Meet Charlie & Linda Bloom, authors of Secrets of Great Marriages

Do you believe that full disclosure is necessary in order to have a great marriage?

It’s important to define what the term ‘full disclosure’ really means.  It does NOT mean telling someone everything about what you have done or currently think or feel. Full disclosure is an agreement that has to do with the intention to share with another person those aspects of one’s life that are relevant to the relationship. The key word here is ‘relevant’ which is obviously a subjective term and subject to interpretation.
Nearly all of the couples that we interviewed for our book had a full disclosure (usually explicit, but in some cases implicit) agreement. This doesn’t however prove that such an agreement is necessary for all great marriages. The key...