Can too much truth telling hurt a relationship?

It does sometimes but being honest pays a lot. And privacy? u shouldnt be thinking about it when u got married. I always believe that lie can ruin every relationship! it may not be now but it will be. ^-^

hi braveheart! honestly, i don't think so. i remember this so well. a few years back when my husband and i are still dating, a married guy started giving me advances even though he knew i was seeing somebody else. i felt it was very rude of him because i admire him and respect him. and for him to take my hand and kissing it while i am in his car and he was on his way to take me to my boyfriend's home was really disgusting for me. i told my boyfriend about it. he felt bad about the guy, but he said he trusted me. then my good friend who also knew the other guy said that i should protect my boyfriend by not telling him everything. but i trust my boyfriend so much and i wouldn't want him learning about it at a later time and blaming me for it. my friend is so used to lying to her boyfriend that all they do is fight because the guy can't trust her. in the end, i am now happily married while she is still single at age 44. so i think that honesty pays. i travel a lot around the country and outside, and i am with men constantly. but my husband can sleep secure knowing that he can trust me. :-) God bless you!

Hi braveheart! I have been honest with my husband before and after we got married. If he ask me something, I will truthfully answer it and I believe that he never lies to me too. Everything that I have done in the past, he knows although of course I really didn't have to tell him the details. I think that honesty in a relationship will make it stronger but I really don't deny the fact that some people have to keep some secrets from their partner for the sake of the relationship. Just my thoughts my friend. Take care and have a nice day. :)

I think that too much info is not really needed and it could effect the relationship. I do think you should be honest but if you leave out some stuff that is okay. If it isn't something he needs to know and it would only hurt him if he knew I wouldn't tell him.

Sometimes there are words better not said that causes a lot or deep harm. Telling the truth is right, but too much, well for me there is always a limitation. It depends on the situations and how the person will take it.

it depends to the person if s/he is willing to accept the truth. it can be that telling the truth will destroy your relationship. but at least, you told him/her the truth. you are honest about yourself and that you really want your relationship to work. and maybe because someday the secrets that you kept will somehow leaked out. it is also a good thing to keep things to your self a thing or two. but take note: if you really love your boyfriend/girlfriend, husband/wife, you are willing to tell him/mer the truth even if you know that it will destroy the relationship. you have the courage to face him/her and tell him/her the truth. because in the future, s/he will get hurt if s/he find it out.

you are right that telling truth about anything can be hurt our partner feeling although we o it in good intention. be lying still needed to maintain good relation between husband and wife as long us they know each other the limit of lying. let me give example, if a wife's cooking too much salty, in order to tell the wife directly its better if the husband tell how much appreciate him to her coz she already cooking him meal and asked her wife taste her cooking and asking her opinion first. does it enough salt or too much salt. by this thing, i m sure the wife wont be feel unappreciate by her cooking. but for sure, there are still kind of things that should be tell each other in order to avoid misunderstanding. as like your past and your dislikes to your spouse. telling truth in good way, i dont think so it can make hurt more

yes too much truth telling will hurt relations and I have gone through such times

That depends, sometimes it is great to tell the truth, it sets a person free, but I guess that there are some situations were the truth should stay a secret.

Hi braveheart07! Too much of truth telling can hurt a relationship. This happens because those in relationship when the fight or do a verbal bashing use these information against the partner to hurt them. I do not agree that there should be secrets between married couples. If the secret comes to be known in future it would cause more harm.But one should also realise that whatever happened was in the past and if he partner is faithful to you in the present nothing else should matter.

I think it is true. No matter how close you are with your spouse, both of you still need your own privacy. You don't have to tell every truth to your spouse. Sometimes the truth will be hurtful. Telling the beautiful lies are sometimes necessary. Such as if your wife is so fat, you don't have to say it.

of coure. i think we should keep a little secret. that is not lie. the secret is not a thing that will hurt anyone. or the secret is a lie. never lie to your partner or you will be sorry and not been forgiven forever.

I don't think honesty would harm a relationship. It will help develop better mutual understanding and trust which will make sure a happy couple. Lying, on the other hand, could destroy or ruin any kind of ralationship. If you married someone, there should be privacy stuff among you two. You would not like to marry someone with many privacies or secrets, cos you may even wonder if you know this guy at all.

The white lie sometimes is also a kind of loving body now. Even if the couple.

yes...i lost someone

The old adage "Too much of anything is not good" best fits to this situation. i think telling too much truth to a partner can also be harmful: to the person being told, to the one confessing, and indeed to the relationship itself. Take, for instance, a situation at the work place. You tell your partner that at the office you accidently bumped into this person, and during a "sorrY' embrace your lips touched; you froze there and didn't realise what was happening. The partner being told will not take kindly to this report. They will conclude that something is going on, and yet it was just some spontaneous occurrence, like we al go through on a daily basis.

No matter what it takes to tell the truth, even if I cry I will tell it to my parner. In a relationship there should be honesty coz its a strong foundation of any relationship. By bieng honest you show your respect, despite the hurt its ok to handle that than living in a lie. No matter how much people lie the truth will be revealed and its nice living in an honest relationship.

i kinda think telling the truth is ALWAYS better than lies and half truths, with ourselves and with each other its how you build trust and a lasting relationship if there is any shot at it, its that

Yeh as they say truth hurts..

too much of anything is bad for your health :-) i guess in a relationship, there are things that you need to be honest about and there things that you need to be silent about not lie :-) i do believe that no matter how intimate you become to each other, for self propriety i think you need keep something for yourself, those that won't really matter in your relationship but do matter to yourself. I believe that the truth shall set you free. Question: which truth? and which will it set free? from what ? ( just being intuitive)