Without a doubt. Not being accepting of someone's past shows control tendencies, but that's just my opinion. If a person cannot accept that you are who you are because of your past, then something is amiss in the relationship. Unless you have been unfaithful to your partner in the past, he or she should let it go and focus on who you are as a person now.

 WE do not need to dwell on peoples pasts but look ahead to the future .I also think we can learn from our pasts but not to the point of holding it over our heads as ammunition for arguments.

 My partner knows everything about my past, and i can tell you i`m not proud of some of the things i did, but as he said they happened way before i meet him, he loves me for what i am now, not for what i was

 Everyone has a past, which mature adults should be able to handle. That being said, my partner gets mad if I bring up anything that happened before i was part of his life.

 If you plan on getting married and making the relationship last yes.

 Because of our own insecurities, we find it difficult to accept our partner's past. Unless you were forced to be with that person, you shouldn't hold his past against him, because it is your own choice to love him. Loving someone is loving ALL of him, including his past. Bear in mind that his past is what molded him into the spectacular person you love today.

 I think as long as they have changed or grown from their past then it should be accepted. Its not fair to punished someone for something they did years age especially if they didn't even know their current partner. We all have pasts and we all have to deal with them but you can't change what you've done you can only accept it, grow from it and try to change. If someone loves or cares about you enough to reveal the skeletons that they're not proud of shows that they trust you to accept not just the good parts of them but as well as the bad. And by rejecting their past you are rejecting them too because its a part of them, its what brought them to their current place and what made them who they now are.

 I really beleave people can change they probably just had something yhey needed to cope with at the time humans can only take so much

 Well, It's only fair isn't It. You cannot change the past but only do good in the present and plan well for the future.

 It can be tough, but hey! Do you like him for who he is today>? If so, then you are in great shape. Now if he is an ax murderer I would question your wisdom staying with him, but I am certain he is not. Focus on the major things right now and though the past may be crazy....whose past isn't crazy with stuff that we would all like to change. All we can do from here is look forward and do the best we can to be who we should be. Looking at the past can only discourage a person, looking to the future is always encouraging.

 Yes people learn from their past and if you cant learn to except someones past how can you have a relationship with that person anyway everyone has one!

 Yes! Partners should accept each others past, especially if they have been told everything going into the relationship. Sometimes partners keep things hidden until after they have got in the relationship! That what causes so many breakups to happen! Partners can only accept what they know or have been told! Honesty is only the true way to help your partner accept your past and move on in the relationship!

 If you love someone you have to take them, good and bad or pass them over and move on. Also you cannot bring the past up to them after you wed or decide to live together. If a person can't do this then it would be best to forget about a relationship with that person. The past is just that, the past, just look for the future and make sure it goes right.

 You wouldn't be with your partner if you hadn't done the things you did in life... Everything you've ever done led you to that person.. That point in time when you met them. So of course you forgive their past... It was meant to happen.

 We have to be accepting of our past ,i have been married twice and have three children to my first husband there my life, I went on to marry my now husband and we had two more children ,we love all our children equally and although he was never married before me he accepts this if i too had met him and he had a previous wife or children too i would have definitely accepted this because there is none of us perfect in this life and we need to take every ounce of happiness that should come our way

 There is no point in digging our's or your partners past. Living in the present and thinking about the future should be the order of the day

 We should accept some one's past if we really love that person but yes it is important for that person to give up his/her past bad habits.

 You should accept someones past if she /he has changed there is no point in being against him/her. One should accept him or her if they really love each other

 Yes, I agree with you