WOMEN really can't keep a secret - Tongues start wagging after just 47 hours
Ever wondered how long a woman can keep a secret? Well the answer, it seems, is less than two days.
Researchers found that they will typically spill the beans to someone else in 47 hours and 15 minutes.
A study of 3,000 women aged between 18 and 65 also found that four in ten were unable to keep a secret, no matter how personal or confidential the news was.
More than half admitted that alcohol could prompt them to dish the dirt. Boyfriends, husbands, best friends and mothers were most likely to be initial recipients of the information.
Michael Cox, UK Director of Wines of Chile which commissioned the research said: 'It's official - women can't keep secrets.'
'We were really keen to find out with this survey how many secrets people are told. What we didn't bank on was how quickly these are passed on by those we confide in.
'No matter how precious the piece of information, it's often out in the public domain within 48 hours.
'That means every single Brit who has confided in a friend should be worried because they don't know where their secret is heading.
'The fact they offload gossip to someone completely unrelated to the matter or in a different social group can be comforting, but while nine in ten girls deem themselves trustworthy - they still have spilt the beans.
'And juicy gossip can really flow after a couple of glasses of wine.'
The study found that the average woman hears three pieces of gossip each week, and will pass it on to at least one other person.
Three in ten 'have the urge' to reveal secrets, with nearly half telling another to 'simply get it off their chest'.
However, two thirds end up feeling guilty after spilling the beans.
Three quarters claim they are capable of keeping quiet about a secret, and 83 per cent consider themselves 100 per cent trustworthy.
Yet more than four in ten think it is acceptable to share a friend's secret with someone who does not know them, with over 40 per cent saying their husband is their ultimate confidante.
Intimate issues, true cost of purchases and affairs emerged top of the secret-keeping list.
Fortunately for some, 27 per cent said they forgot what they were told the following day.
Women can be vile to one another. I prefer to not have much contact with other women simply because I find very hard to trust them. I trust my mother, my sister and two good friends but that's about it, the remaining of my friends are men. At work, everytime there is gossip doing the rounds, you can bet it was started by a woman. I've only had bad experiences with female bosses and would rather stay away. We don't do ourselves any favours by being like this. Moody, bitchy, even when there is no reason to be. Yesterday I went to a well known trendy High Street yshop and all the saleswomen were so arrogant and unhelpful towards their female customers, it is unreal. Why do we dislike each other so much? All I can think of is that most women are very competitive and the competition starts from the moment you look at another woman and the comparisions begin. If she is more beautiful, richer, slimmer, more sophisticated, has nicer clothes, etc etc etc ... and everything goes to pot!
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