What Happens When You Can't Share?

negative experiences get more intense when they're shared. But that might actually not be all that bad, because it could help to serve a function of bonding people together. Feeling more pain when some one else is hurting isn't the best experience at the time, but it might allow us to empathize with that other person. That's got of the other interesting side of of shared experiences, what is it doing to our interpersonal relationships?