If you are dealing with something ‘confidential’ and can’t talk about it, how about…not fucking talking about it?
Telling me how stressed you are because you’re dealing with something – but it’s top secret, so you can’t talk about it – and expecting me to forgive you for acting like a douchebag because you’re so stressed from dealing with it, does not make my sympathetic in the slightest.
It just makes me annoyed that you won’t shut the fuck up about this thing you can’t talk about.