SA you are right. I have always been the mother figure, and I am trying to deal with detaching from that role. He is not making it easy.
On the work issue I did not hide his secret and I got nasty texts telling me to shut the f#$k up. that it was no ones business. i told him it is not fair to tell me to keep his secret. but apparently there are "several" people at work saying that everytime they saw me i was commiserating with someone and telling everyone, which is not true, most everyone i spoke with already knew, but now i feel like i dont know who to trust?