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Normally people do not spy on their romantic partners, hoping to build a relationship based on trust and respect. However, once certain signs come to the surface, one would have to be blind to ignore them. One clue leads to another until your partner is suddenly revealed to not be what you thought they were or what you wished them to be. The reasons behind the cheating, as well as the outcomes afterwards, can vary a lot. However, the experience of the walls of trust and hope falling down all at once is usually disturbing and painful even to simply read about it. Still, bringing the bitter truth to light is better than living in a lie and false trust, as it gives a chance to move forward. These people are doing just that, putting their stories out there for others to read and see them with a little perspective.

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#1

“It Suddenly Clicked”: People Online Share The 30 Worst Ways They Found Out They Were Being Cheated On He told me. I guess I respect him for that. He told me he had been with another woman and really wants to be with her. Of course it hurt but I appreciate his honesty and don't hate him even though he hurt me. Then she cheated on him and I felt even better lol

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Powerful Katrinka
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cheaters cheat. That's what they do.

Patricia McKay
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, if they cheat with you they will cheat on you.

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FakeOptimist
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Gosh... The person he cheated with did the same to him... Got wat he deserved.

Libstak
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When will people learn. If you are willing to do something for someone aka be the partner they cheat with, then you will be willing to do it to them, aka cheat on them.

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    #2

    “It Suddenly Clicked”: People Online Share The 30 Worst Ways They Found Out They Were Being Cheated On I checked his phone. My daughter was playing with it in a locked room with me while I painted the doorway; I'd locked the door so that no one knocked over the paints. I honestly wasn't planning on checking his phone; I was completely absorbed in painting. He kept knocking to ask for the phone and I kept telling him he needed to wait, I wasn't moving the paint to open the door. When he knocked the third time in less than 5 minutes, it suddenly clicked: the phone was unlocked and there was something on it he didn't want me to see. If he'd just respected my boundaries and let me finish painting, I wouldn't have even thought to check the phone. His own behavior outed him.

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    A gay cat man
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    if i acted like he did, OF COUSE my partner would check my phone, plus in a good relationship, without cheating, you should trust your partner with your phone

    savage silence
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Exactly...both hubby and I have our phones fingerprint locked but we also know each others pin for emergencies on top of telling each other look all you want...yet we don't...cause we also respect each other's privacy and trust =^.^= 29yrs and counting!!!

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    Natalia Allen
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wrote this on another thread but I had the same experience of behaviour outing an ex. I was in the bathroom on valentines day getting into a sexy outfit as a surprise for him so I locked the door. He went ballistic saying I must be hiding something and cheating on him to lock the door, banged on it so hard I ended up opening it and instead of the sexy surprise he got a fumbled half dressed as in half hanging out of it mess instead. I got the realisation that his reaction was way off and something was up.... turns out it was him cheating.

    Carol Barr
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We worked in the same office and on one slow Sunday morning I saw him in a back office on the phone...I don't know why my brain clicked into the oddity. After he left I went in and hit "redial" -very simple but telling.

    $enna
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The fact that your SO can not unlock your phone just blows my mind. Sometimes when I take pictures during an event, my wife would later scroll thru them. No big deal. She can see all she wants when she wants.

    Diphylleia Grayi
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    on December 31st I discovered my father was and is cheating on his wife, my mom when he asked me to take a photo with his cat using her cellphone and his lover saying how awesome they felt :| 8 hardly believe to have a good relationship with my dad ever again

    guyx23
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    2 years ago (edited)

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    "respected her boundaries"? He's a huge AH for cheating, sure, but she's also an AH for keeping him from using his phone due to her own actions, then violating his privacy by "checking" it. Two wrongs don't make a right.

    Celia T
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She was painting the doorway. He let the kid play with the unlocked phone. She was finishing working on something. If he had not been panicking she would have finished her WORK without being curious.

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    #3

    “It Suddenly Clicked”: People Online Share The 30 Worst Ways They Found Out They Were Being Cheated On Back when instant messaging was a computer thing, I logged onto our home computer. I had taken the day off for my birthday. He wasn’t home but was usually home during the day. Anyway, while I was searching for music, an instant message popped up with the words babe in it. So I pretended I was him for a bit & then revealed myself. She didn’t know I existed. She thought he was a single dad raising his kid alone. Apparently I was dead. Lol. By the time he got home, all of his personal s**t was packed. I’m not someone who can forgive that treacherous behavior.

    allminorchords , Josh Willink Report

    Libstak
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Considering what happened to poor Lacey Peterson not long after Scott Peterson ran around with women claiming she was dead, getting out of the relationship immediately and very publicly is the only option ever.

    AndThenICommented
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    *Lacey Peterson and their son was going to be Connor - absolute monster of a man

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    Michelle Reynolds
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is not about forgiveness-it's about the fact that once a cheater, always a cheater! You got out-good job!!

    JEON CENA
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Imagine calling the mother of your child "dead". Imagine if one day the child learn that.

    #4

    “It Suddenly Clicked”: People Online Share The 30 Worst Ways They Found Out They Were Being Cheated On He randomly started accusing me of cheating. (Spoiler alert: I wasn’t) Yay for projecting.

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    Sanguinius
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I used to semi-date a woman who did something weirdly related to this. She would be with someone, start stepping out and not hiding it very convincingly, then would get accused of cheating by the first person. Then as a retaliation for being accused of cheating, she would cheat and nuke the relationship. I was like... a side-guy during several of these relationships. Funny thing is she wouldn't be accused of cheating with ME cuz everyone thought I was a puppy dog.

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    #5

    “It Suddenly Clicked”: People Online Share The 30 Worst Ways They Found Out They Were Being Cheated On He told me after ghosting me for 2-3 days, that he was with another woman during that time. During which i went to the gyno alone to get an abortion because of him...that he knew about and had promised to come with me. Yeah, f**k that guy. Hope he rots in hell.

    Ok-Bridge-1045 , Tirachard Kumtanom Report

    Susan Teter
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My Dad said it best...nail his nuts to a dead stump, set it on fire, and give him a butter knife. He thinks he's got it all figured out, I'm sure he will make a good choice

    Diemond Star
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    2 years ago

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    I'm sorry but you can't blame that abortion all on him.

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    #6

    “It Suddenly Clicked”: People Online Share The 30 Worst Ways They Found Out They Were Being Cheated On My son's dog had been hit by a car. When she was at home recovering from surgery, she was at the stage where she could pull herself around the room. One night I woke up needing painkillers (normal for me) but when I went to the living room to get them I dropped one. Terrified the dog would find it and die (after my son had spent 18K on surgery for her) I grabbed my husband's phone which was charging to use a torch. On the screen were notifications from a website...won't mention the name but clearly for hookups. It was 3am-ish so I was like, can't process this now...went to bed. Following day did some Googling...yep just as I thought. One of the things that I really can't stand is when you accuse someone of doing something they deny it...so I set about gathering evidence. When he was out the next evening, I logged on to his Gmail (had always had the password, just never used it). Found heaps more messages and oh lookie...the links to the website passed the login thru so I didn't need his password for the site...even MORE messages, including ones where he had arranged to meet. All of them were bawdy 'I wanna fsck your brains out' type messages, nothing romantic. Got lots of screenshots. Was getting angrier and angrier at this point. Soooo...I signed up to the site, created a profile, no pic. Sent him a message that said 'You wanna get fscked? Well guess what...you're fscked...this is your wife! Saw the message hit his Gmail and get deleted immediately (him on his phone). But not before I grabbed one last screenshot... S**t hit the fan when he got home...

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    Gabby Ghoul
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm a unix/linux nerd and sometimes I just have to fsck.

    Lea Panthera
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    2 years ago

    New way of avoiding the censor

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    Bored Trash Panda
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When my ex husband was deployed to Iraq, I had to get on his email for some information and found numerous emails between him and a (male) sergeant talking about hooking up... and then after the hookup..

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    #7

    “It Suddenly Clicked”: People Online Share The 30 Worst Ways They Found Out They Were Being Cheated On He was having too many "extra shifts", but still getting the same money at the end of the month.

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    everett
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You say this like it's not common

    Kitty 🥀
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not if he was hourly. But yeah, I get what you’re saying. Salaried = all-too-common getting screwed by your manager scenario.

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    Lea Panthera
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm gonna play devil's advocate here: what if he was being manipulated by his boss and was just too oblivious to realize it?

    Tabitha
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He would have to be making gobs of money for that to even be a remote possibility. Most people who are picking up extra shifts for more money are acutely aware of how much money is in their bank account at all times.

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    #8

    “It Suddenly Clicked”: People Online Share The 30 Worst Ways They Found Out They Were Being Cheated On His ex sent screenshots of texts he sent her.

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    CelticElff
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I appreciate it when ladies try to look out for other ladies (I'm reading this as the ex didn't take him up on his proposition)

    Olga Agata
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Been this ex. Good that more women protect each other even we are strangers

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    #9

    “It Suddenly Clicked”: People Online Share The 30 Worst Ways They Found Out They Were Being Cheated On He bet his friend 20$ he could sleep with a certain girl and then said at a later date, in front of me, “oh by the way you owe me that 20$” 😬

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    #10

    “It Suddenly Clicked”: People Online Share The 30 Worst Ways They Found Out They Were Being Cheated On He posted it on Facebook. Dumbass thought I could not see Facebook in Germany. Guess what I can and even if I could not half of my friends were his Facebook friends and messaged me immediately. In case your wondering what his post was it was something like “when your so fly that you can f**k your ex and your main girl has no idea” I can’t remember the wording but you get the deal. He was sleeping with his ex for months. She had no idea we were still together or so she claims

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    FakeOptimist
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe she also lived in Germany and (claimed she) couldn't see Facebook...

    Passerby
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Okay, that picture scares me. A full cup of coffee and a laptop on unstable mattress are bad combination. You get to ruin the laptop and the mattress at the same time. I know for sure that I would spill it.

    Mario Strada
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why wouldn’t FB be available in Germany?

    #11

    “It Suddenly Clicked”: People Online Share The 30 Worst Ways They Found Out They Were Being Cheated On The first time, he told me. The next 100 times, I guessed his social media password and watched it all happening in real time. Not my proudest moment and thankfully 30 year old me understands her self worth a lot more than 20 year old me did.

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    Rizzo
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My passwords are unguessable. Even I forget them sometimes. Not that I had to hide something. My wife's finger opens my phone and vice versa.

    Adam Zad
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So... you two gave each other the finger?

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    Natalia Allen
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Took my a**e until my 40's to understand my self worth.

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    #12

    “It Suddenly Clicked”: People Online Share The 30 Worst Ways They Found Out They Were Being Cheated On He accidentally sent me a video of himself having [making love] with someone else. I was like that’s not me!

    Curiously-curious928 , John-Mark Smith Report

    El Cucuy
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Having [making love] ?? So the word sex is banned here now? Are we all toddlers?

    Budcot
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We must pretend we are ignorant on how humans are made as the process is offensive apparently

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    guyx23
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sêx, for fuçk's sake. It's called sēx, it's perfectly normal and natural and part of life. I fuçking hate this stupid, puritan, infantile habit on BP to censor language to oblivion.

    and_a_touch_of_the_’tism
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I will never understand why people film themselves doing it. Fine, you want to watch that, just find a porno online. I don’t like porn, but still… why??

    Terry Reaux
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sex sex sex sex. Nope it's not a banned word. Guess the op was just paranoid.

    Michelle Smith
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just a side note but, when did kill/murder become unalived?

    Natalia Allen
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Find it hard to believe that was an accident, maybe the other party did that or it was a lousy cowardly way out.

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    #13

    “It Suddenly Clicked”: People Online Share The 30 Worst Ways They Found Out They Were Being Cheated On When he started keeping his phone upside down when he had always had it face up our entire relationship

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    Tabitha
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I started keeping my phone facedown because of the barrage of notifications popping up was so annoying. I finally fixed it in my settings and I keep my phone face up now.

    Jo Jones
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was always doing it thinking it’s respectful 😳 no notifications to distract from the conversation

    fair_weather_rose
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I always leave my phone face down because light reflecting off the screen always bothers me. I also have color changing lights in my room, so the reflection of those always makes me think there's a notification or something

    Harlan Bleiler
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I keep my screen down in case anything falls on it and doesn’t shatter it.

    Mario Strada
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I keep my phone face down because I also have an ipad and Siri gets confused otherwise. If you keep the phone face down, Siri doesn't answer.

    Andrewsarchus42
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I keep my phone facing down so you know I’m paying attention to you. It’s not always that deep :/

    Zoe Duddle
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have my phone face down as the black screen blends into a lot of surfaces (our black sofa for instance) and I can see my colourful phone case much more easily.

    Aroace tiger (she/they/he)
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I prefer my phone upside down. No real reason either

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    #14

    “It Suddenly Clicked”: People Online Share The 30 Worst Ways They Found Out They Were Being Cheated On I had a gut feeling for so long, and eventually broke things off because I knew I couldn’t trust him out of my sight. Then a couple years later, the other woman reached out to me. She’d had no idea at the time that he and I were involved. I was so thankful that we were both finally able to confirm the truth and we tried to figure out how we could get revenge… in the end we decided it wasn’t worth it. On the plus side, the other woman and I are very close friends now, and we’re both happily married. The cheating a*****e is married too, to the other-other-woman… yep, he was messing around with at least three women at once, possibly more. My friend had stopped seeing him when she realized other-other-woman was in the picture. The a*****e tried to reach back out to me throughout the years, but I never responded and blocked him. He made one last attempt to reach out, and then a few months later, my friend heard through the grapevine that his wife was expecting. Based on the due date, his wife had probably just gotten her first positive pregnancy tests while he was stalking me all over the internet, and knowing him he must’ve been freaking the f**k out that his days of freedom and irresponsibility were over. My friend and I are both very happy that we dodged that bullet.

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    and_a_touch_of_the_’tism
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love it when the people being cheated on end up as friends :) even better if they get together but alas not everyone has my gay heart

    Lama
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I met a lovely ex-girlfriend through a guy we had both dated for a while. He didn't take that very well, but he had been terrible to her for their whole relationship (which I didn't know when I briefly dated him), so we decided he could suck it :) Hope that fills your gay heart with joy!

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    bears. beets. battlestar galactica.
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    a guy cheated on me in 1997. in 2011, i was training a new girl at work and when she heard my last name, she took me aside and said, you dated 'Cheater McGee.' i was taken aback and was like, how do you know that!??! turns out, she was the other woman. long story short, we have been best friends basically ever since!

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    #15

    “It Suddenly Clicked”: People Online Share The 30 Worst Ways They Found Out They Were Being Cheated On I walked in the front door.

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    David
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This happened to me. Got home a day early from a trip. Thought she would be happy to see me. She had two men in our bedroom. They were clothed, claimed they were "just visiting". But yeah, no they weren't. I just happened to get there before they were not clothed. (or after?). There were others and from some things I've heard in years since probably ones before them. But that was the situation that 'rang the bell' for me.

    Istvan Kozak
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You got it all wrong baby she's a nurse and she was just helping me cure my puff penis

    Tree P
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Shoulda thrown them both out the front door!

    setsuriseikou
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The outfit in the picture is impeccable!

    #16

    “It Suddenly Clicked”: People Online Share The 30 Worst Ways They Found Out They Were Being Cheated On My then normally introverted partner suddenly started talking to people online. No big deal, I'm not jealous or anything. I got major suspicions when she wanted to stay the weekend with a friend she met online. It was a six hour drive away in Chicago. I let her do it, she's an adult. I can't stop it. I knew something was up. And I was right. She came back and she had the gall to ask me if we can be a poly relationship. It was a firm "NO". You either get me or not at all.

    Elsa_the_Archer , Jenny Ueberberg Report

    TheElderNom
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Even if you were okay with being in a poly relationship, being asked AFTER the fact is a big no.

    barn owls ️
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    exactly!! as a poly person, i would never ask my partner AFTER doing something with someone else. it is something you talk about and ask about before anything happens!

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    Sanguinius
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I feel like my wife and I are at risk for something like this happening currently. She's been talking to an ex for a while and has been reporting back to me. I don't think she specifically wants HIM, but I think she might bring up some sort of poly conversation again soon...

    Genericist
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Read the webcomic kimchi cuddles. It's not all applicable to your specific situation (or a lot of poly folks'), but it has some really good general advice about how to understand your own feelings and your partners', and tips for how to move forward whilst being super respectful. Even if you end up deciding it's not for you, I'd still say it's a great read to understand it all better. :)

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    #17

    “It Suddenly Clicked”: People Online Share The 30 Worst Ways They Found Out They Were Being Cheated On He would have gotten away with it if he didn’t act like such a buffoon. I was looking through his tagged pictures on Instagram and saw one of him with another woman from before we met. The caption implied they were just friends so initially I didn’t suspect anything. I just asked him who she was because he’d never mentioned anyone by that name before. He used to talk about his friends from back home in America all the time, including female ones, but had never mentioned her. The look of panic on his face was almost cartoonish. He started blabbing about how she’s a friend of his from college, but they don’t talk anymore and he definitely doesn’t even remember her that much. I knew this man was lying through his teeth but I wanted solid evidence first so I just said “oh, okay babe! That’s cool!” He looked so relieved. Idiot. His mysterious friend didn’t have much on her Instagram and something told me to check who he was following on Spotify. He only followed two people - me and her. I looked through her playlists and found one called “[my country’s name] road trip 2022”. It was a collaborative playlist and my boyfriend had contributed a million songs to it, including lots that I’d introduced him to! I did some more sleuthing and found a comment on one of his band’s YouTube videos saying “so proud of you babe❤️❤️❤️”. I clicked on the profile and it was hers. There were a million videos of them together and of her by herself. In her newest one dated only a few days earlier, she mentioned coming to my country in the summer to visit her boyfriend. A few days later when we were having dinner I asked him if he had anything he wanted to tell me. He started stuttering and saying “nooo? What the hell are you talking about babe?” I told him to choose his words carefully because I wouldn’t have asked him if I didn’t already know the answer. He started going off on a tangent about how she’s not his girlfriend, but it’s a “complicated situation” and that he told me about it when we first got together so he thought I knew about it and was fine with it. I asked him if he thought I was stupid and he said no. I told him he never told me and he said he didn’t and he was sorry. I told him that it was over and this was the last time we would ever see each other. I’m not the kind of person to go snooping through people’s socials, so if he had just nonchalantly told me she was a friend from college, I wouldn’t have pressed it. Absolute idiot! His own behaviour outed him

    lost_in_ontario , Kerde Severin Report

    Haru
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    His acting was pathetic, like the way he cheated. Good on you for catching him and getting him out of your life

    Natalia Allen
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The father of my child was stupid enough to set up a dating profile and send it to all of his contacts of which I was one...... that worm still tried to squirm his way out of it. I am so glad to be free of him.

    Oh? when?
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would put a TL;DR but you gotta read this s**t😭

    Amy Burrows
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You should be a detective! The way you searched every little lead until you found the truth that's amazing. You need to set up your own agency lol. I hope you find happiness in all you do.

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    #18

    “It Suddenly Clicked”: People Online Share The 30 Worst Ways They Found Out They Were Being Cheated On His friend told me and sent me proof.

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    FakeOptimist
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Finally a decent human being here !!

    #19

    “It Suddenly Clicked”: People Online Share The 30 Worst Ways They Found Out They Were Being Cheated On I looked at him while she was in the room. She was “my friend” . The eye contact was all I needed to know he was cheating.

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    Tree P
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Both are trash. Throw them out!

    Lea Panthera
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm a bit confused. What happened?

    juice
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    OP looked at her husband while her "friend" was in the room. the husband was cheating with the "friend", and OP could tell by the eye contact the two of them were making

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    Max Fox
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would have an issue with my partner just going off to spend a weekend with somebody she met online. It is beyond risky, and just weird. Also, If my partner has made a friend online that she's close enough with that she'd go a spend the weekend with them, and I do not even know this person, that sets off many many alarms. BTW, my partner has gone off for vacations with her best friend, and will likely do so again, so it's not as though I have issue with my partner going off places without me. Actually, I'll recommend that she do it again. She really needs some time off.

    Istvan Kozak
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Did you at least stab them in the eye?

    #20

    “It Suddenly Clicked”: People Online Share The 30 Worst Ways They Found Out They Were Being Cheated On He always had strict rules about me being friends with other guys. Then being secretive about his phone. Him coming home with new clothes for him and our kids from his “boss.” Where are my new clothes? I wonder. A late night text to her that he sent to me. Co-mingling of money which I used against him in court. 💅 I stayed longer to gather evidence. By then he had moved into the other bedroom because “he was tired of the kids always being in our bed.” The same kids I spent hours with putting to bed (never him) but who would get up later and he wouldn’t put back to bed in their own room. I eventually stopped because it was too much effort and frustration on my part. So glad to be out.

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    FakeOptimist
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Glad you had some ammunition for the court case !

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    #21

    “It Suddenly Clicked”: People Online Share The 30 Worst Ways They Found Out They Were Being Cheated On His sister told me

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    Haru
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Atleast she had the decency too unlike some people on this post

    Christine Jemison
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Isn't it funny how an in-law will tell you first? My mother-in-law ratted out my ex even told me where he was. She threw his dumb-a** out two days later after he tried to turn it around on me 50yrs later it still cracks me up.

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    #22

    I literally walked in on them. With our 2yo on my hip.

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    TheOfficialJesusChrist
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    damn don't worry,i'll send them to hell :)

    #23

    “It Suddenly Clicked”: People Online Share The 30 Worst Ways They Found Out They Were Being Cheated On I found a condom wrapper on our bedside table. He was a cheater, a slob and a dumbass.

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    Pyla
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You won the triple crown!

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    #24

    “It Suddenly Clicked”: People Online Share The 30 Worst Ways They Found Out They Were Being Cheated On He broke up with me saying he wasn’t happy anymore. Eventually it came out that he cheated multiple times and felt guilty but didn’t want to admit it. We were engaged. He tried getting me to take him back and even chased me (not literally) out of a target 6 months later screaming I love you and begging me to just give him 5 minutes to talk. F*****g nuts to think about now.

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    #25

    “It Suddenly Clicked”: People Online Share The 30 Worst Ways They Found Out They Were Being Cheated On I just knew. Things didn’t add up, he was way to protective of his phone, I found condoms that we damn sure weren’t using, and eventually someone said they saw him flat out in public with another woman. I never wanted to believe it so I stupidly just endured it for years

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    Craftsman 64
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Condoms are kind of a dead giveaway.

    Jacob B.
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have a condom in my wallet. My wife asked me "you think that will still work for how long its been there?" Told her, its not for use, just to assure her nothing is ever going to happen. Now I work from home, she gets mad when I can' t have lunch with her.

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    #26

    When her phone connected to my truck. Her boo txted her and it played a very sweet message across the speakers lol

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    Haru
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is my fear. Not the cheating part, but the fact that my friend could send something that my parents wouldnt approve of and then it connects to my dads car...

    #27

    “It Suddenly Clicked”: People Online Share The 30 Worst Ways They Found Out They Were Being Cheated On I had a dream that I went through this phone and found girls on there. He fell asleep once with his phone on & I know I shouldn’t have but I went thru it & he had screenshots/screen recordings of him sexting online with many girls & also screenshots of local prostitutes. In his messages he was texting these other two girls who told me were his “friends That knew about us being together”. I was sick to my stomach. Trust your intuition.

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    Passerby
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The start of this one is a little dubious, but I can believe that maybe you subconsciously know that he is cheating, maybe through his behaviours and other signs, and all these things culminated into your dream. A little far-fetched, perhaps, but it is one possible explanation.

    Xenia Harley
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It does happen, as I have had several dreams that would be considered premonition and/or psychic.

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    Neil O'Connor
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You'd never know by reading this article, but the percentages of men who cheat vs. women who cheat are the same

    Christina R
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not in marriages. 20% of men and 13% of women in marriages cheat.

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    Max Fox
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    SO there is no such thing as "premonitions". If there are such a thing, that means that the future is already determined, and we know that is 100% untrue (yay quantum theory!). The different functions of the brain don't work in the same place, and the part that contemplates life is not the part that makes decisions. Likely the part that analyzes data to figure out what's happening also is seperate. Our "conscious mind" is that part that contemplates life and makes plans. So another part of your brain has enough data to know that your partner is cheating, but is not relaying this directly to the conscious mind . Instead it leaks out and is part of the story that your brain invents when you sleep.

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    #28

    “It Suddenly Clicked”: People Online Share The 30 Worst Ways They Found Out They Were Being Cheated On My ex boyfriend was projecting onto me, saying I was messaging people behind his back, mind you this was out of nowhere. He decided to go through my phone while telling I had been caught and I’m a cheater, he found nothing. I decided to do the same and grabbed his phone and in his text messages I saw he had downloaded tinder, I opened instagram and his most recent message was him trying to slide into someone’s dm’s and the same on Snapchat. Worst this was that majority of the girls he tried hitting up did not respond to him, that embarrassed me even more than knowing I was cheated on 1 yr after having a baby together 😆

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    Haru
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I feel bad for you but lol he deserved majority not responding

    #29

    I caught him out when we were both sick with covid back in Jan 2021. We were sleeping separately as I tested positive first but then we carried on as we were both coughing and couldn’t sleep, or at least that’s what I thought was the reason. I would notice he was always, and I mean always, online on Snapchat and just generally acting super shifty. My spidey senses were tingling. Whenever I would come in the room he would log out and place the phone face down. When he heard me coming down the stairs and he was in the living room I would see him hide his phone down the side of the sofa. He was being super shifty so I called him out. He twisted it and made me feel like I was crazy. He then changed how he sat in the living room so he was facing the doorway and stairs so he wouldn’t have to hide his phone as the screen wasn’t facing the door. I got sick of this and honestly thought I was having a psychotic break so after talking to a friend I decided to get a nanny cam to see what he was doing when he thought I couldn’t see, I felt crazy doing this but needed to know one way or the other. Low and behold he was checking out porn through secret Twitter/TikTok/Instagram accounts and the cherry on the cake was him sexting a girl he worked with who had just had a baby with her fiancé. I caught him staring at a sexy selfie she sent him, then he tried to be cute and crawled across the floor to me and invited me to come upstairs for some sexy time. Before the heartbreak set in I was over the moon that I wasn’t going crazy and that I was right in my suspicions that he constantly twisted. I ended the relationship, which followed by the worst 5 weeks of my life as I had to watch as he went on not so secret dates with her and went and had ‘breakfast’ with her before he moved out (I didn’t know who she was at the time, only a month or two after he moved out and found out that he was going over there after her fiancé had gone to work). I found out that her fiancé had suspicions about her also after he found a Christmas card from my bf that said ‘I love you so much’. I also confirmed that a keyring that showed up on his keys 3 weeks after our split that said ‘I love you, the end, I win’ was one of two that she bought. One for my ex and one for her fiancé. He finally moved out at the end of feb 2021 and monkey branched his way to her, I filled her fiancé (ex by the time I found him) on everything I knew so he had a full timeline of events to use in case there was a custody battle

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    Passerby
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Personally, I wouldn't mind if my partner watched porn. However, sexting someone else and other things mentioned here are just disgusting.

    TheElderNom
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As for the porn I'd mind if he was hiding it. I don't want to know any details or anything, but don't lie to me about it.

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    Alecto76
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Calling him out for being shifty is great. People greatly overestimate their ability to lie.

    Helen Johnston
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would be contacting the girlfriends fiancee to get a paternity test quick smart

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    #30

    I was scrolling on fb and he popped up on my people you may know, under a different name, and kissing another girl in the profile pic. We met while he was living in the US illegally, got engaged super quick. I was about to go work on a cruise ship for 6 months. I went with him back to Mexico before I shipped out and was gonna move there with him after my contract. The dumbass was about to have a real nice life and he couldn’t didn’t even make it 2 months without getting caught

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    Pyla
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    any way you cut it _you_ were not going to have a nice life, though.

    #31

    “It Suddenly Clicked”: People Online Share The 30 Worst Ways They Found Out They Were Being Cheated On So I found out at 6AM yesterday 😂My guy’s energy was off, but he blamed it on having a bad day at work. I told him I felt like it was something more, but he got mad at me for saying that so we left the convo alone. A while back, I saw on his iPad that he had 3 missed ft calls (back to back) from an unknown number. I looked it up, and saw it matched a name I had saw on his iPhone. Confronted him about it at the time, (he didn’t acknowledge the missed calls at all) but of course, I found out yesterday it was all a lie. 🙂He told me she was a friend he met at the gym, smh. I knew something was up when he said “And sometimes we hang out.” Tf. To make a long story short, my intuition was bugging me. My body didn’t feel good. I ended up messaging the girl on Twitter, who told me that she and him had been talking January 2022 until Nov 2022. She said they got “serious” in June 2022? She said in Dec, he reached back out wanting to be friends??? I was shocked completely 💀because besides the FaceTime calls, there was nothing I could’ve pinpointed. No pics, no mention of anything, zero. I was SO confused. Tried to confront him about it, he told me I had a problem because I was confronting him about the situation instead of caring that he had a bad day. Before I blocked him on twitter, He made a comment on his Twitter that said “Thank You Jesus. You never really miss.” In response to me telling him that he was dead to me and that I never wanted to speak to him again so. 😕 On top of him not caring that he literally was involved with a whole different person, he put my (and her) sexual health at risk, because we were not using condoms. Luckily, I’ve been tested recently but this whole situation has turned me off from dating rn.

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    Lea Panthera
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My heart goes out to you ❤️. I'm sorry you had to go through that.

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    #32

    My best friend saw and told me. Stupid me took him back only for him to continuously be shady. One time, he was seen kissing someone else outside a bar. He actually tried to play it off like he tripped and their lips met. Then it was that he went for the cheek but she turned her face. And so on.

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    Haru
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Props to that best friend for telling you in the first place

    #33

    Bf #1: he told me over our romantic night out Bf #2: his girlfriend informed me he has in fact not been single for quite a long time and I was just one of his side chicks Gf#3: a guy messaged me on FB "hey this is her boyfriend" Bf#4: he started essentially sexting my sibling as soon as they exchanged numbers Bf#5: he told me over a video call on the next day 🙃

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    #34

    “It Suddenly Clicked”: People Online Share The 30 Worst Ways They Found Out They Were Being Cheated On He was in the shower and I accidentally picked up his phone thinking it was mine (we have the same model) and I saw a text from the other woman. Mind you this was after he asked for a divorce.

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    #35

    “It Suddenly Clicked”: People Online Share The 30 Worst Ways They Found Out They Were Being Cheated On When he let me see our photos we took during our hike, my gut feeling was telling me to check his messenger because he never lets me. I know he never liked this but he should not be hiding anything if there is nothing to be suspicious about. Anyways, he saw me opened his messenger, he was angry but I challenged him that if there is nothing there, he would let me read some messages. He accepted the challenge. After a few scrolls, I saw a girl's name with his last flirty sexual messages. Right there I found he has been flirting with a girl a week after we became official bf-gf. He told me he was just drunk. But who is he fooling, there was not even a misspelled word on his chats.This was not the first time that I witnessed cheating on messenger with my other ex. The first time was when I saw a girl's name who was in the first line up of the names in the desktop version of his FB account (since he logged in on my pc), that means she was the most recent and consistently he had interaction. When I checked it, he was flirting with her like he wants to romantically date her while we were still together. To all the women out there, trust your gut feelings and intuition. And don't be too submissive with your man.

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    #36

    “It Suddenly Clicked”: People Online Share The 30 Worst Ways They Found Out They Were Being Cheated On I had a gut feeling, my ex's old fwb started texting him like crazy. I didn't care at first because I trusted him, then he started by not opening her messages infront of me (he used to respond to messages when we were together) and he got defensive when I went to look at his phone i.e for the time or to check something. Eventually when I started to get worried (after I asked and he didn't give me a good answer just "she's a friend" "she's having some family trouble"), I looked through his phone and saw all the messages and nudes between them

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    FakeOptimist
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Family trouble as an excuse for nudes ? What kind of family does he come from ?

    Zenozenobee
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    From the Antique Valyria, you know, the people with uber blond hair who ride dragons juste like we take the bus.

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    #37

    A message notification while he was in the shower from her stating she “couldn’t stop thinking about ____” (the event they hooked up during)…. I had a weird feeling so had already asked about it…. But he swore up and down nothing happened.

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    #38

    “It Suddenly Clicked”: People Online Share The 30 Worst Ways They Found Out They Were Being Cheated On If there is ever a girl that’s “just my friend” run. Run as far away as possible

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    Craftsman 64
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have two of them. My wife calls one my actual soulmate because we would be the perfect match for each other and the other my backup wife in case something were to happen to her. However we've been married for 27 years and I've never given her reason to doubt me. It's called trust - it's given, not earned but it is constantly reinforced.

    and_a_touch_of_the_’tism
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don’t understand why people freak out about opposite-sex friendships. I have guy and gal pals but that doesn’t mean I want to f**k them.

    Arwen
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nah. My partner had female friends and I had male friends when we met. It’s never been an issue and I’ve never had any suspicions.

    Andy Frobig
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My best friend before I got married was a woman that had never been anything but my friend. She was my "best man" at my wedding. My ex never said anything about it, but years later she said she'd always been a little jealous of the friend. I do understand this isn't typical