Snooping...

Australia is a nation full of sticky beaks, apparently.

Here are some facts from a release I received recently:

 

10% of young Australians have been involved in a break-up as a result of text-checking (that's when you snoop through your partner's phone messages).

 

59% of text checkers check their partner’s phone when they’re in the shower.

 

Women (38%) are more likely than men (28%) to check their partner’s texts. (I wonder, these days, are men still more likely to cheat than women - and does the stat correlate?)

 

In fact, 900,000 Australians have admitted to checking their partner’s phones according to new research conducted by Virgin Mobile.

 

The research has revealed that Australia is a nation of paranoid text checkers with over one in three young Australians admitting to checking their partner’s text messages, and more than 280,000 having been being involved in a text-checking related break-up.

The research also reveals:

• 76% of text checkers do so in secret
• 73% of secret text checkers have found out things they later wished they hadn’t
• 44% of sneaky text checkers have discovered flirtatious or sexual texts, ranging from harmless flirtation (32%) to full blown sexual texts from someone else (19%)
• The most common places text checkers operate is while their partner is in the shower (59%), whilst in the same room (41%) or on the toilet (35%)

With the aim of squashing the nation’s obsession with text checking, Virgin Mobile introduces a new service for those customers concerned about their partner’s snoopy tendencies. Customers can simply text the word ‘snoop’ to 1978 99 99 to have a text from ‘SEXY’ sent to their phone. When the text message is opened by a paranoid partner, the message will remind the checker to have trust in their loved one.

 

Author, relationship expert and text-checking guru, Samantha Brett says that text checking is rampant in relationships across the world;
"With so many modes of communication available these days, it's difficult to keep track of your partner's whereabouts or who they're chatting to and when, and what it all means. No wonder so many of us are checking our partner's texts! But there’s reason to take note as Virgin Mobile's research proves that thousands of relationships are breaking down as a result of our text checking behaviour."

 

Now that's all lovely, except we need to point out that those 10% of break-ups as a result of texting MUST HAVE FOUND SOMETHING!
That it is RIDICULOUS to be upset about someone checking your texts after they've CAUGHT YOU CHEATING!

 

I think that once you get to the snooping stage you already know you're being fucked around on. And, let's face it, if your partner is leaving the room to take messages in the toilet at 2am in the morning, the alarm bells should already be ringing!

 

And shame on Virgin for defending 'every Australian's right to flirt'.
Greedy money-grabbing vice-exploiting twats. They should be called Slut not Virgin!

 

At the same time - I need to point out, as someone who knows:
There should be no need to check a partner's pockets, texts, phone bills, credit card statements.
If you suspect there is, if that person can't show you for themselves that they're trustworthy, life already sucks for you.

 

I know I don't ever want to find myself going through a man's drawers for anything other than when I'm scrabbling for the condoms one-handed and panting.