I’m generally a give-benefit-of-the-doubt kind of person, but even with the contents of the diary being innocent, I’m having a hard time figuring out how they mixed in with your wife’s panties.
Just take the diary and hide it really well, don’t say anything at all, and wait to see what happens. It is easy psychological torture.
You’re so evil.
I like it.
Ditto. My first instinct was to hide the diary and wait for the sparks.
My wife, not knowing that I had read her diary back when our troubles first cropped up, has since edited her diary by removing pages wherein she pledged to herself that she would improve how she treated me.
What you have may not be what she was originally given.
And as someone who was just in a similar situation as you (and am in fact in it now), I suggest a lawyer. No joke.
Yes, this is a good idea. Or how about this: write in the diary yourself. “05/12/10 - Found my brother-in-law’s diary in my wife’s underwear drawer today. For the life of me I can’t figure out what it’s doing there. Weird.” Then replace it and don’t say a thing. Unless she brings it up. From there you’re on your own.
I am having a hard time imagining myself in this situation, but I think what I would do is this: nothing. I’m serious. Just sit on it for a while. It’s information you have that she doesn’t know you’re privy to. Just watch and wait.
Not to hijack… several years ago I had girlfriend. I was house sitting for her while she was away and stumbled upon a notebook. I was curious and just randomly flipped it open to discover that it was a journal. Reading the one page of it that I did was a HUGE mistake.
So, nothing incriminating in the diary. This just gets weirder and weirder. I still can’t think of any good reason for your wife to have brother-in-law’s diary in her underwear drawer, though.
You should provide this kind of advice for a living. That was good!
Perfect!
Details please.
Thats some good outa the box thinking right there.
Obviously the diary is written using some clever ciphertext. I’d send it to the nearest University math department for cryptanalysis.
I’d say especially with the contents being innocent. It would have made more sense had it been full of lurid wrongdoing. But innocent is like a great big WTF. And what kind of man keeps a diary of his life ponderings?
I was wondering about that too. The whimsical musings and anecdotes in the diary could be absolutely fabulous to read (if you know what I mean). Maybe they are working on the script and choreography for a musical in collaboration and she just wants to protect him so that they may have a future in showbiz together.
I think it is time for a Geraldo Rivera style opening of the vault for the whole world to see but on the web. I can set up a web conference for it if anyone is interested.
Is the diary full to the last page, like he filled it and might have a newer volume at home, and he’s not missed this one since your wife took it? Weird.
And if you really want to open a big can of devious worms, here’s what I would do:
[ul]
[li]Take a well-lit picture of the book with your cell, in an ambiguous setting[/li][li]Change caller ID setting on your cell so calls are anonymous[/li][li]Text the picture to your sister, BIL, and wife[/li][li]Sit back and watch the show[/li][/ul]
I can be crazy like that, though.
You, Sir or Madam SeaDragonTattoo, are a shit-stirrer of Iagoian proportions. Take a bow just for coming up with this idea.
Probably not as bad a person as I am for being disappointed that it doesn’t appear to be a horcrux…
I don’t know if sending it to the wife will accomplish anything. She may not have seen the journal herself, to recognize it. Even if she does, a “neutral setting” wouldn’t tell her anything. Not sure she should get dragged into this anyway.
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