36 Folks Online Share Their Awkward, Wild, Or Just Funny Stories Of Being Wrongly Accused Of Cheating
It’s never easy to stomach the idea that your significant other might not have been all that faithful to you, and even more so when you end up catching them.
But let’s take it one step further… and two steps back. Imagine your significant other finds out you cheated on them, when you actually didn’t, and they just misunderstood the signs, or train thereof.
Redditors have been sharing their experiences of being incorrectly accused of cheating, elaborating on their partners’ proof (or lack thereof), leading to anything from silly misunderstandings to a tad bit of crazy.
The now-viral thread with over 29,000 upvotes and over 40 awards engaged users to share and comment over 8,600 times. Scroll down to check out the best answers from the post, and why not upvote, comment, and share your stories in the comment section below!
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My ex was incredibly distrustful. I was young and didn’t know any better. One day he confronted me saying he had proof I was cheating. I was incredibly bewildered as I am the faithful type and wouldn’t even look at another man. When I pushed for proof he admitted to having me followed by a private detective who had seen me get into a red mini. The mini belonged to a colleague who gave me a lift home from work one day. A female colleague. I ended the relationship there and then and chalk it up to a lucky escape.
I had a very similar experience. But I wasn't as smart. Continued for months with a relationship that slowly but surely became more and more abusive. (By month 6 I was not allowed to have friends anymore because he had accused me of cheating on him with every male and female friend I had.)
She saw the names of my female family members in my contacts. She freaked out and angrily asked who my stepmother was, my stepsisters, my cousins, my auntie. It lasted about two minutes. She started to realize she was being an idiot, and I realized I didn’t like her anymore.
She heard a woman in the room laughing through the phone when she called me to accuse me of being out with another woman.
Turns out there are other people in the world and when you're out in public you just may encounter them.
Other way around, actually. I was the suspicious one. We were a middle-aged, long married couple. I was looking for something on his computer (not uncommon. He had a better computer for some things.). I ran into a file called "bedroom shots". WTF!!! I KNEW he had not taken any bedroom shots of me! Opened the file (of course) and it was pictures of our bedroom, just the bedroom, that I had taken years earlier to use for a paint program that changes the colors of the walls. I had named the file myself when redecorating and forgot about it.
I would mess with you. R*****g a file containing pics of car tires. Epic wood pictures of trees in the neighborhood. I think she got crabs pictures from different seafood restaurant.
She knew that if I drove exactly the speed limit and hit every light that it would take me 12min to get home after work. The one time I showed up in 14min was all the proof she needed.
How much time and effort on her part was spent on her researching exactly how long the drive "should" take? Absolutely crazy!
When my wife and I had 1st begun dating, I had a phone that had a bad habit of butt dialing. One day, she was acting very standoffish So I could tell something was up. I kept asking her, and finally she got really upset and started grilling me about who that girl was that I was flirting with on the voicemail I left her when I butt dialed her.
I pulled up my call logs, and sure enough I had accidentally called her the previous afternoon. While she and I were hanging out in the library. She was concerned that I was cheating on her with herself.
ETA we were high school juniors at the time. We've since ceased to be quite so jealous lol
For me, "ETA" means Estimated Time of Arrival. I fail to understand the meaning of it in this sentence.
I have poor handwriting. I was running a business and someone suggested I contact "Till" about some sales. I wrote "Till" down in my phonebook (it was long ago when people used personal phonebooks).
I come home months later to the question "Who's Jill?" I don't know anyone named Jill. I am stumped. After a few rounds of who? huh? why?, my girlfriend shows me the entry in my handwriting. It takes me a while to place the name. I explain that it isn't Jill but Till, a man.
That was the end of it, but I never got over her looking through my personal phonebook for revealing entries.
In the end, we split 2 weeks before we were to get married. Till never did buy anything from me.
Till did you one better, he saved you from an unhappy abusive marriage and a divorce
Her "proof" was that I was friends with a woman in the same area on Facebook. I did volunteer work at the local hospital, I was friends with a lot of the hospital staff on Facebook. Her accusation came very shortly after my brother caught her on a date with another guy.
She said “Look at me” so I did, then she started bawling her eyes out saying I’m probably cheating on her because “your pupils dilate when you look at someone you love” Stage 7 crazy.
Your pupils dilate because you focus on something or because you are in the dark. Like cat eyes. Has literally nothing to do with love or no love.
She had a dream.
I told the waiter I loved his hair. At the time I had purple hair and he also had purple hair. I was just happy to see another purple haired person. He accused me of cheating with a purple haired waiter.
LOL Isn't complimenting someone's hair a clear indication of cheating?
Apparently the online support group for my father's brain tumor was a "chat room" for casual hookups.
Dad had the tumor. Ex had the insane jealousy.
Dad didn't survive glioblastoma.
Ex has long since been vamoosed.
Wait this was a family guy skit. A woman has an inoperable brain tumor and that's her boy friends fetish. Next olly with the weather
This was pre mobile phones. I was at my parents house he tried to call and it was engaged, my dad was on the phone. He called his best friends house and his phone was engaged too! Clearly we were talking to each other...
It could be coincidence, but if the guy dreamed it too that’s it, definitive proof.
The mileage on my car didn’t add up by like a mile or something - apparently he counted it before I went to work and when I got back from work. I literally went from his place to work and then came back to his place.
She found a pair of women's panties in my underwear drawer. The brand was "Strawberry", embroidered strawberry on the waist, powder blue, size small. I told her they were hers and I had washed them. She wasn't having it. I told her to show me the underwear she had on at that moment. "Strawberry", embroidered strawberry on the waist, powder blue, size small. She still didn't believe me
He had an Android. I have an Apple. He saw the heart icon for the health features on my phone screen and assumed it was a dating app and accused me of cheating.
I had a girl cheat on me and she told me she did it because she thought I was gonna cheat on her so she did it first. Super hot girl thought the world of warcraft nerd was gonna cheat on her.
Because she hit *69 on my phone and a girl answered. Turned out to be her roommate, because the only person I ever called from my phone was my girlfriend.
NOTE: In the olden days, before cell phones, you could hit *69 on a landline and it would redial the last number you called.
My phone was off while I was at work.
I work in an office where we are not allowed to have our phones out due to HIPAA and she knew this…
I got a happy birthday text from a guy. It was my brother in law.
I don't understand the impulse to automatically assume anyone your partner is seeing of the opposite gender MUST be an illicit relationship... people can have friends!
Wasn’t sleeping with them as often so I MUST have been seeing someone else. Wasn’t sleeping with them due to me working an ungodly amount to pay the bills since they didn’t have a job at the time. That and I would work 6-7 12hr shifts in a row with a day break, and the last thing on my mind was exercise.
She got mad because she found locks of blond hair on the bed
It was hers, she changed her color from redish to blonde literally overnight and forgot
I went to Irish dance class, which I went to every single Thursday, then stopped to see him on the way home. I was wearing sweatpants, you know, to DANCE in, which was apparently suspicious and meant I had been out cheating.
She has cheated so many times that she immediately "recognized" my behavior.
She found a necklace in my bed and I didn't know how it got there. Turned out to be her necklace that she had lost and didnt recognize in the dark.
They saw I was online on Skype. Thought I was talking to some side piece. I was talking to my cousin who lives in another country.
I got a similar tattoo with a women who has been like an aunt/mother to me… she’s older than my mom would be…
A telemarketer spoofed a phone number in my area. Gf didn’t believe me when they called at 10pm and I hung up immediately . She called the number back and a girl answered. Next thing I know, I’m going through all of my call history on Verizon’s logs to show I wasn’t cheating.
My so called best mate told her so it must be true. It appears everyone in the village knew too . Except me and the girl involved. Slept with my mate to get her own back.
Her gut feeling
i can totally see that lady's underwear through her blue dress.
I KNOW that you are.... sorry but saying it louder doesn’t make it so.
Because I hung out with friends without her. We were LD. What am I supposed to do?? Not have friends???
I responded to a Discord bot with a female picture. I said get f**ked to the bot. She saw the two bubble chat. Accused me of having a relationship with another women and said if I used that language with other women it’s like cheating.
I exchanged dirty pictures with a woman 2 years before I met my gf (at the time), while single.
An old picture from before the relationship.
For some context, because I love my wife.and don't want everyone to think she's crazy, when we were in the beginning stages of dating she did catch me messaging a couple former hook ups, and made me s**t or get off the proverbial pot if you will.
The picture was discovered at a later date and reopened some old wounds. Completely my fault, but I didn't know she had even seen it until years later when we had one of "those" conversations.
I have never been jealous or possessive. I had never had a partner who was either. So when I ended up in a relationship with someone really, really jealous and suspicious, I didn't know what to make of it at first. What I learned is that it gets worse and worse and worse and more and more unreasonable. Beyond anything I could ever have imagined. One incident was him locking me up with no way out, and no phone of any kind when I was full term pregnant. One was him chasing me with a knife when I was also full term pregnant. And there were things worse than that. Don't ever, ever stay with someone who is jealous or possessive. It always gets worse.
Dear God, I am so sorry you had to go through all of this, that's just horrible. I really hope you are in a better place now.
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My boyfriend at the time and I went to a family party and all twelve of my brothers and several of my male cousins were there. I hugged and/or kissed all of them (we all that do that - I hugged and kissed the women too), but he became enraged and accused me of sleeping with my brothers and cousins because family doesn't act that way unless there is incest involved. Yeah, accused me of cheating him WITH MY BROTHERS.
I hope your brothers noticed and went to have a nice chat with him
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I've never been the jealous type. Not like this. I may be sad if he doesn't want to spend more time with me or something, but this is batst crazy stuff. I can't picture ever doing it, or putting up with it being done to me. I'd nope right the hell out of there.
Got 3: talking with her on my cel and asked who the girl was? (walking home and two random girls were laugthing) / got into a fight cause I asked her the name of a romantic song ("who does it remind you of???!!!) and the one that made me laught is that I had a mail "Claudia, form, Badoo, has send you a message". Couldn't stop laughting as I showed her it was only advertisement trying to fish some new users. Btw, guess who was cheating? Not me.
I was out having a meal with my (then) bf, all of a sudden he cooled towards me and barely spoke until we finished. In the car on our way home he then accused me of "seductively looking" at the bloke on the table next to us. The only thing I remember noticing about said bloke was the fact he wore a bright t-shirt.
Jealousy is one thing I don't put up with. I've ended two relationships due to unwarranted jealousy. I had been dating one girl for only a few weeks and after I get out of the shower I get asked "Who's Tiffany." I said, "She's who I was talking to before you. Why were you going through my phone?" Of course she didn't have a good answer. After another issue I broke up with her then found out she had been cheating on me pretty much the whole time.
My stepmom often thinks my dad's cheating on her just because he spent time with literally anyone. She's very toxic, needless to say.
I really believe a lot of people will accuse their SO of cheating just to create some kind of drama in their life, even if they really don’t believe the other is cheating. Their lives have become so boring that they need something to try to spice it up, even if it means that relationship will end because of it.
A girlfriend came over to my place to surprise me. I answered the door all sweaty because it was hot that day. She broke up with me on the spot, convinced that my sweating meant that my roommate and I had been having sex (we most certainly were not)!
Because they are jealous, insecure, overburdening, emotionally stunted, thin-skinned, reactive, presumptive, two-faced, abusive, possessive, lying, control freaks you get to choose which reason is the killer for your relationship. You are valuable and worth more than that. Step up, ditch their sorry ass and build better, you are better and deserve better. You will find true and meaningful happiness, single or otherwise, you don’t need a partner who treats you badly.
My wife has accused me with all the known women in town and relatives with me. Am I the lucky one that she think Me that smart. Or bad lucky one, that all of this is lie?
... Hopefully you guys don't have kids together and you can still get out of this relationship
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My daughter's ex husband couldn't stand if she and I went out to eat. I'm talking fast food, nothing fancy. He just didn't want her to have an enjoyable time with her mom and without him. He also accused her of cheating.
I was a music major in high school (so, band geek) and in all of the advanced classes but also played volleyball and ran track and not football. So, not the greatest 'catch'. She was beautiful, in all of the same advance classes (so, smart) but also a cheerleader. So, a pretty great 'catch'. And yet I still somehow f****d it all up but cheating on her with a good friend's sister. Im not saying that we would've stayed together and gotten married. But what I did, how I made her feel, and how I felt afterward doing to that her... I think I'm a decent adult now so I wouldn't cheat regardless but those moments replay in the back of my mind even this many years later.
I have never been jealous or possessive. I had never had a partner who was either. So when I ended up in a relationship with someone really, really jealous and suspicious, I didn't know what to make of it at first. What I learned is that it gets worse and worse and worse and more and more unreasonable. Beyond anything I could ever have imagined. One incident was him locking me up with no way out, and no phone of any kind when I was full term pregnant. One was him chasing me with a knife when I was also full term pregnant. And there were things worse than that. Don't ever, ever stay with someone who is jealous or possessive. It always gets worse.
Dear God, I am so sorry you had to go through all of this, that's just horrible. I really hope you are in a better place now.
Load More Replies... My boyfriend at the time and I went to a family party and all twelve of my brothers and several of my male cousins were there. I hugged and/or kissed all of them (we all that do that - I hugged and kissed the women too), but he became enraged and accused me of sleeping with my brothers and cousins because family doesn't act that way unless there is incest involved. Yeah, accused me of cheating him WITH MY BROTHERS.
I hope your brothers noticed and went to have a nice chat with him
Load More Replies... I've never been the jealous type. Not like this. I may be sad if he doesn't want to spend more time with me or something, but this is batst crazy stuff. I can't picture ever doing it, or putting up with it being done to me. I'd nope right the hell out of there.
Got 3: talking with her on my cel and asked who the girl was? (walking home and two random girls were laugthing) / got into a fight cause I asked her the name of a romantic song ("who does it remind you of???!!!) and the one that made me laught is that I had a mail "Claudia, form, Badoo, has send you a message". Couldn't stop laughting as I showed her it was only advertisement trying to fish some new users. Btw, guess who was cheating? Not me.
I was out having a meal with my (then) bf, all of a sudden he cooled towards me and barely spoke until we finished. In the car on our way home he then accused me of "seductively looking" at the bloke on the table next to us. The only thing I remember noticing about said bloke was the fact he wore a bright t-shirt.
Jealousy is one thing I don't put up with. I've ended two relationships due to unwarranted jealousy. I had been dating one girl for only a few weeks and after I get out of the shower I get asked "Who's Tiffany." I said, "She's who I was talking to before you. Why were you going through my phone?" Of course she didn't have a good answer. After another issue I broke up with her then found out she had been cheating on me pretty much the whole time.
My stepmom often thinks my dad's cheating on her just because he spent time with literally anyone. She's very toxic, needless to say.
I really believe a lot of people will accuse their SO of cheating just to create some kind of drama in their life, even if they really don’t believe the other is cheating. Their lives have become so boring that they need something to try to spice it up, even if it means that relationship will end because of it.
A girlfriend came over to my place to surprise me. I answered the door all sweaty because it was hot that day. She broke up with me on the spot, convinced that my sweating meant that my roommate and I had been having sex (we most certainly were not)!
Because they are jealous, insecure, overburdening, emotionally stunted, thin-skinned, reactive, presumptive, two-faced, abusive, possessive, lying, control freaks you get to choose which reason is the killer for your relationship. You are valuable and worth more than that. Step up, ditch their sorry ass and build better, you are better and deserve better. You will find true and meaningful happiness, single or otherwise, you don’t need a partner who treats you badly.
My wife has accused me with all the known women in town and relatives with me. Am I the lucky one that she think Me that smart. Or bad lucky one, that all of this is lie?
... Hopefully you guys don't have kids together and you can still get out of this relationship
Load More Replies... My daughter's ex husband couldn't stand if she and I went out to eat. I'm talking fast food, nothing fancy. He just didn't want her to have an enjoyable time with her mom and without him. He also accused her of cheating.
I was a music major in high school (so, band geek) and in all of the advanced classes but also played volleyball and ran track and not football. So, not the greatest 'catch'. She was beautiful, in all of the same advance classes (so, smart) but also a cheerleader. So, a pretty great 'catch'. And yet I still somehow f****d it all up but cheating on her with a good friend's sister. Im not saying that we would've stayed together and gotten married. But what I did, how I made her feel, and how I felt afterward doing to that her... I think I'm a decent adult now so I wouldn't cheat regardless but those moments replay in the back of my mind even this many years later.
