Acceptance?

Thinking about my past, I wondered if it was alright that your partner wouldn't know everything about you - baggage and all. I wonder if I have to share everything with the person; not that I won't want to, rather I do not know how that will affect her perceptions of me. My history is no average Joe's; its way beyond. in the negative sense. It feels terribly sad actually; it feels so lonely to have no one to share all the things and no one to comfort me. My marriage just ended - I yearn for companionship, but yet shrink from it. Its like wanting to clutch a beautiful rose, but yet the thorns are so numerous and large that it is scary. ...