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As a teenager I would confide in my mom. Then sometimes she would just tell random people about it. Oh, I was not supposed to do that?

I vented my inter-personal frustration once to a friend and he dismissed it as just normal behavior on the part of the other person. The problem then is that the cat is out of the bag. It’s just left hanging there. Wishing it never got out.

I had a woman colleague. She started venting about the work to the point that it felt like it was crossing into “emotional support”. I reciprocated a bit. Then I felt like she left me hanging a bit too much. But again: cat was out of the bag, no way to take it back now. I quit 1.5 years ago but I still feel annoyed by that.

I don’t have an emotionally rich interpersonal life so there isn’t many anecdotes.