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I would never have a joint account with my husband. We have different friends, different interests, we are different people. Although he almost never goes on Facebook so maybe it wouldn't make much of a difference there. But for things like email and forums - no. Also, most of his email is work related so that would be a real pain in the butt to try to sort through all that stuff. If it works for others - that's fine with me but it's definitely not something for us.
My wife and I have separate email and FB accounts, etc, but we share our passwords with each other. She is also familiar with this forum and a sports forum that I frequent.
My wife and I have separate email and FB accounts, etc, but we share our passwords with each other. She is also familiar with this forum and a sports forum that I frequent.
Yeah - my husband and I know each other's passwords to everything.
I have my own thoughts, but I wonder what you all think.
Are you comfortable with couples who have joint accounts?
Do you/Would you have a joint account with your SO?
Under what conditions?
We have one joint e-mail account that we use for communication with the kids teachers, schools and coaches. It saves us from having to forward communication to eachother and makes it easy for both of us to stay in the loop with our kids. We also have a calendar that is attached to that account (gmail and google calendar). We can both access that to see what is on the schedule on any given day. It just makes our lives easier.
Other than that, nothing is joint. I do have his password for his e-mail and he has mine, but it's rare that we need to access eachothers accounts. He also has a work e-mail that I don't have access to. I have a password on my phone, more to keep the kids from downloading games and messing with my settings. He'll ask to use my phone on occasion (to view work documents...his blackberry sucks in that regard) but he'd never just pick up my phone and rummage through it.
I have a FB account but I've only got a few friends on it. I don't post anything, I just use it to keep up with them. I guess if he wanted to log into it he could, there's nothing on there that's all too entertaining though.
I would keep everything separate. A married buddy of mine keeps everything separate and he even has another account that his wife doesn't know and only a small portion of his income goes in there (just to not draw any attention).
I have my own thoughts, but I wonder what you all think.
Are you comfortable with couples who have joint accounts?
Do you/Would you have a joint account with your SO?
Under what conditions?
I am neither "comfortable" or "uncomfortable" about other people having joint social media accounts.
Whatever works for them is fine with me.
My husband and I would never share an email acct because we each have so many different types of contacts that it would be too much to manage and important emails might slip through the cracks.
I like having separate Facebook accts because he sends me the sweetest messages there and we get to flirt back and forth with each other
One email or facebook acct might really work for people who are retired and spending all our time together though.
I would keep everything separate. A married buddy of mine keeps everything separate and he even has another account that his wife doesn't know and only a small portion of his income goes in there (just to not draw any attention).
Yeah - I would not be cool with that. Neither would my husband. That's just dishonest.
Yeah - I would not be cool with that. Neither would my husband. That's just dishonest.
How is it dishonest? Are you against separate accounts in general? She never asked, he never lied. He has two separate sources of income. His main job has everything going into the known account. His side earnings a majority portion goes into it the account that she knows about. If I ever got married I wouldn't mind the wife having a secret account on her own. Just because I married doesn't mean I can't maintain a sense of privacy or individuality. If you wouldn't be cool with that then you definitely wouldn't be cool with the fact that he is trying to close the secret account and get a Swiss bank account (privacy laws are tighter in Switzerland).
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