He Snooped Through His Girlfriend’s Phone And Caught Her Cheating On Him With Her Boss
This 38-year-old man and his now ex-girlfriend, who is 36, attended their friend’s wedding together earlier this year back when they still were dating. But, by the end of the night, he discovered something terrible – his ex had been cheating on him with her boss.
He came to find out about the infidelity after the nuptials. At that point, the newlyweds invited him and his ex back to the honeymoon suite to spend the evening.
Well, by that point, his ex was apparently quite drunk and wound up throwing up on the bathroom floor. So, while she was incapacitated, he actually went through her phone.
According to him, he’d been suspicious of her cheating for a while now. And after he looked at her text messages, he realized he’d been right.
“I didn’t make a scene. I waited until she was well enough to leave the hotel and then confronted her in the car,” he recalled.
“Twelve years down the toilet. The rest of the day is a blur.”
After he and his ex broke up, he also confided in some friends about the situation. However, he lied about how he discovered his ex was cheating on him.
Rather than admitting to going through her phone randomly, he claimed that he’d seen a text notification from her boss pop up on her cell and that he just “had to look.”
“There was no notification. I went into her phone unprompted and found the proof,” he explained.
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“I lied because I felt stupid and embarrassed for invading my ex’s privacy, even after everything I found out.”
The lie ultimately blew up in his face, too, because his friends interpreted the story as though his ex was planning to cheat on him during their friend’s wedding. He didn’t correct his friends on this misconception, either.
It wasn’t until some time had passed that he decided to come clean and tell his friends that there really was no text message notification from her boss.
“But that the rest was true,” he said.
Despite that, one of his friends actually hasn’t spoken to him in nearly five months because of this. She was furious that he let her believe the lie for so long. She’s also angry that he started dating so quickly again after ending things with his ex.
“I thought she was actually upset about the cheating, not that my ex was trying to cheat during the wedding,” he vented.
Nonetheless, ever since he lost a friend over this, he’s unsure if lying about how he found out his ex was cheating really did make him a jerk.
Is going through someone’s phone wrong or right? Does the end justify the means if you uncover cheating?
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