In today's modern society it is unlikely that you will meet some one who does not have what they term as baggage floating around them. By this I mean the relationship you are just starting with someone new may be due to your leaving a relationship recently or way in the past.
During the initial stages of courtship it is only natural that you will compare the things that you like and the things that you do not like. It is at this stage that the decision can be made as to what if anything you tell your new partner about past relationships.
It may well be that they do not care what you did or didn't get up to before you met (at least that's what they say to your face) but in my experience most if not all new partners want to know of any skeletons hiding in your closet that may come back to haunt them. Maybe it is the ex fiancé's brother whose dislike of the way you treat her may cause some physical threat.
Perhaps you went out with a real life bunny boiler who will track you down a try to ruin any future relationship you have just because they can't have you. Whatever the reason the answer as to how much you tell is always in my opinion going to be everything. By everything I do mean every tiny little detail that you can possibly envisage causing you a problem even if it is the fact that you still have a key on your key ring from the relationship ten years previous and the house does not exist anymore. Or it could be about the actual amount of children bearing your name or at least being able to claim your name.
By being in a new relationship you may wish to establish trust in fact if you wish the relationship to continue you had better be trying to establish it. The best way forwards is to open your soul to the other person and let them see you at both your strongest and weakest, allowing them access to all the deeds you got up to in the past is a sure fire way of establishing that trust. One way I found was to write my life story as a blog and allowing them to read it at their will, accidently at first of course, but generally being female they asked to read it
IF, there is nothing in your story that offends or intrigues them then you have hit a home run,
or if you have offended them they have run home. They have run home because they could not reciprocate more likely (that's the reason I always give to myself).
Should the latter occur then count you're blessings.
Write it as the next chapter of you're life to be presented to the next "the one".
