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To think this folder name on DP's laptop is dodgy?

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nonfictionaddict · 20/08/2024 09:02

A little while ago, DP was on his laptop, sat to my left. He rarely uses it so this was the first log in in ages (as far as I know). I saw on the bottom left hand side of the desktop screen a folder that I read as being named Tiny Boys.
He then clicked on a web browser so quickly I didn't have time to re-read and double check.

However, I was in that moment almost 100% that is what it said. I keep trying to think what else it could have said even if I mistakenly read that and I can't seem to come up with any answers.

I froze in the moment and couldn't ask, which I regret so much now- I felt v. shaken and confused, but then also mentally reasoned that it could be a folder with pictures of his to boys when they were little, maybe, as I had mentioned to him he should save pics of his boys in case he lost his phone. His boys are 11 and 14, but he has tons of pics on his phone of them when little, and they are his world. He literally lives for them.

However, it has been on my mind almost daily since. Why 'Tiny Boys' as a name and not 'The Boys'? I haven't been able to talk to any friends about it as understandably the implications if worse case scenario don't bear thinking about.

So, with my mind going over this and still not sure what to do/say/think, about a week ago, DP went on his laptop near me again, and there was no sign of the folder! So he has somwhow deleted or hidden it, which sent alarm bells off, as if it was innocent, surely he's leave it on his desktop?

I don't know how to raise this with him- on the one hand if there is nothing to hide I look like a monster for thinking there could be something nefarious about something so innocent.
On the other hand, what if he denies or says it's completely innocent when it isn't? Then I will never know even if the folder was dodgy, and he has pictures of boys on his laptop.
Everything is password protected, no I don't know passwords etc. Phone is facial recognition. I can't get into his laptop.

I was thinking of asking him if he has started saving pics of the boys yet, and see what he says. If he says no, then it means that folder has nothing to do with his kids.
I also keep wondering if there was any chance I misread the title of the folder, but I am almost 100% sure that is what it said, in the moment. But then again I know that the brain can play tricks. I am backwards and foreards in my mind every day with this. I feel so scared of asking him.

Please help, I am making myself sick with worry and stress over this and what to say to him about it.

OP posts:
ladyintherain · 20/08/2024 09:10

It could just be he was tidying up his desktop and moved it. Or he made the file and wasn't using it It sounds like a normal name for pictures of his sons as little kids.

Catza · 20/08/2024 09:09

I cannot imagine a scenario in which a person accessing illegal material online would create a folder on his desktop which specifies what illegal material they are looking at. I just can't...

EternallyIrked · 20/08/2024 09:09

Tell him you have a task to complete that would be much easier on a laptop so could you please use his for 10 minutes? If needed, have excuses ready like yours is having IT issues/battery run out/screen broken. Maybe that's what you need to go online to resolve, and its way easier on a laptop than your tiny phone screen.

If/when he starts it up, keep an eye out. If he starts moving things, clearing anything or says things like "I just need to quickly log out of this, give me a minute" you can ask questions about what's going on and insist on transparency.

If you get on to the laptop, remember to check recycle bin.

PlantDoctor · 20/08/2024 09:04

Just say your noticed the folder and it sounded like cute baby photos of the kids, so you'd love to see them.

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