Why is it?

Dont you find it wierd...how you can discuss nearly everything thats going on with you to a stranger...but to someone so close you can barely open your mouth?

Why is it when we have huge traumas in our life, that we result in seeing a therapist? Instead of talking to a loved one...who knows you more than anyone in the world, although there not trained. They know how you work.

Sometimes it is easier to hear things from someone who doesn't have a vested interest in your life and the things you do. You don't feel like you are being judged, at least for some of us anyway. Everyone is different, just because we search for outside help doesn't mean we completely overlook the relationships in our lives.

Seconded.

B.C. had a very good way of putting it. It's much easier to talk to someone who you'll most likely never have to meet again, if you tell this to someone who you talk with on a daily basis, they will judge you, even if they say they won't.

It's much easier to tell something really wicked to someone you barely know, or something horrid. It's not to say that you keep it from others in your life, just that you feel more comfortable if they didn't know that about you. I know there are things I keep from my friends and family. It's also in how society grooms us.

Well for me its because know matter how many people were around me i always felt alone because nobody ever listened to me or took the time to even care.. when i did try to tell my mom what was going on with me she didnt even hear a word i said it wasnt until i was placed in a hospital that people finally seen i had a problem.. so for me it wasnt that i didnt try it was that people who were suppost to care and be there were to busy to notice how messed up i became.. i would of loved to be able to talk to my family about what was going on with me but even today if i even talk about it no wants to really hear it so i keep it to myself...

I think it's because we're all afraid of being judged and if we talk to the people we trust, they'll have a bias opinion on it. They'll most likely say something that you'll want to hear, or won't be so direct with you. Talking to a stranger has its benefits because you'll know for a fact that they won't tell anyone because who would they tell? They also don't know you that well, so they'll look at the situation instead of the individual.

My boyfriend always asks me how I can post my poetry here where total strangers can read it but I can't let him or my other friends and family read them. To me it's because I don't want to let people who know me to get inside my mind. Who knows, they might think I am crazy. As for the original post, I talk to strangers about certain things rather than with people I am close to because I don't want to seem weak to them.

For me... because it's dangeorous, somehow if someone you know knows everything about you you feel insecure, but if someone you don't know knows everything about you you don't care because they aren't there in your everyday life, they don't know you deeply to judge you and talk you out of things or mock you about them. A stranger doesn't mingle with people you know and even if they do they don't go and tell everybody what they know about you.
But I don't prefer talking to strangers, I prefer talking to someone who understands me and will give me an honest reply no matter how harsh it is.

Yer basically what everyone else has said. When some one doesn't know that much about you all they can know is your story and not be influenced by what they know about you.