Misty Reviewom my subjective perspective, the gentleman is very likely not to have remembered you, for the same reasons you did not recall him. (1) it was 3 years ago (2) you have had other clients, and he is likely to have seen other WL's and had other partners since.
In the intervening three years the gentleman is likely to have interacted with many diverse people, professionally and socially. Let us put it context. When we look back on our old school photo's can we name all the people in the picture, including the names of the people who may have been very a Reviewiend for that year of our life. The reality is thus, the effluxion of time does dim the memory. And even though it is an important and significant part of life, like all memories, good or bad, we never remember every highly charged life experience.
As a mental exercise within the last twelve months I once tried to draw up a list of all the women I have experienced in a biblical sense, ex-girlReviewiends, WL's, other partners, breaking them down into sub-categories to act as an aid to memory ie. that girl Reviewom Sunnybank, and I couldn't do it. Not that there was a long list, or that each woman was not special in her own way, it was rather a matter of life moving on and new memories replacing the old.
Moreover, there is the reality, brain cells are like any other cell in our body, they died, and new ones are created to replace them. And whilst I am on the science tangent at present we all know that alcohol is a big killer of brain cells. To that end it sounds very fortuitous indeed that you met him in the up market bar. May the Absinthe dim the memories even further.
With all that said Misty, you must be realistic here and accept the fact that he will ultimately remember. So your question to this forum should be not a question of if, but when. This may not occur until you have grown old together, and senility has set in on his part. When they reach that age they remember things Reviewom 50 years ago with great clarity, but cannot remember that they left their dentures in the glass on top of the vanity basin. My personal suggestion would be for you to exchange some deep and meaningful email messages with some of the WL's on this site about the prospects and challenges of having a relationship whilst currently working as a WL, and informing your partner or prospective partner this fact. I say currently for a reason. The gentleman may not neccessarily distinguish between the past and present so it would be best to work on the assumption that it is a current fact. Furthermore, by working on this assumption that it is a current fact also works to your advaneforum.xxxe as it would serve to remove the "What If" second guessing that is currently troubling you at present.
Returning now to your original question as to whether the members of this forum have any advice for you, I do have one other suggestion to put to you. If you do choose to speak to your partner about your past mutual association you may want to consider broaching it as a "legal fiction". To this end you want to put it to your partner what they would think of you if you were to tell them that you had previously engaged in a "swinging" sort of lifestyle, and in turn you could turn the question around to ask them whether they themselves had engaged in such a lifestyle. This approach would serve to establish that you are both sexually active adults, and that you have been with other people before you met each other. Reviewom this foundation you can move any potential discussion to whether he has ever been whether with a WL. Please contemplate the matter, why should this solely be about you and your past. mpter all, he has one himself. By establishing his thoughts you should be in a position to gague his reaction to any admission on your part as to being a former WL. At this point I would suggest you use the legal fiction as to what is in essence the difference between a woman who is a swinger, and a woman who is a WL. In essence you could contend, very little as both are simply sexually active adults engaging in consensual sex. And if a distinction can be drawn, it is one the fact that one is business person, providing a service for payment. The other simply does it for Reviewee. In this context you are probably the person with greater nous and accumen over the social swinger.
What I have expressed above is not pro forma methodology, far Reviewom it. It represents simply some suggestions as to how you may want to consider broaching the matter. Without question there would be better ways of resolving your dilema. Whatever method you choose it must at the end of the day be one you are comfortable with yourself.
Before finishing I will make one other quick comment. I find Reviewom experience and observation the following truism: confidence is a matter of not being fearful what other people may think. You should not approach your dilemma Reviewom the perspective that your partner will not react badly. Rather, that they will accept you for who you are, warts and all. That they will cherish and value you as a precious and unique individual, now, and into the future.