Came home the other night last week, later than normal, to DH sitting on couch (and a clean living room, again! Yay for me!) – says to me, “We need to talk about something.”

Me: OK, what’s up?
DP: We need to be careful what we say around the girls.
Me: What?
DP: They pick up on everything.
Me: Yeah, I know, but so what? We don’t talk about things we shouldn’t if they are around. We can’t hide whatever’s going on from them at the same time.
DP: Yes. It’s just that I picked up SD11’s phone yesterday to give it back to her and I saw an email sent to her. It was from her friend J.
Me: Oh, I like J. She’s a good one. What’s up? (me thinking, my goodness is he actually going to FINALLY realize the nasty side to SD11 that is logged forever in writing/texts/emails?)
DP: Well, the email from J said, “I hope that Cover1W isn’t having an affair on your dad, that would be sad.”
Me: WTH? (Internally, good for J! She likes me!) Well, you know I’m not so just let it go (realizing he hadn’t read the full string which I suspect started with SD11 saying something like, “I hope Cover1W is having an affair on my dad because then she’d leave!”)
DP: You know J uses her mom’s email right?
Me: Yes, and that’s good so her mom knows what she’s doing.
DP: Um, yes. But what if her mom sent that email?
Me: WTF? So what? Either it’s 11 y.o. girls being stupid or it’s and adult butting into something she has no right to do, based upon an 11 y.o assumption. So just ignore the whole thing. And no way am I going to be careful about what we say to each other unless it’s really private. SDs need to know how good couples interact. AND need to know we can spend time apart or with friends separate from each other and still be super happy together. Seriously. Ignore it. (meanwhile Cover1W is thinking about how to inconspicuously steer him towards actually checking SD11’s email history...)
DP: Yes, good.

Bejeezus.