There are ways in which people should relate to others in public. The public does not include their close friends, necessarily, but it does include the general world of people who are strangers and they should have a special relationship.

When you greet people at the door or on the telephone, strangers at the door or on the telephone, it is best to keep your problems to yourself. These include any immediate problems that you might have as well.

People will respect you much more for keeping these problems to yourself. They don't want to know the problems of strangers.

Oh, yes, of course, there are yentas out there who like to know more than they need to know about everybody, but you don't want to feed them with information either. That would be quite unnecessary.

Some people do like to talk about their problems to anybody and everyone. However, that is not necessarily a good thing to do. Most people do not like to listen to others' problems, especially since everyone has his own peckele and they don't want to hear about yours. It may do you good. It may not do you good, but most people will be annoyed or bored by it. In other cases you may hope to get advice. However, if you don't get that advice from someone who really appreciates your company and perhaps loves you, but truly loves you, then they are likely to give you poor advice. Waving your problems in public usually is not a very good idea and in most cases it is counter productive.