Just realised that I’m not at all a ten. Although I do want all cutlery to be washed before I used it - don’t most people? I’ll share food, like, say, chips, that isn’t already partly eaten. Half a sausage? OK. The gravy around it? No. And I wouldn’t use their fork for it.
1 and 1. I’d probably eat anything indeed if nobody actually bit into it.
I have differing levels for food and drink. Food is OK to share if it’s hard and discrete, like a bag of candy or chips or something. Drinks are never OK unless there’s only one container and no more liquid around for miles. I have a strong aversion to saliva. Looking at a piece of food after someone has bitten into it and it’s all mushed and wet is totally nasty to me.
This may explain why I don’t have an SO.
I don’t care. My boyfriend sometimes tries to refrain from sharing when he has a cold, but I always tell him that if I’m going to catch something from him, it’s not going to be because we shared a beer.
I’ve been surprised at how many people voted themselves a 1. No germ phobias with their SO. That is a very healthy attitude.
I may have to reevaluate my own remaining germ issues. As I get older they are less and less of an issue. I’ve been with my SO over 20 years and their isn’t many experiences we haven’t shared together.
No phobia here. I’ll go one further - I generally don’t have a problem sharing food with people I’ve only just met.
Though I’m totally with chizzuk - saliva in any case is not cool.
I used to have a problem with sharing food. After wading knee deep into raw sewage on several occasions, having raw sewage flung into my eyes and open mouth, and a few other disgusting things, sharing food and drink just doesn’t bother me anymore.
I share tongues with my wife (so to speak) so why would I bother worrying about germs from her food? I do regularly finish what she is too full to eat and also share a beer from time to time.
I don’t share tongues with my kids and grandkids, but I still feel they are part of my germ neighborhood. Doesn’t bother me in the least. Of course, all bets off if someone has a cold or other infectious disease.
I don’t have much issue with sharing food with the SO except for one thing, and it has nothing to do with germs.
You see, he grew up in a household with an abusive father who, among other things, would simply eat all the good food (or just all the food) and leave nothing for anyone else. So the SO tends to eat quickly and, if it’s a finger food, by the fistful. Sharing with him is awful because he still has that tendency so either I have to eat a hell of a lot faster than I’m comfortable with, or I wind up getting just a handful and he gets the rest.
He’s not really aware he’s doing that. I can point it out and slow him down for a few minutes, but then he’s right back to it again. The early childhood training really stuck in this case.
Well I avoid sharing anything I don’t really have to almost always. I don’t really care how close I am to them. If they’re sick, cough on their hands, touch something that I put in my mouth aftewards, I’ll probably get sick too.
I don’t like getting sick. Well, sometimes, you can get the perfect amount of sick where you convince yourself not to go to work but aren’t sick enough to be completely miserable. But, yeah, I don’t like to get sick. 
I’m pretty strict about it too but it honestly isn’t a phobia. I don’t have any problems sharing a water bottle with a friend if I’m outdoors. If I had a phobia, I’d walk that half mile to the car to get my water that I accidentally left in there.
I’d share food with my other half or with any member or my family. Either shared off the same plate, or eaten off the same fork - as in “Oooh, try some of this. It’s lovely” - or having a slurp of their tea or beer or a lick of their ice cream cone.
No issue with any of that among my nearest and dearest.
I’m a 1 with my wife. I wouldn’t have a problem sharing a toothbrush, which I understand some people won’t go quite that far. Share food, share a beer, no problem.
With others, including my kids, I’m kind of squeamish. Part of that is that my kids were carriers for strep throat, and I got it a few times. Part of that is that kids are just kind of not very hygienic.
ETA: All this presumes my wife or I aren’t sick. In that case I try to keep apart, but even then it’s more a rational choice, not an emotional reaction.
No phobia. I’ll share pretty much anything with anyone. My SO is kind of a germophobe, and he won’t touch doorplates and things like that in public. It drives him crazy that I’m so cavalier about potentially-germy surfaces–and even crazier that I don’t prove him right by getting sick all the time.
I think after you work in surgery (and I was the cleaner/runner/gofer, not the sterile-gown type) you get a different perspective on what “contaminated” really means.
No phobia with any SO I’ve ever had. I mean, really, my mouth’s gonna be a lot closer to anyone I’m going out with than their dinner plate.
It really depends on the relative, but for my mom and sister, I have no qualms, and they’re the closest. Probably wouldn’t have any problem with my dad either, though we haven’t spoken in, like, four years. Little kid relatives, less so.
Considering all the activities I do with my other half, as many others have stated, I have pretty much no issues with sharing a drink or food with him.
Close relatives have always felt a little odd for me though. Logically, I guess it shouldn’t, but it still freaks me out more than it would if I were sharing something with my SO. Maybe it’s got something to do with the fact that…well, I share tongues with him, and not close relatives?
Heh my former SO has Hep C and I had no problem sharing food with him. No toothbrushes though and other relevant safety practices followed. I had a yearly test as a precaution and, yes, I stayed clear.
I voted other. The germs don’t bother me. Hell, my 8 week old daughter managed to somehow sneeze into my open mouth on accident last week and it didn’t bother me at all. I don’t particularly like sharing food though.
My husband and his family do this thing where they all order a different dish and pass plates and forks around the table so they can all eat a little of several different dishes. I hate that. If I wanted steak I would order steak. If I wanted broccoli I’d order that as a side dish. I ordered my dinner because that is what I wanted to eat dammit, not because I felt like the other 7 people at the table might enjoy it. I don’t mind ordering a dish with the intent of sharing it but I don’t like playing Musical Plates at dinner.
Eh, I’m another one who’ll share food or drink with anybody. Id loan my toothbrush to my husband, if he’d take it. Germs just haven’t ever worried me any. Thank goodness, I’m healthy as a horse.
I don’t like to share food unless they are individual pieces. Break a cookie in two? Sure. Share a bag of chips? Yes. Drink out of the same glass? No, thanks.
I’m grossed out regarding relatives but not concerned about germs.