Lies come in different forms. It could happen between your family, friends, workplace, partner, etc. One of the best yet the worst feeling is finding out about the truth.
And this time, you’re about to see different ‘unfaithfulness’ real-life stories from people who got betrayed by their partners. You might want to be more alert and cautious around you cos some of these signs and suspicions might be familiar. Hope not!
1. Call Of Unveiling
Well, I had suspicions about my wife for a while, but confirmation came in the most unexpected way. I found it out in the form of a voicemail from the guy's wife.
"Hi -- this message is for <QuizzicalDog>. It's **** calling. Just wanted to let you know that your wife has been having an affair with my husband **** So, I just thought you should know. If you have any questions, I'm sure your wife would love to tell you all about it. Bye!"
Uhh, What did I just hear? I knew there was something. But never in my entire life have I expected the revelation to happen this way. Life’s odd, man.
QuizzicalDog
2. Too Defensive
I had suspicions for a long time that my ex-husband was cheating, and the red flags looking back are clear as day, but at the time, it always got twisted around that I was just a paranoid, crazy person.
Then, at work one night, my phone rang, and I didn’t answer because I didn’t recognize the number. Immediately after, my husband calls and sounds super freaked out and says, “You’re about to get a phone call; don’t answer it!! It’s all lies!”
Uh, what the heck? What are you talking about? “Melissa’s boyfriend is drunk and thinks we’ve been sleeping together, and he’s going scorched earth trying to ruin us because he made this up in his head.”
“Uh huh…” so I called the number that just called me. He is not drunk, found the texts and pictures on her phone, and offered to send me the screenshots.
I didn’t want to see him, but I believed him. I thanked him, called my husband back, and told him he better not be at home when I got home in the morning.
Pm_me_baby_pig_pics
3. Mom’s Cruelty
Not me but my parents. Dad found out from a dirty text that his best friend of 30+ years sent to my Mom. Mom was mentally manipulative and convinced him not to tell me.
This happened when I was in college and didn’t live at home at the time. I found out a month later when the best friend's wife messaged me on Facebook and asked, “How am I doing with all of this?”
Mom left and hasn’t talked to me in 6+ years. Dad got remarried. He just had his first anniversary. Dad’s new wife adopted me, and I have a good mom for the first time in my life.
ReReMac17
4. Sneaky Pants
We were at a party together with a bunch of close friends. She said she wasn't feeling that well, and my buddy was leaving early because he had to work in the morning so he could take her home.
Fair enough, we're all friends. We help each other out. I had a weird feeling in my gut, so when I left the party, I made a quick stop at my girlfriend's place.
As I entered the cul-de-sac, I saw my buddy's car parked in front of her house with lights off. So I turned my car's lights off and slowly crept over.
Then I was about 20 feet away, so I zoomed over and stopped right in front of his car, and I blasted on the high beam lights as I did this.
At that moment, I saw them pull away from a kiss. I pulled up to the side of his car, rolled down our windows, and asked how things were going. They didn't look me in the eyes. Then I just drove home. That was it for our relationship.
tiltedwater
5. Same Identity
We broke up. I made a new friend, and she asked if I had a boyfriend. I told her we had just ended the relationship. You know, it's just a normal conversation.
I also told her his name, to which she replied, “I had a boyfriend with that name, too, not too long ago!” FYI, it wasn’t a common name in our area.
I laughed, and I showed her a picture, and she did the same, and we stopped laughing. It was the same guy. We both dated him for about four months and 2 of those simultaneously.
2_Steps_From_hell_
6. Sudden Heartache
I'd been seeing this girl for 8 months, and flowers arrived from a guy called Matt on her birthday, but she managed to convince me he was just a friend.
It wasn't a problem as I was finally meeting her family for the first time at her birthday meal that same day, and she dropped the L bomb a few days before.
I stayed at hers after the meal, then left for work in the morning. Later that day, I sent her the usual text: "When are you free next?”
She decided to inform me that Matt was actually her boyfriend of 5 years, and she was moving 300 miles to the house he had bought for them both, and I would never get to see her again. Safe to say it left me with just a few trust issues
smackpatch
7. Two Odd Encounters
I caught him that he was paying his ex's rent over Venmo. We were going to move to a different state together. Apparently, he was thinking all 3 of us were going to be a happy family.
Another time, a guy told me his grandpa passed, so he needed to go be with his family. Well, that living idiot suddenly posted, "My love, my life."
Lo and behold, it was a New Year’s Eve picture with his girlfriend of 1 year. Clearly, that was not me. His grandpa was fine, alive, and kicking.
achampagneproblem13
8. Certainly Not Sleeping
I had suspicions prior to me actually finding out, but it’s a fun story. I worked the overnight shift at a printing store. My then-girlfriend was sleeping soundly at our apartment, or so I thought.
At around 3 AM, she walked in wearing an oversized hoodie and leopard print high heels. I’m a bit puzzled. She looks like she’s been crying.
I ask her what’s going on. She says she wrecked her car and needs my keys so she can go home and sleep. I give her the keys, and she leaves.
I get home at around 8 AM. She’s sleeping. Her purse is on the table. Her phone is there. I reach for her phone. The purse falls sideways- out spills protection.
I unlock her phone and go to her messages. There is a LONG text conversation between her and another man. She had been cheating for a while.
I woke her up and asked that she leave that day. It turns out she was drunk driving her brand-new car home from a party with her other lover when she lost control of her car in a ditch.
She reported it as stolen and had a friend give her a ride to my workplace. I’ve had no contact with her since. I never want to see or hear from her again.
sheldonowns
9. Half Of Life Gone
My wife cheated and had a two-year-long affair. Well, I found out when the other man’s wife texted me and told me everything.
I confronted my wife, and she lied through her teeth until I hit her with some facts of the matter that she couldn’t deny. It was painful.
We were hs sweethearts who were together for 18 years and married 11 with two young kids, 3 & 5. The absolute worst moment of my life.
troyreddit
10. Left Crumbs
My husband passed away suddenly. He kept all of our old phones. I wanted to look through them (his and mine) to see the texts we sent to each other and remember the great times.
I found a phone number that had been calling him repeatedly in the morning on the way to work and at night on the way home. Hmm, it was odd.
The first initial and last names were on his phone under contacts. I searched his email with that name and found out he had been having an affair. I'm still not sure how long it will be, but it's somewhere between 18 months and 3 years. Devastating.
TinktheChi
11. Her Cousin
I had been in a long-term but long-distance relationship with a girl, and I truly adored her. We saw each other as often as we could and always made the most of our time together.
She traveled with her mum to visit her grandmother, and staying at her grandmother’s house was her male cousin, whom she hadn’t seen since they were children.
The next time she came to visit me, she planned on taking a detour on her way home to stay with her grandmother and cousin for a few days. She spoke about her cousin a lot, and I was genuinely pleased that she had reconnected with him.
She was shy and didn’t make friends easily. It had been her birthday, and I’d bought her lots of nice gifts, including a camera which she’d wanted for a long time.
I walked her to the train station and kissed her goodbye and wished her a lovely stay with her grandmother. A couple of days passed, and I didn’t hear anything from her, which was unusual.
I called her mobile phone a few times and sent her text messages, just asking if she was okay, and got no reply. On the fourth day, I called her mum, who I got on with exceptionally well, to ask her if she’d heard from her daughter.
She had and couldn’t understand why she hadn’t called me, so she gave me the home phone number of the grandmother. I called, and her grandmother answered.
I didn’t give my name but asked to speak with my girlfriend, who came straight to the phone, obviously unaware that I’d been given the number. When she heard my voice, she went very quiet.
I eventually got her to admit that she “had feelings” for someone, but I naively explained that her cousin was the only person she’d been spending time with. Then the penny dropped, and I realized it was him. She eventually admitted that she had been physical with him.
Strangely, when I walked her to her train that day and kissed her goodbye as I had so many times before over our four-year relationship, it would be the last time I would ever see her. That was twenty years ago, and it still hurts.
Prisoner3000
12. Angel Sister
His sister (whom I had never met) called me up to let me know that, while he was across the country visiting them, his ex-wife had driven up there, and they were back together.
He promised me that wasn't the case, but the sister stealing my number from his phone and calling me sent up red flags, so I broke it off.
He called me a few months later and tried to restart our romance. His sister again called to let me know he had REMARRIED, said ex-wife.
He got really persistent about being into a relationship even though he knew I knew he was married. I don't know why this sister did it, but bless her!!!
[deleted]
13. Hidden Phone
She had been acting a bit strange and felt like more of a roommate than a significant other. I had seen her get some messages and try to keep them hidden.
At work the next week, I guessed her Instagram password and found blatant message exchanges with her ex plus other men. Wow!
I immediately started looking for a new place to live and was getting all my things in order when my boss let me go. I waited a few weeks to break up with her while I figured my life out.
I was at peace, though, because I knew she was a horrible person, and I also no longer had to deal with my jerkward boss. Good riddance.
Abtino11
14. No More Savior
I showed up at the police station to bail him out. I had no idea why he’d been arrested but assumed it was drinking and driving (again. He was a wicked alcoholic, and I was naive and painfully codependent.)
I was signing forms to pay a bail bondsman. I was naive and didn’t realize that a $50,000 bail (which ended up being about a $3000 bond, cash) was not what one would have for a DUI.
Behind me, I heard the bondsman talking to a woman. He asked her how she knew my now-ex. “We’re dating,” she said.
I stopped filling out the form, turned around, and asked, “Who are you, exactly?” “Oh, you’re [my name]. You don’t know who I am?” She replied.
So, long story short, he’d been maintaining an ongoing relationship with a woman almost 20 years older than me. The night before, she had put a restraining order on him, which he violated the next morning, hence the arrest and $50,000 bond.
somesweedishtrees
15. The Witness
I was living abroad, so we were doing long distances. He visited me, and then less than a month after he went back home, an old coworker/friend told me she saw him kissing and holding hands with another girl at a bar.
She confronted them, and he was saying that was his “best friend,” who is also in a relationship. That other girl ended up being my brother-in-law’s friend’s girlfriend lmao it was so messy.
I’m just gonna add that I paid for his plane ticket to come see me as well as lending him a bunch of spending money. He didn’t pay me back for long, and overall, I probably only got half of it back. I know that’s my own stupidity too, but it just made the situation so much crappier.
[deleted]
16. Experienced Guy
My new girlfriend’s friend straight up just told me my girl didn't actually leave her old boyfriend, and she was still with him.
I was having dinner with an ex, and she was telling me about her new boyfriend and that they started dating in January. She forgot we were still together in January. It was years later, I didn't really care.
She told me she was sleeping with others. What a surprise.
Another ex, right before going to bed, grabbed her phone, texted someone, and then started deleting texts. I just asked her, and she said yeah.
lookssharp
17. Too Many Reasons
My best friend accidentally let it slip in an FB message because she thought I already knew. I had had my suspicions but never any proof.
When I confronted my wife, she tried to say the guy had taken advantage of her (he didn’t), and I lost my mind because that is not something you lie about! When I didn’t buy that lie, she kept producing more until she finally confessed.
I stayed with her for another seven years, but our relationship never recovered after that because she’s a raging narcissist who can’t handle making mistakes.
I left her in March of 2017, and within two months, she was shaken up with someone else and raising their kid (she hates children). She also bought herself two new dogs to replace the dogs we had together.
It sucked to just realize she never gave a darn about our family or me and doesn’t want to be alone. Just found a replacement family ASAP. I’m still single, and frankly, I prefer it this way, even though it still hurts.
Q_R_T_W
18. After All This Time
We had broken up long before I actually found out. I always had my suspicions but never proved them, so I tried not to dwell on them and carry on as normal.
The relationship fell apart, and we went our separate ways around about March/April that year. It was what I wanted, even though it hurt.
Then, around August/September, her friend told my friend that she was a few months into being pregnant, and it was mine.
It was a bit of a shock to hear but also a relief that my sperm was just slow working because we hadn't slept together since the year previous.
Jimbo-Bones
19. Turns Out Good
I was in Denver for a month for work. When I got home, we had a date night planned but she called me crying and confessed that she'd been with someone else while I was out of town.
As it turns out, "someone" was actually her ex-husband. It also turns out, I dodged a major bullet there because a few months later she called me to tell me that she found out she had herpes.
I got checked out and I did not have it, so she did me a huge favor by not making out with me again after getting back with her ex.
[deleted]
20. No Phone
So I had a girlfriend who didn't have a phone and would contact me from other people if she needed to. She’s really trying to communicate with me.
One day when trying to get ahold of her I texted some of the most recent ones she contacted me from and got a reply saying, "Bro you need to back off. She broke up with you and is seeing someone else so leave her alone."
This was far from true. We had not broken up and had plans to go on her dream vacation to Italy for her birthday the next week. I dumped her and went with my friend instead haha.
PessismisticPanda
21. Location Found
When my mom was dying in the hospital, I needed someone to talk to. I texted my girlfriend and got a few one-word responses. About an hour before that, she sent me a selfie of herself saying she got her hair cut, wanting to know what I thought.
It wasn't like her to send such a response, especially after telling her that I had just seen my mom throwing up blood in the hospital. The following weekend, I went to her house. We had planned on working on her yard together.
I helped her plant a few things and fixed a few issues on the outside of her house. I spent most of the day doing yard work. The next day, we had planned to go bike riding a couple of towns over.
I asked if she wanted to spend the night at my house. She said she had been working hard all week and just wanted to sleep in her own bed alone. I went home. At 4:30 that morning, my mom died. I went to the hospital.
I saw her body for the last time. My girlfriend called me at 6 am saying her car had been vandalized. She said she got a call from her friend Tom, saying that he wanted to have a beer. She went over to hang out with him and his kids.
She said that was the first time she had been to his house in years. Someone spray painted "Stop banging Tom" on the side of her car. Slashed her tires. She wouldn't really talk about how my mom had just died.
Things didn't add up. I copied the picture she sent the week before to my computer. Check the metadata in the picture. Her phone tags her pictures with GPS coordinates. She was at Tom's house.
She had been going there regularly over the past few weeks. Several of her selfies were of her in her car in his driveway. I ended the relationship. She was dumbfounded. All she cared about was fixing her car and the new issue she had.
Didn't seem to talk about my mom dying. I ended up giving a eulogy to a bunch of empty chairs. No one bothered to show up to my mom's funeral. My mom was the last family member I had.
Months after that, my ex sent a text asking me to meet her so she could apologize. I didn't respond. That was over four years ago now. I've given up dating completely since then. I have no desire to be with anyone anymore.
orstius
22. The Stranger
A Facebook message from a random guy I met. My first long-term girlfriend and I were going to go to the same college. I got accepted but had to start the semester after she did, meaning we would be slightly long-distance for a few months.
It wasn't too bad because we were only about 2 hours apart, so it was pretty easy to visit, but our relationship did struggle a bit. I remember one night, I got a phone call from her, and when I picked up, it was obvious it was a butt dial.
I could hear her talking to some guy but couldn't make out what they were saying. I called her, and she picked up, and I asked what was up.
She said she was in bed and about to go to sleep. I told her about the butt dial, and she said it was her friend Jack, who I had met, asking to borrow something.
I thought it was odd but brushed it off. A couple of weeks later, I was up there visiting her, and I met a bunch of cool people, including this guy, Luke.
After I got back from visiting, I got a Facebook message from him saying, "Look, man, I hate to be the one to say this, but I think you're an awesome guy, and you don't deserve this to be happening to you. She's been cheating on you with this guy pretty soon after she started here."
I was devastated, but I had to hear it from her, so I called her and said, "Are you cheating on me?" She gave a heavy sigh and said, "Well, at least I don't have to lie anymore."
That guy's voice I had heard wasn't Jack. It was the guy she was cheating on me with. I just trusted her so much that I took her word for it.
Even though it was painful, I was grateful for Luke sending me that message. What's funny is that most of the people I met up there who were her friends sided with me after the breakup.
So when I started going there that next semester, I had a group of friends to support me, and most of them are still very close friends of mine to this day.
eDgAR
23. Just An Option
She was texting this dude a lot when she was at my place one day. She said he was just a friend. They met at a party the prior weekend. I didn't believe he was just a friend, but I wasn't going to fight with her about suspicions.
Suddenly, she wanted to break up with me, and I said cool, whatever, have a nice life. A week later, she tried to get back with me because things hadn't worked out with Andrew.
I told her I'd only take her back if she was honest with me, and she admitted she had made out with him the night they met at that party. I said, "I guess we're both liars now," and blocked her phone number.
dudius7
24. No More Vows
I got engaged the summer after I graduated college, after being together for five years. I had to move away from home for six months for work that next December.
I noticed she started acting really withdrawn, and my attempts to talk to her on the phone while I was away were spun as ‘smothering’ her, which sent up some major red flags.
I will shamefully admit I started doing shady things to confirm my suspicions, such as checking the phone bill for numbers she was texting and looking through her emails.
Anyway, after about a month, in January, I found an email in her mailbox to a dude saying how even though she’s in a relationship, she wants to be the ‘fun girl’ and all these other messed up things. It crushed me.
Greedy_Lavishness935
25. Karma’s Alive
I came home from working a double shift and found the toilet seat up. Either my wife didn't take a piss for 20 hours straight, or there had been another man in my house.
Suspected it was her "gay" friend from work. I also knew that said friend was trying to sell his house, so I called the real estate agent and asked to see his place.
Right inside the front door, I recognized one of her jackets hanging in the mud room. I proceeded to the living room, and bam, right on the freaking mantel was a picture of my wife and this guy.
We divorced shortly after. She ended up marrying this guy, then cheated on him, and now they are divorced. Didn't feel bad for him at all.
Signalthree
26. All for a Promotion
It was the night of her company Christmas party. I had to stay home and babysit our five-year-old son (Grandma was supposed to, but she fell and was in the hospital with a broken hip.)
I figured my wife would go and then come home early. Turns out, she was planning to stay the night at a hotel so "she could drink and not worry about driving."
I woke up about 3 am just knowing something was wrong (never happened before) and checked "Find My Phone" to see where she was. She was with her boss at his apartment. It pretty much sucked.
JimmyTheTemp
27. Unacceptable Excuse
I know this is cliche, and I've talked bad about it before, but coming home from a 12 MONTH deployment to a BLACK baby when we're both white was strike one and two.
Strike three was telling me she had black relatives (whom I've never met), so that could be what happened, sure.
It doesn't matter what excuse You have there. Isn't a magical 12-month gestation period. It makes me very freaking angry.
[deleted]
28. Teaming up
I never thought I would be so stupid to let something like this go for so long or even turn a blind eye to it. I was in college, and it was a long distance.
I was suspicious of how he acted around me; he barely talked to me when I was away, and I found emails. He denied everything, and I stupidly believed him. Then I received texts from his other girlfriend, and she called me. I answered, and we had a discussion about it.
We both decided to confront him together, and he was such a coward, hiding in his room. She was really crazy, on the other hand, and cracked his windshield.
Endlesscupcakes
29. Unexpected Happenings
This one time at band camp, I was 14/15 years old, my best friend (let's call her Emma) and I were dating two boys who were best friends.
Typical, right? So, one day, Emma and I got out of rehearsal, and we went to meet up with our boyfriends, who were nowhere to be found. So we look harder, we're wandering around campus - and we hear low voices behind a ledge.
Our precious boyfriends were there. MAKING OUT WITH EACH OTHER. Emma immediately started crying, which caused the boys to pull apart with a suction schluuurp.
I wasn't as in love with my boyfriend as I had thought because my reaction was to laugh hysterically. I had never seen two boys make out before. It wasn't bad.
Alaskafound
30. The Real Definition of a Player
I remember brushing my teeth and looking at myself in the mirror, and I thought to myself, "I finally feel like I can trust her! I don’t think she has been unfaithful at all to me. That's a good feeling!"
I went back to the computer where we had a Skype session going, and I told her my mirror thoughts. I was so proud of myself because I can have trust issues. She immediately went silent and started biting her lip. I was like, "ooooofff course."
She ended up telling me that things got rekindled with her ex, and they started hooking up again. It was just the worst because we were in a long-distance stint in our relationship.
We broke up, and she got back together with him and then wanted me back, and then wanted him back. I don't know where it all stands now, but we don't communicate. A great victory for Rome.
Johnbourg2001
31. Choice of Intention
I was dating this deadbeat guy for about two years. I lived on my parents' property, and so was he, for free.
One day, while I was at work, I went on break and got an FB message from a guy I barely knew. It said, "I don't know how you feel about this, but it bothers me." I click it and see a picture.
At first, I thought it was spam and almost deleted it before enlarging it (it seemed like one of those clickbait titles that hijacked your account). Something made me decide to click it anyway.
When I click it, I see a screenshot of an FB conversation between my boyfriend and his girlfriend. He was hitting on her, telling her how much of a POS her bf was and how he would treat her so much better than that. He told her not to tell anyone about the convo.
Well, it sucks for him because the girl immediately showed her bf who showed me. Ha! Judging by the time stamps, this conversation occurred the previous night at MY house on MY laptop.
It was the only way he could have this conversation. Needless to say, I left work early, went home, kicked him out of my place, and made him homeless. Oh, freaking well.
100000nopes
32. New Year’s Disaster
I was living with a guy. He went home for Thanksgiving and said he would be back the following Monday... Didn't come back until after New Year and kept making excuses as to why he was staying longer.
Finally returns, we spend three days together, then he breaks up with me and tells me he's moving to another state. I was pretty upset but, overall, was honestly calm about the situation and knew it wouldn't work out long-term with him that far away.
He leaves to go get something from the store, and my cousin calls (they are from the same town; I met him through her). She asked why I sounded upset.
I told her he was in town and that we had just broken up. She says, "...uhhh.... what is he doing there? He told everyone here that you broke up before Thanksgiving. He's been sleeping around with at least two girls that I know of."
He came back happy as a clam, having no clue I had found out. Kicked him out in the rain at 10 pm at night. Left his TV out on the curb.
_et_tu_brute_
33. Worst Overview
I drove by his house on my way to work (it's on my way to work. it wasn't a checking up on him thing) and saw them making out. Got through my day (barely) and called him.
I asked him how his night was going, and he said, "Okay, me and T (male bff) got a lot done." (His excuse for not being with me the night before) "Oh, who was the girl this morning?" I asked.
"That was J. She stopped by to pick something up. She's just a friend." He answered. "Really? Weird, I don't kiss my friends like that." I replied. "It's not what you think..." He said.
This went on for a while. I really just wanted him to admit he'd cheated. He never did. Even better, a few days later, J called me and called me all sorts of lovely names because she thought she was the only one in his life.
onekrazykat
34. Obvious Evidence
I was dating a girl who was a model and used to fly to different parts of the country for photo shoots (typically LA and NYC).
On one trip, she said that the director of the shoot wouldn't allow phones on his set, and then she ignored me for four days. When I asked her about it and confronted her, she somehow convinced me I was the crazy one.
Fast forward a month, and she and I are back to normal. Christmas rolls around, and I get her a really expensive diamond necklace.
Fast forward about three months after that, and she gives me my birthday gift. A picture album of her (professional pictures) and says, "Remember that photo shoot I couldn't answer the phone? These are the pictures from that photoshoot! Don't you feel like a jerk?"
For a split second, I kind of felt like a jerk until I looked at a couple of the photos closer and realized that the necklace I bought her was dangling around her neck.
I pointed it out to her, and she couldn't come up with anything, so I left her place. She called me the next day and admitted she was getting banged In New York that one week, and that was all I needed to never speak to her again.
pirate_in_the_puddin
35. Connected Messages
My ex-fiancee had both an iPhone and a Macbook. If you know anything about iMessage, this means that he can send and receive texts from his laptop. I was using his laptop for homework (with his permission) while he was at work.
He got a text message from his ex, whom he talked with regularly. I was uncomfortable with her since she was 'the one that got away,' but she was married.
He insisted he just thought of her as a good friend, and I chose to believe and trust my then-fiancee. But the text she sent him that day seemed strange.
His ex just randomly said, "Just texting to say I love you," or something like that, and it just popped up in the corner for me to read. I opened the messages. Then I found horrible spicy texts between them.
Chetanzi
36. Huge Changes
We used to text all the time when we were not together, so much it would annoy me. When we went to university, we said we'd text less for a week so we could meet people and not spend our time on the phone.
When we started texting again, she took ages to respond... Or didn't. Eventually, we met up, stayed at her house, watched TV together, and cooked.
But we didn't play fight like we always did, we didn't make the jokes we usually did, and she didn't use the nicknames we had. We never called each other by our real names ever.
Then, she got a text, picked up her phone straight away, and began to reply. That was it. I knew those eyes; I knew that smile. They used to be mine.
Gizfi
37. Iconic Revenge
Had been going through a rough patch with my girlfriend at the time. We both worked at the same large grocery chain, and a lot of co-workers knew we were dating.
One of the girls comes up to me when I'm closing and asks, "Are you still dating so-and-so? Because I just saw her in a coffee shop parking lot making out with some guy."
I trusted this source, and she was very upset when she found out she provided very hurtful news. Being an evil bastard, I began to plan my revenge. So, I planned a romantic getaway an hour and a half from home. I went to a nice restaurant, and it had a good time.
At the end of the meal, I excused myself to use the bathroom. I had a long drive ahead of me. I went up to our waiter and asked him to tell her that I knew.
I give him $20 as a tip (she was dead broke because she had just paid for school, which I helped her pay). After the bathroom, I stuck out of the place, got in my car, and drove home.
Her friend had to drive up, pay for the meal, and drive her home. We haven't talked since. Her friend told me I went a bit too far.
[deleted]’
38. Betrayed Family
When he was going on deployment, I got that horrible feeling that something was going on. I looked at the phone bill details and found many calls to a phone number that wasn't our friend.
With dread, I called that number. The woman who answered was aghast because he told her he was single. Funny thing about that call - this was not the first time she had been seeing a man that she didn't know was married. She told me that during our conversation. It was surreal.
He filed for divorce during the deployment and was trying to get it pushed through as quickly as possible. He must have told that new one that he was divorced.
Our kids were 3 years old and 1 year old (twins) at the time. It was devastating to me, and I was so clueless back then. Looking back, I realized that the cheating had been going on for a couple of years.
I don't know why he didn't break it off with me earlier or why he agreed to try for another child when he was seeing other people.
It took a while to get beyond the pain and betrayal. I'm a much happier person now than I was then - and more well-rested now that the kids are older.
InfiniteCobwebs
39. Text Reveal
The guy’s girlfriend told me in a text. She sent it in the middle of the night, but I didn't have my phone on me. I had left my phone in my SO's room.
And she was making me sleep on the couch that night. So when I woke up in the morning, I went up to talk to her and apologize. I felt so guilty.
I noticed my phone, checked the messages, flipped out, shouted, and broke stuff. Still dated her for four more years, and she continued to cheat on me despite my best efforts.
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40. Certainly Not The First
My girlfriend recently got tested for a yearly routine checkup, and basically, she told me that she got chlamydia. I'm her first boyfriend, and she's my first girlfriend, and both of us have never been with any other partners.
So how could she have contracted chlamydia if we're both each other's firsts and I have only been with her, and she SWEARS left and right that she's only been with me?
If I recall correctly, isn't chlamydia an STD, which means you have to have sexual contact with an infected person to get the disease? I'm getting myself tested tomorrow, but I'm giving my girlfriend the benefit of the doubt for now.
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41. Pregnant Woman
I found out he was cheating after I found out I was pregnant, so honestly, he probably could have gotten away with it even longer. At the time, I was going through all sorts of weird emotions, so I pushed off the weird vibes I was getting as "things are weird right now. You’re reading too much into it."
When I think back on it, I'm not sure what exactly tipped me off. Days before it was confirmed, I realized he was suddenly taking phone calls from someone who, when he spoke to them, was apparently so important that he was talking low and chuckling all flirty.
He made sure to be on the phone only when I wasn't in the room. Then she called while we were in the middle of a serious "what are we gonna do about this baby" kinda talk, and seeing her name/picture pop up on his phone set off an alarm in my gut.
But I couldn't place the feeling. Finally, I just straight up asked if he was messing around with the girl. He denied it, turned it on me, and ended the convo.
A few days later, he left his phone in the bathroom, and that nagging feeling was still there. So I bit the bullet and checked his phone.
There were hundreds of texts to/from her, lots of censored stuff & I love you. Turned out I was the other woman, and he had a 3 yr long-distance thing going on with this other girl. I was devastated.
ducklingsahoy
42. Haunted By His Ghost
I logged in to his email after he got kind of distant. I even set up my email address as a "backup," so I could lock him out again once he figured out I knew & tried to get back into his account.
I still laugh just thinking of his father scolding him for it (I'd met his family & emailed his father sometimes). I was very angry at the time, of course. He ended up marrying her.
He found me on social media a few years later (yeah, this was not too recent!) & apologized. They'd divorced after she cheated on him.
I'm not angry anymore. I mean, obviously, I wouldn't ever date him again, but I'm sure his divorce was more painful than our breakup.
fragilehearted
43. She Knows
Got into his email after months of suspicions that he was cheating on me with a co-worker of his. Not only that. But around the time I found out, I just had a baby (he was about one month old), and he had the affair for pretty much the entire pregnancy.
His mistress knew about me and even sent me a baby shower gift, and I had no idea until he started acting even more distant and coming home late, even after I was having a baby.
Needless to say, it still stings a bit, as you can't really fully recover from a traumatic experience like that, but I'm doing much better now.
marialfc
44. Strong Gut Feeling
There was a guy I'd been having suspicions about. From the moment I first saw my girlfriend look at that guy, I knew there'd be trouble.
She'd always tell me how she hated him and disliked his annoying personality. He would try talking to her, KNOWING she was in a relationship with me.
Then, fast forward about eight months, my girlfriend seems to be getting detached and eventually, on her birthday, breaks up with me, crying and all.
The next day, literally, I'm at the store, and I hear a guy and a girl giggling and having a blast. I pass by the aisle it's coming from, and low and behold, it's them.
They didn't notice me, and I got out of there right away, completely screwed up. Then, 15 minutes later, I'm driving down a side street, and boom, there they are again, walking down the street.
She's wearing his sweater. I drove by, and the look on both their faces when they saw me, mostly my ex's, was absolutely priceless.
NorthernAvo
45. Got Them Good
I saw the texts on my roommate's phones. I'd previously been suspicious of the two, but then my textbooks and notebooks started going missing, so I began to investigate.
It turns out they were trying to force me to fail out of college so I wouldn't be in their way. I stole my roommate's fake ID and told him if he tried anything else, I'd take it to the cops.
I told her if she ever talked to me again, I'd mail her parents all 87 spicy photos she'd sent me over the past year+. I don't think I would have done either, but the threats worked! I deleted them already before anyone asked for the pictures, so you'll need to ask the NSA instead.
foxymoxy18