Question:
A31/SF
Dear Snipster,
I am an avid reader of your blog… I know some people think the submissions are a little over the top and possibly fake…. Well I have a question I would really like advice on (I think my emotions cloud my judgment) but the situation is a little over the top… so bear with me here as I am really looking for advice because what I am about to ask has a real person behind the question and this situation is real to me… I need good advice. I think you’re the gal for it or some of your readers could give me the answer I maybe don’t want to hear but need to.
Here it goes… I caught my husband looking at porn awhile back and while I don’t mind him looking occasionally, hell we have tons of magazines in the bathroom and videos in our armoire to keep him plenty occupied. Plus, I don’t like it ruling his life. I told him how I felt about it and how it made me feel… especially since we were not as sexually active and I was pregnant. He agreed to stop. I have also known him to lie in the past but he had seemed to stop one we actually started dating with the exception of the time when we were married that I found he had a secret email account. Nothing in it was suspicious though. Anyway, as far as I knew, I had all his passwords to all his accounts and access to anything any time I wanted it…. Well I never looked cause I trusted him… until the other day we got in a fight and he was being overly edgy… so I got into his email account… everything looked normal… but I got a wild hair to check his sent mail Nothing appeared suspicious… but I accidentally clicked on an email he had sent himself to his work email…. Bada bing…. A secret email account arose. Now, in his work email, there is nothing… but when I got to this NEW email account I see web links to porn sites, strange email addresses… ex girlfriend/fiancé name, number, and web address to her blog, responses to craiglist personal ads with no mention of having a wife, child, or asking for pictures….. Emails from woman about meeting up, moving etc…. but to top it of, naked pictures of me that I had absolutely NO knowledge of (I don’t and have never allowed it for the obvious reasons I don’t want them on the net). I was livid… was destined to leave him…. But he begged and pleaded for me to stay. He said he was a porn addict, that he was just on Craigslist to get naked pics of girls… he doesn’t supposedly doesn’t like the porn star fakeness and likes real unaltered woman (amateurs..) and that he started taking pictures of me because he knew what he was doing was wrong so he was trying to fix it by just looking at me. He said he viewed it mostly at work… of which he has strange hours there…. ANYWAY, I know that most of that is manipulated bull but he suggested a polygraph test to prove he never went outside the marriage. He also went straight to a counselor two days after it happened and is not going into a AA type organization for his alleged addiction. My question is…. Should I go along/make him take the polygraph test before I decide to leave? If he passes I am willing to work on the marriage to see if it can be salvaged but only because it appears he really does care about us. BUT…. Being as emotional about it all…. Is it just already obvious that I need to not feed into the bull…. Or am I making a huge deal out of nothing? The lying and unauthorized picture taking is what is heating me up the most.
Sincerely,
The Lie Detector
Answer:
Sounds like you’ve been through a lot with this man. I understand you don’t like porn. In my opinion it’s not wrong unless you cross the boundary of lying which it seems he has. You asked him to stop and he should have stopped. The craiglist thing was way too much. Getting pictures from real women? Wow. As for the polygraph test. If you have the money to shell out and get one I say go for it. Why not? Find out the truth. Because you know if you leave him and never know the truth you will be wondering for the rest of your life if you should have gone ahead with it. Counseling is good for this man. He needs to continue it. The need to lie and go behind your back all for some pictures is not healthy. Maybe you could go with him to some sessions. But I can’t tell you whether or not to stay with your husband. In the end that is your decision.
Please let us know what your final decision is. I’m sure me and my readers will be curious to see how this one pans out.
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