'My husband keeps leaving scathing online reviews about my novel - he's jealous'
You'd like to think when you finish something you've worked hard on, your spouse would be supportive, right?
But one woman reckons the person behind the string of negative reviews about her long-anticipated and hard grafted novel was her husband. As she celebrated the success of her book, which has gone on to win awards and has sold more copies than her previous two combined, her happiness has been dulled bythe vicious and nasty reviews on Amazon, Goodreads and X, formerly known as Twitter.
Now, even though she claimed her husband, also a writer, had been "incredibly supportive" of her writing and publicising her book, she strongly believed he could be the one behind the cruel comments - and claimed he's just jealous she's achieved things he "could never".
"He was by my side during the long and arduous writing process, happily clinked Champagne glasses with me as the book started to draw attention and accolades he could never dream of for himself, and patiently held the camera while I recorded my promotional TikToks," she wrote in an anonymous post to advice column The Cut's Emily Gould for help.
She further detailed: "Most importantly, he has held my hand and comforted me through all of the online harassment. I couldn't have done it without him. Or so I thought. For reasons too complicated to get into, I am starting to strongly suspect that my beloved has been using an array of anonymous accounts to post some of the most negative and cruel comments about the book.
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"In fact, I believe he may be the main source of the hatred that has been directed toward me, likely driven by jealousy that I have achieved something he never could." She admitted she's 85 per cent sure it's him, and said she's been "considering snooping on his computer" - something she's done before, and led to their marriage "suffering".
"I know that if I were to confront him about my suspicions, he would accuse me of invading his privacy once again. Although this is not the case, I would have great difficulty explaining myself. But lately, I can't even look at him without feeling sick to my stomach at the thought of what he might be writing about me and my book," she added.
The wife even admitted she's "fantasised about hiring a private investigator" to try and uncover the truth, and asked what she should do. Emily came back with some advice, and although she said she needed a little more detail about why the wife had these suspicions, she told her to "snoop away".
She said: "Invade his privacy! Invade it until you find out whether your 85 per cent certainty is 100 per cent or 0 per cent well-founded,' she advised. I would normally never suggest doing this, but in this case, you really need to know whether your husband is harassing you online, and poking around his laptop yourself makes way more sense than hiring a private investigator."
Emily then said if she was right, she had every right to "confront him" about what he had been doing and added: "If he denies it and you have incontrovertible proof, your marriage is, to put it bluntly, f**ked. There is no coming back from doing something like what he's done if he doesn't have any remorse about doing it; that's sociopathic behavior."
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