Given how much we use our cell phones, rely on social media apps, and what not, relationships are getting even more difficult not to fuck up. It just takes one errant text, one unclosed browser tab, and all of a sudden, it’s an interrogation. It’s too easy to misjudge things out of context on a phone.
Which is what makes this AskReddit so juicy. These situations look like a cheater’s getting caught in the act, until it turns out to be an embarrassingly innocent act.
Just don’t be too quick to jump to that conclusion.
“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 I’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 again on her phone, all the vibrations were her characters coming back from missions and what not. Turned out she wasn’t keeping secrets or hiding anything, she just wanted to get the missions done without spending money on speeding the game up.” – DanHero91
“When we were dating I found this guy flirting with my girlfriend 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.” – Trigger93
“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.
He had just gotten a new phone and hadn’t transferred all of his contacts. I saw the text when I was putting in the family contacts for him. I said, “Whoa, what’s this about?” He was totally chill, no sign of deceit, and I already knew they’d been comparing which Austin Mex food trucks have the best tamales. So, no harm, no foul.” – SuzQP
“I’m sure my ex thought she found something when I got a notification that asked ” Is it hard?”
It was a classmate asking about the math homework. Nothing got us heated more than talking about sines and cosines.” – Jah-Eazy
“(Not married but long term relationship) When she opened up her gallery to show me a picture of something I noticed a picture of boobs that weren’t mine or hers, as I was mid betrayed meltdown she showed me that it was a celeb nude she’d saved from online. Weird thing to do, but better than cheating.” – Emily_Starke
“I haven’t found anything on my SO’s phone because it’s his and he has a right to privacy.” – Hatcheling
“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.” – ramos1969
“Let me be the other side of that one. I was super hammered with my new buddy Mike. He lost his phone and told me his number to call. It rang and went to voicemail with “This is Mike please leave a message.”
We didn’t hear any ringing, so I kept calling… And calling… And calling. Mike was digging around his car, and we went up to his dorm everything. No phone.
Except on what happened to be somewhere around the 20th call a woman answers. I go “oh hey!” And she doesn’t sound all too happy. “Is this Mike’s girlfriend? Do you have his phone?”
“THIS IS HIS WIFE!” she roared at me. Mike even heard it, and went “I don’t have a wife!!”
This lady wasn’t buying any of our shit despite us drunkenly trying to explain we were looking for our friend Mike’s phone. She just wanted to know who Mike’s girlfriend was.
We finally hung up, and I asked Mike to tell me his number again.
It was the wrong number. We got a digit slipped up, and the universe hooked us up with another Mike. That we called about 20 times at 2 am drunk as fuck. Now his wife thinks he’s cheating on her.
Sorry Mike.” – agglechicken
“My boyfriend texted to tell me he was going to a show with a female friend of his – on his birthday.
I hadn’t concretely set up plans but I usually take him out or make a nice dinner on his birthday and give him presents.
I remember being confused and annoyed that he would prioritize hanging out with this attractive girl over myself!
I didn’t really suspect him of cheating, just being oblivious, but I finally broke down and asked him WTH he was doing.
Yeah. His birthday was the day after. I got his birthday wrong after 4+ years of knowing him. :’)” – thenewbutts
“Did a find my iphone on my wife because she was very late coming home. She was on the other side of town where we knew no one. Thoughts in my head of cheating. What the hell is she doing over there? She finally came home so I confronted her. She had a startled look on her face which was guilty as shit. Turns out she was getting a botox treatment and didn’t want me to know. Ouch.” – windmilljohn
“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 I’ve not seen Tinder, but I’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 I’ve gone through such a range of intense emotions.” – wickharr
“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.” – davidjricardo
“Not a text, but…
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.” – JasonSTX
Via AskReddit
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