How much of "YOU" should your partner know??
By chiyochan
@chiyosan (30183)
Philippines
August 26, 2011 9:08am CST
I meant, like is it necessary that all of you, all information should be made known to your partner? Like say physically.. should he/she know everything in your body?
For your past: should you let him know everything about the past.. all of it?
your plans: would he/she care about it.. should you be working on it, your plans...
what about passwords in networking sites, email, etc...
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9 responses
@gaiza12 (4884)
• Philippines
17 Apr 12
I tell my bf everything (I consider him as my partner so I believe it still counts ) I don't hide anything from him, he knows everything about me and my family. I also know everything about him. We don't hide something from each other. It's our way of welcoming the other to each ones life without any limitations. And yes, he knows my passwords and my account info like I know his passwords and even his bank account info. We trust each other to a point that there is nothing we don't know about the other.
@neildc (17239)
• Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines
31 Aug 11
i think i know her better than she knows me.
personally i prefer not to tell her everything about me.
there are some of those secrets we have that are better left secret to her.
@pbbbsra (1214)
• Philippines
27 Aug 11
Me and my husband have very great trust on each other. When we were starting to know each other, we started talking about who we are, from our childhood up to the time we met each other. I know about his past and he knows that he is the first man I ever loved.We talked about what we like and what we don't like. We talked about our friends, we talked about our families and the role we play in our own family. We talk about our plans and even when we were starting we built that habit of telling or consulting each other first before making a decision. When something good or bad happen, we are the first ones to know. We also share our passwords, and I don't see anything wrong with that. I know his passwords too. I don't open his mail like he is opening mine but I trust him and I am not hiding anything so I think there should not be a problem with that. He also do the first move of showing me his mail, sometimes he intentionally ask me to read a particular mail in his inbox and I know that he is doing that to show me that he trusts me too.
@jokerzhunter (129)
• United States
27 Aug 11
It depends on your plans with that other person. Your partner should know you enough so that he learns how you really are, thats why hiding secrets should be avoided if your planning to have a long term relationship with that person. It is a shame when you wake up one morning and realize that the person next to you is more of a stranger then you thought. As far as passwords and those kind of things, sure, if you know that your partner is a trustworthy person who won't try to mess up your life, then go ahead. So overall, if you and your partner have hopes of a long stable happy relationship then you should know everything about each other.
@dreamy1 (3811)
• United States
26 Aug 11
I am open but everyone needs privacy and I don't think you can really know another person totally. There are things I told my boyfriend early in our relationship about my past experiences that I wished now I hadn't only because he would use it and throw it back in my face for a long time after I told him which I didn't like. I told him these things because I don't feel I had any secrets and I wanted to share everything with him. There are things about me or how I feel that I will never share with another human being.
He was suspicious of what I was doing and thought I was doing something I wasn't. He wanted to look at my email so I let him. I gave him my password because I had nothing to hide. I don't care about his password because I trust him. I'm not someone to get into people's accounts like that.
@surfer222 (1714)
• Indonesia
26 Aug 11
i think the most important thing to know about me or my partner in a relationship is my "true color" and my partner "true color". Don't wait after the marriage to show your partner your true color so there's no regret after the marriage. I know a guy who tell me that he feel scammed by his wife because it turns out that all the personality that the wife shows before the marriage is all fake and he really see the real her after the marriage.
Future plan is also important to know so we both know weather there's a different in principal or not. As for password etc, i don't think it's really that important.
@goggles213 (735)
• Philippines
27 Aug 11
I think you should be transparent with your partner so that trust can build up but at the same time, you should keep something for your self as well especially for the sake of the relationship. What I usually do is I answer truthfully if she asks me anything about my past but I leave something out that I know can hurt her. As for passwords on e-mail and networking sites, she knows all of it. Networking sites and your personal e-mail can sometimes cause doubts so I make it a point to share it with her so that we are both transparent.