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Right or Wrong? after dating for over a year do you have the right to read each others emails without asking?
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Right or Wrong? after dating for over a year do you have the right to read each others emails without asking?

this morning i checked his and found flirty emails from a coworker. and he's the one who's furious that i looked at his email.


    




peilthetraveler
Of course he is angry...he got caught. Of course, it does say that you have trust issues, but as you found out, you were right in those issues. I would never read my girls email, unless i thought something was seriously wrong. Good thing you found out now though instead of years down the road


Ell
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if anyone read my email i'd knock 'em out- no question! no one ever has the right to invade my privacy, not if i am married for a million years!

HOWEVER you DO have the right to expect that he wouldn't have emails like that, or be hiding anything that could potentially affect your relationship


zoni_tonya
WRONG WRONG WRONG!

You can be married to someone for 60 years...and that person STILL has a right to his/her privacy. You crossed a line. I'm not sure your relationship will be able to continue if you can't get a handle on your trust issues.

~zoni~


Sparkles
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Well you should trust each other. I really think that reading each other's emails is the same thing as checking to see who called their cell phones and opening their mail. It is an invasion of privacy. But you must have thought you had a reason to look at his email as you didn't trust him. He is mad because you caught him.


Robbie
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no
of course not


CHELLE BELLE
You don't ever have the right to read your partners emails. He is your boyfriend not your child or your prisoner. If you don't trust him, then why are you with him?


AtiaoftheJulii
I would say you don't have the right, but after reading what you discovered, I might start checking my bf's email.

Your boyfriend is upset because you caught him!


Evil Genius
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WRONG! Every human being has the right to some privacy. I've been married for years and won't look at anything of hers I'd consider to be private.

It's called trust and it's the cornerstone of a good relationship.


mjm52
No. I've been married a very long time and I have never read my husband's e-mails, nor has he ever read mine. I suppose I could if I wanted to, I just asked him and he said I could anytime. He could read mine too, I don't care. I guess we just never thought of it. I trust him and if there's anything in there I should know about I'm sure he'd tell me. I think this is a privacy and trust issue. If you trust your boyfriend then you don't need to and if you respect his privacy you wouldn't.


nana
Nope, you don't have that right. You violated his privacy. He has a right to be furious. He'll probably change his password and won't trust you anymore to let you know what it is. Why were you snooping anyway? Do you have reason to suspect that he's seeing or interested in seeing somebody else? If so, and if you want to maintain the integrity of the relationship, you owe it to yourself AND to him to be open and honest and ask him about it. You were the one being sneaky so don't go putting this off on him.


honeybunny
Good you deserved it. You should not check his email at all. You are not married to him you in invade his privacy. You should wouldn't like if he did it to you. Now that you know the question is are you going to stay in a relationship knowing that the guy is getting naughty email? If it where me I would reevaluate my relationship, and what going wrong that he has to send that kind of email to some other woman.


Butterfly Girl
Wrong, my husband and I have known each other almost 8 years and we don't do that. We respect one another's privacy. There is trust!


sire isaac newton of yore
It's absolutly wrong. However this flirting going on with a co-worker needs to be addressed now that you've found out. Not only do you owe your better half an appology, but so does he cause if he kept it from you then perhaps there is something that he didn't want you to know whatever that may be.


n0s
It is wrong because it is an invasion of privacy the same way as listening to his phone convos.


They call me ... Trixie.
I don't think you EVER have the right to read someone else's mail without their permission - email or snail mail, even if you've been married for 50 years. It's rude and a gross invasion of privacy. If they tell you that you can it's one thing, but if you don't have their permission, then don't do it.


anoldmick
Hon, you blew it. You don't have that right even after marrying the dude - nor does he. Neither of you is the property of the other. And ya know - most of my adult life, I have worked almost exclusively with women. And you're darn right I flirted with them, and they with me. But as long as I was married - twenty years to my first wife - that's as far as it went. The failure of that marriage did not, in fact, have a bloody thing to do with my flirting or her taking on another guy. Tell y'what, sugar - you pull the jealous wife bit over his flirting, and you'll drive him right into the arms of another woman! He may eventually do that anyway, but it'd be stupid to grease the skids under him!


Tom
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You NEVER have the right to look at your partners emails. There is such a thing as PRIVACY!!!!


Lovebug123
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He's not furious because you invaded his privacy, he's furious because he got caught. (It is wrong to read someone's email, without asking no matter how long you've been dating)


pitmanette
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Here's how you tell-your email belongs to you-see? yours is you! His email belongs to him. Period! It's not rocket science. Its common courtesy!


lovely
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They are always furious when they are caught.


Barne-Hurst
It is wrong! Everyone is entitled to their privacy! Whatever you
think you might find.


cashville_con
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hell no thers these things called privacy and trust. you are a insecure sneaky habitual linecrosser. thats a deal breaker. i hope he drops you like a bad habit


JAZZY
The two of you should have an open line of communication, trust and honesty between you. The length of time together doesn't matter. It is the value of each other and respect that should be determined by now.I think it is wrong to read anything of his without his permission, just as I think it is wrong of him to read anything of yours without asking


plaplant8
I think even if you are married for years you don't really have the right to read other people's emails. Maybe you should put an end to this guy and start over. If I want to show my husband something I get in an email, I do, but would be upset if he was in there without asking. Just like getting into someones purse or diary.... you may not like what you find.

Whatever happened to privacy?


Buttcarl
E-mail should not be read except by the person who it belongs to. You should not even know the password. If the person gave you their password, then you should honor then and not go where you don't belong. I would rule this as "wrong" on both of your accounts:P


lakecountry40
That's right, just like opening someone Else's snail mail is really illegal. At least here in Canada. Privacy first.


Poppet
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He's mad because you were in the wrong. You have no right to anything in his private correspondence with other people.

However, now that the truth is out...what are you going to do about it?


mary
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I haven't read my husband's mails because he works away from home, but what does he have to hide? If he has nothing to hide he shouldn't be worried. I guess he's bothered because he feels that you should trust him, but he still shouldn't be so angry at you. Tell him to chill out! Now you might want to apologize and ask yourself why you don't trust him. You probably wouldn't want him reading your e-mail. You should have some privacy in a relationship.


sue brew
wrong. very wrong ! you each have a right to your own privacy, if its addressed to him then its his, if its addressed to you then its yours. I've been married 25 years we don't open each others mail, read each others txts nor read each others e mails. right that's that out of the way, now as for the real reason you opened his mail - you were suspicious and from the sound of it you had good reason to be, you will never trust him if he gets mail like that, it was either good intuition or you have other reasons for checking up on him ? . . . . . . . . . .


Ade
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I dont see any reason you should be reading his emails.





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