Pet Peeve #28: Get Your Own Dang Email!

Is it me, or does it annoy you when your friends share an email address with their husbands?

I don't get it.

I sit there and write "For So&So" in the subject so that the husbands don't read it. But let's be honest. Chances are they do.

I mean why? Isn't it just as easy to get your OWN email?

No "JnM" this and "George and Martha" that. C'mon. Get your own dang email address. In fact, I'll do it for you.

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Comments

[Mom101]

Ha, I thought I was the only person annoyed by this - particularly when I see women using "their husband's" emails.

[TC]

Back in the very early days, I shared an address with my SO. I accidentally intercepted a suggestive email to him from another man. What the hell was he thinking? And what the hell was I thinking when I let him convince me it was nothing? We are no longer together, and I and my fiancee have very separate email addresses now, understandably.

[Kara]

Wow, I didn't think I was weird. In fact I didn't give it much thought at all. I am one of those who share an email account with my husband. It's not out of laziness or convenience. We opened the account with that address and that's what we've been using for years! It doesn't bother us a bit. I know what's mine and he knows what's his. It doesn't get confusing either. I do, however, have my own personal account at work.

[Patti]

We each have our own private email address AND a shared one. That way, certain communiques that really need to be read by both of us can be handled easy peasy. Of course, that email is used much less often than our private ones. But it is so nice to have the option (especially for things like online billing announcements... and I'm sure when the kid gets in school we'll use that one to talk to teachers and what not.)

[Lady M]

I have one pair of married friends that share an account and it's so hard to understand. I guess they really don't communicate much online.

[Brinstar]

Not having your own email address is just about the most absurd thing I have read today.

[dana]

I have 90 of my own e-mail accounts and one I share with my husband. It's only because he doesn't understand how to check the e-mail so I do it for him. Hah. I really gots to learn him some stuff, eh?

[Awesome Mom]

My husband used to do that too Karen but once he HAD to start using one for work he started checking his non work more often. The irony is that he works in IT. I would never share my email, ever.

[Karen]

Here's what's worse: my husband refuses to check his own email account THAT I HAD TO SET UP FOR HIM and instead tells his family and friends to email him at my address. HE GIVES OUT MY EMAIL ADDRESS AS HIS OWN. He figures that I'll weed out the "stupid ones" and pass on what's good.

What an ass.

*head hits laptop*

[Jessica]

How about the women who keep using their husband's email address after he's gotten a new one?
Get your own identity already!

[Mrs. Chicken]

OH MY GOD I HATE THIS TOO! It makes me so crazy ...

[Kristen]

Mayberr -- Clearly the quote of the day:

"Emails are Exceedingly free and plentiful"

LMAO.

[Smiling Mom]

I have a friend that does this too. I hate it. Why can't you have something that is just your own? I have to share my bed! I have to share the car! Not my email!

[mayberry]

I was seriously about to post about the same thing! Email addresses are EXCEEDINGLY free and plentiful. Why ON EARTH would you want/need to share?

[Darlene]

What's worse is when we do have seperate email addresses and my dear, sweet, annoying pain-in-the-a** FIL insists on sending emails for my husband to my address!

[Amanda]

YES! I hate that... more than the whole "Mrs. husband's name" thing.

You're a couple, you do not share a brain. Don't be weird.