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Should a wife tell her husband about her romantic past?

Results so far:

Yes
48% 245 votes Total: 514 votes
No
52% 269 votes
  • 1 of 16

    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

  • 2 of 16

    by Christina Rivas

    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

  • 3 of 16

    by Erica Whitaker

    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

  • 4 of 16

    by Jessica Collins

    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

  • 5 of 16

    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

  • 6 of 16

    by Cheryl Burger

    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

  • 7 of 16

    by Thomas Edison Jefferson

    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

  • 8 of 16

    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

  • 9 of 16

    by Danelle Karth

    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

  • 10 of 16

    by Jennifer Eblin

    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

  • 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

  • 12 of 16

    by Joseph Whalen

    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

  • 13 of 16

    by Valentine Logar

    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

  • 14 of 16

    by Teresa Ann Grimes

    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

  • 15 of 16

    by Debs Greasley

    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

  • 16 of 16

    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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  • 1 of 27

    by Adele Gregory

    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

  • 2 of 27

    by Vivian Edwards

    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

  • 3 of 27

    by Anthony Ocasio

    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

  • 4 of 27

    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

  • 5 of 27

    by Bryan W. Alaspa

    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

  • 6 of 27

    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

  • 7 of 27

    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

  • 8 of 27

    by Barbara Kasey Smith

    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

  • 9 of 27

    by D. Edward Hughes

    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

  • 10 of 27

    by Lauren Scrivo

    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

  • 11 of 27

    by Ramalingam Subramaniam

    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

  • 12 of 27

    by Bernard Jpseph

    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

  • 13 of 27

    by Budianto Dermawan Ng

    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

  • 14 of 27

    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

  • 15 of 27

    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

  • 16 of 27

    by Mary Caliendo

    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

  • 17 of 27

    by Tharian Mathew

    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

  • 18 of 27

    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

  • 19 of 27

    by Misfit Stranger

    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

  • 20 of 27

    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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