My husband received something very strange in the post ...

[OnSilverStars]

In the post today, my husband received a letter. It was hand written with his name and address on the outside. No return info. The writing in the envelope is definitely a woman's

Inside is a copy of an "essay" I googled it and it's by Robert Louise Stevenson. It called "on Marriage"

The gist of it is that marriage has lots of ups and downs and requires communication

There is nothing else. No name, just a folded print out of this essay.

Any explanation, other than my fear? I have no reason other than this to suspect anything.

YABU - don't jump to conclusions

YANBU - he's cheated.

I'm shaking. This feels so surreal. I hope I'm overreacting. He's currently at work.

Ps. We open each other's post. We think nothing of it - usually. It's always junk or bills

@dontdisturbmenow

If you google the author you find out that he was JW.....Mystery over!

He was dead when they came into existence. Your google is a lying toad.

I also wonder if the sender forgot to put in the accompanying letter, my MIl has done this on occasion.

I reckon it’s the first of many obscure clues to a bizarre scavenger hunt. Only when all clues have arrived will you be able to make any sense of this.

I don't think there is a dark sinister explanation.

Maybe it's a really low rent version of one of the mysteries by mail gifts

www.mysteriousmail.com/

YABU.

It's odd, but there's a million reasons for someone to send odd letters.

What comes to my mind is someone with mental health issues could have sent it.

Possibly from the JW's they've sent hand written, hand addressed letters to me recently.

They are super weird, one only contained a Bible verse, nothing else...

I agree with @safariboot - it seems an incredibly odd way to communicate for anyone your DH might actually know, whatever their motivation.

Assuming his details are publicly accessible (electoral roll or similar) I would think it’s someone who has picked him completely at random.

It doesn't make any sense to be from an affair - why would they send him an essay about not running away from marriage when surely they would want him to leave you!

I'll probably get dumped on for judging older people but it looks like something an older person would have made at a library or something. Or someone who has a photocopier at home but surely it's rare that people need that nowadays (unless teachers or similar maybe).

Are the libraries even open, or the photocopy shops? Not many people would have a photocopier at home, so the sender would probably still be going in to work. And they would have to own this rather obscure book - it wouldn’t just be on the shelves of your local library!

It’s all very strange!

www.reddit.com/r/Reno/comments/i3z3lk/anyone_else_get_a_handwritten_letter_from_jehovah/

JW do this

@hp2

I had one of these. It’s from Jehovah witnesses.

Lets see it then.

Was it exactly the same?

Did it include other JW pamphlets?

You have the potential to solve this apparently yet post such scant information @hp2
Very odd.

You have to ask him or it will eat you up. Maybe it is just an admirer and not necessarily reciprocated. One way or the other try and keep as calm as possible let's just see his reaction.

A photocopy of an obscure book passage is not hand written but, it does seem to be the kind if thing that older, church going people would have access to.

Is it possible it is supposed to be some random act of kindness??

15 pages and don't have the time but why @OnSilverStars did you open his post?

I think that is indefensible.

Can't believe how many narrow minded arseholes there are on this thread

Blimey, I never knew JW were so active in the community - I've not had one coming knocking since I was a child and never had one put a handwritten essay through my door. Wouldn't even cross my mind that it would be a JW!

@OnSilverStars

I have my husband's permission to open his post indefinitely. He has mine.

so what's your issue? Just ask him what it is.

He wouldn't agree to you looking at his post if he had secrets.

People need to read the OPs posts. There is no handwritten letter. It is not JW.

Wouldn't JW send something biblical though, the 'essay' is by Robert Louise Stevenson?

I don't think this is from JW as apparently Robert Louis Stevenson became an atheist who visited cheap pubs and brothels.

I'm sure JW wouldn't approve of this!

I meant a handwritten envelope, and agree, would a JW actually write a handwritten envelope addressed to someone? Surely they'd just stick it through the door? They can't know who lives at everyone's house.

Why is it so weird to open each others post? If I don't open letters they don't get opened, just left on the side. He'd miss appointments and invitations and all sorts of I didn't. Junk goes in the bin and the rest on the fridge. Gets seen that way.

@Pinkelephantintheroom

Wouldn't JW send something biblical though, the 'essay' is by Robert Louise Stevenson?

It really is highly unlikely it's JW - I've never heard of them posting things through doors but I'm sure they'd have to put it was from them.

Most JW I've had dealings with in the past have seemed fairly normal if a bit strident in their views but we had a cleaning phone company who used to clean office phones years ago and the young woman who cleaned our phones was lovely and although she mentioned she was a JW, didn't ever try to convert us to JW!

Are the libraries even open, or the photocopy shops? Not many people would have a photocopier at home, so the sender would probably still be going in to work. And they would have to own this rather obscure book - it wouldn’t just be on the shelves of your local library!It’s all very strange!

Exactly. Who has a photocopier lying around??
I think it's mistaken identity or an eBay order gone wrong. I think the former.

I did think well meaning relative but again the photocopier during covid.....