ok charcoal...

were you in the garage because you were miffed at h???

perhaps the issue was not that one but you used it as a mask...

you were in the garage to do some work in your journal...a journal you do not wish h to see or possibly even know about
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realized I'd rather have a password-protected document to start with


which is fine and all but given the current state of your m and h's uncertainty as to what your intentions for the m truly are...perhaps in the future when youre off to the garage to do some "moral inventory" you can simply let him know you are doing some work on personal stuff, give him some idea as to what it is...let him know it's nothing to be threatend by.

LL