sensitive information will come in time, and won't usually need to be asked, but willingly shared.