Hi everyone. Thanks for responding. Happy to hear this is normal. Love the line "they hide it in toilets"!!! Because he takes his to the bathroom when he goes. He also sleeps with it next to him face down, like he's waiting for an IV drug hit. Before 6 months ago, he left it laying around, hardly used it, no password. Guess conversation turned more serious after BD and he couldn't keep up with deleting the texts so he locked it. Since they really only communicate by phone, he may be more addicted to the instant text/call fix more than her as the person. After he leaves and he doesn't have to secret his phone, maybe her in person conversations won't be so exciting. She'll prob be mad if she sees that he still has his password on his phone once they can be together full time. Because right now she figures that password is just for me. Will then think he's hiding something from HER.