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Hello, I would like to know if you can help me. I recently lent my mobile phone to my wife for a few days and when she gave it back to me I discovered that some strange messages had been sent from her lover no doubt. I confronted her about this and she attacked me saying that there had obviously been a mistake, that she was going to report me for breach of the privacy laws, she also wants me to cancel the messages otherwise she’s going to leave me. I don’t know what to do. Can you give me some advice on how to behave in this situation ?

First of all, you have to decide whether or not you would like to let this incident lie, forgetting about it, or not. If you cannot pretend that nothing happened, but you want to gain some time and ensure that your wife stays calm, then cancel the messages in front of her, but only after having shown them to someone who can bear witness to the circumstances and after having noted them down carefully or photocopied them from the telephone display (all you need is a normal photocopier with a photographic reproduction quality or a high definition). In this case your wife cannot invoke the privacy laws because the mobile phone is your property and the discovery was casual. Consult a lawyer however if you want to investigate into who sent the text messages.

Published on: 24 Feb 2005



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