Dear Prudence,
Low-stakes question here. I live with my boyfriend, and we sleep naked. I usually get out of bed earlier than he does, while he stays in bed for a significant amount of time on his phone. He has a longtime friend who lives in another country and sometimes FaceTimes him to chat. The way the time zones work out, this is only feasible in the early morning, and he’s usually still in bed (naked) when he takes her calls. I’m not worried about infidelity at all—I trust him completely, and I’m often in the room when they talk, and their conversations are always completely innocuous. (He never calls her while naked—and of course, he doesn’t pick up her calls if I’m still naked and would be in the camera frame!)
But even though I’m not at all a jealous partner, it seems a little weird to watch him FaceTiming with someone else while he’s completely naked. We’ve discussed this and he understands how I feel, but he (totally reasonably) points out that his friend calls at unpredictable times and we don’t keep any clothes near our bed. Plus, the way he holds the phone, you can’t see much more than his face—she definitely can’t see anything that she shouldn’t. We agreed to ask for your take on this. Would it be reasonable to make him cover up while he’s taking her calls, even if she wouldn’t even be able to tell the difference?