When choosing to be together, people usually expect to live happily ever after and don’t think about cheating. But as we all know, life is full of surprises. It’s not easy to survive the betrayal of your significant other, but you can cope with it if you remember that this has happened almost to everyone.
- My husband opened up and said that he had fallen in love with someone else, but he didn’t want to leave me with the child. “I love you both!” he says. So he called that woman to have a conversation together.
And I said, “What are you waiting for, huh? I loved you and put up with your cheating for 8 years. And now you do it again? People don’t change. Stay out of my life!” © Overheard / VK - We had a family get-together, and my uncle and his wife paid us a visit. We were drinking tea and watching TV, and suddenly a close-up appeared on the entire screen — my uncle hugging a strange woman who’s holding a bouquet of flowers. And then my aunt snapped...
How much crockery she broke, we couldn’t even count! However, they didn’t divorce. © Shanya200 / Pikabu
- A guy I know had a mistress. After a long time, she persuaded him to go to a resort together, saying that they won’t have to hide there and just have a rest. So, he went on “a business trip.”
The couple spent a wonderful night together, and in the morning came out of the room and met another wonderful and smiling couple — his neighbor (and his wife’s best friend) and her husband. As a result — a call to the friend and a divorce. © Alexbuka / Pikabu - When my husband and I started dating, he cheated on me. At the time, I forgave him and forgot about it. We were young and stupid, and we didn’t make commitments to each other at the time. It’s been 20 years, he suddenly says, “I need to confess something to you, but you don’t worry, nothing terrible has happened.”
His “nothing terrible” meant that he had a fling with a coworker at a corporate event. And you know what he said to me at the end? “Why are you reacting like this? We’ve been through this before, you took it normally then, like a wise woman. Have you lost your wisdom with age? I didn’t expect this from you!” We don’t live together anymore. © Mamdarinka / VK - My grandmother was a nurse. Once she was assisting with delivering a baby and the ostensible father commented that the child looked good for a premature baby. Without thinking, my grandmother told the truth, “That baby is not premature.” So I guess I know where I get my social obliviousness from. © tornado28 / Reddit
- I ratted out my dad when I was a kid. They would send him with me to a snow slide, and he would get cold and bored, quickly meet some woman with a child and take them all to a cafe. I was very happy with this arrangement and always waited for my dad to go out with me.
I don’t know whether those acquaintances continued — he rarely went out with me, and these were different women. But I really liked one of them. She had a daughter about my age, we played well together, and she invited me to visit her.
When we were going to the slide with my dad again, I asked everyone if miss Galina and her daughter Olivia would be there today and if we would go to visit them after the restaurant. A scandal broke out, I didn’t go anywhere that day, and my dad was suspended from going out with me. © Tatiana Lobanova / ADME - A flirty text from a guy popped up on while we were looking at her phone for a place to eat. He complimented a picture I had just taken of her...she sent it to him while around me. Bold. Also, this happened in the Eiffel Tower, only a couple of hours into what was supposed to be a 2-week vacation. © Meh_Ill_Do_It_Later / Reddit
- My boyfriend at the beginning of our relationship liked to joke, “In the 21st century, cheating is not the worst thing that can happen in a relationship.” After 3 years, I found out about his mistress, who knew nothing about me. I met her, told her everything. We decided it was really no big deal. We had a laugh and told the scoundrel to take a hike. © Overheard / Ideer
- Went to IKEA shortly after my first wedding to buy a dining room table. It was me, my then-husband, and a close friend, who, unbeknownst to naïve-young-me, was my then-husband’s mistress. I watched them walk around like a couple discussing the options before finally settling on a glass-topped table that I mentioned many times was impractical. (One pan-slip away from shattering!)
While I had my blinders on to all the other signs that they were cheating on me, it was this moment which made me realize what was going on. I busted him a few days later. (And should have also busted that stupid table.) © CommonFrequency / Reddit - I smelled something wrong and checked my husband’s phone for the first time in 18 years, and there was just shame. There’s no fool like an old fool. Lots of text messages with girls in their twenties. They were all from the fitness club we go to.
He found their numbers on reception somehow. He texted then, and they just told him to get lost. In this whole story, it’s not even the possible cheating that makes me angry, it’s the fact that the whole fitness club is laughing at him, and therefore at me. © Overheard / Ideer
- I dumped a girl after she cheated on me. I found out she was kissing with another man. The ex was devastated, said she couldn’t live without me, pestered me with calls. She even came to my parents crying.
And then she told me she was pregnant with my baby. She sent me a photo of a 2-stripe test. I was shocked, but I knew I’d never send her for an abortion. I got over myself, said I’d forgive everything, and we’d raise the child together.
It’s a good thing my friend was smarter than me. He called me and said, “Dan, you’re a fool. I found the exact same picture of the test online.” I wonder what she would have made up next. Would she play up the tragedy of losing the baby? © Mamdarinka / VK - My ex-boyfriend confessed that he cheated on me when he traveled to other cities for work on December 30. And this time he decided not to pay for our rented apartment and move to another girl’s place. And the rent ended just on the New Year’s Eve.
I cried, I screamed, but I couldn’t think of anything better than just going back to my mum and dad. And I am very grateful to them that they were tactfully silent after finding me on their doorstep with all my stuff on December 31. They didn’t even ask about my boyfriend, they understood everything at once, so they tried to create an unforgettable New Year for me. © Chamber 6 / VK - I broke my parents up. I asked my Mum if I could have dinner at my "Aunt Christie"’s house again because she cooked my favorite pasta. Turns out Mum didn’t know who “Aunt Christie” was — which is because she wasn’t really my aunt, she was the coworker my Dad was sleeping with. © AussieCanuck94 / Reddit
- He told me he is at church. Then I heard a voice asking in the background, “Babe, why are you hiding in the bathroom?” He still had the guts to deny it. © CalligrapherOk6633 / Reddit
- I was dating a guy. Every day, I walked home from work with the happy anticipation of being with the man I loved. If he came in early, he would cook what I liked for dinner. If I came early, we ate what he liked for dinner.
One day I felt really bad at work, they let me go home early. I thought my significant other was asleep, but he was with another woman. And all my love for this man popped up like a soap bubble. I went into the room, switched on the light. There was screaming and shouting.
And I calmly said, “Get lost, I want to sleep.” I said that and went to bed. 10 minutes later, the guy walked his girlfriend out and came back to wake me up. He said he wanted to apologize, but I didn’t even want to listen to him.
In the morning, I packed my stuff, and my ex was following me around. He tried to hug me, he tried to kiss me. I was disgusted by his touch. I went to a friend and removed him from everywhere, erased all the photos and messages. © Unknown author / Pikabu
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