As disclosures proceed in a group, the entire membership gradually increases its involvement and responsibility to one another. If the timing is creases its right, nothing will commit an individual to a group more that receiving or revealing some intimate secret material. There is nothing more exhilarating than for a member to disclose for the first time material that has been burdensome for years and to be genuinely understood and fully accepted. Interpersonalists such as Sullivan and rogers maintained that self-acceptance must be preceded by acceptance by others; in other words, to accept oneself, one must gradually permit others to know one as one really is.