'My sweet, beautiful family doesn't suspect a thing': Lying husband sneaks to hotel room to binge eat peanuts

Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor

Dec 18, 2022 2:00 PM EST

Consider this a different kind of affair...one with a jar of peanut butter instead of a human. Regardless of the specifics, you can tell that this lie has been weighing on the husband's conscience. He shared his story via this thread on Reddit's r/TrueOffMyChest subreddit, and like many folks in the comments section, I was surprised to see this confession go in a very different direction than what I was expecting.

The facts are these: the Redditor, who has a daughter with a serious peanut allergy, rents a hotel room every few months and tells his family that he has a business trip. What's really happening is that he is getting his peanut fix. We're talking Reese's Pieces, a jar of Skippy, peanut butter cookies, the works. This dude literally eats himself to sleep. Then, like any lying husband, he gets rid of all the evidence and returns to his wife and kid. At this point, we suggest transparency, but we also want to acknowledge that this guy is giving the kind of unexpected wholesome content we love to see this time of year. On the scale of lies, this one is obviously mild.

Keep scrolling below for the full story. For more, check out this story about an actual cheater.