My sister is on campus. She is a first-year university student. I have a baby, and her school is not far from home, so she comes around on weekends to help. She would come on Friday night and leave late on Sunday.

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I would wake up at dawn and not see my husband next to me. The first time, he said he was in the toilet. The second time, I met him while he was about to enter the room, with his phone held tightly in his hands.

“Or does he wake up to talk to someone else?” I asked myself.

That day, I was alert, trying to get hold of his phone. So immediately after he entered the bathroom, I took his phone and started going through it. The last message he sent was to a man called Abram. I checked, and it was a photo of a lady lying naked in bed. Her face was off, but the bed and the sheets looked familiar.

I went through his photo gallery and saw photos of my sister from every angle while she was sleeping. In some, she was wearing a nightie but was exposed. In others, she didn’t wear anything. Every position you can think of, he had a photo of my sister in that position. Some went so deep, I wondered if he wanted to see her intestines.

His phone was in my hand when he came out. He quickly snatched it from my hand and looked to see how far I had gotten. “Why are you taking photos of her when she’s asleep?” He said they were AI-generated images.

Maybe he thought I was dumb or that I hadn’t seen the photos clearly. I said, “You’ll explain to my dad when he calls you. You think I’m stupid, right?”

I wasn’t even fighting him. All I wanted was the truth. He confessed after several minutes of back and forth. He said the person he sent the photos to gave him money, and depending on how many he sends, he gets a lot of money.

My husband is not poor. Yes, we all need money, but I don’t see my husband doing something like this just for money. To me, there’s more to the relationship with the recipient of the photos than just money. He claims he doesn’t know him and they only spoke on X and became friends.

He’s obviously telling lies. I want to tell my dad about it, but if I do, he might end up in prison. My dad is on that no-nonsense level. A lot is going through my head. A lot of voices are trying to talk to me at the same time. Rituals come to mind. Or maybe the person is a gay partner—that’s also possible. Or he’s doing it for money, as he said. No matter how you look at it, it doesn’t sound good, but he insists what he has told me is nothing but the truth.

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Should I involve my dad or anyone else in this issue? I might lose my marriage if I bring my dad in. He’ll push through the system until he gets to the bottom. Or should I just accept what he’s saying as the truth and take it from there?

—Eme

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