Keeping news to yourself before you tell anyone else?

[girlfriend44]

If you have any good news or are told something important might be bad news as well I suppose how long do you keep it to yourself for?
Just had some good news this week. At first I wanted to tell everyone now I am enjoying just myself and my partner knowing for the moment!

Do you keep things to yourself for a while or tell others straightaway.🤔

Depends on the news doesn't it. If your h god forbid had cancer and went into remission I'd be telling everyone. If you've won the lottery or landed a serious inheritance from someone you didn't know existed, then I'd be quiet.

We waited until 22 weeks to share news of my pregnancy with child 3. I'd ow actually recommend it (except for h&s at work I guess but this was not relevant to us). This taught me to keep most things from others tbh. Before that I was very open.

Yeah depends. I’m an oversharer at heart but over the years have come to enjoy keeping more and more to myself. Definitely would never have shared financial news etc. I always enjoyed things like keeping pregnancies to myself etc. Last time I didn’t even tell anyone unless I saw them in person, surprising to realise you haven’t seen someone for 36 weeks 😄

I have never got any satisfaction or pleasure from keeping news to myself, I find that a bit odd. I would’nt ever deliberately refrain from telling people something they ought to know unless there was good reason to so.

your not keeping it to yourself for ever, maybe just a little time to get used to it yourself.

I tend to share good news asap! But only to those I see face to face. With the exception of dm, who I seek out to tell in private.

Bad news, I keep it as need to know basis. If you don't need to know, maybe someone else will tell you. Because I won't.

I keep it to myself or share with my partner before I tell anyone anything these days.

It depends what it is obviously but as a general rule I’m not a fan of sharing news (good or bad) unless it’s with someone really close.

I almost never share stuff with colleagues because it can and will be used against you and you make yourself a hostage to fortune in various ways. I just don’t see the upside of sharing news really, whether it’s personal or professional.

Why does telling people stop you from getting used to it? I really don’t see the benefit.

I understand things like, perhaps, not telling people you’re pregnant until you’re more confident it isn’t going to end poorly, or not telling someone something because you really ought to let your DH or someone know first. Or if the news meant you had decisions to make and you didn’t want to be influenced (a job offer, perhaps, or winning a lot of money). But not simply so that I would know and others wouldn’t.

Do you have an example?

I just want to know your news??