I really don't think I have a problem with sharing. I passed kindergarten with flying colors because I was always more than willing to share my crayolas. I share my food with friends, family, and animals alike. But when it gets to sharing
things with my significant other, I get a little bit testy.
Take, for instance, my computer. Now, I know that if one has privacy concerns and all that, you can just set up different accounts on the computer and let it do its magic. But I always get antsy knowing that someone may get into saved documents, photos, or god forbid, past IM conversations. Maybe it's the anxiety from my ex hacking into my email account years ago, or friends rummaging through my desktop "because they were bored" during college, but I just can't/won't share a computer with anyone now, even my bf.
Or consider things like toothbrushes or loofahs. I stayed over at a friend's house last week and noticed that she and her live-in bf shared one toothbrush. Don't get me wrong, I totally get that since you're usually swapping bodily fluids with your significant other anyway, it's not that much of a leap to be sharing a toothbrush, but I'd never be able to bring myself to do it. It's like, cooties, man!
Would you share everything with your significant other? Are there things that are just off-limits?
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Ew. Communal toothbrush? Bodily fluids is one thing, I think tartar and old food is another, which I for one could not handle.
I don't share if I don't have to. I hate germs.
Yeah, I don't share unless I have to either. My stuff is my stuff, your stuff is your stuff. If you like my stuff, buy your own
Oh God, I would NEVER share my toothbrush. That's just unsanitary.
I share things within reason. If someone needs to use my computer for a few minutes, that's fine. Phone, ipod, pillow, whatever, as long as they don't keep it forever or run into some kind of sanitary issue, I'm fine with sharing for a few hours.
Nah I'm with you entirely on this one, I think. (:
I don't have anything to hide, it just depends on the person, I guess, and whether I trust them not to go through my stuff or not.
Toothbrushes? That's crossing a very thick line right there!!
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew Sharing a toothbrush?!?!?!
Grim.
@SeeBeeWrite@xanga - yeah, it's not even cleaning, it's just like...transfer of germs.
i could share a computer. i have nothing to hide from my boyfriend so if he got into anything i woudln't be worried. but i wouldn't share a toothbrush, towel, etc..
i cant really think of anything i wouldnt be comfortable sharing. toothbrush is a bit iffy but i still dont really care.
he takes better care of his things than i do so its probably better off with him anyway.and with the whole going through my stuff thing, ive probably told him whatever it is anyway.Sharing a toothbrush? Hahaha
yeah i did share a tooth brush before when I was younger but not anymore and never again. Now I'm skeeved out about sharing anything...
http://utoppia.datingish.com/721211224/sharing-is-caring/
ew! sharing a toothbrush? i'm sorry.. that crosses the line. no i wouldn't share everything with my SO... there are boundaries, jesus.
Share everything with a SO... probably not. As practically everyone else has said, sharing a toothbrush = no. Material objects though (with limited exception) I have no issue sharing with a SO. All my writings usually go onto a web media of some sort and are put there to be read, so there's no reason to hide from him what others can freely see if they so choose.
However, I'm odd in that it's most difficult for me to share my mind with a SO, because thoughts are so personal and so me that I have to be completely comfortable with someone to fully let them into the craziness of my mind. ^_^'
I don't really like sharing food that much...there's an unspoken "Paws off my burgers" rule.
toothbrush --> himym.
Sharing.. a toothbrush?
That's disgusting.
I dont even share water bottles or anything that makes contact with the other persons bodily fluids. yuck yuck yuck (Im going to take a shower now, completely grossed out)
I'd never share underwear (:
I really don't mind sharing anything with my boyfriend.
He's used my toothbrush once or twice & I've used his.
Doesn't bother me. As long as it's not an every day thing.
More like, once every six months.
I don't mind sharing things like computers or else, but when it comes to something very personal... like toothbrush!... no way haha...
"Lo tuyo es tuyo, y lo mio es mio!" =)
(Your stuff is yours, and my stuff it's mine!)
I'm so with you. Combining CD collections, sharing toothbrushes - no thank you. I also hate girls who presume they can borrow my stuff after five dates or something. I had a girl who did this once and I wanted to chuck her but she had all my stuff. So I had to arrange another date at her house to sneakily get my stuff back - then break the news. I wrote a post about it actually:
http://plentymorefishoutofwater.blogspot.com/2009/10/sunday-confessional-sex-stevie-and.html
Eww but the difference between swapping bodily fluids and sharing toothbrushes is when you brush your teeth you're brushing all that nasty plaque off of them x.x And then...some of that is still on the toothbrush even after you wash it @_____@ Eww lol. The thought grosses me out so much x,x
Gosh that is gross - sharing a toothbrush? And no, you're totally normal for not wanting to share a computer with the S/O. I wouldn't want to either.
I wouldn't mind sharing once or twice on the toothbrush thing. Other than that I don't have a problem with sharing anything else.
EW, EW, EW. Toothbrush.. gross.
I don't like sharing personal things. My things are just that MY things. I dont share phones, computers, or anything like that.
My computer has a funny habit of crashing on people when I am not right there with them. No idea why, but if I come back to my computer and it's full of windows and glitched up I know my roomie has been on it.
I wouldn't share a toothbrush..That's just gross -.- As long as it's sanitary, then it's fine.
EW to the toothbrush....that's disgusting! i don't care about sharing my computer, i've got nothing to hide.