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Originally posted by 1s1k:
...our financial advisor suggested is creating a spreadsheet with our passwords so she could easily get on my computer. ...

Thread drift -- but I feel it's important.

You financial guy is probably great at finances, but bad at cybersecurity. It would be best to not keep your passwords in clear text on your computer. Print that off and delete it. It's a roadmap for a bad guy should they ever compromise your computer.

I keep mine in an encrypted web service (there are several) with two factor auth for most things, but again, -- banking and primary email do not even go into that, because of the consequences should someone crack it. Primary email can reset passwords on most other accounts. And the banking reason is obvious.

We have a bunch of computers.

She can access them all except my employer's work computer.

She can access my phone but never bothers.

 
My two Macs are set up with automatic login to my account, so all she would have to do is turn it on, if it is not already. She leaves her Windows PC logged in all the time as well, not sure if it is auto-logon. Phones are separate, but we both have the phone passwords recorded, on paper or in a text file.

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Originally posted by architect:
the bottom line is, I am not worried about what she knows about me. This is what it means to have a good wife.

^^
It also points to living a life in which one is not concerned about what details the wife may know about it. Both of which are very good things.

My wife can be slightly nosy, as in I get a text from a buddy as I’m driving, and I ask her to read and reply. She may scroll back a little ways.
I don’t care, but if she reads something a little crude, or sees a joke off color, she better put her big panties on!
On the other hand, I do try to use a filter. If I second guess myself, I won’t send.
If I didn’t trust her, id be single.

Wife has access to phone and computer. She also has list of all passwords in case they are not available and she needs to take over bill paying, etc.

She knows most of my passwords and has access to everything. She doesn’t abuse this. Passwords are written in our Agendas every year.

We learned the hard way when my sister suffered devastating brain damage and my mother passed shortly after.
Spent years trying to figure out passwords, discover accounts, tracking unknown people and being harassed by others. Whatsapp recorded messages were quite useful when we gained access to them (phone and laptop vanished, phone was recovered)and started putting things together. People were not who they pretended to be, the conversations revealed, and took great advantage of this while we were in the dark.

As they say, wear clean underwear should you die unexpectedly

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Yes, we also have access to each other's emails. It just makes life easier and we have full trust in each other. I've never once had an inclination to snoop.

We both know each others passwords to phones and computers although neither of us are super tech-y so there's not much on anything. Just pictures and such.

I have separate personal and work phones and computers. Work machines only get work related stuff on there due to privacy and confidentiality issues. My wife has access to a list of passwords for personal devices and accounts should something go wrong. The only reason she usually looks at my phone is to send herself pictures of the ankle biters I have taken.

No access in my house. I have nothing to hide, but my devices are secured, and are not used for random type crap looking at videos and polluting the operating system with slimy things. My better half has no sense of electronic security nor even cares about it, so someone like that having access to computers that handle banking, secure information etc. is a recipie for trouble. So for me it's purely security and practical common sense. My work computer is even more so, no one touches that but me, and I don't use it for anything but work, with the exception of google searches for work related IT problem solving and research.

She only has access to my phone as she wont memorize my 20+ characters access specific, mnemonic phrase based passwords.

This is another good reason for a password manager shared by both, with up to date passwords. My wife isn't great about keeping some of hers up to date there (which normally is automatic) but as long as we have the master password and email, in the event the other kicks the bucket we're still good. Well, on access anyway....

If you're not sold on password managers, you will be convinced after you try one. Just set your password for the password manager itself to something long enough with some complexity (the usual rules about password characters etc.), and add a secondary "password file" (look it up) for 2FA if you want some extra security to make a break-in orders of magnitude less profitable for the effort that would otherwise be needed.