Cheater, Cheater, Pumpkin Eater

I feel so guilty. I have something to confess. 

I, yes, I have been doing a horrific thing.

Jay and I rarely watch live TV because we record shows on our Digital Video Recorder to watch together. And yet, there have been times when I've been stuck at home due to poor health while he's out teaching young Royal Rangers how to grow into men of honor and integrity (as well as how to light fires with flint and make a rope bridge), running errands, at a meeting, or (worse) at the fire station nobly risking his life for the general public...

and I (this is so hard)...
 
I've (sob)...

secretly (deep breath)...

watched an episode without him.

Okay! Okay! I admit it!

I've watched more than one episode without him.

Maybe even three.
 
Maybe even an entire season.

Or six.

A few times he almost caught me. He came home earlier than I expected and asked, "What are you doing?" I was vague, misleading, and distracted him with food. 

My refusal to answer his question should have told me that I was behaving badly.

But did it really hurt him if he didn't know? We never promised we wouldn't watch an episode without the other person. I was careful to say nothing about my foreknowledge of a pre-viewed show when we watched it together. I even helpfully pointed out a detail or two that would be important to the plot later on. Helping is good, right?

A couple of times I almost gave myself away by "guessing" the ending. He thinks I'm unusually clever, so why disappoint him? Doesn't every man long for a clever wife? Why tell him that instead he has a DVR cheating wife? That would just be cruel!

Yet, for all my justifications, I know it's wrong. 

I know I should stop.

I know should confess to Jay. 

I know I should make an appointment with our pastor for marriage counseling.

I know I should floss twice daily.

And I will.

Right after I finish watching the newest season of Sherlock on Masterpiece Mystery. 

Verse of the day: (Mark 4:22) "There is nothing hidden which will not be revealed, nor has anything been kept secret but that it should come to light." Okay! I'll tell him already!