So the question remains, if you trust someone, can you share anything with him or her? Or on the flip side, if you trust them, and equally important, if they trust you, should you have to lay everything out in the open? According to Peggy Drexler Ph.D., research psychologist and Assistant Professor of Psychology at Weill Medical College, Cornell University, allowing your partner to “have access to your key passwords has become something of a relationship milestone. It implies trust and may symbolize intimacy and connection as well. Handing over control of your phone to allow your partner to look through your photos, text messages, and call history may show him or her that you have nothing to hide, that there are no secrets between you.”
