A slippery slope

Juice is reading my text messages.

Not that there's anything incriminating in my text messages, mind you, but it's the principle of the thing. And I have a very jealous, hormonal wife, who looks at everything in the worst possible light.

I had suspected that she was looking at my texts a couple of weeks ago, but I got confirmation late last week.

I had a couple of texts back and forth with my female boss early last week letting her know what I was doing for the day. She asked if I had talked to a certain teacher and I sent her a text back that said "No, I haven't heard from her thong"

The last word of that text caused quite a laugh, and a bit of embarrassment on my part. I had sent a text to the Captain a couple of weeks ago teasing him about his twentysomething girlfriend and I asked if he had taken to wearing her thong.

Enter this text message. Word prediction can be a really cool thing, or it can be a complete pain in the ass. I see it as the latter in this case.

So, anyway, I get done giving Peanut a bath that same night, and Juice has gone from happy to pissy. I figure maybe she saw that I had four texts from my female boss and I delete the two that talk about the thong.

Next morning, Juice comes in while I'm taking a shower, asking if she can get a number or two off my phone. While she's punching around, she makes a face, then says "what the hell was that about a thong?"

Now, I haven't said anything else to her about it but I did explain very politely what had happened. I'm just wondering how to approach this subject. I know she was reading my texts because she brought up the ones I had deleted, so it was no accident...she didn't just "stumble" across them like she claimed. But I also deleted them, which makes me look guilty. She just didn't look when she pretended to find it the next morning.

Things are better around our house now, but I'm still a little angry about it. It's probably better to just let it go, though, rather than starting another fight.