# Your boyfriend/husband, girlfriend/wife demands to see your uniocked cellphone - Do you comply? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 19, 2015, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-boyfriend-husband-girlfriend-wife-demands-to-see-your-uniocked-cellphone-do-you-comply/740865 "2015-12-19T19:19:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-boyfriend-husband-girlfriend-wife-demands-to-see-your-uniocked-cellphone-do-you-comply/740865/61 "2015-12-23T17:59:39Z")
> [@dracoi](#): > > She wouldn’t have to ask, since we know each other’s lock codes. > > But I’m in the same camp as others here… it wouldn’t be a discussion about the cell phone but about why she has crazy ideas in her head to begin with. Exactly. I couldn’t care less. If her phone needs recharging or something she can have mine and vice versa so I can’t see any reason there would be a demand. ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2015, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-boyfriend-husband-girlfriend-wife-demands-to-see-your-uniocked-cellphone-do-you-comply/740865/62 "2015-12-25T11:14:13Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > We have each other’s passwords, we don’t lock our phones, and we’ve been married 35 years. > > At this point we’re too damned old and tired to try to have double lives. Same answer for me. Interesting (I hope) sidenote: Years ago during high school, my daughter feared her BF was cheating on her with her friend. I suggested driving with him to her friend’s house and asking to use his phone. If it connected to the wireless, she’d have her answer. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2015, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-boyfriend-husband-girlfriend-wife-demands-to-see-your-uniocked-cellphone-do-you-comply/740865/63 "2015-12-25T12:46:52Z")
Like many in the greater Doper community, I eschew the 'phone and all kindred electrical contraptions that facilitate the scourge of (so-called) modern communication. If milady wishes to scrutinize my collection of gutta-percha speaking tubes, she need only fetch the skeleton key from within the Stechhelm in the armour room. ---
**Author:** ![Pantastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3bc359/32.png) [@Pantastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pantastic)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2015, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-boyfriend-husband-girlfriend-wife-demands-to-see-your-uniocked-cellphone-do-you-comply/740865/64 "2015-12-25T13:20:03Z")
> [@pullin](#): > > Interesting (I hope) sidenote: Years ago during high school, my daughter feared her BF was cheating on her with her friend. I suggested driving with him to her friend’s house and asking to use his phone. If it connected to the wireless, she’d have her answer. You only allow people to connect to your wireless network if they are sleeping with you? that’s a bit unusual. ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2015, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-boyfriend-husband-girlfriend-wife-demands-to-see-your-uniocked-cellphone-do-you-comply/740865/65 "2015-12-25T13:58:51Z")
> [@Pantastic](#): > > You only allow people to connect to your wireless network if they are sleeping with you? that’s a bit unusual. I think the idea is that the BF didn’t have had any reason to be at the friend’s house previously, so his phone shouldn’t automatically connect to her wireless network. ---
**Author:** ![HeXen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@HeXen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeXen)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2015, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-boyfriend-husband-girlfriend-wife-demands-to-see-your-uniocked-cellphone-do-you-comply/740865/66 "2015-12-25T15:18:40Z")
Mine isn’t even locked. Everyone can look for all I care, it’s just a cheap Tracphone and a rarely used one at that. I have hours upon hours worth of minutes because I have to buy them every 90 days but I’d still rather a stranger not use them up so I should probably at least lock it in case I ever lose it. However it seems like common sense that if you were to cheat, you would immediately delete the messages, it’s simple to do and takes only a couple seconds to select delete all conversations from x user. ---
**Author:** ![T.M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ad7895/32.png) [@T.M](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/T.M)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2015, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-boyfriend-husband-girlfriend-wife-demands-to-see-your-uniocked-cellphone-do-you-comply/740865/67 "2015-12-25T22:32:31Z")
NO ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2015, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-boyfriend-husband-girlfriend-wife-demands-to-see-your-uniocked-cellphone-do-you-comply/740865/68 "2015-12-25T22:42:29Z")
Yes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-boyfriend-husband-girlfriend-wife-demands-to-see-your-uniocked-cellphone-do-you-comply/740865.md?page=3)