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AIBU?

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Husband opens my mail

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allaboutperspective · 20/12/2025 08:47

Just a sense check. AIBU? My husband opens my mail, including professional magazine subscriptions, and bins it/puts in recycling before I have seen it. I’ve explained this feels controlling and asked him not to do this. He said I was being negative and critical, and he does it to avoid mess. I have asked him not to do this before.
We both work full time, house is minor messy, pretty tidy considering we have kids, we also have a cleaner once a week.

YABU: He has the right to open and chuck it.

YANBU: He should leave the mail alone if addressed to his wife.

OP posts:
jannier · 20/12/2025 17:47

Cherrysoup · 20/12/2025 09:12

It only becomes an offence if you then go on to use the contents to defraud etc.

If you are depriving the recipient from the goods they have paid for ie the subscription its malicious.

jannier · 20/12/2025 17:57

CoralOP · 20/12/2025 10:20

We literally get bills so I'm not throwing away contents 🤷‍♀️.
If you are referring go receiving a parcel why the hell would I throw out someone's parcel they have received? Seriously why would you think I was suggesting that?
I don't think I've had a families work email in my life. We get the dog insurance on an email to my husbands email and its sits in there until we need it...

So then your privious post was irrelavent to the ops situation she doesnt just get bills and does get things she pays for or subscribes too and he doesnt give a shit.

Mylovelygreendress · 28/12/2025 10:17

Was this resolved ?
My exh opening my mail was one of ( many) reasons to divorce him.

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