During my brother's first year at TCU, he made the decision to join ROTC, a college military program that TCU offered its students in which students would receive a full scholarship s 'they joined. However, my brother did not want to disclose this information to our entire family and unfortunately I did not know it when my mother and I arrived at TCU for an unexpected visit. When my mother and I arrived, I accidentally made the mistake of revealing my brother's decision to join ROTC, which made my mother even angrier. She was furious that my brother was hiding this important information from her. Due to this unintentional disclosure of my brother's private information, it took him a long time to hide his private information from me and trust me with his secrets. Conversely, through research I conducted on Sandra Petronio's Communications Privacy Management Theory, I gained useful insights into realizing that there are certain boundaries and rules when others reveal themselves and it is my duty to know and understand these limits and rules to appease. the risk of “border turbulence”. If I had known the central premise of this theory before revealing my brother's private information, I might have come to the conclusion that it would not be in my or my brother's best interests to reveal to my mother that he was in the ROTC program. Communications privacy management theory is, as Petronio puts it, “like a map of how people navigate privacy” and gives the necessary steps on how to define and coordinate certain privacy rules. confidentiality with her co-owner, so that the owner feels like she has full control over who gets to know their private information... in the middle of discussions to make sure she has full control of her private information . During this time, Katherine was considered to be fully responsible for her learning disability. She hasn't allowed anyone to become co-owner of this information, and because of a certain event in which Russ makes fun of people with learning disabilities, Katherine soon feels like she can never hide his learning disabilities to his friends. However, if Katherine wants to have more than a "shallow" relationship with Russ and Kim, she must reveal her ADD disability to them and be honest, which leads her to evaluate her relationship with her friends. Meanwhile, Katherine unknowingly applies three of the five components of Petronio's Rules-Based Management System covered in her CPM Theory, in which she explains how we create our privacy boundaries..