Should your past 'number' be any of your partner's business?
Some say full honesty, no secrets. Others say the past is the past. Does your partner have a right to ask — and to an answer?
Some say full honesty, no secrets. Others say the past is the past. Does your partner have a right to ask — and to an answer?
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Add your commentNobody asks for the number because they want a number. They ask because they want a reason to feel a certain way about you. Refuse the trap.
If you can't handle the answer, don't ask the question. The people who ask are never the people who can hear it calmly.
Double standard alert: watch how differently this thread treats a high number for a man vs a woman. The mask comes off fast.
Told the truth, watched his face change, and that look never fully left. Some honesty doesn't free you, it just hands them a weapon.
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