no secrets between friends

Syllable breakdown

Dictionary meaning

the relational ideal that genuine friendship involves complete mutual transparency and that concealing information from a true friend betrays the relationship's fundamental character of trust, intimacy, and shared vulnerability; the phrase expresses an aspiration rather than a description — in practice even close friends maintain appropriate privacy about third parties, maintain separate identities, and have inner lives not shared in full; its normative claim is that friendship creates a special domain of intimacy in which the usual human impulse toward privacy protection should yield to the demands of relational honesty; philosophers of friendship from Aristotle to Montaigne have argued that deep friendship requires a sharing of self that goes beyond what is shared with acquaintances, making transparency a constitutive feature of the relationship rather than merely a virtue exercised within it