“Trust Issues 40 Years Later”: 44 Brutal Cheating Stories Where People Weren’t Suspecting Anything

He kept hanging out with a female "friend" who was obviously too close for comfort. We were long distant at the time due to the pandemic. It got to a point where I'd get one text maybe every couple hours because he was hanging out with her. He kept saying they were just friends.

Until I saw a video on his story after going to the cinema with her, and she was literally twerking in his face in a empty cinema screen, and whilst he wasn't touching her or anything, he was giggling behind the camera. I messaged him, blew up, he denied and kept saying it wasn't him but his guy friend and he was sitting next to him. Yeah, right. I dumped him, and he insisted they were just friends and called me crazy and insecure. They literally started dating a couple of days after. I blocked him but found out through mutual friends that for 6 months that she rinsed him for all his money and put him into loads of debt as he paid for expensive dinners and gifts, then broke up with him when the money well dried up and that he had to move back in with his mother. He tried crawling back, but I never replied.

Got cheated on, got given the herp by her before I found out, so i have a lasting reminder.

Ex fiancee was a special ed teaching assistant in the daytime, and would occasionally tutor my step mom's nephew in the evening.

Turns out she was actually sleeping with step mom's brother while she was there. We did not marry.

Met someone else and we now have 2 kids and have been married 14 years, so it worked out nicely in the end.

Found out they were cheating… at our engagement party. With my cousin.

I knew a guy in the Army. He went on a 9 month deployment, came home to his wife 3 months pregnant. She actually tried to talk him out of breaking up. "I know it was wrong, please give me another chance. I'll never do it again, i swear". Whe he reminded her she was pregnant with someone else's baby, he said, he'll have nothing to do with the baby. He doesn't even know I'm pregnant. If you ever loved me, I'm certain you can love my baby. I know you'd make a great father and will live the rest of my life doing everything I can to make you glad you gave me another chance.

My friend got pregnant at 20. Her bf was giving her the bare minimum or simply nothing. When she was 32, she asked her bf when he is gonna marry her. The guy always gave a vague answer. Also for 12 years or so, the bfs mum never wanted her and their daughter to move in with him/them.

She met the extended family which were allowed to move in with his bf and his family. One time, we had dinner with our friends, and when the issue of being engaged was brought to the table, the guy just said "go online and pick one so you'll shut up!" The table went quiet and so did my friend who was red from being humiliated.

After all the speculation, apparently, the 'niece and nephew' who my friend brings gifts to, and the 'cousin' who she chats with whenever she brings her daughter to visit her bfs family, is the 2nd baby mama that was "accepted" by the bfs mum. The "niece and nephew" (bfs children with baby mama no.2) were like 2 and 6 that time. They have been living together for around 7 or 8 years together with their children.

Everyone in his family, including some of their common friends knew and just made my friend look stupid all those years. A lot of people on his side LIED to her and her daughter for more than a decade.

The moment she found out that a lot of people betrayed her, she had a mental breakdown and got depressed. Her family encouraged her to move to another place for a new environment, a new start. Luckily, with full on support and encouragement, she got better and eventually found a really good man who showered her and her daughter with a lot of love, affection and respect.

By the way, on one of my flights, i saw my friends "ex-bf"/baby daddy with another woman that is not the 2nd baby mama.

Just sharing this to encourage others that respecting yourself would bring so much good to your mental health and your life.

This was a friend of a friend of a friend type of deal. All names were fake.

Janet worked with Sally and they were good friends. Janet was married to Dave.

Eventually, Sally seduced Dave because… and this was effectively the quote: Sally thought that Janet and Dave were a very cute couple and she wanted something like that.

Janet “caught” the two of them when she suddenly developed symptoms of herpes.

Wife spent every night "gaming" with her male bestie. The plot twist landed when her husband silently handed her a screenshot from said bestie: "Babe, your hubby seems to buy it. He's so gullible. Love you." Turned out, "hubby" had been using her fingerprint to access her phone... and had been posing as her to chat with her best friend for a long while.

A girl I dated had quite the messed up family. The dad cheated on the mom and had another kid 6mos or so after my ex gf was born. No one knew about it until 13 years later when the baby mama passed and the cheater spawn came to live with my ex. The wife stayed married to him for some reason, but then cheated on him years later with my then gf's then boyfriend, who was like 19 at the time. They stayed married through all that, and my then gf was still cool with the mom even after she stole the boyfriend. Not surprisingly, our relationship dissolved when I caught a guy texting her things that only get texted to someone you've been inside of before.

Married “Christian” man with kids sleeping with 4-5 married women in his church. Everything came to surface leading him to fleeing town for several years.

My then-gf was cheating on me, I found out, and took her out to this steakhouse in Chapel Hill she was begging me to take her. I let her order whatever she wanted, and she racked up a $389.00 bill. I told her I was going to the bathroom, but instead walked right out. I did tip the waiter on the way out and informed him that she was paying the bill. About 15 minutes into my return to the barracks at Ft. Bragg, my phone blew up with calls and nasty texts. I answered the 7th call and told her the guy she was sleeping with would be more than happy to cover the bill for her and pick her up (Chapel Hill was a good 2 1/2 hrs away from where she lived), then I hung up and blocked her. Getting cheated on sucked, but I dumped her before I did something stupid like propose to her - and I got a free steak out of it. I never slept so well, lol.

Last year the man (shouldn’t even call him that) I was with cheated on me and never thought i would find out. mind you we were together for 5 years at this point. he was sleeping one night and his phone constantly was blowing up. I never checked his phone before but for some reason i had a gut instinct to do it this night. luckily he’s a deep sleeper. i took his phone and ran to the bathroom and locked the door. the contact name was “bell”. is he that stupid. phone call after phone call in his call log. when i finally checked his messages with “bell” i seen dirty texts that i don’t even want to repeat. there was pictures but no faces included. but the background looked way too familiar..? i couldn’t remember where i’ve seen it before but i knew ive been there before. finally checked the physical number and went to send them a message off of my own phone.. when i tell you my jaw dropped to the floor when i realized i had this number in my contacts already. i was FLOORED. it was none other than my sister. she’s 19 years old i’m 25 and my then bf was 26. he’s been around for 5 years. he’s known her since she was 14. i don’t even know how long this is going on for mind you. none have given me any answers. YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDINGGGGG. let’s just say i’ve never spoken to her again after a nice lil chat. both of them denied it completely to my family. after i told my parents what happened they didn’t believe me and now think im absolutely insane.

I found out my now ex-husband cheated on me on, of all days, my birthday. I had gone out of town to spend the weekend with my sister and nephew, and the plan was we were going to go out to my favorite restaurant to celebrate on Monday after he got home from work. I was just lounging around, playing on my tablet, waiting for him, and an email notification popped up. The dummy forgot he had linked up his email on my tablet as well, and I, totally unsuspecting, not trying to snoop or anything was just thinking, "Oh, an email!" So I opened it, and there it was... It was from some girl he met up with from Craigslist talking about how much fun she had and could they get together again.

I called my BFF, who immediately came over and helped me pack as much as we could carry, and I left that night. I just texted, "I saw the emails, I know what you did."

But as they say, "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." Ex-husband was an immigrant from a 3rd world country. He was on a visa, and we hadn't yet started the paperwork for his citizenship. As soon as the divorce was finalized, I may have anonymously notified his job that his visa was now invalid, and he was working illegally. And then I may have anonymously notified ICE that he was here illegally and trying to work illegally. He was deported.

Not my story, but I used to work with a woman who was married to her “high school sweetheart” and loved to present herself as perfect—perfect hair, perfect makeup, perfect clothes. But she was also incredibly judgmental and mean to a lot of people in the office. At times, she was an outright bully. She was the type of person that would look down at you for not shopping at the most expensive stores (most of my office clothes came from Target and H&M and boy did she let me know about it).

Turns out, she had been having a years-long affair with our married director, who had three kids. She didn’t even try to hide it—everyone in the office knew. I once saw them making out passionately in the back of a bar. Others had seen them making out at work events in front of everybody. It took her husband months to realise what was going on. Eventually though he found out, and somehow she convinced him to agree to an open marriage. But after a while, he grew understandably uncomfortable with the arrangement.

So she and the married director decided to leave their spouses to be together. Here’s the twist: he actually went through with it. He ended his marriage and left his three kids, but she stayed with her husband. His wife cleaned him out—took the kids, the house, the money… everything.

And now, somehow, she’s a successful influencer here in Brisbane. She portrays herself as having the perfect family and a perfectly “authentic” life—but everyone who’s worked with her knows the truth. The only reason I would never identify her is because she is a mother now and it would destroy their family and her career. I can’t help but follow her social media and be constantly amazed at how fake someone can be.

My parents divorced when I was 16, 3 months later my dad called me from the hospital as he had a new kid. Now I’m no mathmagician, but I THINK he may have been sleeping before the divorce!

Crossed paths with an ex after a few years NC. Started talking again but only as friends. After about a month of that, she starts being persistent about us getting back together. I actually turn her down. As time goes on she tells me shes in love with me and is sorry about the past, I was "the one that got away", her "soulmate" and a bunch of other corny things that I fell for. 

We get back together and only make it 3 weeks until she decides to invite an ex over and the night I get stuck doing mandatory overtime at work. She even admits they slept together but it wasnt her fault because she was feeling "hypersexual". Right then are I break it off. No yelling or anything. Just lose my number, leave her place and block her. 

Well since she cant be held accountable for anything she decides to post me all over social media (including Facebook groups) claiming I used to beat her and all these other lies. I found out from other people because I had her blocked but I was able to scroll through some of it on my friends account.

Heard this about someone I vaguely know in my hometown. Her boyfriend cheated on her, they broke up, but she let him stay in the house because he "had nowhere else to go" and she felt bad. Last I heard she was housing him AND his new girlfriend, i.e. the person who he cheated on her with, AND letting them use her car. I don't know her well enough to reach out but it makes me want to fly over and kick them out myself.

A co worker went on holiday with her Boyfriend. While on holiday her boyfriend cheated on her with a woman of a different nationality.

He got caught and the boyfriend decided he'd stay with the new girl, so changed his holiday arrangements and finished the holiday with the new women.

On his return home the boyfriend packed his bag to go live in a foreign country with his new girlfriend.

Friends of my parents. They had two young kids and the husband was very successful. The wife starts an affair, he finds out, they try to work things out but she keeps the affair going on. They eventually split up and the affair partner finds out the husband’s email address and emails him a list of everything he’d done to his wife and where. The kicker is she’d already been married before and cheated on her first husband, with the same guy!

I had a buddy went home to find his girlfriend next door with the neighbor. Buddy went over to retrieve his girlfriend. A ruckus ensued and buddy got stabbed by dude next door. Buddy got charged with trespassing. Buddy's girlfriend left him and moved in with dude. She took the furniture from buddy's house, which he was still making payments on, and continued to make payments on for a while.