Sometimes it's really hard to know whether you should tell someone the truth and hurt them very much, or keep a secret or lie and spare them the pain... Usually when you're stuck in a situation like that, no matter what you do, you know you're going to hurt that person... If you try to keep the secret and they find out, then you've hurt them very much, especially because you lied. But it's hard to tell someone something when you know it's going to hurt them. So then you go back and forth between the two options, trying to figure out which decision will be the better one in the long run... And, usually, you end up making the wrong decision... Or so you think, since you have no way of determining the outcome of what your other decision would have been.
So, basically, I guess I just wanted to state the fact that sometimes no matter what you do or how much you try to protect someone, you can't. They're still going to be hurt. It's always going to be a hard decision, but it's one you have to make. Just remember that you determine your own outcome, you are really the one that ultimately decides what happens to you and to others.
In the future, I want to remember that for myself and make an effort to not try to spare people's feelings anymore, but tell them the truth, because that's better than lying and hurting them more in the long run... I hope I remember that...