Woman says her husband kept acting out the spicy scenes in her romance novels before she got to them — then she set a trap and finally found the spreadsheet

A Reddit user says she thought her husband had suddenly gotten very creative in the bedroom, but after the same thing happened four times, she started to suspect something weirder was going on. In the post, the 32-year-old woman wrote that she reads four or five romance novels a month on her Kindle, and over the past two months her husband of 11 years had started planning oddly specific “themed” nights. The problem, she said, was that a few days later she would hit a spicy scene in whatever book she was reading and realize he had already acted out almost the exact same setup with her.

At first, she was not even angry. She sounded more amused than anything else. She wrote that her sister immediately guessed he was somehow reading ahead in the books and recreating the scenes on purpose, which felt both hilarious and absurd because it would mean he was checking her Kindle progress, staying ahead of her chapters, and coordinating the timing. The wife joked that because he is a “tech and numbers” guy, there was probably a spreadsheet involved somewhere.

Instead of confronting him, she decided to mess with him back. In her March 30 update, she said she rushed through her current book, left her Kindle open to an earlier chapter to throw him off, and then initiated the exact spicy scene herself before he could get there first. When nothing happened the next day, she escalated. She started reading a book she thought would be a much harder one for him to casually anticipate, then waited to see if he would crack.

He did. In the final update, posted April 2, she said the moment came during lunch while both of them were working from home. Her husband suddenly told her, very seriously, “if you really want to, you can,” which finally blew the whole thing open. According to her, he admitted he had access to their shared Kindle library, started the whole thing as a prank, and then got completely invested in it. He agreed to stop spoiling the books, but the bigger reveal was the one she had been joking about from the start: yes, there really was a spreadsheet. She said it had chili-pepper emojis for spice levels, color-coding, notes about things like wine and Spotify playlists, and multiple tabs.

The ending was about as Reddit-perfect as you would expect. She wrote that the two of them landed on a new system where she gives him a list of pre-approved scenes and he picks from it in no particular order so he can still surprise her without ruining the books. Then she showed him the Reddit post and updates, and she said they ended up crying laughing while reading the comments together. The BORU thread is here.

What do you think — is the spreadsheet the funniest part, or is it the fact that he somehow turned romance-book spoilers into a marriage bit that actually worked?