Do You Share Passwords With Your Partner?
My wife knows my phone password. I probably gave her some time that I wanted to show her the photo. For the same reason, she knows the password for my laptop. Some couples choose not to share them, leaving their devices the last bastion of privacy years after they stopped closing the bathroom door. And while my wife knows where to find my master 1Password, if I fall, I haven’t actually read it to her.
Joint accounts are easy; you can shout them out or put your Hulu and Netflix passwords in 1Password’s shared storage . But what passwords will you never share? What’s the most intimate one you’ve shared? Do you share your email credentials but not your bank account? Your bank account but not your phone passcode? Does your phone recognize your partner’s fingerprint?
Do you follow a specific principle when exchanging passwords, or do you decide on a case-by-case basis? Does it seem like doing it differently, unpleasant, codependent, or paranoid? Have you ever suffered (or appreciated) the consequences of sharing or not sharing? Tell us your secrets about your secrets.