Waaay Too Much Information

So he and I were chatting the other day and started discussing our pasts.  Yeah drinking and talking about your past can lead you down a road that you can not back up on.  He revealed to me the names of a few people I know that he has "mixed it up" with.  While part of me was okay with the fact that he wanted to share this information with me, another part said saying why, oh why are you sharing this information with me.  I was fine with hearing his number, but he took it a step further.  I knew of the one girl because he had already told me that he dated her.  The others kind of threw me off.  He asked my number and I obliged, then he asked the dreaded question, if he knew any of them.  The problem with he and I is that we are from the same city and have an overlapping circle of friends.  So therefore names mentioned raise eyebrows.  I asked him if he was really comfortable with me telling him who.  He paused for a moment and then said he did not want to know.  I know that men can't get that stuff out of their head and no matter what you do or the circumstances around your past it seems as if it a current reality to them.  They manipulate a past time into something that is untrue or does not exist.  I told him that I do not want him to change the way he views me or the way he views his friend because of something that happened before I ever knew him.  Now it's been a long time since I have "mixed it up" with anyone that he knows but the idea that I have been touched by another that he knows would  drive him crazy.  I have gone through that before with my kids father.  He didn't even know my oldest sons father, but the idea of he and I being together ruined our relationship and drove him crazy.  It's been 6 years since we have been together and he says that he still has jealousy issues about it.  Amazing that your past can wreak such havoc.  I truthfully told him that I don't really see or talk to these fellas anymore, but I do consider them friends, just as he still considers those girls a friends too.  Hell one of them is even my friend and she doesn't even know what is going on between he and I.

"When Is It Too Much Information?  How Much Information Can You Handle?"

Peace, Love and Chocolate