Answering Your Partners Mobile Phone ...

joko | 23:58 Sat 04th Jan 2014 | ChatterBank

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do you do this? would you?

or do you ignore it and tell them they had a call when they come back into the room?

do you think its weird to answer it? or is it weird not to?

if you do, do you just say hello?

or do you say 'hello so an so's phone'?

thanks

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Zacs-Master

I was just 'zuzhing' up the debate. ;-)

B00

If it is near me, and he wasn't ,then yes, id answer it. I wouldn't go out of my, ie, get off my fat arse to do so though. Mind you, I don't with mine either.

joko

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i dont think its necessarily a trust thing - i would not have liked my partner to look through my phone, not because i was cheating etc - i wasnt - or chatting to other blokes even as friends, but more because i speak to my friends freely about him and others, and may have said something he would not like me to say, told them about an argument, moaned about his mum or friend, commented about a bloke who tried to chat me up who i turned down, or even about womens problems etc - all stuff that may not go down very well
he is fiercely private and hates me talking to anyone about him, but of course im going to, thats what people do with their mates, so even though only on some occasions what i have said would be bad - after a row or something - he would not like even the most minor of comments.

aside from that, its just private really - not secret - but private, you wouldnt be happy to discover your phone had been bugged, and someone was listening, or reading all your emails and mail etc

EcclesCake

I don't answer my husbands phone and he doesn't answer mine. No particular reason, but if the caller has phoned his mobile they want him not me, so it may as well go to voicemail and the caller can explain why they are calling.

A call to the landline is a free for all and whoever is nearest, or in my case slowest, to the phone answers.

We don't have trust/relationship issues we just respect each others space, I wouldn't go through his pockets/ruck sack and he wouldn't go near my handbag.....a wise move as even I don't know what monsters lurk in its depths!

sherrardk

Zacs - moot also means 'having little or no practical relevance'.

Zacs-Master

Only in America. Look it up in either Chambers or the Oxford English Dictionary.

boxtops

There's a discussion on another thread about "moot" - to me and mine, it's always meant "open to discussion".....

There's no lack of trust between me and my OH, but we're entitled to some autonomy in the relationship - obviously we're all different, but I respect his privacy at times, and he does mine. There is very little we don't ultimately share, but that's by choice, not by answering each other's calls or opening each other's post.

Psybbo

Oh goodness me no, as OH would say 'your other man is ringing you!

pusskin

Mr puss's mobile never rings --never.
But if it did i would answer if it with no hesitation.
He would never ever answer my phone as he doesnt know how to do it I dont think! its hard enough to get him to answer the landline.

woofgang

Joko
" but more because i speak to my friends freely about him and others, and may have said something he would not like me to say, told them about an argument, moaned about his mum or friend, commented about a bloke who tried to chat me up who i turned down, or even about womens problems etc - all stuff that may not go down very well
he is fiercely private and hates me talking to anyone about him, but of course im going to, thats what people do with their mates, so even though only on some occasions what i have said would be bad - after a row or something - he would not like even the most minor of comments. "

If he doesn't like you doing it and you know it would upset him, why do it? How would you feel if he did something you didn't like behind your back?

pixie373

We don't answer each others phones or post. It's more about respect and space. We might ask each other to answer, if busy. You wouldn't know who was ringing without looking to see, anyway, which seems quite nosy on someone else's phone.

joko

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im entitled to talk to my friends about my life woofgang - he talks about me to his.
the issue the fact that it wouldnt matter what i actually said, he wouldnt like it, but he knows i talk to them

Peter Pedant

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yes I do

no I dont think it is odd

yes I say hello - but also the famed 'Bouquet residence, Good Morning'

and also - Battersea Dogs Home

and Police refuge......

and a few cold callers have had: hello you old fool ( Queen Mary used to say that to george V apparently ) what the f do you want ? (which I dont believe Q M followed that up with)

Peter Pedant

Oh I do about 10 people's post - you get used to it