Ex-partner kompromat: How shared secrets with partner cause tensions when you split – WBNews

It’s strange, isn’t it? When in a relationship with someone, you share the most intimate parts of your life and thoughts in your head with them, but then you break up, perhaps never to speak again, and they still know all those incredibly personal details about you. And it’s not just personal things either – opening up to a partner often results in them obtaining compromising material about you too. As Donald Trump has learned, kompromat – the Russian term for compromising material – from your personal life can have dangerous consequences if made public. And although we’re not all about to become President of the most powerful nation on earth, there are still shared secrets we’d rather stayed just that – secret. When in a relationship, a lot of people moan to their partner about their employers, friends and family members. But what if your partner becomes your ex, screen-shots those texts where you ranted about how much of a b****** your boss is being and decided to use them either to get revenge or to blackmail you? Then there’s the issue of sexts and nude snaps, which so many people now send to their romantic partners – although the majority now at least know never to send a picture with their face in. Some of us are extremely open people who tend to overshare even in the early stages of a relationship. But what if it all fizzles out and you immediately regret what you’ve told, sent or…more detail