Hi Ellen--your posts always make me smile or laugh out loud! Hey, I have given up all my magazines too--too much clutter for me. Now if I could get my H to give his up, or at least cut the number down, I'd be a step ahead of the game. I think I will check the library out for those books, thanks.
You were right on with that MEOW! Your post reminded me of this past summer when I found pictures of BMOW on one of the computers here that H had downloaded. And, hmmmmmm, they were of her a DECADE younger than her current age. Imagine that! I laughed heartily as a deleted them.
As far as you stumbling across the OW pic--I know how that feels--I got to stumble across BMOW's b-day card to my H, and her tons of love cards, and her Valentine's day cards, and her Easter card and her credit card where he had added her to one of his (now defunct) accounts. Not that it matters that that particular account is defunct--no, that didn't stop her, she apparently now has two more in his name anyway!
It is probably best that you throw out anything you find and never mention it. My H knows I have destroyed all BMOW's stuff that I have found, but he has never mentioned it to me. If he didn't want it destroyed, he should have tucked it all away in a safety deposit box somewhere. I suppose I could kid myself and think that he forgot about all of it!
LG--a shredding, deleting fool!
A blessed and happy marriage is a union of two forgivers and Him, because...a cord of three strands is not quickly broken. Ecclesiastes 4:12.