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    rosie

    hey ladies,

    my situation is that i am married to a man that doesnt enjoy traveling very much whereas its very important to me so since he wont go with me i typically travel multiple times a year with my girlfriends. a few months ago i installed a ring doorbell camera simply for security reasons. ever since i installed it my husband blocks the camera with tape anytime i go away. whether i go away for just the night or a week or 2 he ALWAYS covers the camera. his reasoning is that if he doesnt see what i am doing when travling i dont need to see who comes and goes into OUR house. he says he typically just has family and friends come over while i am away. It’s not so much that i dont trust him per say, but i feel that its OUR house, i pay 1/2 the bills, i have a right to know who goes in and out of my house regardless, man/woman/child/etc so i feel him covering it is majorly disrespectful. i have a trip coming up and told him if he covers the camera again i will file for divorce. his response is that if thats all it takes for me to end the marriage then he is okay with it.

    thoughts??

    #932771 Reply
    AngieBaby

    Both of you should power down and try to get to the real issues underneath the spat.

    I see both sides of this. You find it odd that he would cover up the camera and he finds it odd that you need to see what’s happening when you’re not there. I’d strongly suggest going to a counselor to see if they can mediate the discussion since you’re both getting your backs up to the point that you’re ready to file for divorce and he’s OK with it.

    It would be helpful if this counselor could facilitate him explaining his need to cover up the camera and help him understand why that looks suspicious. And maybe that person can help you understand why he might feel like he’s being spied on and isn’t being trusted when there’s no reason to mistrust him.

    Even if I weren’t wild about the camera, I wouldn’t go out of my way to cover it up and I do tend to see your POV more. It just doesn’t look good. But before you instigate a divorce, see if you can clear this up first.

    #932772 Reply
    Raven

    If it smells fishy, there are fish involved…

    #932773 Reply
    Raven

    I’m sure there are other areas that you two disagree ?

    #932784 Reply
    tammy

    this is a little strange. hiding the cam with tape when your away. at the same time, is this about you need to know whats happening since you pay half the bills, or your getting doubts that hes upto no gud. and i think herein lies the problem. you guys need to communicate openly about this.

    #932785 Reply
    Liz Lemon

    You installed the camera for security, right? Not to monitor him? I assume he was on the same page as you about having it installed? It’s weird to me that he sees the camera as your spying device, rather than a security device. Unless you had some other agenda when you installed it?

    I agree with the other posters that it sounds like you two have a lot of issues in your marriage, I’m sorry to say. The cameras are just an excuse. And then to threaten divorce on top that is never a good sign for a marriage! It seems like you have a serious lack of trust on both your parts. Does he resent the fact that you travel without him? Does he mistrust you? Do you mistrust him? Counseling is a good idea, I think.

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    Eric Charles
    Keymaster

    The focal point of the story is how he covers the camera when you’re away.

    And if I was in your position, it would raise questions.

    But I have to ask: How did we get here?

    I mean, traveling is meaningful enough to you that you travel independently.

    He covers the camera on the front door (which essentially monitors his actions) and you threaten him with divorce if you don’t get to spy on him while you’re away.

    And look, I’m not saying it wouldn’t raise concerns, but he actually is accurate when he says he doesn’t get to watch your comings and goings while on vacation, so why should he be subject to that?

    You want to travel, so you do.

    He wants to cover the doorbell camera, and by some rule of yours, that’s not OK… it’s so “not OK” that you threaten to divorce him while you go on vacations without him because you want to.

    Something is wrong here in the partnership.

    Maybe he is doing something shady. He might be.

    But there’s definitely more to the story if the bullets are:

    – wife goes on vacations without husband because she wants to
    – husband covers doorbell camera when she’s away
    – wife threatens divorce if he doesn’t stop doing that for the next times she does what she wants without limitation

    I mean, I would be uncomfortable if I was married and my wife was going on vacation by herself.

    Like I could imagine a man, alone in his bed, haunted by thoughts of his wife having sexual encounters with foreign men while he’s alone at home.

    I could imagine how a guy might feel humiliated and defeated because the marriage he’s in is a choice between letting his wife do whatever she wants… or else… and he needs to also do whatever she tells him to do… or else.

    The more I think about this, the more I think there’s a marriage problem here that BOTH of you need to be really honest about with yourselves and with each other.

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