My husband went through my phone, and since then he hasn’t said a word to me. I saw him going through it but pretended I was asleep. I didn’t want to wake up and ask for my phone because it would seem like I had something to hide. I lay there pretending to be asleep while I watched his facial expressions change.

He put the phone down quietly and came to lie next to me. A few minutes later, I placed my leg on him, and he wiggled his way out. I threw my arms around him, still pretending to be asleep, and he wiggled out again. I didn’t question him or do anything.

I woke up the next morning, greeted him like we always do, and he responded under his breath. Since then, words have been few and far between. He talks only when I ask questions, and the answers come in single words instead of sentences. When I ask what the problem is, he tells me he’s fine.

I’ve gone through my phone, shaken it sideways, up and down, just in case a message I didn’t know I had would fall out, but there’s nothing to warrant his new way of treating me. How do I get him to come clean about what he thinks he saw?

He’s acting weird, like he saw something that hurt his feelings or made him feel less of a man, but there’s nothing on my phone, not even a man calling me “dear” or “babe.” He’s making me overthink things I shouldn’t be thinking about, and I don’t like it.

—Doreen 

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