| The following post is on a topic I had not thought of previously. I found it to be very interesting. In terms of Netiquette, if they are is a sharing of an email address, the parties must be particularly careful and "in synch. | ||||
You and your spouse's shared email is about codependency, not cohabitationMegan CarpentierAn email address is not a telephone number or a snail mail address. It’s a method for interpersonal communication between two individuals
There is but one way to describe the feeling of looking at your
email Inbox and seeing a message from a married friend who shares an email
address with their spouse.
That word is “nauseated”.
Maybe this has been happening
to you since the advent of Hotmail; maybe it is a more a recent manifestation
of the terrifying trend of sharing social media accounts;
maybe I’m just noticing it now because, for the first time in my adult life,
more of my friends are married or cohabitating than not. Whatever the reason,
it’s sick and wrong and needs to stop.
An email address is not a
telephone number, it’s not a snail mail address and it’s not a telegram that
arrives addressed to a family. Email is
a method for interpersonal communication between two individuals, not two
people (plus or minus the NSA) and another, separate onlooker who knows both
people. If I want to communicate with you and your significant other, email
makes it really easy: I can add him or her to the email chain with a few
keystrokes and BANG, there you go, I’m emailing with both of you, as I
intended.
But if I only want to
communicate with one of you – and, if you share a joint email address, I
undoubtedly only want to communicate with one of you, possibly about how your
relationship is entirely too codependent and about this handy-dandy list of
therapists I have compiled for your perusal – having a joint email makes that
very difficult. (It also feels like making it difficult to email you about how
terrible the other is might be the point of having a joint email address, which
is so gross to contemplate.)
I get it! You’re a couple! You
share everything! Til death do you part! In sickness and in health! But with
the exception of that one wedding I attended in 2001 in which the officiant
asked all the guests to make their own vows in support of the marriage – they
divorced three years later – I made no such promises to your relationship. I
would like to continue interacting with you and maybe even your spouse as
distinct individuals capable of idiosyncratic thoughts and actions. I do not
want to engage with an entity, like the Borg, that has no understanding of the
first person. I do not want to be assimilated, and I wish that you didn’t
either.
Plus how do you send emails to your significant other if you
share an email address? What if your dad wants to forward you terrible blonde
jokes from that weird dude at his job, but your spouse is blond? What if your
mom really wants to get into details about what you can expect from menopause
without letting your husband in on that aspect of her life?
Even my 68-year-old parents,
who have now been married for 41 years, have had separate email accounts from
that first moment that they screee-crackle-bloop-blooped onto AOL in the early
90s and were introduced to the wonders of the world wide web. If you have one
email address for your household, you are literally such a gendered throw-back
to a non-existent idea of togetherness that two people who were conceived before area codes rolled outhave less dated
notions of the appropriate amount of relationshippiness required for lifelong
partnership.
Having a joint email address is
like having a significant other who, at your bidding, picks up the extension
every single time the landline rings and listens in until he or she gets bored
or you hang up: for the people calling, it’s weird and creepy and obsessive to
hear another person breathing every time they try to talk to you. I shouldn’t
be able to hear your significant other breathing on the internet; I am emailing
you so that I don’t have to hear you talk, let alone breathe.
It’s 2015, people: joint email
addresses aren’t cute, they’re not cheaper than separate accounts and they’re
not fun for anyone else in your lives. If you’re still using one, you’re
telling the world that you don’t trust your significant other and he or she
doesn’t trust you, and that neither one of you thinks the other is smart enough
to just get a private email to flirt with their exes.
If you really need to make sure
that your significant other is in on all your conversations with other people,
have the common decency to just BCC them on all your emails and forward all
your replies. Give everyone the illusion that you have a grown-up relationship
with one another and the internet while being privately codependent. The
internet is as much about hiding who you really are as revealing it, anyway.
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