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56 Infidelity Stories So Cruel They Sound Almost Too Awful To Be Real
Infidelity in itself is already unforgivable. It’s a heartless act that can cause a lifetime of rage, distrust, and trauma in the person who experienced it from their partner.
However, some people are downright cruel enough to take it a step further, so much so that their actions caused a fallout that extended to friends, family members, even children. These are the kind of stories shared in this recent Reddit thread.
These stories prove some people have no shame. Feel free to share similar experiences in the comments below.
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#1
My wife's great aunt cheated on her husband (in the 60s). She got pregnant from the affair. Her husband and her then reconciled and gave the baby up for adoption and went on to have other children.
50 years pass and the husband who was cheated on passed away. Via an ancestry DNA test, the child (now woman) given up for adoption finds out she has other sisters and brothers.
Turns out she was the biological child of both the husband and wife. The husband died before he found out she was his actual child and she was NOT a product of the affair.
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#2
While in the military basic training guy gets a tattoo of his fiance... Yeah.. IYKYK...
Anyhoo - this guy gets "the letter" from her breaking up with him because he's never around.. blah blah..
In the same mail call he gets a letter from his best friend back home saying his girl is cheating on him with his uncle. So he calls the uncle who denies it and says she's cheating on him with his own dad... So he calls his dad and tears into him and his dad denies cheating and says she is actually cheating on him with his best friend... Who wrote the original letter
Turns out she was hooking up with all of them and the best friend got jealous and ratted out his uncle...
#3
I was in the car (big pickup, the guy was kind of a jerk) in Austin going west on 290 where it joins I-35 South on a flyover. My friend-of-friend was driving. We start to descend, and he sees his wife's car ahead of him as we merge. He pulls up beside her and waves.
In the car is her personal trainer riding next to her with his hand on her knee. She was supposed to be at her mom's.
#4
Many years ago I worked with a guy who told me he was sleeping with his wife's younger sister.
When I asked him why the hell he would do that, his answer was simple.
"She does everything my wife won't do."
#5
Those blokes who manage to have an entire second family in another town. I can barely keep track of one group chat and these jerks are remembering two wedding anniversaries.
#6
When i was a nurse, we had these coworkers who were best friends. They lived right down the street from each other, their kids were friends, they were always together at work. One was married, one was a single mom. Turns out that on nights where married woman was working and single mom wasn't, single mom was carrying on an affair with the husband. She would check in on how busy the unit was to try to keep track if anyone would be sent home early.
It kind of blew up when it came out. Single mom moved to day shift but ended up leaving altogether shortly after because she got ostracized so hard. The married couple stayed together last i heard.
ETA: Stop using this story to trash nurses. The husband was not a nurse and also cheated. Honestly, we were so busy that it was rare to even have any relationships between staff, let alone torrid Grey's Anatomy-style affairs. There's cheating jerks in every profession (see: stereotypical man banging his secretary trope).
#7
My coworker just recently left his wife for his affair partner and they're currently going through a pretty messy divorce. All of them are in their 50s and my coworker was married for like 20+ years and I'm pretty sure they have at least one kid.
The thing is, his affair partner was his high school sweetheart before he even met his wife. He considered her "the one that got away." At some point, they reunited as adults and started an affair. And as I understand it, the wife knew about it. My coworker was openly going on dates with this other woman about once a month, swearing up and down that it wasn't an affair and they were just friends, but everyone in their lives knew about it. He was basically cucking his wife for years.
Recently, he decided to finally leave his wife for this other woman, and he can't stop gloating about it. He's constantly talking about how happy he his that he can finally be with the woman he loves, and gushing about how beautiful she is.
According to my coworker, his wife basically was just going to let the divorce happen quickly and quietly, but now she's making more noise and putting up more of a fight. There have been incidents like she superglued the keyhole on his truck door shut and glued the door handles shut. He had to call in tardy to work. She then came to his workplace and drove around the parking lot honking her horn with posters taped onto her car that called him out for being a cheater and called his affair partner some bad words.
And the funniest thing is that my coworker is flabbergasted why she would do such a thing. He says that the divorce was going to be amicable, then, "someone told her how much she could get out of me, so now she's trying to take me for everything she can." Throughout this whole process, he doesn't even seem to get the fact that he's being a heartless jerk and everyone thinks he's a piece of trash and deserves everything he gets.
#8
Was stationed in the Philippines early 80’s. A married co worker was in a house of ill repute and caught the clap from some hostess. Once he realized he had it, he went to the local pharmacist and got a shot for himself and one he intended to administer to his wife, along with a numbing solution. (Bad Idea) He waited until she was asleep took a gauze pad and applied the solution to her bum and injected the shot. What he didn’t consider was that the solution was topical. She obviously woke up, rolled to the side, snapped the needle and began bleeding all over the bed
There was NO possibility to calmly explain the situation. They obviously ended their relationship in court.
#9
Years ago, around my early 20s, there was this guy in my friend group. I didn't know him that well and I never hung with him on my own. But he would sometimes be at the social events I would attend due to mutual acquaintances.
He starter dating this girl. I don't know if they were properly official just yet. But everyone knew they were talking and that they were into each other.
One night, after a heavy drinking session, he got absolutely wasted. She didn't drink because she was driving, so she gave him a lift him. Because he was practically paralletic in the car, she had to knock on the door the get his dad to help him into the house. This would be the first time she met his dad. After helping him to bed, her and the dad went into the living to have a chat and get to know each other. His dad was single and was known to be a bit of a ladies man who dated a string of younger women.
Anyway, she ended up sleeping with the dad that night while my friend was passed out in his bed.
#10
I have a rather bad cheating story concerning myself. I had just finished major cancer treatment, dose dense chemo and was cleared for a small trip from my doctor, but my immune system was still not completely healed.
My partner was utterly verbally and psychologically hurtful towards me while I was on this trip to thank my girlfriends for helping so much while I am was in treatment (he did not go to one single chemo session).
I thought maybe this was related to the horrible experience of possibly losing me. At any rate, I get back, he is super apologetic, we have unprotected intercourse (I have an IUD) and then right after he tells me that he picked up some random girl in the parking lot of a skanky bar, slept with her and feels horrible about it. He wanted me to comfort him...
So, he had unprotected intercourse with me after cheating on me when my immune system was compromised. My doctor was not very happy about it, had to have all the testing, of course.
#11
Worst I’ve heard from people I actually know:
Couple is engaged, wedding is in one week. Bride-to-be is 2 months pregnant, but very few people know and she doesn’t want it announced before the wedding.
Groom-to-be and his friends rent a house in Vegas for his bachelor party weekend. Groom ends up having unprotected intercourse with a dance on a pool table in the rented house, while his friends all cheered him on and videoed the whole thing.
Groom obviously wants to keep this hush-hush and doesn’t come clean when he gets home to the Bride. The wedding goes off without anyone being the wiser. Apparently, some of the friends start talking and their significant others find out. The ladies tell the Bride and she sees the video; there’s no denying it.
She kicks the Groom out; she has the baby a few months later. Bride then finds out, shortly after giving birth, that the adult dancer was also pregnant by her estranged husband.
Husband begged for years for the wife to get back together, but it was a hard no. Now he has two teenage kids, born around 2 months apart, to 2 different women, in 2 different states. Still alone, and paying child support. Wife is remarried with a couple more kids, and a loving husband. Don’t know what happened to the dancer.
This really should have been made into a movie by now.
#12
My wife's first husband left her on Christmas eve for a woman half a block down the street. She had no clue, then he was gone. I'm thankful to him, otherwise she would not have been with me for the last 38 years.
#13
When an ex boyfriend of mine was growing up, his dad introduced a woman to their family (so him, his four siblings, and his mother) as his long lost sister. I can't remember what the back story was but whatever it was it was believable with whatever family history they had going on...either way, this woman went to Church with them nearly every Sunday, was at their dinner table for all major Holidays, and in family pictures...the whole 9...and then when my ex (the youngest of his siblings) graduated high-school his dad literally broke the news to his mom and him and his siblings that this woman was in fact his affair partner. And that he would be divorcing his mom to marry this other woman...which he absolutely did in no time at all (they are still together to this day)... nearly ripped the whole family apart...literally just everyone was at each other's throats. Took years for siblings to evern think about sitting at the same table together and they spent many years celebrating the holidays without either parent because it was just too much. Very very sad. Worst story for sure and I'll never forget it.
Con O Cuinn 1 hour ago
Poor mother. Gaslit, strung along and cheated on for years, eventually abandoned by your husband and then your kids won't even spend the holidays because "it was just too much."
#14
My dad used to work with a truck driver who had three kids with his wife. They wanted a fourth child, but no matter how hard they tried, she just couldn’t get pregnant.
Eventually, they decided to see a doctor and get some tests done.
The results revealed something rather shocking: the truck driver was completely infertile. According to the doctor, he had been infertile his entire life and was biologically incapable of fathering children.
The man had been raising three kids, believing they were his own.
You can imagine how that conversation at home must have gone.
Panda Kicki 1 hour ago
I would have demanded a dna test. Unless his balls was missing there is always a small chance a single s***m is going out at some point. So many cases like this and it causes havoc, test first, freak out later.
#15
My Great Aunt stepped off a ferry in the middle of the sea at night after she found out the man she had 2 kids with was living a double life and was already married.
#16
Guy in [country 1] says goodbye to his wife to go to choir practice. Does not come home. Texts his wife he has been "abducted by criminals on their way to [country 2] in his car" and not to call the police. She of course does. Police in [country 1] notify police in [country 2].
After one and a half day they find him. He tells them a story about the abduction. Police takes him very seriously and checks out every detail of his story. He tells them "he thinks they stopped at a gas station at so and so". When they check the camera footage they see him walking in with a smile.
Turns out he decided this was a fireproof way to nail someone else he met online without his wife knowing. The justice system in [country 2] was not amused. He had to appear in court, pleaded temporary insanity, got a relative slap on the wrist but he was really sweating it until then because jail was an option.
I know this because he is part of my extended family. Would not have believed this otherwise... His wife died a thousand deaths because he went on a deranged perversion of a booty call.
Justice was kind of served. Lost his wife, lost his family, lost his credibility. Unfortunately he is too self absorbed to really care.
#17
My dad had an affair while my mom was pregnant and named my sister after his lover. Mom didn’t find out until way later.
#18
My great grandfather cheated on my great grandmother while GGM was pregnant with my grandmother. The woman he cheated with? GGM's sister.
And he got her pregnant too. Then both babies were given the same name and brought up in the same house.
He also hooked up with a dozen or more women in other villages. He was the first and only bus driver in that very rural part of his country, and "Want to go for a ride in the bus?" turned out to be a very effective pickup line at the time.
#19
I'm not sure it's the worst, but definitely the saddest I've ever seen.
When I was still a fairly young married man, there was another young couple at church, good looking guy, pretty and sweet wife, two cute girls... His family was pretty well off, and helped them with a down payment on a nice new big house, new truck and boat, all that stuff that can make a person jealous. He decided to have an extended secret affair with a co-worker and when his wife found out she tried, but just couldn't get over it. He wound up in a ratty apartment, paying a boatload of child support.
#20
My first kids dad, my ex, cheated on me back in 2013 while I was 7 months pregnant. He cheated on me in the garage while I was home, in the house. Walked in on it happening.
#21
My sister (37F) has recently revealed to having an affair on her MILITARY husband. They have a daughter together and everything. Apparently, she’s cheated on him throughout the entire 10 year marriage. She lived in NC and came back home to Ohio to be with a man and his two daughters. The man knew she was married too.
My sister left her daughter and one of the nicest men I know to be with a stranger and to raise HIS children and doesn’t see how she’s in the wrong.
#22
Right after 9/11, my industry imploded and my company went through significant layoffs. I was one of the lucky ones. I kept my job, but only if I transferred back to our corporate headquarters, which was about 1,000 miles away.
I started the new position immediately, while my ex-wife stayed behind with our kids. The plan was for her to remain there until our house sold and the school year ended. It took about four months to sell the house, and during that time I flew back and forth nearly every weekend.
While I was working away from home to keep our family financially afloat, my ex-wife had affairs with at least two of our neighbors. I suspect there were two others, but I was never able to prove it. When I eventually found out and confronted her, she tried to shift the blame onto me, claiming that I had abandoned her.
Twenty-one years later, I've been happily remarried for 18 years. My ex-wife is on husband number four, having cheated on every one of her previous husbands. I have great relationships with our adult children, who maintain only limited contact with their mother. They're also very close with my wife, whom they describe as the mom they never had.
The best revenge really is living well.
#23
There was this pretty famous case where a dude ended up sleeping with a p**n star while his wife was home taking care of their newborn, Then, to keep things quiet he paid the p**n star hush money so it wouldn't affect his campaign. Huge creeper...
#24
In the military back in the 90s, there was a woman in my unit who was married to a guy in my unit. He got deployed to Saudi for 2 straight deployments (175 days), which is days short of 6 months. She was messing around with multiple guys in my unit. 2 different guys "fell in love" with her and almost got themselves booted due to fighting. She was sleeping with guys at parties.
He gets back from 6 month deployment to find her 3 months pregnant. Both of the in love guys were claiming it was theirs.
Turned out it belonged to an inmate from the mediums security federal prison on base. They would be brought from the prison area to work around the base and my unit always had 4 or 5. She was apparently banging that guy during the day in the back of one of our 20 ton freight liners that had a sleeper cab.
#25
I found a cousin we had no clue about on 23 and me.
My uncle had been totally aware of her and in contact with her and the mum, paying for school and stuff. She was born 2 months after his youngest daughter with my aunt. My aunt had no clue and the secret cousin is 32.
#26
I swear mine is the worst I have heard.
An ex cheated on me back in 2013 then proceeded to break up with me when I found out. I was devastated seeing her “new guy” and her on social media and hearing about how I was just thrown out like I never mattered.
Well, a few weeks later- her sister sees me at a store and asks if I was ok (I wasn’t; drinking heavily, not taking care of myself, etc). Now, her sister and I were never close and barely spoke to one another during the course of relationship (3 years). No more than “hi (insert name)” or “Happy/Merry (insert special day), not much there basically.
Anyway, she invites me to a friend hangout of hers so I can take my mind off things. Even told me she thinks what her sister did was wrong.
I clean up and go to the friend hangout with her.
I ended up sleeping with her sister. Even worse, her sister became pregnant and NEVER told me. My daughter was born in 2014, and I didn’t know/meet her until 2022 (when I was expecting a child with my wife).
Yes: the ex was absolutely devastated and full of rage when she found out, their parents absolutely despise me, and my daughter’s mom is incredibly awkward when I visit her (my daughter). I went to her 10th birthday party, and got the piercing eyes from everyone there. I had not seen my ex since 2013, and seeing her again was weird. Could tell she wanted to slap/hit me. Daughter tells me they don’t talk much at all (they were inseparable when we were together). So…my own story is the worse I have heard.
#27
The worst part isn’t the cheating itself. It’s watching someone lie to your face, come home, act normal, and let you question your own instincts. That kind of betrayal messes with your trust long after the relationship ends.
#28
My brothers girlfriend out of the blue decided to learn Spanish and took it very seriously. She was obsessed with it. After many years together, her and my brother got married and soon after the wedding my brother adopted her son.
Four days after the adoption, she moved to spain with her recently divorced boss, abadoning her son with my brother. This had been her plan the whole time, she was just waiting for her lover/boss to divorce his wife and needed someone to care for her kid after her mom died.
#29
I've told this one before, but hey, here we go, again.
I worked in a large office building, for a company with multiple buildings in the Metro.
Some construction at a nearby office caused some engineers to be relocated to our building for about a year. This meant a husband (an engineer) and his wife (a customer service rep) were working in the same building.
One day, facilites was reviewing security footage from the parking lot cameras trying to figure out what had happened to some equipment stored outdoors, and spotted two people obviously going at it in thea car in the parking lot at lunch.
They pointed it out to security, who realized that it was happening pretty regularly.
They, in turn, kicked it to HR. HR looked up the vehicle, and realized that it belonged to the husband & wife.
Our friendly neighborhood HR rep called the couple into his office, and basically said, "hey you guys, this isn't a big deal, but we have cameras out there, and people are driving by, so please stop having s*x in your car at lunch."
The husband insisted that he had no idea what they were talking about it.
HR came back with, "look, it's on video, so denying it is pointless, and could get you into touble. We aren't looking to take any action, here. We just don't want people to see you having s*x in your car."
The husband stuck to his guns.
The HR Rep went to the tape, and showed it in the room, pointing out that it was their car.
"It is," said the husband. "But that's not me f*****g my wife."
It turns out the wife was having a years-long affair with her boss, and this is how the husband found out.
The boss and the wife got walked out of the building later that day.
#30
Had a friend in high school whose dad was basically living a double life. He had 3 kids and a wife and then had a mistress and another kid on the side that nobody knew about. They lived close to my house when i was young and my family knew his family through sports. The dad would often come park his car on my street weeknights after work and he’d stay there for over an hour sometimes talking on the phone. I remember my mom saying all the time that she was sure he was cheating lol. Eventually the wife found out and he basically abandoned his original family and last i heard he was living with his mistress (new wife) and their daughter.
#31
A woman I know found out her partner (who she has several children with) had been having an affair with her little sister who was just turning 18 (they were in their 30s) and he had known her since she was 10. He left her for the younger sister when the affair was exposed and she still had to coparent her newborn with him and her family have accepted his relationship with the sister (her family suck too, and her and her sister had been really close) and she has to see them both together at family events. She was heavily pregnant when she found out, too, and about to give birth. It really stuck with me because of how utterly cruel and messed up it was.
#32
Well, this is good timing.
In July of this year I found out that my (deceased) dad was not my dad but his (deceased) best friend was. And the affair lasted at least 16 years.
Also, my sister had no problem dating and sleeping with married men or those with girlfriends. She ended up with a guy who left his wife and four kids (the youngest WAS ONE YEAR OLD) for her. She blamed it in Mary, the ex-wife, because "she let herself go," if you can believe that.
So I guess that's why my sister is all about cosmetic procedures now and looks like an ugly freak from all of the Botox, lip fillers, eyeliner tattoos, etc.
Oh, and she says her step kids should "just get over it" because of course they're not fond of her or their father.
#33
My grandfather had always been our most interesting figure, he moved to the west coast from the east coast with nothing but the money in his pocket; he spent time homeless before getting a job as a cook on a local attraction. He did that for years before he retired, he met my grandmother shortly after getting the cook job, and they got married the next year. We thought he was a chill, cool dude. He taught me a lot about humor and learning to laugh at yourself.
I always found it weird that he and my grandmother stopped talking a lot, I assumed it just came with being married for 30+ years.
Turns out they weren't talking as often because he (my grandfather) actually was already married in Utah, had a whole-a*s family he abandoned, and we found out when his ex-wife called to inform my grandmother that her marriage to him was illegitimate.
They stopped talking, he moved to another bedroom, and died alone in a hospital.
#34
Not sure if it is the worst but definitely the most memorable. At my previous school district, the superintendent was known for being a womanizer. He was already on his third or fourth marriage within 10 years or so. All of his wives were either teachers or librarians at different schools in the district. He was known for having lovers in almost every school.
To add a bit more context, the superintendent has his office in a building several miles from all of the schools. We called it the central office building. Very light security, anyone could walk in. My next door teacher happened to be the brother of third in command at the district which is how I got the following story.
During my first year, his latest wife found out about his cheating after nearly a year of it. Surprised that it took that long (especially since she met her husband while being the other woman) but it did. So she decided to take it out on him. How? By storming into the central office and rampaging throughout the entire building. Windows shattered, tables & chairs tossed & broken, even doors ripped off their hinges and a couple of walls with holes in them. She destroyed a lot of property. My neighbor showed me pictures his brother had taken of the destruction just an hour or two after it happened. It was a complete mess.
I happened to have an appointment at central office the following day. Considering the level of destruction that happened, I doubted that my appointment would happen. But central office told me still come by. Less than 24 hours later I showed up. Every entrance has a security door with a card reader and camera. All of the outdoor windows were reinforced windows. Once I entered, there was a small waiting area and another set of security doors and cameras. After those set of doors I could see some of the holes in the walls, missing doors and furniture but it was mostly cleaned up. None of that was there the week before when I had another appointment. It was just a single entrance and you walked into the office you wanted.
In less than 24 hours they had somehow managed to get a company to install an entire security system. Before leaving, I asked which security company had done the installation because they did a good job of it in such a short time. Probably the best marketing I've seen for any security company.
#35
My sister's fiance cheated on her with his boss's sister, he was working for two brothers. The thing was revealed during the wedding of one of the boss when the sister came up to my sister and told her she was pregnant. My sister was quickly pushed to a cab while the fiance stayed behind.
#36
On April 4th, 2020, my girlfriend at the time left our apartment to spend the day with her sister. It was the early days of the pandemic and she hadn't seen her in months.
On April 5th, 2020, there's a knock on the door of our apartment. It was my girlfriend's sister, who decided to surprise us by showing up unannounced because she hadn't seen her sister in months.
Thanks for saving me, Jessica.
#37
I found a blonde hair tie in the bed my ex fiancé and I shared when I got home from work one night. I have black hair and I exclusively wear scrunchies and claw clips as hair ties give me a headache.
He tried to convince me it belonged to him.
He was bald.
#38
It’s a convoluted story…
There were 2 female high school teachers around the same age (late 20s) that were the only two teachers for a particular speciality class at that school. Let’s call them Mrs. A and Mrs. B. They became work friends and then started hanging out outside of school along with their husbands.
Their second year teaching together, Mr. and Mrs. A decided to start a family (Mr. and Mrs. B don’t have kids). Mrs. A gave birth right around the end of the school year and Mrs. B helped out by administering and grading finals for Mrs. A. SIX WEEKS LATER…Mr. A and Mrs. B ran off together (apparently they had been having a secret affair for some time), leaving Mrs. A with a newborn baby.
There is a somewhat happy ending. Mr. B stopped by to see how Mrs. A was doing and brought diapers for her baby. They must have bonded over their shared experience because they ended up getting married and having 4 more children. Mr. A and Mrs. B also got married but ended up divorcing.
#39
I was seriously digusted with my acquaintance's story.
She was pregnant, and her fiancee was working in a town maybe 45 minutes from their home. She went there one day to surprise him and found him with a girl in a bed. God what a f*****g timing
Edit: I also know this brother and sister that both were married and the 4 of them used to hang out all the time. Both pairs had basically gworn up kids. And 2-3 years ago brother and sister found out that their spouses were having an affair for years and they decided that they can't hide it anymore and want to be together.
#40
Probably not the worst, but this was one I personally witnessed.
Sometime ago, I was a photographer hired to document a university's two week-long international exchange trip. Basically followed this group of students and their lecturers around, to snap photos of their daily activities, workshops, classes, conferences, etc.
They were between ages of 18-23 while I was 30. Despite the gap, we got along well and had meals and toured the city together in the evenings after the official programme was done.
There were this girl and guy whom I assumed were a couple. Always sat together, had their hands around each other, quite touchy, flirty, occasionally stealing a kiss. Went on the whole trip and they were not camera shy either. Didn't matter, it was their business, and I didn't think much of it at the time.
But when we finally landed back in our country, they suddenly became distant. As the girl stepped out of arrivals, she ran towards a guy waiting, hugged him and walked off together. One of her friends nudged me, and said something like "Psst, that's her real boyfriend".
Didn't keep in touch with any of them after the trip so I don't know if the real guy ever found out. But I did omit all their touchy photos in the CD I delivered to the university after.
#41
Was a waitress in a restaurant as a teen (small town) and one of my teachers always came in on a Saturday night with the same lady. Naturally assumed she’s his wife, happened every week for about 3 years. Came to our leavers ball and he’s with another woman who introducers herself as his wife… I just stood there confused while he looked like he hoped the ground would swallow him up.
#43
Well my wife of 10 yrs decided to entertain the advance of a coworker because "he kept praising her" and then blamed me for not showing enough love not bringing up the fact she was the one who made a d**d bedroom after the birth of our daughter and i waited patiently.. I also WFH job so that she can go back to office.
#44
A former friend cheated on his pregnant wife with her best friend over the course of several months. She found out, it was a horrible situation for her but he ended things with the girl and she forgave him. Two years later he cheated on her again with a coworker. This time he left her for the woman and they are married. His kids don’t speak to him much anymore. I also cut him out of my life. He uses and ab**es people.
#45
One of my best friends dated a guy throughout medical school for 4 years & she became increasingly frustrated that he hadn’t shown signs of proposing post-graduation.
While they were doing residences in separate cities, she had a gut feeling something was off & one of her friends did some deep digging - come to find out he had married his actual girlfriend of 8 years a few months prior.
Not only did he lie & fool her, but all of their other medical school friends as well.
Master manipulator to be able to pull off living a double life like that.
#46
In a small town the husband kept telling people he had an open marriage, finally someone asked his wife about it, she was unaware of this new arrangement.
#47
Mine is definitely a horrible one.
My ex husband had an affair while we were married and got his affair partner pregnant. Repeatedly denied the affair but having a baby doesn’t lie.
My ex husband and his affair partner named their baby the same name my ex husband and I picked out for a future child.
I also found out that my ex husband cheated on his pregnant affair partner while at a wedding of that mutual friend (mutual friend and ex husband are not friends anymore after all of this). Technically he cheated on me again too as we were still legally married at that time waiting for our court date for the divorce to be finalized.
I am beyond thankful that my ex husband and I never had kids so I was able to fully leave the relationship and never speak to him ever again.
#48
The one that happened to me this year. I broke up with my first relationship after almost 11 years this year because he went to his parents to think but secretly went on vacation. I found out because after more than 2 weeks no contact and him ignoring me I called his father to ask to talk to my bf.
After that I broke up. He cried like crazy and begged me to take him back, suddenly wanted to marry and have kids and everything but this time I didn't cave. I found out later, that he has cheated with at least 6 other women and had a full a*s relationship on another continent with another girl. She contacted me a few months ago thinking I was the ex for years because he suddenly ghosted her and she was worried. Turned out he had us both parallel for quite a while and visited her while he told me he is at his parents. He had the flights booked months before.
He sent her letters from his father's address and called her at night when I slept. At the some time he gaslighted me like crazy, telling me I was controlling and he needs more space so I always gave that to him, let him do his thing for most weekends, let him fly to Paris to visit his best friend every other month but in reality he was just cheating all the time and I had no idea lol.
The worst part was he was unemployed for half a year and I paid for everything, his food, his rent, his insurance, took care of him after a surgery and he told her that I was just a good soul and I did that although being "the ex" because of our long history. He just used me. He later even told her that the breakup (he told her that was years before) wasn't bad because he had "my best years" while I was still young and now I am used lol.
After the breakup he tried to get me back for a few months until he finally gave up. The 6 women are what I know about, I wouldn't be surprised if there are more.
#49
My grandmother found out about my grandfather’s other wives after a crazy string of events. Infidelity is kind of my family curse.
Geneva had been married all of 12 days, excited to call her new husband, Dennis, at work. She rang his office and identified herself as Mrs. Joyce. The voice on the other side responded, Oh Hi Norma!
That quick phone call unraveled my grandpa’s entire facade and landed him in jail for bigamy. By the end of it, they found out there was at least three wives.
I’m one of Norma’s grandkids. I’ve found a lot of my mom’s missing siblings and new people pop up on Ancestry every so often. I think my grandfather was married about 5-6 times, with lots of overlap. For example, my mom and her sister are only 6 months apart in age. I’ve heard he was very charming and liked to drink.
#50
My husband’s ex girlfriend. She cheated and had two children in quick succession with a married man…her boss. She was embarrassed to say who the real father was (obviously), so she let people assume it was my now husband while she was pregnant with the first…even though she and my husband were broken up. Problem is that her boss was Mexican and her babies looked Mexican and both she and my husband are white.
#51
An acquaintance of mine cheated on his wife 3 weeks after their kid was born. Left her very shortly after because he “was in love” with this new gal. Just evil, trash behavior.
#52
Hotel concierge have all the gossip! One who worked at a very expensive hotel in Paris told me about a couple on their honeymoon staying at the hotel, one night the wife came up to front desk in tears demanding to know where her husband was. Turns out he had come back to the hotel earlier that evening with another woman and booked another room. I don’t exactly know if the wife knew exactly that that’s what happened but at the very least she had an inkling that her husband was f*****g around behind her back on their honeymoon. Obviously the hotel staff can’t give out details of guests who have checked in so they couldn’t answer her question but everyone felt terrible for her.
#53
This was almost bad and happened to me back in the day. For context, yeah, I was in a fraternity and I had been dating someone a few weeks after some friends of hers took her out to one of our parties. I was in charge of organizing an event, a "date party" where everyone brings a date and we go to a club and all that. My GF ended up having to work that night and couldn't get out of it, but we planned to meet up later. But...I needed a date, so we talked and I cleared it with her to take one of her friends (Megan) that had sort of introduced us by bring her to that party. She was seeing someone else (Dave) by that time but he's secured a date before they got together (Kara). So... I would take Megan to the party and she's hang out with Dave. Kara was cool, she just wanted to go hang with her friends and have a good time. It all seemed to work out.
Point of context: I was and always have been a bit of a jolly fat guy. At the time this all went down, I had gotten out of a long term "GF back home" scenario, but for all appearances, I was the "Mayor of the Friendzone." I was the classic "I want to find a guy like you" dude. My GF was miles out of my league and her dating me left all my friends scratching their heads as to exactly how I was pulling it off.
A few weeks later, we had a retreat - we all go out into the woods and drink until we fall down around the bonfire. A dude comes up to me and tells me "we need to talk - man to man" oh...okay, what's up, man.
"You know I respect you and love you like a brother but I have to tell you -- your girlfriend is a cheating jerk."
Lol, wut? We were both absolutely hammered, so you can imagine confusion ensured. For some reason, I was dubious/incredulous and didn't get enraged, just kinda befuddled.
Apparently, he saw who he THOUGHT was my GF (actually Megan) crawling all over Dave at a party or a hangout and because A.) He knew I had a serious GF and B.) I had taken her to the date party, that she was my GF. Eventually we worked it out and had a laugh (and more booze.)
I eventually married her and Megan was a bridesmaid. Still married 28 years later.
#54
Arnold Schwazenegger knocking up his maid and wife, both of whom were both pregnant at the same time.
#55
The Michigan Wolverines had sent some dude to the sidelines of opposing teams practices to study their in-game signals. This guy would were disguises consisting of fake mustaches and whatnot. The worst part? Absolutely no reprecussions when they were caught. Vile.
#56
My friend was dating this girl who was studying abroad in our country for about a year and a half, before he went abroad to continue his studies, the girl became quite close to the family to the point where she was staying with the family, and the family started helping her out financialy including taking her to a psychiatrist and buying her food etc. Turns out the girl was cheating on my friend by renting hotel rooms and sleeping with this random dude she met on a dating app.
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