I'm currently seeing someone I really like and although this is something that has greatly affected me in a lot of ways, will telling him do any good?

I am at a much better place in my life at the moment especially mentally and this burden doesn't hold as much weight as it has used to.

I explained to him about my boundaries and he's been quite respectful of them all. Will bringing up this past of mine just do worse for me? I do feel like I would like to talk to him about it because it has affected me greatly and shaped me in a lot of ways (whether I've liked it or not).

But in the past, everytime I have brought it up, I feel the need to leave. I feel too vulnerable with them knowing. I don't want to ruin things between us because of this. It makes me self destruct when someone else knows and I don't know how to handle it. Has anyone been in a relationship with the other person never knowing?