Snooping causes a loss of trust.
In a 2013 study reported in the UK newspaper, The Telegraph, 34 percent of women said they’d snooped into their partner’s emails or texts. And it’s not just females who fight curiosity—nearly twice as many men (62 percent) said they’d done the same thing. And the respondents admitted that the loss of trust caused by snooping either started a relationship into decline or finished it off completely. Don’t go there.
Fortunately, your actions don’t have to change solely out of sheer willpower. You can also change your feelings. The ultra-happy couples I surveyed for The Surprising Secrets of Highly Happy Marriages were happy, in part, because they had learned not to simply “exercise control” over the negative feelings; they had actually learned how to change those feelings and talk themselves out of being mad or upset… or curious and suspicious!
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