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Cancelling each other out?

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starryeyed19 · 05/11/2023 16:41

I would like to get some perspectives on a situation I am in.

I have quite a lot of debt. It's not something I am proud of but it is being dealt with by a debt management company. My husband was aware of some of my debt but not about some parking fines I had stupidly racked up.

He found out about these by going through my email account without my knowledge. We've had a conversation about the debt and we're sitting down together to take a good long look at the financial situation and where I stand with it. The debt and the payment of it solely belongs to me and I am not asking or expecting him to pay any of it. He's just helping me organise myself a bit better.

It was a difficult talk, I'm not very good at sharing things and whilst we have made a plan about the debt, I haven't said anything about him going through my email. Should I? Or does me not telling him about parking fines cancel out him looking through my emails?

OP posts:
Helenahandkart · 05/11/2023 20:04

I discovered my ex was a gambler and drug addict by opening his post and looking in his pockets. Should I have done that? No. But my life was hell living with someone who I could feel was lying to me. Snooping on him finally gave me clarity and allowed me to make sense of what was going on.
Maybe OP’s partner could tell there was something amiss. Sometimes we are driven to doing the wrong thing for an ultimate good.

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