Here's an interesting article from the Chicago Tribune on sharing an email address with your spouse.
An excerpt:
Acuff shares one account with his wife of eight years, Jenny, and estimates that one-third of their married friends also use one e-mail address. He joked on the blog that he and his wife "cleaved our separate e-mail addresses and lit a unity candle on Yahoo! that burns brightly throughout the virtual landscape."
"We offset the whole thing by not dressing alike," he wrote.
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We created a joint email account a few days after we returned from our honeymoon. I don't think we ever thought through the aspects of avoiding secrecy or creating a new source of accountability, it just seemed like we were merging everything else. It was less complicated to have one account. And we have never dressed alike.
So how about you?
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
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we always share what's going on in our separate email accounts (especially by doing lots of forwarding, etc), but decided to keep them separate for gift-giving purposes. :) it's worked out nicely, especially when nat was in Iraq and ordered my diamond earings. *happy sigh*
True- sharing has made gift- ordering complicated. WH found out what he was getting for Father's Day because I wasn't careful. :)
We shared an email account for 9 years! Then in his present line of work we realized it was no longer possible, I couldn't sift through his work emails so we set him up his own work account.
Sad but true.
we each have a separate account (he is a school teacher and gets tons of email) as well as one joint account for household emails (bill pay, church prayer chain, etc.).
this works for us because i get a lot of emails with sale offers, coupons etc. that he just doesn't want to sift through just like i don't want to go through his email. we don't do it because we are hiding anything though. we know all the passwords.
We have a joint email account as well as our individual emails from before we were married. I use mine for online purchases and anything that might cause spam and my husband still uses his Virginia Tech email address for professional purposes. All of our personal emails come to the joint one. We both check all three on a daily basis though.
NO!!!
And I don't care if Andy reads mine, it's not that. It just keeps things more simple, is all. Like nursing bra emails to friends, for example.
And I've been badgering Nicky about this for a while, too. Steve has responded to my emails (which were to her) a few too many times. Remember that one about joining the #4 club? Some things ya just wanna keep with the girlfriends. :)
Not to mention the fact that I get a ton of email and Andy hardly ever checks his. By the time he got around to it, his one email would be buried about three pages down. Just wouldn't work.
Can't imagine sharing.....we both use ours for "work". Matty's whole business is run by email and phone and my account is full of on-line ordering, bill paying, etc. We have both told each other our pass words in the past....not that we ever actually check but it avoids any feeling of secrecy.
if we both had the same e-mail...
... how would I send my husband an e-mail to remind him of things?
thanks sarah for reminding me that i needed to email adam a reminder about something. obviously we have two accounts. his is a work account and mine is MUCH MORE IMPORTANT with stuff like emails from your mom asking for lunch scripture cards...
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