Honesty and Trust

If ever there was anything more fundamental to a healthy and lasting relationship it's honesty and trust. The kind where you trust one another so implicitly that you can share absolutely everything with them (yes, even that soul-crushingly humiliating thing you did, in your teens, when you were home alone! You know, the thing you've never told anyone about.)

I mean, we're talking about finding someone to share your life and home with, someone to possibly raise a family with. If you can't trust them enough to be completely honest with them then how can you even contemplate trusting them with your life?

If you have to pretend to be someone you're not just to keep your partner then surely you have to question if they really love you at all? 

Equally, if you can't trust someone enough to bare your all to them then you have to ask yourself just how much you actually care about them, because if you truly love someone then surely they deserve 100% of you?