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Six rules to follow in relationships

here are six detrimental behaviors that should always be avoided:


1. Prying into private info. If you suspect your partner of betrayal, does that give you the right to start reading your partner's email? To listen to his/her voicemail messages? To hack into his/her online profile? The answer to all of these is "no!"
You should never dig through your partner's personal emails or listen to your partner's voicemail messages.
You should never dig through your partner's personal emails or listen to your partner's voicemail messages. By doing this, you violate not only your partner's trust, but also the trust your partner has with anyone who left those voice messages and emails. What? this is how most cheaters are caught:blink:
2. Lying for the greater good. Lying is never good in a relationship, although we've probably all been guilty of doing it. Lying to your partner in an effort to avoid hurting him/her or to avoid confrontation may seem like a wise decision. Regrettably, you will end up digging a deeper hole for yourself when that lie is exposed, which is almost always inevitable. When caught in this situation, you end up hurting your partner anyway, and whatever you were trying to protect your partner from -- by lying to them -- will be even worse because of your deception. I recommend honestly communicating with your partner from the get-go. This is laughable! If they are cheating they aren't honest :pat:
3. Pulling a "James Bond."
You should never snoop in your partner's private things (drawers, wallet, filing cabinet, or private records -- such as bank or credit card statements). Furthermore, nothing justifies snooping. No matter what you have a "hunch" about, snooping through your partner's things should never be pursued to confirm or deny your hunch. Your partner's possessions and personal records should be kept private unless he/she gives you permission to look at them. Spying on your partner is one of the most blatant violations of your partner's trust and will achieve nothing except having your partner never trust you to be alone near his/her things ever again. RIIIIIGHT! BURY YOUR HEAD! :yum:
4. Designating yourself "Magnum P.I." Another ill-advised way some people try to verify suspected bad behavior by their partner is to take on the role of private investigator by attempting to "catch their partner in the act" of doing something. Whether this takes the form of searching for your partner's car by driving by his/her house, work, or gym or it takes the form of following your partner in your car, this is something you should never do. Even if you have a convincing hunch that your partner is hiding something from you, stalking is the wrong way to address it. If your partner finds out you've been "tailing him/her" in your car, he/she will no longer trust you.
What the heck???? how else you gonna find out?
5. Sending others to do your dirty work. Don't ever send a friend or anyone else to gather information for you about your partner or to spy on your partner for you. This means, don't send a friend to go hang out where you know or suspect your partner will be. Don't have your friend try to eavesdrop on your partner's conversations in places he/she goes. Don't ask your friends to use their cell phone to snap covert pictures of your partner. All of these favors from friends not only violate your partner's trust, but also reveal your total lack of trust in your partner. RIIIIIGHT! BURY YOUR HEAD! :yum:
6. Checking up constantly. One of the biggest ways to reveal that you don't trust your partner is to manifest that distrust with paranoid and obsessive behavior. While calling your partner regularly is quite normal, calling him/her incessantly to "check up" comes off as obsessive and will drive your partner away. If, for example, your partner is unable to answer his/her phone for a few hours and by the time he/she accesses it he/she discovers you've called 50 times, you not only come off as being paranoid and obsessive, but you clearly communicate to your partner that you distrust him/her. Also, when you panic every time 10 minutes go by without a reply from your partner by a phone call or an email, it sends the exact same message.
So even if you have some type of "intuition" that your partner is hiding something from you, it's better to engage in a confrontation with him/her openly rather than searching for answers secretly.
RIIIIIGHT! just ask a cheater and they will respect you enough to be honest! :yum:
Also, keep in mind that I didn't mention the most obvious relationship-ending behavior to avoid: cheating.
This guy must be a cheater himself :yum: My advice is if you suspect your partner is cheating there's a 90% chance they are. :yum: So heck yes you have to snoop on the sly. So just in case you are wrong Your partner never new you didn't trust them.:mrgreen:
 
I have a coworker who decided to read his wife's journal last week.
then he took it to kinko's and copied it.
then he told her he had read it.
she threw the original away the same day he went out to find a lawyer....
 
I have a coworker who decided to read his wife's journal last week.
then he took it to kinko's and copied it.
then he told her he had read it.
she threw the original away the same day he went out to find a lawyer....

:doh: :pat: :bonk: That's gonna be UGLY!
 
yeah - i get an earful from him every day about how nasty he's willing to make it for her if she doesn't let him just walk away with none of her credit card debt.
 
yeah - i get an earful from him every day about how nasty he's willing to make it for her if she doesn't let him just walk away with none of her credit card debt.

Can't blame him for that! If more people listened to the rules there would be less divorces:thumb:
 
yeah - i get an earful from him every day about how nasty he's willing to make it for her if she doesn't let him just walk away with none of her credit card debt.
Is that all he wants to walk away from? I take it there's no kids or animals involved? or enough years for alimony.

Can't blame him for that! If more people listened to the rules there would be less divorces:thumb:
So which rules are you referring? The don't snoop or don't cheat rule ?
To me you can't have one without the other.....
 
Is that all he wants to walk away from? I take it there's no kids or animals involved? or enough years for alimony.


So which rules are you referring? The don't snoop or don't cheat rule ?
To me you can't have one without the other.....

You can't be serious? Not cheating is a given.. snooping just destroys trust. If there is no trust, there is no marriage.
 
Is that all he wants to walk away from? I take it there's no kids or animals involved? or enough years for alimony.

1 16 YO daughter - he's going to ask for joint custody. 16 years married where he stayed home to take care of house and family so she could build a big career - so he's offering to trade her paying him spousal maintenance for child support. and he gets his poodle, she and the kid each get their respective pets.
 
You can't be serious? Not cheating is a given.. snooping just destroys trust. If there is no trust, there is no marriage.
Yes I'm very serious.....I know that Not cheating should be the given. But most of time when a spouse is cheated on they had no idea until it was too late. I know several people that felt like they had been kicked in the stomach with all the trust they gave a cheating spouse. I'm not saying that you should be one of those nagging people that wouldn't/can't trust you no matter what. I'm just saying "trust" your spouse, but have a healthy idea what's going on in your spouses life.
 
Yes I'm very serious.....I know that Not cheating should be the given. But most of time when a spouse is cheated on they had no idea until it was too late. I know several people that felt like they had been kicked in the stomach with all the trust they gave a cheating spouse. I'm not saying that you should be one of those nagging people that wouldn't/can't trust you no matter what. I'm just saying "trust" your spouse, but have a healthy idea what's going on in your spouses life.

I agree. You can't walk around in a relationship blind folded. You have to have trust, and common sense. If you are in a committed relationship and are not cheating then you should not minding share details with your significant other. I guess the way I see it, I don't have anything to hide so I don't mind sharing and answering questions.
 
Question: If you do snoop and find no sign of cheating, when in fact, there is no cheating and the "snooped upon" spouse finds out, then....what happens to trust? That, in itself, would be a huge hurdle to overcome. Some spouses are overly anxious about their significant other's activities and assume something's going on. I dunno :hide: It's a toughie.
 
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I agree. You can't walk around in a relationship blind folded. You have to have trust, and common sense.
This is why I was so surprised at the 6 rules. All of them require blind trust. You have to participate a little. Redneck's trust was broken a couple of times in previous relationships. When he told me he wasn't going to worry about it, I took it as a type of detachment. So when there were signs he was quietly checking I knew he cared.
I care who Redneck is talking to and who he's with. I trust him with all my heart and a blind fold that he wouldn't "seek" out an affair. But when it comes down to it he's human. Some women give me a gut feeling, and I let him know it. What he does from there...........Damn well better be the right thing:rolf2:
 
Tricky subject at best. :hide:
I just think that today it is easier to get caught up in an affair. There are so many ways to get one started by accident or on purpose.....marriage isn't respected like by others like it used to be. In fact I think it is a prerequisite for some.
Meanwhile, I'm not insulted that Redneck checks every now and then.
 
I think privacy should be respected. I believe this where my children are concerned. I don't snoop through their rooms and read their notes. BUT, if there are any indicators which cause me concern, you can bet I'll be snooping. So, I guess that applies to marriage as well.
 
I think privacy should be respected. I believe this where my children are concerned. I don't snoop through their rooms and read their notes.
Wow....this is getting more serious than I thought it would.:unsure:
Snooping behind your kids can be touchy also. I was checking over my daughter's homework notes to make sure she was doing it. Kids that age are bad about saying they don't have any. So her teacher told the parents in her class that she would have them keep a journal of what their homework would be each day.
If it hadn't been for a note that was passed I never would have known my 11 yearold was sick because she took an overdose, and not a stomach flu. Thinking back I think she put it there for me to find, because she was scared too.
From then on I "snooped" Just for that reason. I wasn't doing it to catch her at anything, I was too scared not knowing.

BUT, if there are any indicators which cause me concern, you can bet I'll be snooping. So, I guess that applies to marriage as well.
That's what I'm saying. You don't have to be one of those insecure people that are always accusing your mate. I always thought it's like driving....You might be a safe driver but it's the other idiots you have to watch for.
 
Question: If you do snoop and find no sign of cheating, when in fact, there is no cheating and the "snooped upon" spouse finds out, then....what happens to trust? That, in itself, would be a huge hurdle to overcome. Some spouses are overly anxious about their significant other's activities and assume something's going on. I dunno :hide: It's a toughie.

This is a mouthful. Broken trust is hard to get back no matter whether it caused by cheating or snooping on someone that was NOT cheating. Having lived through a related, tangled mess once upon a time I can assure you of first hand experience.
 
Question: If you do snoop and find no sign of cheating, when in fact, there is no cheating and the "snooped upon" spouse finds out, then....what happens to trust? That, in itself, would be a huge hurdle to overcome. Some spouses are overly anxious about their significant other's activities and assume something's going on. I dunno :hide: It's a toughie.
I have nothing to hide so if Redneck snoops I wouldn't get mad. If anything I would feel bad that he felt insecure at that moment to snoop. He has been known to snoop when the mood hits him but I'm ready for him...:shifty:. I look at it as protection. If he got mad at me for looking around then I would look even harder! Why is he mad? He's covering up his fear of getting caught by turning it into an argument. I WOULD NOT be with a man that worried about what I'd find by snooping. And I have said several times y'all....we aren't talking about chronic untrustworthy partners. We are talking about normal people given a reason to snoop.... would they?
You haven't seen me ........................ :yum:
PhstttttT! I'm a barber! you've seen one you've seen them all:yum: You gotta stand out better'n that :flowers:
 
If you have nothing to hide, and share who, what, when, where, & why then there would not be much room for questions. And I'm talking about both sides. If you have questions, ask. A fair couple, with nothing to hide, will gladly share the "5 W's".



You haven't seen me ........................ :yum:

...........Because IT WASN'T ME!!!!!!!!!!


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even though there are many people who loves their partner a lot but in the mean time they betray so as to get more pleasure somewhere else! if people abide to these rules then i am sure that their relations will last for long!
 
I keep a personal journal and I don't think that I have anything to hide. However I would feel a bit violated if my significant other took it upon himself to just go through it. I am not entirley sure that anything good can ever come out of snooping.
 
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