Times Married People Misread Their Partners' Phones For Cheating

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mattstaff
Feb 8, 2020 2:00 PM EST

Someone on AskReddit asked for married couples to share the times a partner was caught in the crosshairs over a false red flag that looked like cheating. A whole lot of chaos can result from leaping to assumptions. For these people, it sounds like everything was a-okay, after all. 

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  • 01
    Text - davidjricardo • 2y My wife found a contact in my phone for "Ashley Maddison" literally the week after the hacking scandal. She's the wife of the new assistant pastor at our church that my wife hadn't met yet. I was texting her because I was going to meet the moving truck at their house for them when they moved in.
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    Text - CapitanFlama • 2y My wife started acting really sneaky for some weeks: having sudden go outs with her friends, having some "private spending" and asking for money, getting home from work really late. The last straw was that suddenly she blocked her phone, we had our phones unlocked or we knew each other passwords, we were really respectful of our privacy. But she began responding messages on the night, taking phone calls outside the house and that kind of stuff. The very day that I was go
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    Text - Dogpicsordie • 2y I was the one accused actually. We both grew up super lower income and when we first started dating we went to a huge birthday party and started talking about how we never had a big party like this growing up. So when her first birthday of our relationship came around I snuck around for a week I came off super shady i guess throwing her a huge surprise party i saved like 3 weeks of pay from a shitty delivery driver job. I was careful to never text anyone with the word pa
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    Text - DanHero91 • 2y Not married but been together 8 years. Recently her phone started going off at weird times at night and she'd always shuffle about to answer it. Seemed suspicious cause l've seen her sleep through phone calls from hospitals, parents and anyone else. Nothing used to get her moving if she didn't want to be. After a week or two it started vibrating and she actually didn't wake up for once. I couldn't help myself and had a peak... She had started playing Simpsons Tapped Out aga
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  • 05
    Text - NachoManSandyRavage • 2y Not married but had an ex that confronted me about cheating and how my friends had told her about "Silvia". Silvia was a Nissan Silvia I was looking at buying.
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    Text - ramos1969 • 2y I once suspected my gf was cheating and I looked at her phone bill (horrible idea) and became suspicious at a number she texted hundreds of times in the middle of the night. It was MY number I had recently changed. Idiot.
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    Text - Text - wickharr • 2y I was looking at something on reddit with my girlfriend on her phone, and suddenly this app notification pops up with "You've matched with Tom!" or something... We've been together for years, so l've not seen Tinder, but l've heard of it. For about 3 seconds I was silently furious. So I tapped the notification, and it brought up Pinterest. Turns out Pinterest matches you with people with similar interests or something. I think that's the quickest l've gone through suc
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    Text - Text - rakshala • 2y My husband and I traveling separately to meet in a shopping mall. We both thought we were talking about the same place when we said we would meet at the food court, but there are two food courts and we were in different ones. I texted him "Marco?". From his point of view I was 20 mins late to meet him at the mall and suddenly mysteriously texting men he doesn't know. Apparently they don't play Marco Polo in Australia.
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  • 09
    Text - Text - Count_de_Ville • 2y Wife texted "I love you John" to me. My name is not John. So l just stared at my phone in disbelief until I realized that 'h' , 'n' , and 'j' are all next to each other on a keyboard. It was all just a typo. She actually tried texting "I love you hon" but she misspelled "hon", which was autocorrected to "John" and she didn't catch it before hitting send. Or after hitting send for that matter. My wife and I had a good laugh when I pointed it out that evening.
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  • 10
    Text - Text - weirdinchicago • 2y My wife was married before we got together. When she was in the shower her phone rang anf some studdly young guy appeared on the screen with the caller ID. I tried to not let myself get upset, it could be a friend. Then I recognizedbthe face of the guy. It was her son. I myaelf hadn't seen him in a while and he really grew up in that time.
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    Text - Text - sheldonator • 2y Not me but my aunt and uncle. When my aunt got her first phone with a camera, my 12 year old cousin loved using it to take pictures and one day decided to take a picture of his junk. Some time later my uncle was looking through my aunt's photos to find a picture of the family he wanted to have printed, and he saw the pic of my cousin's johnson and immediately got upset, started yelling, crying, the whole nine. My aunt had no clue how a picture of someone's junk end
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  • 12
    Text - Text - tenni0191 • 2y One night we were laying in bed just having some causal conversation while he scrolls through his phone. I turn over to look at him and see what's on his phone screen and it's tinder messager. I look up onto the corner and see his picture. I jump out of bed and start screaming "ARE YOU REALLY SITTING RIGHT NEXT TO ME IN BED ON F$&@“?! TINDER???!!!" . He looks at me terrified and clueless and he's like, "No see, it's just pictures!!!".. It was pictures. Of screenshots
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  • 13
    Text - Text - beltfedshooter • 2y a buddy of mine and his wife had this text exchange, he at work, her in her car using voice to text (that reads it back to you before sending) her: What are we doing for dinner? Should I stop at the store and get something or order sandwiches? him: That works her: Do you want me Paul? him: who's Paul? her: meatbalI, meatball, do you want me Paul? they laughed and laughed
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  • 14
    Text - Text - SuzQP • 2y He had a text from an unsaved phone number. It said, "His isn't as big as yours. Yours was GOOD and HUGE" His reply was, "Bigly, eh?" Turns out it was a guy he works with talking about tamales.
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  • 15
    Text - Text - Trigger93 • 2y When we were dating I found this guy flirting with her hard. She showed me the messages to prove that they were just friends and he wasn't trying to do anything. So that's when I found out she has Asperger syndrome. She's not so good at reading people or their intentions. She's also never had a brother and grew up with her mom so I think she has an even worse time understanding guys. She's oblivious but she's honest, and honestly I love that about her.
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    Text - Text - lemcke3743 • 2y Spent a lot of time in a relationship with a chronic cheater. I'm now in a relationship with someone who is actually a respectable human being. When we first started dating, I couldn't let old habits die and I went through his text messages. Found one going on and on about how beautiful someone named Charlotte was. I died inside. Turns out it was his friend's newborn baby. Lesson learned: I'm an asshole, he is not.
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    Text - Text - goodfences • 2y My wife is Spanish and when we first started dating my Spanish was really rudimentary. Well one day I saw that she had posted on a guys Facebook "I can't wait to see you primo!" Me, not knowing what primo meant, looked it up in a translation site and saw that it meant prime. I, using my not so great logic, concluded that she must me calling the guy her prime(ary) guy. I was crushed because I thought we had something. So, I asked her about it and expressed how disapp
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  • 18
    Text - Text - serenerdy • 2y My friend called me crying 2 WEEKS after her and her husband had been married.. she had found images on her husbands phone 'fb messenger history images' after snooping on it (he is super protective over his phone after a jealous Ex abused her rights I guess). I calm her down and tell her to talk to him. Turns out it was her husbands dumbass friend sending him pics of his 'hot new side hoe'. The husband promptly asked him not to send pics like that and deleted them. S
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    Text - Text - lynniththebrav • 2y I had to get into my SO's email while he was out to sea (Navy) to mess with our Netflix account. The first thing in his inbox were half a dozen different "receipt" emails from flower stores, all with gift messages going to different women. He was one of the only people who got to go ashore when they'd last pulled in, so he took money from a bunch of the guys he works with to send flowers to all their wives. I didn't really suspect anything untoward, but it made
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  • 20
    Text - Text - ShoulderBash • 2y Just a few months ago my gf(now fiance) asked to use my phone for something. I was in the process of having an engagement ring sent to me and was tracking FedEx like a mad man. I also had pics of the ring on my phone as well as text messages to the person shipping it to me. I started laughing uncontrollably and refused to hand over the phone even though she knows my pass code and uses my phone all the time. She gave me the evil eye and said "fine whatever" before
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  • 21
    Text - jackrack1721 • 2y This vaguely applies, so l'm sharing. A couple years ago I downloaded one of those "text to voice" apps that dictates all your text messages aloud and states who they're from. At my son's birthday party, my buddy thought it would be hilarious to steal my phone while no one was looking, and change his contact name to "Samantha." He then waited until we were all around, my wife's parents included, to text me, which loudly chimed and announced itself like this: "NEW TEXT ME
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  • 22
    Text - JasonSTX • 2y Got in the shower and saw a mans disposable razor on the soap tray. Not my brand. Confronted her and she told me she had pulled it from our travel bag and used it to shave her legs as her razor was dull.
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