Originally Posted by SarahLLO

Ugh, my last boyfriend was the worst about this - even if the emails weren't incriminating to a normal, logical person, he would still interpret them as such. He took it to the level of e-stalking me too, and would find forum posts I'd made years before we'd even MET and freak out at me over those, too. Even after I dumped him, he would harass pretty much any male friends/neighbors I had over these imaginary affairs I was having that he'd dreamed up in his head.

Lesson learned: don't date crazy/overly insecure people.

My current boyfriend doesn't snoop, but he does have to deal with me now being instinctively jumpy/overprotective of my privacy, just out of habit from the last guy - like, even if I'm just typing an e-mail to my cousin about her baby or something that would never offend anyone, and he walks in the room, I instinctively minimize it. I probably look so shady, but he's figured out by now that it's just habit because I got used to the other guy going INSANE over everything. It didn't help that my mom was the same way - in high school she actually installed a keylogger on my computer because she was so convinced (wrongly - I didn't smoke, drink, or have sex until I graduated) that I was this horrible, problem child. I'm either naturally suspicious/shady looking, or I just have a batshit mother.