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Do you secretly read your partner's WhatsApp messages?

June 13, 2017 15:09 IST

Do you do it out of curiosity, lack of trust or to keep tabs on your partner?

Would you look at your partner's WhatsApp?

IMAGE*: Is the temptation to snoop through your partner's WhatsApp messages too difficult to resist?

WhatsApp messages always double up as secret warehouse of information.

It contains private, confidential information about your partner's past and present too.

Relationships are based on an element of trust, but what if suspicion creeps in?

A woman was killed recently after her partner got to know about a new relationship by reading her WhatsApp messages.

'In the days leading up to the murder, Paul went through Natalie's phone and even managed to obtain a WhatsApp profile picture of his rival, Dennis,' a report in the British newspaper Mirror read.

We ask you, Dear Readers, what would you do if you found your partner's phone lying unattended?

Would you be tempted to read their WhatsApp messages? Or would you look away?

If you checked your partner's messages in the past, did it change anything between the two of you?

Did you feel guilty later?

Did you tell your partner about it? Or did you keep mum?

Does checking your partner's WhatsApp messages mean that you don't trust her/him?

Does it mean you're keeping tabs on them?

Let us know what you think. Please share your experiences, advice and stories in the messageboard below.

*Lead image posted only for representational purposes.