• douglasg14b@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    It’s only vile when you project insecurities or bad intent…

    We both know each other’s passwords for everything. We use a shared database for it. We both know each other’s phone, unlock codes and often through laziness will just use each other’s phones for shit. We shared the same bank accounts, we don’t have separate money. We share the same vehicles…etc

    What’s mine is hers, what’s hers is mine. Except literally.

    We also both have each other’s location. What do we use this for? Essentially nothing except when one of us is traveling, or someone is feeling neurotic/worried. The peace of mind knowing that your significant other didn’t just die in a car crash part way to their destination and are still making progress is significant.

    We don’t hide things from each other, we’ve explicitly built a relationship of openness and trust, brought on by us actually_not_ trusting each other for a long time. We are completely transparent, and you know what this has helped build? Trust. Know what it has torn down? Insecurities. It’s been great.

    Would recommend.

    • panicnow@lemmy.world
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      I’m in the same place as you with my spouse, but we didn’t start with not trusting each other. I just never worry about my spouse knowing things about me—I cannot imagine what I wouldn’t tell her anyway.

      My spouse has (multiple) physical journals lying around the house. I would never read them—she doesn’t worry about hiding them.

      • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
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        12 hours ago

        I hope you wouldn’t invade her privacy, but I have no problem popping into my wife’s Gmail (I’ll ask her first), because some camp or school only sent something to her related to our kids that needs to be addressed. And there could be ten emails there from dudes names I don’t know and I wouldn’t care because I trust my wife implicitly. I would let her do exactly the same, I don’t keep my shit on lockdown because I’m worried she’ll see my Google search history.

    • YerLam@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      You were so untrusting you had to go to those lengths to make it so there is no way to lie to each other and you say that’s a good thing?

    • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Therapy would be better for you than a panopticon.

      What if your partner wants to run away from you? Do you not trust that they would have a good reason?