I agree with the keeping boundaries. I share my passwords, but only for a couple of things. We all need our space and to me my facebook and myspace are my space for my self. Not that I won't go on and show him everything. By all means, but on the opposite hand I guess if you don't need that much space you are willing to share everything. Some people are just built differently. My fiance is the opposite of me. He will give me his password his social his credit card number. I don't take advantage... I would not want him to take advantage of it so I don't... besides I really am not very nosey. I don't have this overwhelming curiousity to know absolutely everything about everyone, including my fiance. 

I exchanged passwords with my ex. Actually created an email account for him. He was never much an internet person to begin with, so id post pictures for him, tell him who sent him an email. Things like that. I always always always told him when i went on. After we broke up he changed his passwords im guessing, I was just curious if he did. I wasnt snooping at all. I was already hurting and didnt want to hurt more. And I couldnt get in. Since he was never online to begin with he didnt remember mine ever, so i never changed mine. But besides even if he did, if he wanted to snoop, its not like he could find anything good, and even if he did it would hurt him, and thats his own fault.
But that bank accounts?! thats a bit much.

My boyfriend uses one password for everything, so I can access anything if I wanted to. I have about 7 different passwords that I use, and couldn't remember them if he tried. 

I'd never do that. They say not to share your password with ANYONE for a reason! And sharing bank account information is just plain stupid. Who knows what kind of crap could happen when two people get into a fight or break up and have that kind of access to each other's personal things.

I think each person should have her/his own privacy. Emails, cellphones list, who call who, blog, etc goes under it.

We haven't exchanged passwords.  I'm open about everything, but I don't hand out my passwords to anybody.  If I'm on my email account, xanga or anything like that and if I don't sign out, then I don't really care if my boyfriend looks through it.  It's not like I have anything bad on there and if I didn't trust him, then I wouldn't be with him.

When my ex and I are still together, I gave him the password of one of my accounts. He tells me when he'll check it. Now that we're not together anymore but remained friends,  he gave me his password in his friendster account and I was the one who upload his first pictures and invited our common friends. It's really a matter of trusting one another. :))

I have been in my relationship for over three years. We have eachother's passwords to email and myspace/facebook, as well as voicemail and even into eachother's laptops. However, we do not use them. So... I really do not know why we have them lol. I only have his because I added a note from me to his myspace page as a surprise. A month later, he still hasn't found it....

Anyway, I will say that it is a bad idea. His brother "A" had a girlfriend "B" who had his passwords, and when she dumped him for another guy, she went into his myspace and changed all his information, and then his password. They are now back together.  

My boyfriend once said he would gladly give me his password, he has no problem with it. I, on the other hand like my privacy and I know that he freaks out easily about many things. So giving him my email or facebook is out of the question. LET ALONE BANK ACCOUNTS!! If I get married, then yes why keep passwords hidden? But if something happens and you break up..then it's bad especially since I have this password on absolutely everything.

well, i kinda learned the hard way by sharing my password. More like I had e-mails from friends that he'd go snooping through and he sure as hell wasn't happy with the facebook and myspace comments left by my friends either. In any case, I think that's a bit too much. yes, it does earn trust but that's a really risky way to earn trust. ESP with your banking. =T

I knew my husband's passwords before we were even dating. He knew mine, too. I knew his aim pw, his myspace pw, and his e-mail pw. Of course I never snooped, I still don't. He doesn't snoop in mine, either. Sometimes we get bored and sign on to each other's myspace accounts just to see bulletins or messages. (We still ask permission to read messages, even though, of course the answer is always yes)

And if people share thier passwords and then break up; change your passwords!

I'm always hesitant to give out my passwords because I change them every once in a while and would rather avoid conflict with the whole "WHAT ARE YOU HIDING FROM ME?" argument.  That said, my boyfriend knows the password to my WoW account, which is bad enough sometimes since I have a few [inappropriate] male friends in the game who won't hesitate to say dumb things without first finding out if it's me on or not.  The last time I told him my Facebook password I ended up changing it, so he then hacked into my account, which almost resulted in a break-up.  He does know my password for email and school related stuff though, a consequence of him wanting to get onto the internet when he visits me at school.

I know his most of his passwords for WoW and the like.  I don't bother snooping (or hacking, for that matter) because I trust him.