# Poll: Do you share an email address with your SO?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-share-an-email-address-with-your-so/391088>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 6, 2007, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-share-an-email-address-with-your-so/391088 "2007-02-06T16:33:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-share-an-email-address-with-your-so/391088/41 "2007-02-09T02:06:48Z")

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[QUOTE=silenus]  
Another vote for the “Hell, no!” The wife has a personal account and a work account. I have two personal and two work accounts. We both handle enough email every day to make a joint account a total nightmare, even keeping the work accounts apart.  
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Ditto 100%. I also wouldn’t trust her to not delete things she though were “junk” that weren’t, and vice versa. I’ve had my e-mail address since long before I met her so there’s no way I’d abandon it. We already run into problems when a contractor or friend sends an e-mail to one of our accounts over another; having a shared one would be a logistical nightmare.

My sister and brother-in-law have a shared account and it drives me nuts. I’ve given up e-mailing them because he would check it at work and then never pass on any messages/questions/correspondence I was sending to her specifically. I also don’t feel I can be totally free with a friend if I know they’re spouse may be reading it as well. If they want to share–fine, but I’m not writing for mass consumption. If it’s something I want both of them to read, I’ll cc: the other, too.

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**Author:** ![Miss\_Woodhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Miss\_Woodhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Woodhouse)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-share-an-email-address-with-your-so/391088/42 "2007-02-09T02:24:27Z")

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nope. We have seperate accounts (and more than one each. You have to have the spam account, right?) He knows my passwords and I know his so we can access each others accounts when necessary. This happens about once a year.

I can’t imagine sharing with him. He’s in all sorts of Yahoo Groups that I have absolutely no intrest in. It would be a pain to wade through it all to find my three e-mails a day I actually want to read.

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**Author:** ![Cyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@Cyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyn)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-do-you-share-an-email-address-with-your-so/391088/43 "2007-02-09T02:28:52Z")

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No

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