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I’m with PBA on this one. I think that they should each know everything about each other – from major illness to acts of stupidity or illegality. Nowadays it is a very small world. You never know when your past can come back to haunt you. Imagine being married for several years and you bump into somebody from your past who assumes that your spouse knows everything about you. Suddenly this person starts reminiscing. “Do you remember the time that we did…….?”. A chance meeting such as this could be the start of the dissolution of a marriage. Marriage is an institution that should be based on trust. If there are too many skeltons in the closet, problems will almost certainly arise – the only question is when. While it may be painful and embarassing, it is far better to cancel a wedding than to go through a divorce years later when it will affect not only a spouse but young children, as well.