Husband Claims "Platonic" Friendship, Wife Finds Evidence to the Contrary, continued

The last year of our marriage has been very difficult. My husband lost his job 9 months ago and has since gotten a new one, but he hates it. I’ve had family problems because my father had been diagnosed with colon cancer and my sister is going through a divorce. It seems like we were always fighting and the tension was sometimes so high that he would leave the house for hours at a time on weekends. He never told me where he went when he came back, and I never asked. That’s because we were giving each other the silent treatment.

Last week I was on the computer at home checking my email and noticed that he had forgotten to sign out of his email account. On purpose or by accident I don’t know. I know I shouldn’t have but I couldn’t help myself, something told me to go in and look at his emails. I just had a gut feeling. I saw an email from that woman he used to be friends with. She was giving him advice on our marriage, and that’s not the worse part! There was a bunch of affectionate words in the email, like “hon” and “babe” and at the end she signed it “Love ya.”

I just about started crying but I didn’t. I just couldn’t believe it! When he got home I told him I read the email and told him how upset I was and how he had been lying to me. He told me I was exaggerating and that it was “nothing.” Not only that, but he got mad at ME for snooping around his email!! He said that he and this woman were still just friends and had always spoken to each other like that, but what a bunch of BS. At the end of the night I started doubting myself and wondering if he was right that I was going off the deep end.

But now I wonder about all those Saturdays and Sundays where he would use any excuse to get in a fight and storm out of the house for several hours at a time. Maybe he was with her. I bet he was.