Vanessa's parents are going through a rough patch in their marriage because her mother had an affair. They are trying to patch things up and they have asked everyone in the family to keep the affair secret. She has been struggling with the situation and doing her best to keep the information private until one evening when she is hanging out with her friend Malcolm and he tells her about his own father's affair and his parents' subsequent divorce. Vanessa decides that Malcolm would be a good person to talk to about her parents since he had been in a similar situation himself. Which criteria for revealing secrets did Vanessa see in this interaction?

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Vanessa likely perceived Malcolm as someone who would be accepting of her secret because he had experienced a similar situation with his own parents.

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