Share unusual circumstances for finding out about cheating in relationships.
For starters: Someone’s soon-to-be ex-wife was cheating on him at the local No-Tell Motel… except for the small complication of her having their daughter in the next room. Nothing like having a 2 year old telling Daddy about Mommy and her special friend’s activities. :eek:
Let’s have your tales.
I knew a married woman who rented a mobile home to her lover. The home was directly behind her house. They were the talk of the town for years. In the meantime she had 3 children. When her hopelessly dumb husband finally figured it out he did nothing. He then had his own affair and impregnated this young lady. Wifey hears about it and files for divorce. Child custody and support came up, of course. DNA on the children prove they were all biologically the backyard boyfriends. Who had absconded by then. She lost her home and any support for the kids. Last I heard she was living on welfare in another town.
Before the advent of cellphones it used to be common in my industry to leave home and be 100% out of touch for 3 to 6 to occasionally 10 days. You’d leave expecting to return home, say, Wed at 3pm.
It was a commonplace to have the schedule go awry, show up at home instead on Tuesday at 9pm, and walk in on not one, but *two *very surprised people. :eek:
So much so we had a saying: “Trip changed? Spend a quarter; save a marriage.”
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Back in USAF in the early 80s (so long pre-internet) I knew a guy who found pix of his wife and a co-worker in a sleazy “amateurs doin’ it” magazine. They hadn’t been married all that long so she had sorta plausible deniability that it predated the marriage. Until he pointed out they’d bought the bedroom set in the pictures a year after the wedding. Busted!!!
As both men were officers the Commander was less than impressed with the BF; his remaining months in the service were … uncomfortable.
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A different friend told me this one. But he was the guy; this wasn’t a FOAF story. He’d had a vasectomy and a divorce, both at a relatively young age. A few years later he’d had a live-in girlfriend for a couple years who was then getting antsy about wanting to make it permanent. He wasn’t interested in that.
One day she announces that she’s pregnant, complete with home test results, so now they *have *to get hitched. The rest of that convo did not go as she’d expected and 100% of her stuff was curbside by nightfall.
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Another pilot story. Many pilots end up transferred to different cities over their career. It can be hard to uproot a spouse’s career or the kids or family ties or whatever. So the pilot ends up living in one city and working out of another, flying back and forth between trips. Which often results in being home for just two 4-day spreads per month, and plenty of added work stress as well. The ways that can wreck a family can fill a book.
So a nice, but clueless, guy I’ve known for years receives a voicemail on his cellphone one day while at work. The call had come in while he was airborne and now with 20 minutes to spare between flights he’s catching up. “Hello, Mr. Smith? This is Sgt. Jones of the Yourtown Police Department. Please call us at 123-456-7890 to claim your children back from CPS.” :eek:
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Wife had been running a one-girl whorehouse & heroin dealership in the basement. At least she hadn’t (yet) recruited her teen daughter into either business. He was totally flatfooted and totally devastated.
In the mid-1990s, My then-wife, myself, and an engaged couple went out for a few drinks. The other couple consisted of my then-wife’s childhood girlfriend and her fiancé. The childhood friend had a few too many drinks, and when her soon-to-be husband went to the restroom, she started talking about some guy she had been screwing, and was going to screw again the following day. Since I liked her fiancé more than I liked her, the moment he came back to the table I told him, “Sorry to be the one to tell you, but she was just talking about how she’s been cheating on you with ______”.
They were both hysterical, I was kicked out of the bar for “causing trouble”, and they never did get married. He never thanked me, oddly enough.
Was there any connection between this incident and your then-wife’s current status of “then-”? 
I was not present, but a friend not given to gossip tells me this happened to him: before Christmas one year, he was visiting a married couple we both know. Everyone was stressed out from holiday preparations, and during a bitch session, the husband complained that it’s hard buying gifts for all the people in his life: parents, friends, wife, girlfriend.
That’s right, he accidentally griped about having to shop for gifts for his wife AND his girlfriend right in front of his wife.
They are now thoroughly divorced.
Back when I was living in Japan, a friend was having an affair. I wasn’t particularly happy about that and was kind of distancing myself from him.
Anyway, his wife was off on a trip with friends, so he went overnight with his girlfriend. When he got back, he just emptied his dirty clothes into the hamper and then later washed them. As is common in Japan, he hung the clothes to dry, and thought everything was perfect for his wife’s return.
Except that his girlfriend’s panties had wound up in his bag, and now they were hung out to dry. Which is what happened to him as well.
Was he Japan’s only dumb guy, as seen on MST3K?
My Dad’s old house had an indoor swimming pool. (Michigan, you’d seldom get to use one outdoors.) So one visit I brought along an old bathing suit, and left it in the bathroom nearest the pool.
On the next visit I didn’t bring one, assuming it was still there. My then stepmother owned a string of beauty salons, and often traveled up and down the coast. We were both surprised to hear that my Dad had found it necessary to throw away the bathing suit. She put two and two together: he’d had company he didn’t want her to know about and tossed the suit thinking it was evidence. She divorced him not long after.
Apparently, the key point was that he dumped them into the dirty clothes hamper, so it got mixed up with his wife’s underwear. He didn’t remember whose underwear was whose and it didn’t raise any red flags. Naturally, his wife would be a tad bit more observant.
There were always stories in the military. I remember one guy who decided to take leave while on deployment and surprise his wife. It was certainly a surprise; the first thing he saw was his VW shot full of holes. Then he gets to the door of his house and finds his wife living with three guys who were running a drug operation out of his kitchen and apparently taking turns with the wife. They gave him a beat-down and threw him out of the place.
My own cousin left for work one morning, got half way there and realized he’d forgotten his wallet. He returned to find his wife in bed with another man. She grabbed a pistol from the night stand and shot my cousin in the leg. Hilarity ensued.
Friend’s husband had stepped out for a minute and left his phone at home. The 5-year-old started using daddy’s phone to play her YouTube videos while my friend went about her business. Somehow the 5-year-old managed to pull up some of daddy’s texts, from his side chick, that contained videos of the chick masturbating for the camera. Luckilly the kid didn’t see too much of that before my friend intercepted. Ah, whoops!
This is why kids get their OWN phones and tablets! 
This story made a lot more sense once I realized you were she, not he.
Even so … Dad pitched your suit thinking it was his GF’s. But if it got pitched, how did stepmom find out?
I am gathering from this story that your dad was cheating on your stepmother with other men. Am I correct?
ETA: Never mind; the genders have been corrected.
he came back with the cops right ?
This story happened 20+ years ago to expats in Jakarta: the husband in the couple had lots of European travel obligations, and managed to be somewhat vague about when and where he would be on an extensive trip - “Well, you know how it goes honey, if we manage to convince the suppliers in Italy I’ll stay a few days longer, otherwise I’ll go on to Prague on Wednesday. But I’ll be back on the 24th no matter what.”
A week or two into the trip, the wife gets an uncomfortable phone call from the Australian police. “Ma’am, do you know where your husband is right now?” Her response was a little uncertain, but within established parameters: “He’s either in Munich or London right now, I’m not certain.”
It turns out that hubby wasn’t in Europe at all; he had gone on vacation with his mistress to Australia, and was shot dead in the massacre in Port Arthur that killed over 30 tourists. So the poor wife had to deal simultaneously with the shock of losing her husband AND finding out he was lying and cheating big time. In the aftermath, she said to friends, in moments of dark humor, “If he weren’t dead already, I’d kill him.”
OTOH, not many cheated-upon spouses get to collect the life insurance payout as a consolation prize.
All too often when the cheater’s estate suddenly matures, the cheatee had something to do with it, and is ineligible to collect. In this case she truly had the perfect alibi.
Oddly enough, I think he just turned her in to the command (it was Navy housing) and she was evicted. I have no recollection of police involvement, but it was a long time ago. I do remember talking to him after his return and just before the battalion was rotating back to the states. He was making a lot of noise about buying a gun and hunting her down. Never heard any more about it.
Was his name Joe?
Life imitating art, I guess.