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WolfishMusings
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It’s important to raise the flag so that those who are mistakenly negligent in this inyan and “keep whats personal private” are made aware of the pitfalls.

TWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!! Hey, Ref! Can I get a “moving the goalposts call here?”

You’ve gone from making emails available to sharing everything.

Not everything I don’t share with my wife is something that will result in a potential pitfall.

If I keep secret some embarrassingly horrible poetry I wrote in my teens, what pitfall am I likely to fall into? The “sin” of writing more bad poetry?

If I don’t tell her about the time I really disappointed my mother resulting in the loss of her wedding ring*, what nisyaon am I setting myself up for? That I’ll purposely lose her ring?

If I don’t tell her about a surprise gift that I’m getting her, what pitfall am I falling into — the “sin” of making her happy with a surprise?

If I don’t tell her about the time that I stupidly dropped a bowling ball on my foot and was in a cast for two months**, am I setting myself up for the sin of doing it again?

If a friend confides in me that he’s having financial problems/personal problems/whatever and asks me to keep it in confidence (and it has nothing to do with my wife), what sin am I potentially falling into by not telling her?

In other words, there are plenty of things that I can choose not to tell my wife that have nothing to do with potentially falling into a sin in the future.

The Wolf

* No, that never happened, it’s an example.

** Nope, that never happened either.