Do you think married couples should tell each other their e-mail passwords?

Question

I.E. - Should a married couple share everything as an indication of complete trust or is it a good idea to have private conversations.

I'm not married, I'm just curious.

Answer 1

If you have nothing to hide there shouldn't be a problem with sharing your password.

Answer 2

No everything should not be shared. It is not that you are keeping anything from him/her. Everyone is entitled to some privacy. Being that I am a woman I chat with my best friend back and forth on email. Jokes and whatever else we want to talk about. Sometimes there are things that just need to be kept private. And an indication of complete trust would be someone NOT needing the password because they know you are not doing anything wrong.

Answer 3

It's not a matter of having "nothing to hide."

Even in a marriage, individuals are deserving of some private space. It's entirely up to each couple to decide just how completely they want to share.

Do couples share their deepest, darkest fantasies? Not all, I would wager.

I "trust" that my wife is not engaging in anything that would be threatening to our relationship.

Yes; it is most indeed a question of "trust."

Trust between two people in love does not necessarily require complete, total disclosure and emptying our pockets on the table.

Answer 4

My husband has so many freakin e-mail addresses (from before we met) and I have no idea what the passwords are. He has a bunch of different generic passwords (just a bunch of random characters including upper and lower case letters and misc characters) and I actually started using one of them for my own e-mail accounts. I have no reason to look at his e-mail accounts and the same goes for him. I know if I ever had any doubts I could ask to see any of his e-mail accounts and he'd gladly show me because he has nothing to hide and I'd do the exact same for him. THAT to me, in an indication of complete trust.

Answer 5

No, I think passwords should be confidential. Yes you are married but you should still be allowed your own emails without your spouse reading them. I email my friends and they email me about things sometimes that I dont want my husband to read. Not bad things just personal. Everybody needs some degree of privacy even if they are married! You can trust someone without knowing their every thought!

Answer 6

It depends.

In MY case, I know his passwords to EVERYTHING. He cannot remember them half the time.

He does not know mine. I refuse to tell him because I have some very sensitive files on my computer and he has accidently crashed it several times before. For the safety of my computer, I put in my passwords when he has to use it. I even have a web block on it that I disable for him if I am in the room.

The crashes were not deliberately, he just does not know what he is doing.

Answer 7

I look at it like this...whats the point of having the other persons password..if you trust them? I totally trust my huband on and off the computer...so no I dont think it is absolutly needed to have each others passwords

Answer 8

My wife and I share an email address and I don't really understand why couples feel the need to have separate email addresses unless it is for business purposes. My wife and I have nothing to hide from each other.

Answer 9

I think that if you trust each other than it isn't important that you share everything. Every person has to have a private side to themselves that is what keeps people interesting. How boring would it be if we knew everything about everyone there would be no desire to discover more?

Answer 10

Share everything! If you have something to hide then your obviously doing something that your partner may not agree with. But if you share everything and tell eachother everything you may be surprised how OK these things are with your spousal unit.