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Dear Amy: My friend asked me to baby sit for her 6-year-old. She is married and pregnant with her second child.

She and her husband provided their phone numbers to me before they went to work — I had never sat for them before.

They have a little pool, so I was laying out in my bikini watching the boy play and her husband showed up and started talking to me. I felt like he was criticizing his wife, my friend.

I became uncomfortable when he started talking about the "seven-year itch." He said that's when men want to cheat.

I put on my shorts and shirt. I have never been put in a situation like this.

I have a boyfriend and I love him very much.

When her husband went back to work, he sent me a text not to tell his wife what he had said and ended it with, "By the way — nice bathing suit :)"

I didn't respond and then he texted me "Sorry." I still didn't reply back.

When my friend got home from work I wanted to tell her, but she is pregnant and I didn't know how she would react.

I left my phone at their house and when I got it back I realized those messages where gone! He had erased them!

They want me to baby-sit again, but I don't want to.

Everyone is telling me not to tell her, but I really think I should. I would want to know if my husband behaved like this.

— Upset

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Re: wwyd?

  • Hmmmm. I can't say that I would tell my friend 100%. That's a hard one, but I would set him straight fo sho.
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  • I think I would approach him and tell him he is a disgusting pig, oh and quit babysitting for them.
  • it's the erasing the texts from the phone thing that sticks in my craw.  wtf, dude.
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  • I'd shut it down with him - by ignoring, like she did - but I wouldn't tell, and I'd probably continue to babysit. 

    If he continues despite being ignored, or if he escalates, that's when I'd tell the wife and try to find other arrangements for the 6-y-o. One incident of inappropriate flirting is not something to go nuclear-option over. Continued inappropriate flirting is. 
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  • Yes, he is a cheat, and has been cheating for years.
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    In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_wedding-woes_wwyd-45?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special%20Topic%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:47Discussion:429f32b7-a88d-4882-85e9-5fc471c3f846Post:efdac06d-15a5-42b5-a113-2254cd38d467">Re: wwyd?</a>:
    [QUOTE]it's the erasing the texts from the phone thing that sticks in my craw.  wtf, dude.
    Posted by hmonkey[/QUOTE]<div>Yeah, that's stalker-y.</div><div>What all did he do oon her phone?</div><div>
    </div><div>It's also deleting evidence so he can deny it to the wife.

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