One woman has a big problem with her new neighbor after it came out that his kid can see her through her windows. Usually this wouldn’t be a huge deal, but seeing as how the woman likes to walk around the house in her lingerie, well, you can see how this might cause just a touch of friction between the two.
The 28-year-old woman and her 34-year-old husband recently moved into the neighborhood.
As she explained in a since-deleted post on Reddit's AITA forum, for the most part she really likes her new house — “except for this family that lives right next to us,” she wrote.
She and her husband are newlyweds, and "although we just got back from our honeymoon, I still wear lingerie and sometimes walk around in them when I wake up in the morning when making coffee or breakfast.”
The woman was recently making coffee in her underwear when she heard a knock on the door.
She grabbed a long robe before going to answer. It was her neighbor and he was not happy.
“I asked how he was doing and he told me that his 7-year-old kid's room window is facing our living room and since his daughter uses ‘binoculars,’ she saw me wearing ‘inappropriate’ clothes while walking around in the living room,” she wrote.
Apparently, the girl is supposed to use the binoculars to see things in her yard but can see right into the large glass windows of the woman's home.
“My neighbor said this wasn't cool and his daughter just saw ‘something’ she can not unsee and that is not appropriate,” the woman recalled. “I asked him what he meant and he requested that I be a little considerate when it comes to clothing (or lack of) but I thought that was just ridiculous.”
The woman told him that she could wear whatever she wanted in her own dang house — but it was weird that his daughter was peeping on her.
Her neighbor argued the woman couldn’t blame his daughter. She was just “curious.”
The woman then told him it was time for him to leave.
“He did not take it well and implied that he'd take steps to ensure I don't ‘expose’ his daughter to stuff like that in the future,” she recalled. “He left and I just thought my entire day was ruined especially after he said he'd bring this incident to the [neighborhood] group's attention.”
She hoped that her husband would back her up when he came home.
But instead, he told her that she should “just leave the lingerie in the room.” He also told her to “learn to put some decent clothes on before getting out of the bedroom to avoid this type of incident,” she shared.
“He also said I was wrong to speak to our neighbor like that and that if he was in his shoes and his kid witnessed ‘that’ he'd be just as furious if not more,” she wrote.
She admitted that perhaps she handled the situation badly, but shouldn’t she be able to wear whatever she wants in her own home?
Some commenters thought her neighbor needed to be more mindful of his kid.
“[Not the A–hole] and shame on your neighbor and shame on your husband," one person wrote. "Instead of teaching this kid how inappropriate it is to snoop through others windows they're trying to shame a grown adult in her own home. Until your husband grows up and defends you he doesn't deserve you… This just seems like a huge red flag for your husband and if this is who he is then you definitely deserve better and he doesn't deserve the lingerie at all."
Someone else agreed. "Can you imagine the neighborhood association meeting? ‘Um yes I’d like to report that my daughter has binoculars and looks through your windows and then reports back to me on what you are wearing and doing in your homes?’"
Someone else chimed in that "both men are blaming you for being comfy behind closed doors while the neighbors child peeps thru windows with binoculars. He should teach his child to mind their damn business. My petty a– would withhold any intimacy or body contact from the husband because the neighbors might see and blame you for being to inappropriate for his daughter to watch thru binoculars from their house."
Other people thought she needed to cover up.
“[You're the A–hole]. It's just kind of an unwritten social rule of living in a dense area that if you're naked or half naked you close the curtains," one commenter argued. "How would you feel if the guy from the house across from you was walking around naked right in front of his window that direct[ly] faces you?"
"Close your curtains if you’re naked and can be seen from outside," someone else added.
A third commenter put it bluntly: "[You're the A–hole]. Wear a robe."
Unfortunately, this might be the kind of situation where the woman will have to compromise — she shouldn't have to cover up in her own home, but she can definitely buy curtains and keep them closed when her neighbor's daughter is home.
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