Can’t sleep ... overheard neighour on phone. !!

[Highfivemum]

Can’t sleep at all. Have lovely neighbours. Man and wife and they have three grown up sons. Really nice and friendly. I go to Pilates with the wife and we share a coffee a few times a week when my DC are at school. The wife works a few evenings a week and tonight I overheard her husband while sorting the Bins outside, He was on his phone to someone I heard him say ...
“ so after 18 years you expect me to tell my three boys they have a sister they know nothing about !! “ He then heard me so went inside.
I am now sitting downstairs and I cannot get it out of my head. They are so nice and I know from talking to the wife she says she would have loved a girl !!
I have put voting but I do not feel I should be saying anything. Should I just forget it. I don’t think i can !! How do I face the Husband as he must know I heard him !!

I don't think you should be turning this into entertainment for strangers. This is badly done, Highfive, badly done.

I didn’t mean to be so rude.

I suppose it’s not something I would give more than a cursory consideration to, unless I was invited to.

Get some earpods, everytime you goin the garden put some music on so next time you see him you can make a show of taking them out and saying 'Hi! Loving my new xmas presents!'

Someone I had a coffee with several times a week is a friend, not just a neighbour. I would struggle knowing this info about a friend's husband! If her dc are adults and this daughter is 18 it looks like infidelity as well. Don't think I could tell her though.

At the age of 18 I believe children can trace their birth parents so given this is a conversation mentioning 18 years it could be that a now adult child wants to meet the birth parent and get to know their siblings/half siblings? I would definitely not say anything and let them deal with it. It seems like it will need to be discussed by them anyway so they need time to manage it privately.

Do you think someone got an Ancestry DNA test for Christmas??

Say nothing. It has got absolutely nothing to do with you.

Nothing to do with you at all. There are many scenarios that this could be.

I have a friend whose husband has a child from a previous relationship. They have not told their children but obviously they both know about the child. It's an accident waiting to happen.

Your neighbour voted be my friend actually.

Id assume the wife knows tbh, if she didnt he d be more likely to be saying 'after 18 years you expect me to tell my wife i have a child she knows nothing about', rather than talking about his sons.
Regardless put it out of your head, smile and wave next time you see him and carry on as nirmal. I think posting this thread has only concreted what you heard more firmly in your mind and will make it more difficult for you to act normally. And dint tell your DH! That would be awful imo, for the 2 of you to be discussing and speculating as to what its all about - do you have kids, what if thet overheard you? Keep quiet and try your best to forget it happened.