We haven’t really discussed past relationships in depth. Comments here and there. He’s got pictures of some and has asked me if I minded them. I don’t, nor do I care that he is in contact with some of his ex-girlfriends.

I told him that we both have a past, and there are some people in my past that I still have contact with because I still care about them.

But we’ve never gotten into depth about the “whys” of broken relationships. I know that his girlfriend before me wanted marriage and he didn’t want to spend his life with her because she was too controlling. Another girlfriend was black and he’s white and his family did not approve.