10% of wives check their husband's web browsing history

by Jason on 18 July 2010
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A recent survey reveals just how many wives secretly monitor their husband's email and internet activities.

  • 14 per cent of the wives read their husbands' emails
  • 13 per cent their text messages
  • 10 per cent checked their internet web browser histories

Ellen Heslper from the London School of Economics comments:

This contrasts with general research that suggests the women are less technologically skilled than men. It seems that they are able to overcome these barriers when they feel that their relationship is at stake.

Original article here

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For me, snooping became an

Submitted by Margaux on Wed, 21/07/2010 - 17:16

For me, snooping became an addiction of its own while I was still entangled in my husband's porn addiction. Like porn addicts, I lost a lot of time to going through my husband's email, Web history, etc., and not feeling like I could stop. It affected my work, my friendships, my hobbies. And, in many ways, it played a role in my husband's addiction/our sick dynamic. The more I'd snoop, the better and more creative he'd get at hiding it. In 12-step groups for partners of porn/sex addicts, our "sobriety" is, in part, defined by abstaining from snooping.

I just wanted to throw that out there, because I think so often in more mainstream discussions of porn addiction, the partner's unmanageability gets overlooked. And I believe that it's not just the addict who has the problem--it's a "system" in which the people in the addict's life play a role.

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I totally agree with you. For

Submitted by F on Thu, 22/07/2010 - 12:33

I totally agree with you. For me it became something that I couldn't control. I had to check his web history ( which everytime was deleted, so I checked the temporary interent files, which were also deleted in most cases). It turned into a game, him trying to hide it as hard as he could, and me trying to find something as hard as I could.
Its exhausting...that wasn't me. I don't check on my partners!! Its all about trust, our husbands lost our trust which is very hard to earn back.
I haven't checked his computer in six months. I haven't checked his web history on his phone in sex months also. I decided I was not going to play his game, it was destroying me!!!

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Hello, Sometimes people

Submitted by Alex on Fri, 23/07/2010 - 09:24

Hello,

Sometimes people think that internet porn is just a rival matter, you know just passing male fantasy entertainment, and that its not really a big deal. Well sadly internet porn usage has become a massive & serious & growing problem for a very very large number of people (male & female). Internet porn dependency has reached epidemic levels & the existence of this site alone proves this, the numbers of stories from people struggling with their porn habits continues endlessly.

Having porn dependency not only affects the individual person but impacts his or her close relationships, family relationships, can impact on work or career prospects, porn can even loose you your job if it gets out of control.

A chronic porn habit can undermine the basis of a good healthy relationship, it damages the bed rock trust one has in another person. This is due to the secrecy & guilt of having to hide one's porn habit and the shame one might feel if the truth is found out. Porn habits undermine TRUST! in relationships its that simple in my opinion.

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