Leave the message

If you delete the message, it's going to look much more suspicious if Ariana somehow finds out. There's a chance Ariana won't even ask Matt about the dick pic being too much too soon, and will just assume that he took his flirting too far. On this, the eve of the Friday when the date will take place, you're much too close to allow a missing text message to derail everything. You set your wife's phone to one side, leaving the message on the screen.

Your mind turns to another issue however. Sneaking peeks at your wife's phone might not always be this easy, and their conversations aren't always what you might consider appropriate. You want to know what they're talking about, but if you keep having to steal your wife's phone while she's in the shower or sleeping, sooner or later you're going to get caught.

There are apps for this kind of thing. You could install one on your phone and use it to gain access to your wife's phone. It wouldn't allow you to edit or change anything, like how you just deleted one of your wife's texts but you would be able to read their messages to each other and listen in to phone calls. If nothing else, you'd always be in the loop.

However, you're also aware that it's a major invasion of privacy. You've already crossed one line by even looking at her phone, but to hack it and spy on her around the clock, that's taking it even further. Do you really want to do this?