‘Are you having an affair with my father?’: Girl Suspects Her Father and Best Friend Are Having an Affair When She Hears His Ringtone In the Background During Her Call

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Feb 22, 2024 4:00 PM EST

Welcome back internet enthusiasts and winsome characters. Today we have a juicy story, built on scrupulous assumptions, of the licentious duo that a poor 20 year old girl plays victim to. An unimaginable nightmare situation on the inside, but zoom out and you have a story for the ages. Not to denigrate this pair of stand up people (the father and best friend), but wow. Wondering if your 20 year old friend and 54 year old father are having an affair is not a situation I'd wish on my worst enemy. 

Unfortunately, some people just don't know right from wrong, or are too tempted to have the capacity to say no. In a situation so imbued and embittered with weakness of heart and morals, no one comes out the other side a better person. Finding out the truth must be painful and confusing, to want to remain blissfully ignorant, or to rapaciously search for verisimilitude. Either way, enjoy the juicy scandal that Reddit repeatedly offers us.

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  • 01
    Posted by u/sage8980 18 hours ago AITAH for suspecting that my best friend is sleeping with my dad??
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    My dad (54) and my bsf (20 F) let's call her Sophie, have been acting suspiciously for quite a long time. I've always sensed a little tension between the two of them that sparks up whenever she comes over, with my dad finding ridiculous excuses to leave the room/ house and her getting all awkward, I always attributed it to
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    them being introverted. I know this is not enough to reason to suspect if something is going on, but things have been playing out weirdly since then. I and Sophie became friends in 2018 and have been close ever since, she's almost as close as family and helped me get through 2019, that's when my parents got divorced. My younger brother (19
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    M) and I have been living with Dad ever since the divorce. Sophie and I used to hang out at least five to six times a week, but lately it has come down to us hanging out only twice a week, uni being the reason behind it and I respect that hence I did not pry any further.
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    Coming back to the topic, the last time we hung out, it was her place, and we were getting down to our pjs after an engagement party we'd attended together. The plan was to catch up on our movie nights we'd skipped for the past two months. So she was taking a shower while I sat in my pjs on her bed and that's when i noticed a
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    bracelet on her nightstand, found it to be really pretty but by the time she came back out I had already long forgotten about it. Fast forward to three days ago, my dad and i were tracking the shipment details of my aunt's birthday gift when a VERY FAMILIAR BRACELET caught my eye in the past orders list (amazon
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    has it) and I immediately recognized it as the one I'd seen on Sophie's nightstand or at least it was completely identical to it. Another reason that fueled this very weird suspicion was when my dad abruptly canceled on a family dinner about two months ago
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    calling it a work emergency, so we simply decided to reschedule it. Having no other plans i called up Sophie at around seven pm, only for it to be answered on the first ring. I don't even get to say the first word when she (almost breathlessly??) asks me about my day and I do tell her about the canceled dinner and ask her about
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    her plans, which she declines by saying she had to meet up with her mom that same day at around eight. And then something weirder happens. I hear Elton Johns' tiny dancer play in the background (which is my dad's ringtone) followed by an abrupt silence. All this happens while I sit beside my
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    brother who had just dialed Dad. I asked her about that sound and she said that it was probably the Google Home malfunctioning. I wish this was the only reason why I was suspicious of them. About two weeks ago, I invited Sophie to a family dinner with us. My younger brother was bringing his
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    long-time girlfriend so my dad said it would be a good idea to see if Sophie wanted to join us too, which was odd but I thought he just didn't want me to feel left out. I did end up inviting her and she said she'd join us. My dad is always in-charge of picking the restaurants, and this time he decided to pick out a new place a
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    few miles from our neighborhood and it coincidentally turned out to be the place Sophie was pestering me to go to with her. I thought this was a lucky coincidence, but I still couldn't help but find it a little odd. Things got weird when my dad went on to order the food. I picked out a dish and so did my brother
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    and his girl and dad didn't wait for Sophie to say what she wanted to have and ordered a dish for her. She didn't seem to have a problem with it, which was crazy cause Sophie is a very picky eater and also because it is kinda of rude to order for someone without asking them. I confronted my dad then and there and he said that he
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    didn't realize it and just took a lucky guess. Sophie seemed very visibly tensed and uncomfortable just kept asking me to "let it go". Since I didn't wanna spoil everyone's mood so I didn't stretch it out further.
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    I confronted Sophie about it yesterday and was met with an argument which included her denying all the claims and calling me crazy for even thinking about the possibility of it but she ends her sentence by saying "Even if we were how would that affect you in any way or form, I would still be your best friend and he your dad". Which i did not pay heed to in the
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    heat of the argument but that came back to me later in the day. AITAH for jumping to conclusions?? or am I really going crazy??
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    Kowai03 16 hr. ago Ask to borrow his phone, see if her number is on it?
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    TwoBionicknees. 13 hr. ago too late to ask her, she'll refuse or have wiped evidence. She'll also have told her dad so unless she asks him really soon saying phone is dead can she use his to
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    order food or something then he'll probably do the same. I'd say get into his phone, check for her number, check texts, pictures, etc.
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    Everything op said implies they are and it's gross. her best he's friend, lying to everyone involved, taking advantage of a girl he's known since she was 14/15. he probably groomed her over the years.
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    If they are having a relationship the friendship is over and maybe her relationship with her father as well. Op needs to be prepared to find evidence that their contact has gone back years, to before she was 18 as well.
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    CoolWillow Fan · 13 hr. ago Also, check the trash folder. I bet he probably doesn't know that you have to empty that to get rid of everything.
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    virgovenus42069. 10 hr. ago The 'tiny dancer' ringtone sealed the deal for me.
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    FuzzBuzzer 11 hr. ago The fact that after the parents' divorce, Sophie was the one comforting her friend is what's so gross to me, even more than the age gap. Like Sophie and dad couldn't find literally
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    anyone else on earth around with? to Talk about an uncomfortable place for OP to be in, for so many reasons. And if this is happening, and Sophie lied right to her face, then that's clearly no friend.
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    Significant Pea_2852. 8 hr. ago You don't wanna she saved messages btw your dad and his gf. Ignorance is bliss
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    sage8980 OP. 6 hr. ago we've been friends for too long for him to not have her number saved on his phone
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    Accomplished_List_62. 6 hr. ago This is blowing my anxiety too
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    mofodatknowbro · 18 hr. ago I would've confronted your Dad about it before your friend. Your friend is basically a dumb kid still, your Dad is grown up. He should be more responsible than to be banging his daughters friend who is 34 years his junior.
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    mofodatknowbro . 18 hr. ago I'd just ask him when he started banging your friend, and if he ever planned to tell you about it.
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    dataslinger 16 hr. ago "Even if we were how would that affect you in any way or form, I would still be your best friend and he your dad" "Okay fine, but if you get married I'm not calling you 'mom'.
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    Rhintbab edited 14 hr. ago 16 hr. ago · She should 100% start calling Sophie "Mom" and tell her she's just practicing
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