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azurelunatic) wrote2013-08-02 06:49 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2013-08-02 06:49 pm
Awkward personal moments
So Nora and I were chatting away and the topic of older couples sharing an email address came up. I scrabbled around for an (in)appropriately awkward and personal comparison.
"Would you rather share a personal primary email address or poop in front of them?"
Now in long-term cohabiting relationships with one bathroom, this is eventually going to happen. Camping trips. Wacky misunderstandings. Medical emergencies or the like.
Now I have stopped thinking about married-type relationships and started thinking about all the random other people in my life and applying this test.
Mortal enemy? Poop. Just once, and there's a limited amount of griefable material in poop. Email is unlimited.
Parents? Poop. Been there, done that.
"Would you rather share a personal primary email address or poop in front of them?"
Now in long-term cohabiting relationships with one bathroom, this is eventually going to happen. Camping trips. Wacky misunderstandings. Medical emergencies or the like.
Now I have stopped thinking about married-type relationships and started thinking about all the random other people in my life and applying this test.
Mortal enemy? Poop. Just once, and there's a limited amount of griefable material in poop. Email is unlimited.
Parents? Poop. Been there, done that.
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I used to know someone who did the having each other's passwords thing with her then wife, for LJ as well as email, and after their extremely acrimonious breakup, neither of them changed their passwords. They just kept reading each other's email and flocked posts and getting furious at each other for reading the things that they'd left there in the hopes that they'd look. It was ghastly.
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That sort of breakup is why I don't share passwords in general. Everything is going fine until it's not.
(That being said, some legit things do require some sharing, but I would far prefer to do it through an administrative interface, not by passwords or hashed passwords.)