To check or not to check your partners phone, that is the question
Published: June 29th, 2009 1 comment so far
By Natasha Danvers
WOW! Is it that time already! I can’t believe it!
You’d think time would be moving as slow as molasses since I’m laid up in the house with this injury. But no nono, not me. I’m always up to something and onto something. This week between sending out Twitters and getting rehab I decided to do another radio show. I’ve been doing this online free radio show thing (www.blogtalkradio.com/tashadanvers) for a little while now and when the athletic season started I kind of just stopped.
My last interview was an exclusive with Dwain Chambers and since then I think with all the training and everything my brain just got diverted. So anyway my peeps online kept bugging me about another show so I started asking ‘well what do you want to talk about?’ So of course relationships was the order of the day. LOL.
Now this is Monday so you’ve got to figure I need to get some ideas quick fast in a hurry because the show airs on Wednesday evening. HMMMMM. Let’s just say 2 hours before the show all I had was a skeleton of a show and no confirmed guests. The title of the show was Relationship Faux Pas and the topics were, IS IT OK TO DATE IN THE WORKPLACE and SHOULD YOUR PARTNER HAVE ANY PRIVACY WHEN IT COMES TO TEXTS, EMAILS AND VOICEMAILS.
Now the first topic was pretty light hearted the ins and outs of dating in the workplace and some of the ups and downs etc. But when we moved on to the text messaging business let me tell you it was like all hell broke loose (which I have to admit is an enjoyable listen).
Now the crux of the debate was between my mother DorrettMcKoy (aka Aunty Dee) and a caller named Ms Vanity. Now Ms Vanity was adamant that it was within her rights to check any text, email, or voicemail of her partner because if he wasn’t cheating then he shouldn’t have anything to hide. Even Dr. Phil says, “Those who have nothing to hide, hide nothing.”
But my mother was adamant that even though she doesn’t have anything to hide she doesn’t want to bother snooping through her partners things and she certainly doesn’t want anyone snooping through hers. If she had to snoop then he must not be the right guy.
It was such an interesting conversation and at the end (when the show got cut off due to technical trouble) I still hadn’t made up my mind. When should your partner be able to be in every corner of your life? When you’re dating? Living together? Engaged? Married? Is it ever okay? Should you be entitled to some individuality and privacy?
I really want to know what more people out there think? So, let me know on FACEBOOK or email me at TashaDFB@gamil.com. Because right now I just don’t know.
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