Password sharing.....

[ForgetfulFish]

DP of 4 years knows my passwords to online accounts and my phone. It's not like I sat him down and gave them to him, it's just never been a big deal, my social media and email accounts are always logged in on my laptop anyway.

I know his phone password. He was at work and I wanted to buy something using his Amazon prime subscription in order to get free next day delivery. I called and asked him for the password and he refused saying it was the same password for all his online accounts, email, bank etc. I joked that I wasn't planning on stealing money from his bank account and he said that the bank advises to never hand it out to anyone....

I wouldn't think twice about offering him my password for anything if he needed it. He said I could send him the details of the things I wanted to buy and he would get them for me via his account. I'm a bit pissed off now and have ordered them from my own account. What on earth does he think I'm going to do?

I know my dps passwords for everything except his banking. He knows all my passwords except my banking. I wouldnt feel okay with giving him it and likewise for him. Not sure why, I've nothing to hide. If all your dps passwords are the same including his banking and amazon then I can understand why he wouldn't want you to have it. For me I genuinely don't see the big deal. I would have sent him a link of the stuff I wanted and got him to order it.

He trusts you with his phone password which is way more personal than his Amazon one. He doesn't think you're going to do anything. But if money vanishes from his account and he is honest and says he shared his bank password then they won't refund the missing money even if they are sure you didn't take it. Suggest he changes Amazon password and gives that to you in future.
He's a bit silly to use the same password. Some accounts are easier to hack than banks and then fraudsters has his bank password. Not very security conscious!
This is a very small thing to get het up over.

I have to say I sort of agree with him. I use a lot of the same passwords for all my accounts and I wouldn’t give them out to anyone, purely for security reasons. My phone is unlocked and my email passwords are all saved, so my dh could access any of them if he wanted to (though he never has and doesn’t have a reason to). I know his phone password (same as his bank pin) because I’ve used his phone as a sat nav and he told me (though no reason to go snooping). But I don’t think we’d really tell each other passwords to use accounts with our card details attached to them. You just never know. We just send each other a link to what needs buying and the other buys it. So I don’t think that necessarily sounds suspicious. But maybe he recently bought you something and didn’t want you to see?

Bloody hell. Phone pins as bank pins? Email password as bank one? First thing a hacker will do when they manage to get a password or pin is try it on bank accounts etc!

Well I did wonder whether he was actually telling the truth, it seems more than a little irresponsible to use your amazon password as your bank password....

I see his point here

Could it be that he didn't want you to see something he has bought from Amazon? Have you got a birthday coming up or something?

My first thought is that he doesn't want you to see what he's been buying on Amazon. But not in a good way (not a gift for you).

Firstly He is a muppet for having the same password for everything!!! Any online account I have that involves money/purchasing has a unique password.

We know each others passwords for just about everything except personal bank accounts.

I guess there is stuff he feels is private or he doesnt want you to know about.

Why would he not trust you with his password, he could always change it afterwards.. I get why you're a bit pissed off tbh x

I just told him forget it, I'll buy it from my own account. Obviously I'm not going to/can't force him to give me his password but it's made me a bit ...

You can share the benefits of Amazon Prime, there's no need to use his account.

He's a fool to use the same passwords for different accounts.

Levels of privacy is a personal thing, DH has access to all of mine and vice-versa, but it's not right for everyone.

The only passwords I share with my husband are for accounts that use the joint email address we have for those specific things, like utility accounts. He doesn't know my online banking password for our joint account (he's got his own) or any of my personal accounts, I'm still a separate person! Also, not sharing your credentials will be in the conditions of use for things like banking. Get your partner to change anything that has the same password ASAP, it's literally the first thing hackers will try if they manage to get passwords and emails from security breaches.

Just reading other people's responses - maybe it's because I work in IT, but even if we shared a laptop we'd each have our own account on it, so would log in and have access to our own accounts and then log out if the other wanted to use it. Seems like basic security to me!

www.lastpass.com

Just sayin'

Not sure if anyone mentioned it but if he has an iphone and you know the password, go onto keychain and you'll find all his saved passwords.. in case of emergency obviously.

As soon as we lived together, everything was shared. We both know each other's passwords to everything, although we have never actually looked at each other's phones. Not everyone is like that though. I know lots of couples who keep everything separate and it works for them. Do you think he fully trusts you ? Do you fully trust him ?

Er no, I have never shared my passwords with anybody.