Why Snooping is Detrimental!

My partner and I have been together for just over four years now, and one of the reasons why the relationship is so solid, is because we trust each other, completely. When my beau says he's going out for drinks with the boys, that exactly what's he's doing, and he's never given me reason to think otherwise. We're very inclusive when it comes to spend time with each other's friends, and we don't keep secrets, secrets are poisonous. With all of that said, we also fully respect each other's privacy, and that means that neither of us engage in snooping around each other's Facebook, Hotmail, Gmail, or any other type of mail accounts.

Now, I should have prefaced the earlier statement with a little story about my history of snooping. I've been in two long-term relationships in the past twelve years, and at the beginning of both of them, I definitely did my fair share of tossing drawers, rifling shoeboxes and running around like a was a full blown FBI Agent, trying to accumulate as much information I possibly could. Go ahead, judge away, but don't act like you've never done it yourself! Or at least considered it. What I haven't done, is hacked into anyone's personal accounts. It's wrong, it's absurd, and it's ILLEGAL! But that doesn't seem to stop couples from hacking into each other's accounts, sneak reading their partner's private messages, acting like complete fools!

What the heck gives you the right, whether you're a man or a woman, to read your partner's private thoughts, and conversations? I'm sure many have you felt like your privacy has been invaded at one point or another, I mean, we've all been teenagers at one point in our lives right? Parents just love invaded their kids privacy! Okay, now, remember how enraged it made you? Why would you want to inflict that feeling on someone you love?

Sherlock Holmesing (yup, I just made Sherlock a verb) around in your partners private email accounts may seem like a harmless past time, but all you're doing is guaranteeing yourself a first class ticket to singledom.  You want to know something about them, here's a novel idea, ask them!