Was he really taking pics?
Dear Prudence,
I am 25 and gay. I was dating a 30-year-old woman with a 12-year-old son. They both frequently spent time in my open-air loft. I have a curtain that acts as a privacy barrier in the bedroom/office area. There is a full bath upstairs but the previous owner put a half bath downstairs. There is no reason why my girlfriend’s son should ever have needed to go upstairs. If he needed something, he could shout for it. He was constantly breaking the rule about coming upstairs.
He claimed he either wanted his mom or made up some lie like he couldn’t find the remote. We never had adult time when he was here, but the constant barrage into my personal space set my teeth on edge. His mom just continued to make excuses and didn’t enforce any basic manners on him over this. Then one afternoon after we went out hiking, my girlfriend had a work emergency and left her son watching movies at my place.
I went up to take a shower and drew the curtain. I yelled at her son not to come up. As I was running the shower, I stepped out in a bathrobe and went behind the decorative screen to get some lotion. When I popped out, I saw her son creeping into the bathroom with his phone out. I screamed at him and he ran and locked himself in the downstairs bathroom. When his mom got home, we ended up fighting because I “mistakenly” saw him trying to take naked pictures of me. There was nothing on the phone so I overreacted. We ended up breaking up. My dilemma is that I know my ex is currently dating a woman with daughters around the same age and younger than her son. I am worried that it might come across as vindictive and paranoid if I tell her something, but I would never forgive myself if I saw these girls end up on the nightly news. Help!
—Little Creep
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