Do you have a joint email address with your spouse/partner?

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We've had one for 15 years now but it seems to have turned into a hindrance rather than a help. Part of a wider issue of course, but it has turned into just another inbox for me to manage with my DH having opportunity to read stuff (and not take action.)

If you have one how do you manage it, if you don't have one how do you manage admin stuff between you - just forwarding emails over?

(3 kids so lots of school stuff etc)

We set a joint one up donkeys' years ago when we first got a home computer, and someone did it for us. I still use that one but DH has had his own for about 15 years now.

we don't, but we do a certain amount of forwarding mail about because of it. I can see the potential advantages but we've lived without so far.

we do have a shared calendar, can't really imagine managing without that now.

I find it really bizarre to have a joint email address!

This. If it was your only email address then that's weird but I don't think anyone on this thread is suggesting that. Don't see why it's remotely odd!

Forward or screen shot emails and messages. Seems to have worked all these years...

No. My XH and I did briefly when personal email first became a thing. It was his name @ something dot something, but I was the one who used it became I had a freelance writing job.

I find it bizarre to have to forward emails to each other when we can have a joint email!

Not since the days of having to pay per email address! So glad we are past that as DH and I have very different email management styles. If anything involves him I forward the email, but still have to check he has done things.

But what needs forwarding? I've never forwarded an email to my husband ever. I deal with what needs dealing with or just tell him!

Nope. I read and act on school stuff and football. Dh does scouts and swimming. Although in most cases we're both on the lists so there is backup if the other is away with work or something.

Holiday bookings, the Ocado delivery info so he knows what's coming, utilities, the vets, warranties. This way if I forget to tell him or vice versa it doesn't matter.

We set up a joint one many years ago when we got our first computer. I now have several personal ones too..makes sense as all bills and receipts go to joint one so we know they are in one place but personal stuff and eBay and the like can be used form a different account so browsing is private.

That's how we manage emails @Flanjango but apparently it's odd!

We have a joint one for stuff relating to the children, so school, health and clubs.

We had one many years ago, still use it for kindle and shopping loyalty cards so we can both collect points.

No way, DH would delete things before I'd had chance to read them.

Absolutely not, I've never shared an email address.

I can see very little benefit tbh, even for household stuff and bills.

We have a joint email address alongside our personal ones, and have since we were planning our wedding. We use it for anything that's equally relevant to both of us and will both check in that the other has seen anything important.

Makes things easy having the whole conversation in one place and not losing the thread when forwarding things on.

If something is only relevant to one of us, we use our respective personal addresses.

To add- When I was sifting job applications, I've even had them from joint accounts.

It didn't impact the sift obviously but I did think it was quite weird and a bit unprofessional.

Yeah but it's throught our phone/internet company we have a bit of junk but mostly for our son's therapy and hospital appointments doctors/nurse needing to contact us or our son's school telling us about something and occasionally and my partners work.

I have my own too and so does my partner on our phones those are mostly junk.

For us it easier whoever sees am email replies to it (besides my partners work he replies if he has to usually no need to)

We find it easier this way and i remember that email address easier then our own and feel it's a more formal one then the one on my phone.

No. We’re not 90.

I have one by accident. I had my own personal email account and used that for everything. Then when DS came along 18 years ago we set up a joint one to give updates to family and friends on his arrival ( this was pre Facebook)

Somehow that email account slowly became my default email and before I knew it my original one had been closed due to inactivity.

Only I have access to it even though it has both our names in the address.

We have one for stuff to do with our son so it's all our names. Find that easier as my son has additional needs and we need to be able to easily locate stuff.

But we both have our own personal and I have multiple work ones.

We both manage those emails jointly it's not just on me though.

I've never heard of a couple email, I use mine for everything and click forward if DH needs to see anything or if I want him to print something out.

Reading the comments is funny, I didn't realise this was something supposedly older people do. Husband and I work in tech and in our 30s! 🤷‍♀️