My coworker doesn't talk about their personal life

We have this weird tradition in the west of trying to force our work colleagues to be our best mates. Most people conform to it begrudgingly and some people pretend to conform but wisely choose to lie about every aspect of their life. But some strong people, let’s call them heros, resist and don’t give up anything to anyone.

They don’t like you

You might think that your co-worker doesn’t tell you anything about themselves because they don’t like you, and sometimes that’s the short and simple truth.

Not everyone is for everyone, and you two might not be compatible. If you were, you wouldn’t be online looking for reasons why someone doesn’t want to open up to you.

Work isn’t a social club, so you should accept it and move on, unless you’ve been an asshole, in that scenario you should apologise.

You’re two-faced

They may have been watching you around the office and not liked what they’ve seen. You’ve been eagerly telling people’s business in order to make yourself seem like a more interesting person.

You have no regard for anyone else, and they don’t want their personal life being used as a tool for you to make yourself more popular. A lot of gossips don’t have any self-awareness so…