SNOOPING through a partner’s phone may seem like a grand idea, after all, there should be no secrets in love. Because if we’re sharing a bed and body fluids, a bank account and stories of our past, then there should be nothing wrong with sharing message details, e-mails, and casual conversations, right?

WRONG!

You may have thought that it was the men who won’t enter Heaven’s gates because of their wild ways, but brace yourselves. If men are 100 per cent bad when it comes to phone secrets that have sent women to their shrinks’ offices, women are 1000 per cent worse, in the way their phone secrets have dealt men brutal blows.

I spoke to a few men about what this snooping did to them, and here’s what they said.

Blacks, 28:

She had refused to share her PIN before. I should have just minded my business. But I memorised her password and logged in when she was sleeping. She was talking to her work friend about me — same guy she told me was just her friend, oh the irony! It wasn’t just talk. She was telling him how horrible I was as a lover, how I couldn’t last long for a ‘young boy’, couldn’t even go two rounds, and how being with me was slowly turning her into a lesbian.

Nicholas, 34:

She had a group chat with her two best friends, where they all talked about their husbands. My reviews weren’t bad, but the other guys’ were like a tragic comedy. She didn’t even hide the phone from me. When I asked she just handed it over, as if she had nothing to hide, and as if talking about men’s shortcomings was fair game.

Gideon, 26:

I didn’t find anything incriminating like with cheating or whatever. But she did have an ‘adult content’ habit and was watching it non-stop, according to her web history. And it was mostly just girls, so up to this day, I don’t even know what to think.

Rojroy, 40:

Her sisters were encouraging her to give ‘bun for bun’, because she had told them of the ONE time I strayed nine years ago. If they were encouraging her to do something productive it wouldn’t have been bad, but they had a whole women’s liberation movement going on in their group chat, where they said only in serving me revenge, would she find peace.

Chalyce, 31:

When she was supposed to be working from home, one of the contractors who previously worked at the house was actually visiting her. She has our doorbell camera app on her phone, so while I was browsing, I scrolled through the clips, and every single day he was there, bringing her lunch, and then entering my house, staying, and leaving two hours later, like he lived there.

The battlefield of a woman’s phone is one you should enter at your own risk. You have been warned!

Jevaughnie Smith is a communications professional. Send feedback to allwoman@jamaicaobserver.com.