I am curious at what point in relationships, your significant other feels that it is morally acceptable to read your text messages.  In the day and age when so much data and information is flowing through our lives such as text messages, emails, blog posts, IMs and so forth there is an overwhelming amount of information to consume, and a lot of times from many sources, some unknown.

Just because you are with someone, does that ever give you the right to snoop through their social life?

That’s a big question and probably asked by a lot of people.  On one hand, some people feel if the other has absolutely nothing to hide, then what’s the problem?  But then again, who says they have any right to invade that small personal space of privacy that we all have as people?

I found an excellent blog post called Me, My Spouse and The Internet that breaks down an Oxford study and some of the results are pretty interesting.  Only 20% of spouses checked each others emails and text messages.  Only 1 in 5.  I would have always thought this was much higher.

Personally, this issue arose when my wife read an email I had sent, but not knowing it was a friend and getting upset.  Totally understandable, but not necessary.  This is one of the things in a relationship I think I do understand that needs to be accepted.

I just felt I had to write about this and/or bring it up.  Something that has always irked me.  But then again, I have a friend that if it was not for having the urge to randomly read a spouses text messages, they would still be stuck in a cheating relationship.

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