[Savagist]

We live on the outskirts of the suburbs with a good amount of forestry that back ups to to our backyard as well as most of the yards in the neighborhood. And the back windows face south and my wife loves natural sunlight. So we rarely, if ever, close any of our blinds because there's not really a need to. The one set of blinds that we should close (and don't) are the master bathroom blinds on the top level of our house.

The bathroom sits on the southwest corner of our house and has two set of windows. It has a ton of natural light into the bathroom basically all day long. My wife has a bunch of plants setup in there too that she takes care of. And the golden sunshine from when the sun starts to set comes through the west window. My wife loves this bathroom and is also adamant that we don't close the blinds unless we have to - and to open them back up when we're done so her plants can get sunlight in the morning before we wake up.

But also facing out the west window is our elderly neighbor's house and the one vantage point that could potentially see into our bathroom. Our neighbor has a room with a window facing our west bathroom window. And his house is a slightly higher elevation so his window is looking down into our window by about 10-12 ft.

He's a nice, older man in his mid-80s. We've known him since we moved in 9 years ago. His wife died of cancer a year after we moved in. And my wife checks on him all the time and invites him over for dinner every so often. And the older man neighbor adores my wife - they are genuinely friends and my wife seems to feel the need to make sure he's doing ok.

Anyways, I always shut the blinds when I take a shower and I open them back up when I'm done so my wife doesn't scold me for it. What I began noticing starting several years ago is that my wife doesn't use the blinds ever anymore. She just takes her shower, stands in front of the sink / mirror, lights on, blinds open, not a care in the world. Her backside just facing the neighbor's window when she stands in front of the mirror. When I noticed she was doing that I mentioned to her how he could see into there if he wanted to. My wife - who's usually somewhat modest and conservative about this stuff - is like, "whatever if he sees me he sees me" about it.

I've always wondered if he's ever noticed or has looked in there. The room that can see into the bathroom is a spare bedroom that he turned into an office. I don't ever see any light on in there at night so I don't know if he uses it that much (unless he actually is peeping on my wife with the lights off). He would have had no shortage of opportunities the last several years if he was paying attention at all.

And just this summer I helped him move something up his stairs and found an excuse to have him show me his office. His office definitely seem organized enough that it was probably being used. All his old army stuff and pictures on the wall and shelves. But the best part was that his chair was behind his desk, but not facing or positioned in a way that seems like it's used as a desk chair. It was literally facing out the window that can see into our bathroom.

I played dumb and asked about his army medals instead of looking like I noticed the chair or the direct viewpoint into our bathroom. I didn't tell my wife what I noticed either. But every time she takes a shower at night now I can't helped but imagine our elderly neighbor is looking at my wife naked.