{"id":1312,"date":"2024-03-05T09:15:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T09:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/?p=1312"},"modified":"2024-03-05T09:15:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T09:15:22","slug":"my-wife-has-a-strange-bathroom-rule-when-i-found-out-the-truth-behind-it-i-was-terrified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/?p=1312","title":{"rendered":"My Wife Has a Strange Bathroom Rule \u2013 When I Found Out the Truth behind It, I Was Terrified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>After Louise\u2019s grandmother passed away, she and Connor moved into her house, ready to settle down and begin having serious conversations about their future. But when Louise forbade Connor from entering her bathroom, things began to fall apart.<\/strong><\/em>When I met Louise, that was it for me. I knew from the moment our paths crossed at work that she was the woman I wanted to marry. We dated for three years and finally got married in a small ceremony,<\/p>\n<p>Louise\u2019s grandmother had passed away two years prior, leaving her newly renovated home to Louise. \u201cI think we should move into my grandmother\u2019s house,\u201d Louise suggested. \u201cIt\u2019s just bigger than our apartment, and we won\u2019t have to worry about rent or anything like that.\u201d I agreed with her \u2014 moving would save us a lot of money. But it would also help us settle down enough to start thinking about kids,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFine,\u201d I conceded. \u201cLet\u2019s move into grandma\u2019s house.\u201d The move went smoothly. We settled into our new routine well, with constant date nights, weekends away, and frequent discussions about having kids. At first, Louise and I were happy with the house \u2014 but then we started to renovate things to our liking. I redid the third bedroom, turning it into a home office for us, while Louise revamped the kitchen. We were thriving. We loved it. But then, Louise began to tackle the second bathroom,<\/p>\n<p>close to our bedroom. She arranged for a contractor to come in and change the entire layout of the bathroom. \u201cConnor, honey,\u201d she said, \u201cplease don\u2019t go in there. It\u2019s just a space for me, okay? It\u2019s really important that you understand that.\u201d Of course, I didn\u2019t understand. But I loved Louise, and I figured that eventually, when she was done with whatever she had planned, she would let me in. But weeks bled into months, and there was still no sign of Louise showing me the room. One night, when she had gone to sleep early while I was watching sports, my curiosity got the better of me. I wasn\u2019t a jealous man, but I did want to know what my wife was up to. Quietly, I went into her bathroom. It seemed perfectly ordinary, if not a little refreshed with new paint. But there, toward the corner of the bathroom, I noticed a little hole, with a red glow shining through it.\u00a0<em>What on earth is that?<\/em>\u00a0I wondered to myself. I got down on my knees and peered through the hole. I was shocked to my core to see dozens of eyes peering back at me, the red glow making them more terrifying than I would have admitted. A shiver shot down my spine. \u201cConnor?\u201d Louise\u2019s voice echoed in the bathroom. \u201cWhat are you doing here?\u201d I knew that voice. Louise was livid. \u201cI was just washing my hands,\u201d I said, stupidly. \u201cConnor, you saw what\u2019s behind the wall, didn\u2019t you?\u201d The creepy dolls? The secret room? Of course, I had seen something. I just didn\u2019t understand what I had seen. I shook my head, not knowing how to tackle the subject. I had so many questions for Louise. \u201cYou were looking through the hole, Connor,\u201d she said, her hand on her hip. \u201cWhat did you see?\u201d Louise spoke slowly, like she was trying to choose each word carefully. \u201cOkay,\u201d I said, giving up the act. \u201cI peeped through and saw a bunch of creepy dolls. That\u2019s all I could see, Lou. What\u2019s happening? Why is there a secret room full of dolls?\u201d Louise turned away from me, her hand gripping the sink. She sniffed loudly. \u201cOh, honey,\u201d I said. \u201cDon\u2019t cry. Let\u2019s just talk about it.\u201d \u201cThose dolls are my grandmother\u2019s legacy, Connor. She got a new one whenever they came out, and she kept them in this room. I\u2019ve been cleaning the dust off them, and repairing the little tears in their clothes.\u201d \u201cLou, that\u2019s not so bad then. Why didn\u2019t you just tell me?\u201d The truth is, I wouldn\u2019t have stopped her from having her room full of dolls as a remembrance to her grandmother. They shared a special bond, and I knew it. \u201cIt\u2019s more than that, Connor,\u201d Louise lashed out. \u201cBehind that wall is a room. It\u2019s my sanctuary. It\u2019s where I write my novels. I asked you to respect my space, but you couldn\u2019t even do that.\u201d Tears welled in her eyes. First, a secret room in our home, and now this? The revelation that my wife, the woman I thought I knew, harbored a secret life as a writer shook me to my core. \u201cNovels? You\u2019re a writer?\u201d I asked, shock rendering me speechless. \u201cYes, Connor,\u201d she said, shifting her weight from one foot to the other. \u201cI write under a pen name. I\u2019ve published books, but I\u2019ve never wanted anyone to know. It\u2019s the one part of me that\u2019s just mine.\u201d I didn\u2019t know what to say \u2014 so I didn\u2019t say anything. \u201cI write in that room, surrounded by my grandmother\u2019s dolls. And you\u2026 you just invaded it without a second thought?\u201d she accused, the hurt in her voice a palpable force between us. Louise went back to our bedroom and sank into the sheets. She threw my pillow at me\u2014signaling that the living room would be my bedroom for the night. In the morning, she asked for space. \u201cTwo weeks, Connor,\u201d she said. \u201cI just need to think about everything. I need to re-evaluate my role in our marriage.\u201d I couldn\u2019t understand what was happening. But during that sleepless night, I tossed and turned on the couch, wondering why Louise had gotten so upset with me.understood the need for privacy, and I respected hers \u2014 even if my curiosity got the better of me. But Lou was the one with the secret room attached to a bathroom. And a secret profession. But still, I was reeling. When Louise locked herself away in her writing room, I wrote her an apology. The two weeks are almost over, and I\u2019m at my parents\u2019 home, wondering about the future of our marriage. I want Louise and me to mend what is broken, but she hasn\u2019t spoken to me yet.Only time will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Louise\u2019s grandmother passed away, she and Connor moved into her house, ready to settle down and begin&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":{"0":"post-1312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"cs-entry"},"authors":[{"term_id":7,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"admin","display_name":"Arya Roberts","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/q6.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/q6.jpg"},"author_category":"","first_name":"","last_name":"","user_url":"https:\/\/americapwd.com","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1314,"href":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions\/1314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1312"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americapwd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=1312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}