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| Yes | 48% | 245 votes | Total: 514 votes | |
| No | 52% | 269 votes |
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by Hope Darby
There are some things about your romantic history that you should voluntarily reveal to your husband, without his having to ask. Any STDs you've been in contact with tops the li...read more
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I am a very firm believer in maintaining an open and honest relationship with my husband. Early on in our relationship we decided that we would never keep secrets from one anoth...read more
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Should a Wife Tell Her Husband about her romantic Past? Yes. Part of any relationship is communication and honesty, yet who said it would be easy? When a woman first m...read more
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When my future mother-in-law called me by the name of my fiance's former girlfriend, not once but twice, I was able to laugh it off because we had talked about our past relation...read more
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by Terry Marsh
The topic of past relationships can be a delicate subject. People in love will sometimes ask questions that they don't really need answers to. But, there are also times that we...read more
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The romantic past of a wife should be discussed, and so should the husband's romantic past, just to start out on the fifty fifty balance of a relationship. Does the term engagem...read more
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First of all, open and honest communication is the lifeblood of any relationship. Therefore also the more increasingly open and honest, and thus the closer a relationship is s...read more
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by Lady Mermaid
If couples work hard at being friends first, and lovers second, then little issues like past relationships really shouldn't cause a great deal of strain to their current relatio...read more
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It is true that some husbands are sensitive to the romantic past of the wife. Some feel twinges of jealousy and fear that they don't make their wives truly happy. However, there...read more
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When I first saw this debate question, I couldn't believe my eyes. I cannot believe that in this day and age that not telling your spouse or significant other about your romanti...read more
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by Babbayaga
I am a strong believer in honesty. Do you think a man would truly accept that he was her first love? It could happen, depending on the age and circumstances. However,that is no...read more
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Communication is paramount in a healthy marriage. A wife who is unwilling to speak of her past immediately draws suspicion from her husband. Husbands who have no interest in t...read more
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There are limits to openness and honesty in the telling of a romantic past and respect for privacy by both parties is necessary. Does this sounds as if I am encouraging lying? ...read more
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I am a firm believer in the Now. Now is all we have. The past is just that, past. The future, well, that is always going to be unreachable. Now, it is what it is. When two ...read more
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This is an interesting question in these modern times. We would not even be asking this question going 30 or 40 years back as a wife would not be expected to have any past roman...read more
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by Kim Sharpe
My husband and I have been together close to four years now and he has never truly asked me flat out about my romantic past. And I never thought that was odd. I never came ri...read more
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Whether you mean it or not, your spouse can read messages into you discussion of past lovers - messages about his standing in your eyes, and also messages about you as a partner...read more
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Ladies...what you wear under that boring skirt is your business. Intelligence is quiet and does not want to be in the first row of the meeting. What you did and who you were a...read more
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There is such a thing as too much honesty. You see it every day. In fact, the odds that you practice what I like to call a selective honesty, is more then good. Have you ever be...read more
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by Terry Loving
This is truly a very interesting question, and in my opinion, the answer can by "Yes" and "No". Mostly, I would say "No." But first, let me clarify why "Yes" is equally importan...read more
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I am a firm believer that what you don't know cannot hurt you. I have run into far too many women who want to open up their book of love and tell me all about their past. This...read more
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by RahimAbdul
A woman past relationship would always makes a man a little uncomfortable. Its makes them feels that they are losing to someone's else. The more he doesn't know about you past t...read more
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by L.D. Gray
Relationships, specifically of the romantic sort, are very personal. Overtime we mature and grow into who we are and those relationships are a big part of our development. Som...read more
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Let me start this article by saying, "What went on with me and my lover's prior to my marriage or after my marriage, is my secrets and it's best for me to never share them with ...read more
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In many relationships today, it seems to be irrelevant to dwell on the past in a serious manner. As a matter of fact, this can be a detriment to those relationships, and can le...read more
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Remember the exciting dating period when you asked the person you recently met a million questions about his/her past? That was the time to ask questions about past relationshi...read more
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If you are a house wife living in a western country like US, where dating culture prevails and where getting separated and divorced is quite normal and frequent even for the fl...read more
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You must be kidding. Under no circumstance should you reveal this information to significant other. Given the rather fragile male ego this may lead to performance inhibitions a...read more
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This can be correlated with the topic about "Honesty is the best policy". What I had mentioned in the topic was, the Honesty itself contains a massive destruction. A timed-bomb ...read more
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by Gary Maclean
You are a troubled husband. Imagine you are in a one-sided relationship; your wife is pre-occupied with other "interests." You need a shoulder, so you go to a general chat site ...read more
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by pwill
Relationships bring out the best in us or the worse. Acceptance of this morsel of truth, we can also say; all intimate unions are different. We are all distinctively special an...read more
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I think that a wife should not tell her husband about her romantic past if that past currently has nothing to do with their married relationship now. I would never encourage an...read more
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My answer is a vociferous NO. A couple share their lives only after marriage and then there should be nothing that is hidden from each other. But before marriage, each person's ...read more
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by PattiM
What good could possibly come from telling your husband about your romantic past? Men basically, have not changed from the days of the caveman. He wants to be "the man"...to c...read more
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If she's asked, then of course she should. Just as he should if he's asked. I don't think that we're necessarily compelled to just spill out this history of our lives to our mat...read more
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by Tara Rijon
Despite one's desire to be open and honest with their spouse, any woman who tells her husband about her romantic past is laying the groundwork for disaster. It is every woman...read more
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