By Alex - 05/02/2016 22:55 - United States - Elizabethtown

Today, my fiancée woke up from a nightmare where I cheated on her. She has so far successfully gotten into my personal and work e-mails, and all my social media. I'm not sure if I'm worse at picking a wife or at picking passwords. FML
I agree, your life sucks 22 092
You deserved it 2 979

Same thing different taste

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Women know everything. Don't you know that? If they want information they will get it!

When someone feels threatened by something they will put their investigation skills onto hyper mode - you might want to invest in some new passwords tbh if she's finding out everything.

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When someone feels threatened by something they will put their investigation skills onto hyper mode - you might want to invest in some new passwords tbh if she's finding out everything.

Then she will ask why he needed to change his passwords. Haha

Even if I did suspect something I'd never dream of going into my partner's personal emails (unless I thought he was doing something illegal). Marriages have lines you don't step over and not all of them are to do with who you're sleeping with.

askullnamedbilly 33

I'm kinda surprised everyone's so positive and understanding about the fiancée's behaviour- she's had a bad dream, something every rational person should KNOW has no basis in reality. Because of that she's breached his work email (which could get him in serious trouble if it contained confidential information) and looked through his personal conversations with his friends (which might contain serious personal stuff those friends told him in secret, and which they might not feel comfortable with her knowing). That's a serious issue, and should not be excused with her feeling insecure. You don't have the right to go through ANYONE's personal stuff, no matter what your relationship status is.

I agree, this is less a problem with the OP's password making, and more so with his fiancee. She had an unacceptable overreaction to something entirely made up in her imagination. Breaking into someone's personal devices and media at anytime isn't right, but over something fake is even worse. If this isn't addressed the behaviour will escalate, she's unreasonably untrusting and her actions are a sign of controlling behaviour.

Except the majority of comments before you are about how she has overstepped her bounds.

askullnamedbilly 33

The comments above me or the comments before me? The majority of comments that were posted before mine was encourage OP to talk about women being great spies and how everyone can empathize with how terrible nightmares about cheating are. The downvotes on those comments and replies came after that.

100% agreed. This is a nuclear level red flag. Overreacting to a dream is not normal or acceptable behavior

dannidoll93 24

Seems to me that all the people commenting that she'll get over it are missing the point. That is a total violation of your privacy, not to mention a ridiculous overreaction to a dream. You need to have a serious talk with her about boundaries and communication. It's not okay that she did this and it isn't standard female behaviour, it's a warning sign. I hope you figure things out.

You must suck at making passwords if she could easily get into all of your accounts so quickly. Make them harder to crack by using symbols, numbers, and upper and lower case letters. Also don't use the same password for all of your accounts. You could also try pass phrases and 2 step authentication.

To everyone defending the fiancé's actions: last night I had a bad dream where Biff from Back To The Future seriously screwed me over and I wanted revenge, so am I justified in tracking down Thomas F. Wilson and teaching him a lesson? No? Then she isn't justified to do that either; *especially* when it involves work emails because who knows what kind of sensitive corporate information they could contain? I think OP needs to confront his fiancé about this; reassure her that it was just a bad dream, that he always has been and always will be loyal to her, but they also need to maintain a mutual level of trust; which going through private messages can jeopardise.

She definitely needs to calm down. You should talk to her and reassure her that she has reasons to trust you. If she's that easily swayed by a simple dream, she must be really nervous about losing you. Just sit her down and remind her of what matters. It should be fine as long as you guys work together and communicate.

I think maybe you should talk to her and help reassure her that, that is not the case. If you don't like her going through your personal stuff, change your password and let her know. If she's feeling that way it's probably for a reason, but that doesn't make it okay to violate your privacy.

sometimes when something feels so real you need to find out yourself. how would you feel if the situation was switched and it happened to you? you could ask her but she could just brush it off and lie to you. would you want to go into a marriage knowing you could be marrying someone for the rest of your life and living a lie? people have fears and the only way to stop it is to face it or prove it wrong. And it's most likely once she finds out and reassures herself, she won't do again

Going into another person's email is wrong no matter what, especially if it is their work email. If you are that insecure then you should not be in a relationship

MzZombicidal 36

Okay, and yet what happens if she has another nightmare? What then? You think she's going to act like an adult and suddenly talk things out if he just allows her snooping behavior? Her going through his stuff is a breach of his trust. Her having a nightmare is just that: a nightmare. That should never ever affect your real life.

obviously you've never been in an actual relationship or haven't been in one long enough.... I trusted my boyfriend completely and then I found out the shit he was doing behind my back but that was after I saw the stuff on his phone.... I confronted him about it and yeah he was bad but he understood why I did it. I get what that fiancee could be going through. it sucks when you're not sure. and for your information my bf and I are still together because he stopped hiding stuff and told me

Actually, he probably just learned to hide it better because you're a snoop who doesn't believe in personal privacy.

There is a huge difference between actually knowing someone is doing something and a DREAM.

#28 so because you dated a piece of shit that was cheating on you, it justifies this girl hacking into EVERY single online account he possess SOLELY because of a dream? "Obviously you've never been in a relationship or haven't been in one long enough" Um no. The difference is, you were in a shit relationship full of immaturity, we were in ACTUAL relationships that didn't involve sneaking, hacking, cheating, lying, manipulation, etc. There is no excuse for her behavior. At all.