Hello everyone, welcome to today’s segment of Elcrema Sunday Special.
One relationship problem a lot of couples face is privacy; how much privacy is a relationship partner really entitled to? A lot of people feel they are entitled to their privacy even in a relationship, while many feel there really shouldn’t be privacy when in a relationship.
What’s your own school of thought regarding relationships? Do you think you’re entitled to your partner’s password, messages and inbox?
Drama and Shawn would share their own school of thought regarding this very delicate issue.
DRAMA
I don’t know. Do you have anything to hide from your partner? Because I believe that is the reason people who are against sharing passwords or giving their partner unrestricted access to their phones do so. It’s either they’re cheating or they’re doing some shady business that they wouldn’t want their partner to have knowledge of. Otherwise, I see no reason why any normal person in a normal relationship with someone they claim to care about would have a problem with the same person handling their phone. I mean, it’s simple, really. Some people like to hide under the pretence of wanting to have ‘some privacy’, but i find it rather preposterous. If you wanted to have all the privacy in the world, then why get into a relationship at all? —Stay single, and enjoy as much privacy as you require! For me, as long as you’re with someone, privacy becomes non-existent, literally. The essence of a relationship is to share your life with someone else. Keeping or withholding anything from that ‘someone’ defeats the very purpose of relationships. Let no one be deceived; if your partner truly cares about you, values you, and is being completely honest with you in your relationship, they wouldn’t have any reason to freak out at the thought of you going near their phones. If they do, then they have something to hide, and you shouldn’t be in that relationship. I have heard about married couples who live by this annoying ‘code’, and I keep wondering why they’re even married? If you cannot be completely open about things as small as mobile phones and passwords, there is no way that union would last because it has already been built on a foundation of lies and deceit, and sooner or later, things are bound to fall apart.
The one thing that couples or partners who live by the ‘privacy code’ fail to realize is that sharing strengthens the bond in a relationship because it grows and builds trust. When your partner knows that you have nothing to hide from them, they’ll give their heart to you even more. Now tell me that a relationship that has absolute trust between both partners wouldn’t stand the test of time. God knows I wouldn’t accept anything less from my partner.
Click below to read Shawn’s opinion