Truth and your relationship

[Sunflowers]

I'm a bit on the different side. I prefer open, unabashed honesty, because I give it in return. I cannot and do not hide parts of my past because I am ashamed of them. It is against my nature. However, I understand this is a difficult thing for most people to do themselves, so I can be somewhat understanding when others do not feel the same way.

Also, I have a story for you guys.

I met my BF of three years at work. He and I hit it off as friends within a week or so, and it did not look to be progressing to anything more because we were both with partners at the time. Of course, things occurred - my significant other at that time cheated on me (multiple times, I came to later find out), as well as his FI cheated on him as well.

We began to date. He wanted complete honesty. I did as well. I gave it; he did not. Over the next year, I continued to catch him in these little lies about his past that he had hid. It hurt me because of how much honesty was stressed in our relationship by both parties. It took two years to be able to finally forgive him, but I did - he had no malicious intent when he hid what he did, merely embarrassment of what he had done in the past. Something like that I can forgive.