'Husband turns our security cameras off when he's home alone - it's suspicious'

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In a world of smart tech, many of us will be familiar with Ring video doorbells. The perfect device for keeping an eye on your home when you're not there, they also handy to check who is at the property - loved ones included. But sometimes they show us more than we bargained for, as one woman has shared that whenever her husband is at home, the cameras magically don't work and will 'glitch', leaving her wondering why whenever he's at home they appear to be off.

When confronting him, she was met with a defensive attitude - and wonders if she was wrong for asking him what was happening due to his reaction when she did. So she asked others online, as she took to Reddit to explain her situation to see what they thought. Her post read: "Recently married and combined households by moving in together. Great relationship, healthy sex life, good communication.

"I have a few cameras around the house for security and to communicate with the kiddos that don't have cell phones yet, but mainly to see when my kids get home from school. I could care less about the cameras most any other time. I had these (and more) at my old house but I've only set up three so far at the new house. The new house also came with a Ring door bell camera."

When her husband is home, which is regularly as he works remotely, the cameras will glitch so she can't view anything on them and he is the main account holder on the camera account. She added: "The first few weeks in the house were fine. No hiccups or glitches with the cameras. The Ring door bell worked like a champ at every slight bit of movement. The first week he was solo in the house and the first day the kids go off to school, when they come home, through the front door, there is no Ring notification. The time line glitches as if the shots were deleted.

"He is the main Ring account holder, I'm shared, I can't delete anything. That evening I mentioned it and he gets defensive, so I initially dropped it. I wouldn't have married him if I didn't trust him, I was just curious on what happened. Later, we talked it over and I explained that I didn't think he did something malicious but something definitely happened. Agreed to move past it. I decided to just take notes on when I noticed the 'glitches.'

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"It has happened a few more times and always on days that's he's been at home, alone. Every so often I've asked one of the kids what he's doing when they got home and most of the time he was playing video games or in a work meeting. Today around two, I go to check the garage camera to see if he's left the garage open, which he does frequently and we end up with exorbitant power bills. So I remind him to shut the door. I get the error 'live view failed.' I try the front of the garage, same error. I screen shot and send them to him asking if he knows why they aren't working.

But when she confronted him, she was met with a defensive attitude which she wasn't expecting from her new husband. As she further detailed: "He loses his s**t. Starts saying I'm accusing him of hiding things. Now I don't THINK he's cheating. We have a healthy sex life, we typically communicate, but I just don't understand. The cameras work great, when he isn't home alone. He has access to the cameras, just as I have access to the Ring. If he isn't hiding anything and not messing with the cameras, why the defence? I didn't ask what he was doing but I did insinuate that I thought he had something to do with it."

Other Reddit users have been quick to challenge the husbands behaviour, all in agreement it's dodgy, as one concerned onlooker suggested: "Just because you're having a healthy sex with him doesn't mean he isn't getting it elsewhere either. You could set up a secret camera if you really want to know. His reaction is so over the top that if he's not cheating, maybe he's using substances. Not the a**hole. Get to the bottom of this asap," while another said: "I'd get a nanny cam he didn't know about."

Niamh Kirk

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