Spouses sharing an email address

[mathias1979]

my wife and I share an e-mail address...but then we also have seperate ones as well (although we know each other's passwords to those). I had mine prior to meeting her...kept it because I was in grad school and didn't want all that grad school related stuff cluttering up our mutual account.

 

[Nobility]

Its a personal choice. I have my own and he nevers goes on his...

Heh! Sounds like us!

Now seriously we have 3. I have my personal one with a name suitable to me and he has his with a name for him. I know his password, he would know mine if he listened! And we have a joint family one for the work type emails.

 

[Linnis]

That's more of just how things worked out, not really an issue of accountability. I find it odd that some married people will share a bed, but don't trust one another enough to have separate e-mail accounts. Just seems weird to me.

I agree.

DH and I do not share E-mail and we're okay with that.

 

[Oblivious]

We each have an account on Yahoo! but we each know each other's password too.

It's not really a big deal to either of us. <shrugs>

 

[becky81101]

dh has 1 hotmail account and 1 work account. i have 1 hotmail account and 1 work account. although, my work account is outlook on our home computer, so it's usually right there open 24/7. we know each other's passwords. one thing i like about having separate ones is the love emails i get throughout my day i just got one about 2 minutes before reading this thread, and it made my day!
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[rainbowpromises]

No need to share, but also no need to not share. The only reason that my husband and I ended up with seperate emails is because he was getting so much junk mail that he blocked all aol addresses. Unfortunately our pastor uses aol so it created a problem for church business. However if my husband were to open and look through my email folder, which he could because it is open as soon as I log on to my profile, he would find nothing that he could not read. He might get bored with women's health tips, sermon notes from various pastors worldwide, Awana updates and pollen reports. Sprinkled in between all that are emails from my one soon to be close friend from online, my one close friend from camp and his family.

I can't imagine his email list being any more interesting than mine. Golf weekly, farmer news, game site invitations and spam.

 

[humblet]

I don't think it's right or wrong either way. My husband has his own out of necessity because he gets *so many* emails with his job, but even if that weren't the case, we'd still probably have separate accounts. We do know each other's passwords, but that's more for 'just in case' situations if we'd need to get info. for the other person. And I think if my husband had to wade through all my girlie-type emails and stuff that interests me but not him so much, it would drive him crazy, lol. Same for me with him

 

[Sascha Fitzpatrick]

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[ksdedee74]

We have our own but we check each others all the time for each other. At first I wasn't sure about dh knowing my password. But he has never checked it without me asking him to. Example. I was waiting for an email and couldn't be near the computer to check for it. He asks me to check his constantly. He doesn't really like computers. The only reason we don't have just one is we had both before we were married, and we like to not have to sort through the others extra stuff.

 

[Flipper]

We have our own domain, so we have multiple addresses for each other, and we have access to each other's accounts.

 

[LynnMcG]

I voted no, because my friends share an email address and it makes me crazy. He opens my emails (not a big deal because I don't care if he reads them) and then deletes them when he's done. So she never reads them.

My husband knows my password and could check my email at anytime. Just like here. I never write anything he couldn't read. But having a seperate email address just prevents confusion.