- Habitually reserved - Habitually uncommunicative - Not chatty - Silent by nature, I act poorly then take a different tack - Tight-lipped - unsociable - Habitually silent; not given to converse; not apt to talk
or speak.
- ... and Dad - Caregiver is nightmarish, but human at heart - Close-mouthed - Close-mouthed (coll) - Hesitancy after a thousand unforthcoming - Ma - Mother
- Cagey - Furtive - Tight-lipped - Unwilling to reveal information to cunning Steve and Eric - Tending to secrete, or to keep secret or private; as, a
secretive disposition.