Should you keep secrets from your partner?

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We all want our romantic partners to trust us,and to be able to trust them in return.Does honouring that trust require the whole truth?Perhaps all relationships rely on little white lies, to a degree – like pretending not to notice an attractive neighbour, or claiming that your spouse is every bit as attractive as you thought 25 years ago. But what about deeper secrets? Some people would feel that certain painful truths might be better hidden from their partners because the acts could only be hurtful, or consider some secrets to be nobody else's business so long as no harm is done.Others would say that anything important needs to be fully out in the open between overs and that real love and intimacy can't thrive on anything else. Where do you stand?