Random People Describe How They Caught Their Significant Others Cheating (16 items)

• (#1) She Ghosted Him For A New Life

  From Redditor u/DocHoliday79:

  Oh, story time!!! Classic love at first sight. I love you after two weeks. Moved in together after two months. Engaged after six. Been together for four years and change. Left my rent-control bachelor pad and picked a bigger apartment so she could have her art studio. Did everything together and split all bills 50/50.

  She goes to Comic Con in NYC (she is an expositor). I help her pack. I drop her at the airport. Everything was fine. No signs of anything. She should be back in four days.

  She never came back home. She simply disappeared. Ghosted. The day she should have been home I freak out that she might be dead just to find myself blocked on everything: email, phone, social media, the works.

  Everything I know is due to the bills she left behind (all unpaid), the credit card we shared (she stopped paying two months before), and her cellphone bill (which T-Mobile was nice enough to give me a log [for] because technically [it] was on my SSN). Found one particular NYC area code over and over on the call history and put 2+2 together. She met him at San Diego Comic Con [a] few months before, and methodically and systematically put together a plan to abandon me, take as much as she could to NYC, and never look back.

  Plot twist: she maxed out our credit card and Amazon card furnishing their new home in NYC. By the time grief turned into practicality, it was too late for me to cancel everything. I literally had to log in and see all purchases of houseware, made with my money, for a house I will never live in.

  I could not live at our house or afford our lifestyle [on] one income alone. It wasn’t even the love part that hurt me the most, but the flat-out betrayal and economic damage (took me over a year of living paycheck to paycheck to get all balances to zero).
• (#2) He Cheated While She Slept Downstairs

  From Redditor u/dddallasss:

  I owned a house with my fiancé. I woke up in the middle of the night and he wasn’t in bed. I went searching. His truck and another vehicle were in the driveway. Then, I went upstairs and found the guest bedroom was locked. After barging my way in... I found him with another woman in bed. That bed happened to be my childhood bed. He forced me out of the room... literally grabbed me by the neck and pushed me out and closed the door back. I knew I couldn’t do anything at that point, so I called his parents who lived a few blocks away. His dad showed up and another fight broke out. I ended up leaving and staying at his parents' until dawn. I moved out that weekend and let the house foreclose. Nine years later... it’s finally off my credit report, I’m happily married to an amazing man, and we own a beautiful home together.
• (#3) It Was A Workplace Romance

  From Redditor u/nav17:

  [Four years] ago I was dating a girl who became distant and disinterested in a lot of things we both enjoyed together.

  I was actually going to end it on my own, but one weekend when she was seemingly unavailable, some mutual friends told me they spotted her with a dude from her work, and they were all over each other. Coincidentally, she had also lent me her iPad, and it was synced to her phone so I saw lots of texts between those two over that weekend. They were talking about running away together, etc.

  He was married, and her supervisor. Mutual friends were also... her co-workers and reported them to HR. They were both forced to do training on not sleeping with co-workers; they were both denied promotion; his wife left him; and she moved overseas.

  Sucked at the time, I was devastated, but karma got them good.
• (#4) She Physically Threw Out The Other Woman

  From Redditor u/CDfm:

  A guy I know was cheating on his wife and she unexpectedly came home for lunch. They lived on a busy street in a small town. Wife grabbed [the] girlfriend by her long hair and threw her out on the street naked. And that's how the whole town found out.
• (#5) They Were Injured And Abandoned

  From Redditor u/Potkoff:

  Was ([about] six months in) recovering from being hit by an SUV as a pedestrian that left me with a severe traumatic brain injury... broken back (three places), legs (two places), and pelvis (two places). I had moved back in with my then-GF for about a week when we went to a party and I got left at the party because she couldn't find me. I didn't know any of these people, as they were all her friends, and none of them could help me get home when I was told she left with the group we arrived with.

  I managed to walk back to the apartment quite drunk, tired, and in pain from overusing my still recovering injuries. [I] banged on the door till my knuckles bled, only to have a dude answer the door, let me in, and then he proceeded to crawl back into bed next to her, in my bed. I didn't have the cognitive ability to deal with that. So I laid down right on the floor next to the bed and passed out. She broke up with me the next day and blamed me for it. This story has so much more detail to it, but I don't want to relive that year of trauma in too much detail.

  TL;DR: walked in from a party to them in my bed in my room. I didn't have the cognitive ability to handle the situation so I passed out on the floor next to them.
• (#6) She Was The Last Person To Know About It

  From Redditor u/headcase-and-a-half:

  Normal day. A Friday. My husband had kissed me goodbye and gone to work. I was cleaning the house for company... coming to stay the weekend. [Then] the doorbell rang. There was a man at my door who introduced himself as the husband of a woman... my husband worked with. He was there to tell me that my husband and his wife were having an affair.

  He had busted them about six months prior and had told his wife that she had to end the affair. He [thought] that she did end it... for about three months, but then they started up again. When he found out they were at it again, he called my husband (because he knew if he confronted him in person, he'd be in a jail cell for what he'd have done). On the phone, he told my husband to leave his wife alone or else he would come and tell me everything that was happening. Apparently, my husband thought that he was bluffing.

  So I was literally the last to know. My husband never came home again. He got an Airbnb and a lawyer. The divorce was December 21, 2018. We had been together for 24 years. Still hurts.
• (#7) She Found Out During Her Ultrasound

  From Redditor u/Axel_Prose:

  I found out at the ultrasound to determine the gender of our child. He was late and I was noodling on Facebook waiting to be called.

  He was tagged in some photos in my news feed from a gig he’d been at on the previous weekend. Random lass was in all the photos of him and they were all over each other. Also they were making out in the background of one photo.

  He turned up after I was called in. While the technician was printing the images I told him I knew. He went off and on about how I was making it up, he’d never do that, obviously I was lying to compensate for cheating on him, and so on. When I pointed out there were photos, he stormed out and left me there.

  My dad had turned up during the appointment (anticipating that he’d react badly if we were having a girl, which he did; that was scattered through the cheating denials) and took me home.

  I considered us broken up at that point and stopped all contact except texts related to the pregnancy.
• (#8) Revenge By Underwear

  From Redditor u/Lybychick:

  He went to Hawaii for a business trip without his wife and kids. Like a good wife, I packed his clothes before he left and unpacked his dirty laundry when he returned home. I found a tiny pair of white cotton panties (no lace) in his suitcase. He had recently dropped a lot of weight... and played it off that he had bought them for himself...

  They had no label and were simple bikinis, so theoretically could have been men's as well. It did sort of explain the pretty brunette that followed him off the plane at the airport and kept looking at my kids and [me] at the luggage carousel (what [a jerk] to make his side piece come face to face with his wife and kids). I made sure he wore those panties at least once a week for the remaining few months we were together (I set out his clothes every day and he couldn't protest).
• (#9) It Wasn't The Most Romantic Location

  From Redditor u/bradley163:

  I couldn't find my then wife after she got off work one afternoon/evening. I tried to call her cellphone, with no answer. She didn't show up to the house until 9:30 pm. She weaved some tale about getting stuck in traffic. I did some sleuthing and pulled the State Farm good driving app up, which tracks your movements. I found out she had been leaving work early, going to the nearby rest area off of the expressway, and having [relations] with a 20-something trucker she met at her previous job.

  I decided to interrupt the festivities one afternoon. I showed up to the rest area, parked in front of his rig, and jumped right up to the door. The cabin shade was drawn. I withdrew the shades and saw my loving ex-wife with a meth pipe in her hand and was going to town on this guy. He had the gall to tell me to give them privacy. I didn't handle it very well. I called the cops; they both were arrested for possession; and I promptly filed for divorce. 
• (#10) He Found Out After Tragedy Struck

  From Redditor u/kjv1984:

  I caught my wife after she passed... from cancer. Worst feeling ever. Caught between unending love, mourning, and absolute anger.

  Her phone that she was overly protective of is how I found out. A week before she passed... I took the passwords off her phone so I could respond to her texts and take care of her business. After she passed, maybe a week or two after I explored her phone and found numerous texts, emails, and sexting.

  She didn’t know she had cancer [at first]. From day of diagnosis it took two months for the cancer to take her.
• (#11) It's A Small World After All

  From Redditor u/fuegodiegOH:

  My fiancee... had one semester left of college that had to be taken as an internship abroad for her major. She chose to go to Belgium for this internship...

  About two weeks before [she] was supposed to return, I stopped in to a nearby coffeehouse that I had noticed down the block, but had yet to visit. To my surprise, I found that my neighbor from growing up in a completely different city... was a waitress there. We hadn’t seen each other since high school, so we made a plan to meet up after her shift for a cup of coffee to catch up. We met and [she] told me that she was engaged as well, to a man... who was completing his course of study by working on an internship in... you guessed it, Belgium. I couldn’t believe the coincidence, and told her about my fiancee, and that they HAD to know each other. Crazy, right?

  A couple days later, I stopped in for a cup of coffee and [my former neighbor] looked extremely upset... [S]he told me that she had gotten a call from her aunt... the day before. [Her aunt] had just returned from Czechoslovakia, and... something very strange... happened. While they were touring Prague, [her aunt] and her travel group... stayed in a local hotel and the next morning she had run into her fiance... in the lobby... with a female companion [who had the same name as my fiancee]. She said that he introduced her as a student from America, [and] they worked together, but it was very awkward and they both looked scared sh*tless.

  [My former neighbor] said she immediately called long distance to Belgium, and after several tries over the course of a day or so, got [her fiance] on the phone. She asked him about the chance encounter... [H]e said he had been kind of expecting her call, and ended up admitting that he had been seeing [my fiancee] pretty much the entire time they were in Europe, spending weekends and holidays traveling around with each other. I was floored. Couldn’t believe it.

  I went home and started trying to call [my fiancee] at her dorm in Belgium, finally getting through to her late into the night, early morning for her. I point blank asked her if she was dating [my neighbor's fiance]. I didn’t even explain how I knew about it. She hemmed and hawed for a moment, kind of acting like I was crazy for saying something so nonsensical, but when I said that I knew [his fiancee], she dropped the facade and admitted to all of it...
• (#12) Technology Was Her Downfall

  From Redditor u/juicegooseboost:

  She walked dogs for work. She said she was going on late-night walks. She's f*cking dumb though and had her pictures synced to the kids' iPad. Daughter asked me, "Daddy, who is this?"

  So kids and I left to go see my mom, after her denying it up and down. Get a Nest notification that there's movement in the apartment. Open the app, the guy is there, and she's taken down all the family pictures. Got to hear and watch them [be intimate]. I could only sit and breathe very heavily in anger.
• (#13) No Time Was Wasted

  From Redditor u/SmurfESmurferson:

  Went to bed, and left my husband and a mutual (female) friend downstairs drinking.

  Went down to say one last goodnight, and they were out back smoking. Opened the back door, and they fell on top of me, clothes in the process of being removed, her lipstick all over his face and neck.

  We’re mid-divorce.
• (#14) They Found Out At Work

  From Redditor u/texasmermaid84:

  I knew he had been unfaithful in the past, but I didn’t really love him, so it was not that bad.

  However, I was bartending one night and this drunk chick walks up and tells me that I looked familiar. She then proceeds to yell, “Oh, my friend is f*cking your husband!” So I walked into the beer keg cooler with a bottle of vodka. I downed some shots and went back to work.
• (#15) They Found DNA Evidence

  From Redditor u/Sandra86says:

  Found the bathroom trash had been taken out... which was RARE because my ex-husband never lifted a finger... went to check our trash bin outside since I had suspicions, and I find the bag... I opened it up and TADA! Found a used condom. 
• (#16) She Straight Up Asked For Permission

  From Redditor u/thewiz187:

  Ex-wife actually asked me for her blessing to commit adultery with another married man. She was shocked when I said I don't support it, she went ballistic (has severe mental health issues), went and did it anyway, and ended up in a psych ward. [Two] marriages ended and now the two cheaters are engaged.

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