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The one purely personal-relationships question in this batch — less "should society decide X," more "what would you actually do." Is it ever OK to read your partner's phone without asking?

Almost everyone says no in principle. Survey after survey finds a large share have done it anyway, usually citing a specific suspicion rather than routine curiosity.