Email to an old flame

United States
August 17, 2009 1:53pm CST
So my husband asked me to delete his old emails cause he nevers checks them. I found an email he sent to his ex girlfriend while we were seperated. I wasn't even mad but I sent him a text telling him that I saw it. He called me and flipped out saying he deals with me and my ex issues for years so I have no right to bring it up to him about his ex. The emails were harmless. She is married now anyway. It was more of a closure thing for her. I just find it funny. Yeah I know he has been really good about my issues with my ex but why flip out. I wasn't even mad about it.
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@Masssko (238)
• Estonia
17 Aug 09
Hi! In my opinion that's the problem with text messages, which can't explain our emotions. I had similar problems for several times with my boyfriend. In our case the problem was solved only by talking personally and explaining these things to one another. So now we try to share all the important or controversial information personally. Good luck!
@soulist (2985)
• United States
18 Aug 09
I completely agree he probably felt that the text was more attacking him rather than just saying that you found it. Sure you may not have been mad about it, but to him just getting a text message may have seemed like he needed to be defensive. You never know how the other person will take the msg when they get it. Maybe sending him the msg wasnt the brightest ideas. In the future probably just let it go. No point in getting him upset about it.
• United States
19 Aug 09
I am sure it was just a defense mechanism for him. Even though you say you aren't mad (and i beleive you, i woudln't be either, it was from far in the past..and at a time when you weren't together...if they were recent or during a time you were together, i think you would have every right to be mad) but i am sure he just thought or assumed it would be a big, huge deal to you. There are many women out there who tend to go off the dramatic deep end whenever anything like this happens, and unfortunatly those types of women are portrayed frequently on TV and in the media, so many times men are led to beleive that ALL women are going to act this way. I am sorry it caused issues between the two of you, and i am sure you will be able to work it out. I would maybe start by aknowledging and thanking him for being supposrtive, or overlooking of any problems you may have brought up about your ex in the past, and re-inforce the fact that these emails are not an issue with you. On a side note....personaly, if he asked you to go through and clean out his email inbox....he should have thought about the fact that there might be something in there that might raise a flag...
• United States
18 Aug 09
He was just being defensive and texting him about it was not the best thing to do, although it was a harmless, but if you would have told him personally about it, he would have see your face to see it did not bother you. Texting something is hard to determine how you are coming across. It will pass.