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49 Times Affairs Came To Light In The Most Unexpected And Dramatic Ways Possible

49 Times Affairs Came To Light In The Most Unexpected And Dramatic Ways Possible

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Some people struggle to limit themselves to one partner for life. But for whatever reason, they still find themselves entangled in a marriage where, over time, relationship issues, dissatisfaction, and built-up resentment push them to cheat. If their partners are lucky, the truth comes out, and sometimes in the most peculiar ways ever. 
Recently, people under this popular thread were sharing stories exactly about that, and our Bored Panda team selected the juiciest ones for you to react to. It’s all just a scroll away!

#1

49 Times Affairs Came To Light In The Most Unexpected And Dramatic Ways Possible
I was dating this guy and at the time had no reason to suspect he was cheating. Went to the DMV and obviously you wait forever. This girl comes in and we’re making small talk and somehow get talking about our “boyfriends.” It’s super uncanny how similar they sound! I swear it’s like we’re dating the same guy! Finally I ask her, “Wait… *are we* dating the same guy?” She pulls out her phone and shows me a picture of her boyfriend. Yep, we’re dating the same guy. We both walked outside, she called him from her phone and handed it to me. I put him on speaker so she could hear too and he answered “hey baby!” Then audibly s**t his pants when I was the one who said hello back. We both dumped him. She and I are still friends to this day. 😂.
46points

#2

49 Times Affairs Came To Light In The Most Unexpected And Dramatic Ways Possible
My wife’s co-worker. The poor girl is the sweetest woman in the world and she found out her longterm boyfriend and father of her son cheated on her when she went to get a pap-smear and they told her they couldn’t do it because she had Chlamydia.

When she confronted him about it he admitted that months before he had cheated on her with a bartender at the local Buffalo Wild Wings because their relationship was rocky at the time.

She has since moved on and is now dating one of the best, most enthusiastic dudes i have ever met. He’s a walking green flag. He’s about as close to Bluey’s Dad as any man can get.
34points

#3

49 Times Affairs Came To Light In The Most Unexpected And Dramatic Ways Possible
This guy was in the IT department at the hospital where his wife was a nurse. One day he was working on some equipment in the doctors’ lounge, and was eavesdropping on a small group of doctors telling raunchy stories about a nurse they referred to as “the doctor hopper.” He was enjoying the stories until one doctor said “I never heard of ‘the doctor hopper’…who is this?” And the answer was his wife’s name. Ouch.
33points

#4

49 Times Affairs Came To Light In The Most Unexpected And Dramatic Ways Possible
Guy I know has an IT business.

He had a wealthy client who wanted to set everything up as a” Smart” home. Automatic lights, theatre, programmable everything etc etc. controlled by iPad.

They wanted some kind of central communications hub as part of it.

Anyways…

He set it all up, then has the big “reveal” to show the happy couple and their teenage kids how it all worked.

When the communications hub turned on, all of his customer's secret messages/emails to his affair-lady came up on the iPad for all the family to see.

It was pretty awkward as he left them to it.
32points

#5

49 Times Affairs Came To Light In The Most Unexpected And Dramatic Ways Possible
A former neighbor was a HS basketball referee. One night his wife and girlfriend attended the same game, somehow sat beside each other, and realized they were both cheering for the ref. Started chatting, and that's how each found out about the other.
28points

#6

49 Times Affairs Came To Light In The Most Unexpected And Dramatic Ways Possible
I like to say God protects the innocent and the stupid and sometimes I'm not sure which one I am. Anyway I'm sleeping over my girlfriend's apartment after being away for 4 days of skiing. My dog is with me, got to love the dog for this. I get up at 3:00 in the morning to go to the bathroom and the dog dumped her kitchen garbage. So I'm picking up the garbage to put it back in the can and what do I find? Used condoms and the wrappers. They weren't from me. I thanked her for being considerate protecting me from possible STD although I wasn't so sure... my dog ate fresh chicken that night. I still have the dog, she's history.
27points

#7

49 Times Affairs Came To Light In The Most Unexpected And Dramatic Ways Possible
My friend was married for ten years.

She planned her husband a surprise 40th birthday.

She recruited his best friend to lure him there by telling him there was a casual party at his favorite spot and he should come by.

He came… with another woman.

Everyone got a surprise that day.
26points

#8

49 Times Affairs Came To Light In The Most Unexpected And Dramatic Ways Possible
Not drastic but stupid: Ex-roommate was married, but lived separately because she claimed she wanted to be near her work and school. Turns out she only married him for a green card and was waiting for her application to be approved. To "celebrate" her permanent residency, she bought herself a new iPhone and MacBook with her husband's credit cards she opened up after moving in with me.

Husband found out because she set up her iPhone and MacBook using his Apple account and all the messages between her and Tinder hook ups synced to his iPad he was using.

He divorced her and withdrew his petition for her green card. He also managed to lock her out of her phone and laptop and kept them hostage until she paid him back all the charges she made on the credit cards plus the green card application fees.

Edit to add: This happened almost 5 years ago. Last I heard, she still doesn't have a green card and is still paying off the debt.
26points

#9

49 Times Affairs Came To Light In The Most Unexpected And Dramatic Ways Possible
I was standing on a tall ladder on a major highway putting letters on a billboard at a newly opened car dealership and looked down saw my fiances car. Her x boyfriend was in the passenger seat. Her eyes almost bugged out of her head. It hit me pretty hard but it worked out for the best.
25points

#10

49 Times Affairs Came To Light In The Most Unexpected And Dramatic Ways Possible
A couple I would loosely call friends found out that they were both cheating on each other. They told me about how they sat down and talked it out and found out that each of them had cheated on the other roughly the same amount which was around 11 people each and how they weren't going to cheat anymore on each other. I told them just open up the relationship because obviously one of them is going to cheat again and they got mad at me. not even a month later the guy cheated again and left her for the new chick.
24points

#11

49 Times Affairs Came To Light In The Most Unexpected And Dramatic Ways Possible
Ohhh!!! I have one!! A friend of my wife's invited us to stay in her house during Memorial Day weekend. When we arrived the house was tiny and was not childproof proof and with two toddlers, it wasn't going to work. So we found the only hotel with a room available, it was the Red Roof Inn. We stayed on the second floor but I could tell that the first floor had two strippers or prostitutes because men would constantly go in and out. I would be smoking an L and would see this happen. Anyway, one morning a dude on a Harley shows up, not even 10 minutes later a BMW comes speeding down the parking lot and pulls up right in front of the bike. A blonde woman comes out (mid-40s?50s?) And looks under the bike. She grabs a tracker and immediately calls someone. Well, that someone was her husband lmaoooo as he's walking out of the room she begins to yell in the most New Jersey Italian American accent.. "You're done! You're done!" She yelled at him as she was driving away. He followed on his bike. The woman comes out of her room, we lock eyes, and burst out laughing.
21points

#12

49 Times Affairs Came To Light In The Most Unexpected And Dramatic Ways Possible
A friend's brother came down with an STD from his wife who was cheating on him.
20points

#13

49 Times Affairs Came To Light In The Most Unexpected And Dramatic Ways Possible
My sister in law and her husband were on a 5 hour drive to visit us. The husband went into a gas station to pay and get something, and his phone left in the car dinged with an explicit text from his girlfriend. When he got back in the car my SIL confronted him and he said he wanted a divorce. That was an uncomfortable visit.
20points

#14

49 Times Affairs Came To Light In The Most Unexpected And Dramatic Ways Possible
I came home from work and was about to shower when my then wife came into the bathroom to tell me there’s two detectives at the door that want to take her to the station to answer some questions. We had been together for 10 years at that point and that’s how she lost her teaching certificates and ended up on the SO registry.
20points

#15

49 Times Affairs Came To Light In The Most Unexpected And Dramatic Ways Possible
Came home from WW2 and found his wife with a new 2 year old.
He was gone for 4 years in the Navy.
18points

#16

49 Times Affairs Came To Light In The Most Unexpected And Dramatic Ways Possible
My bf of 4 years told me that he had a 5 week old baby...
18points

#17

49 Times Affairs Came To Light In The Most Unexpected And Dramatic Ways Possible
Now, I did not witness this first hand, but a wedding musician friend of mine who is not prone to exaggeration told me this after it happened, so make of that what you will.

He and his wedding band had just arrived at a rural venue where the reception was in full swing. While they're setting up their equipment, they notice an argument between bride and groom getting heated, before she shouts, "And just so you know, our kid is actually your father's!"

And with that, the band went from unpacking their equipment, to packing back up.
18points

#18

49 Times Affairs Came To Light In The Most Unexpected And Dramatic Ways Possible
When I was 18, I spent a few months dating this 30YO l***r that I was completely obsessed with. One morning, he gave me a ride to a job interview in downtown Reno. Then he left to go to a court hearing where he and his ex would be signing away the rights to a child they shared. He was supposed to pick me up right after. He never came back and I got stranded in a casino lobby for 8 hours with a dead cell phone and no money. Finally got ahold of his roommate, who told me he and his ex decided to elope while they were at the courthouse, again, to sign away their only child. Definitely did me a favor, but still. So gross.
17points

#19

49 Times Affairs Came To Light In The Most Unexpected And Dramatic Ways Possible
I have no idea if this is true or just urban legend/creative writing from someone but:

There was a man who worked on the 103rd floor of the World Trade Centre who had spent the morning of September 11th at his Mistresses house with his phone off. When he finally turns his phone on to the dozens of missed calls from his wife and manages to get through to her she says “oh my god are you ok where are you?” To which he replies “what are you talking about I’m fine I’m just at the office of course”.
17points

#20

49 Times Affairs Came To Light In The Most Unexpected And Dramatic Ways Possible
Ex-gfs best friend had a long-term boyfriend who was kinda unsteady, working odd jobs, trying to be successful with his band, you know the type. She was paying for most stuff in the relationship but approaching mid 30s, she wanted kids. He agreed. One day she picks up his phone for him while he was under the shower - only he had left his *second* phone that she didn't know about on the table. Conversation went sth. like this:

"Hi, this is A, B is under the shower, can I give him a message?"
"Ehm, hi A, this is C, B's girlfriend, why is he showering while you're at his place?
"What do you mean his gf? I'm his gf?!"

Yep, dude had a whole other relationship going for some years, would've started two families too if he didn't get caught.
17points
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