MIL told me a secret (more of a WWYD maybe?)

[MrsChanandlerBong]

My MIL recently told me something and told me not to tell DH. It's not some massive life threatening thing, but something I know he'd be VERY annoyed about if he knew about it.

My DH and I don't keep secrets from each other, I don't like being told not to tell him something. I really want to tell him but I know it would be bad for his psyche to know about it - basically MIL has been 'behind his back' about something relating to his daughter (my step-daughter).

I'm not even close to my MIL so I have no idea why she is telling me secrets! I might have a slight bias since I find her generally very sly but my DH seems to think she is a wonderful sweet old lady - I kind of want my DH to see her true colours IYSWIM. So I'm asking here to get an unbiased view really.

Shall I tell him or keep the secret?

Jux - I think my DH would be the same which is fine and as it should be, of course! We all (well, most of us) love our mums after all.

I do NOT want her to think she can keep telling me stuff but really in this case it's too late as I should've said at the time "I'm sorry I can't promise that" or at least, as you say, stopped her before she could carry on. Trouble is she told me the thing, and then told me not to tell him so I couldn't do this. And she's never "confided" in me before.

I'll know for next time.

Her problem then and not yours. Tell your dh, for heaven's sake. What if he found out that you knew? If she doesn't preface her secret with the fact that it's a secret, then it isn't. You didn't promise her anything.