People Are Sharing Shocking Stories About Marriage, Affairs, & Weddings

With the development of the internet and social media on the rise, we’re more connected now than we ever have been. You might even meet strangers online.

If you hear from someone online, you would hope it was a positive comment on a post or maybe a birthday wish. No one wants to get a message like this out of the blue. The only silver lining this person could find was that they found out about their partner’s affairs before they had to pay for a divorce.

You might grab your partner’s phone to look something up when you’re in a hurry. They might even ask you to look up something for them when they’re too busy to grab their phone. Usually, you look up what you need to look up and move on.

What this person wasn’t expecting was for their partner to hand them her phone to make a restaurant reservation only to reveal a few concerning messages. From there, it snowballed into a horrifying revelation.

While there are all sorts of reasons that someone might cheat, different stories evoke different emotions. You might not feel as angry at someone reading a story like this.

After all, this person was in a hard situation, married to someone who was treating them in an unacceptable manner. Still, they note that the long-term affair did affect the relationship that this person had with their children too — and they didn’t hold it against them. A parental revelation like this would shock most kids.

First and foremost, we want to agree with this person on the point that they definitely deserved better. Your spouse should be someone you can turn to and feel safe, not frightened.

Their affair, as they explain it, was an escape from the situation that they shouldn’t have had to deal with. While this person may have regrets about how they handled the situation, we’re glad to hear that they left their husband and found a better life.

This is a scene straight out of a movie. After all, it’s hard to picture this scene in anything other than a dramatic script but it was how this wedding really turned out.

While the last story might have been wild, it isn’t the only one like this. This bride was betrayed in a similar way when she found her hubby-to-be in bed with her mother. We can’t imagine how a mother-daughter relationship would recover from something like this.

Being a caregiver is a noble way to help your loved ones when they need extra help. This husband was even ready to give his wife one of his kidneys when she needed it.

At the same time, it can really start to burn you out and, while you’re not always proud of it, burnout can lead you to make decisions you usually wouldn’t. For the OP, that ended in a pretty horrible situation that left them with lifelong guilt, even though their marriage survived the affair.

There are some things that you hear from a bride or groom that you’ll never forget. This one made it through to the wedding ceremony before calling off the marriage altogether.

As this person explains, there’s a Jewish custom that prevents a man from marrying his ex-wife’s sister, even after the divorce is completely final. So, this bride-to-be went through with the ceremony before announcing that they wouldn’t be staying together and was sure to let people know that this was thanks to the groom and the bride’s sister.

There are cases in which you might see a lot of red flags in retrospect. That being said, they aren’t always that easy to see when you’re in the thick of it.

This person says that they married their partner despite the red flags because they were influenced by their mother’s disapproval of the situation. Then, on top of that, their suspicion of their partner grew so much, it was eventually a hired private investigator that caught his infidelity. Not to mention, he stole a lot too.

Losing a partner to a breakup is often really hard. Some people really wrack their brains to figure out what went wrong. For other couples, the reason they split up is oh-so-obvious.

Finding out your soon-to-be groom was in love with someone else would be absolutely devastating. To make matters worse, the groom fell in love with the bride’s brother! Talk about drama… o

We’ve already talked about how infidelity can make a relationship with your partner fall apart. That’s not the only relationship on the line, though.

Oftentimes, children are also affected by infidelity in their families. In this case, both of the people in this relationship had children who stopped talking to them. The affair ended up altering the way their kids thought of them for quite some time.

A lot of people throw a big party with their friends right before they get married. Bachelor and bachelorette parties have become pretty common. These are often referred to as the “last night of freedom.”

However, you’re already in a relationship if you’re getting married, so not everything is consequence-free. If you didn’t specifically clear it with your soon-to-be spouse, things like this are going to cause problems for your marriage before it even starts.

There are already some complications that can come up when you’re dating someone that you met as a coworker. You would think if you were dating a coworker, work wouldn’t be the place to find even more love.

This person wasn’t directly involved in what was happening but they watched with bated breath. After all, not only were all of the people involved in different, meant-to-be monogamous relationships as far as we know here. Guessing from the reaction here, neither of these people’s partners was okay with it.

There are some things that different couples might feel differently about. When it comes to online interactions and adult content, where’s the line?

Clearly, this man not only violated the boundaries of their relationship but also spent hundreds of dollars in the process. While the apology goes a long way, the proposal that keeps getting put off seems like it’s starting to grate on this person. We wonder if it’s happened since they shared this.

As a wedding attendee, there are a lot of things that you might see that spell drama. While you hope everything goes smoothly, that doesn’t always happen. This person was just there to support their cousin.

Their other cousin was evidently there for different reasons and the bride found out soon enough. Naturally, chaos ensued, leaving the OP’s grandmother in charge of keeping everyone and everything in check.

There really is no good time to find out that your spouse has been having an affair. However, there are definitely some moments that are much better than others.

It’s definitely not what this gal needed while she was in labor with the pair’s daughter. Instead of the outpouring support partners should give their significant other after the birth of a child, he was off with another woman and her husband’s money.

Going through a rough patch in a relationship is hard. During these times, your marriage might take a little extra work to solve the problem. Other times, it’s the beginning of the end.

Still, an affair is a hard way to end a relationship. It taught this person something about themselves and what they wanted out of a relationship and, as soon as the secondary relationship ended, they were quick to leave their husband altogether.

There are some conversations that need to be had with your partner in order to see if you’re on the same page as them. If you aren’t, it might be a deal breaker for the relationship.

One of the biggest conflicts that this can produce is when one partner wants kids and the other one doesn’t. One night, with the help of some substances, they made a mistake that they came to really regret and it led to the loss of their marriage.

When you’re dealing with a relationship that isn’t fully built on honesty, either side of the relationship can lead to a blow-up. It hurts more than just the couple involved.

As for this person, he was completely unaware until the person their partner was having an affair with came clean. This wasn’t exactly a friend gently letting them know something was going on either. A case of jealousy ended up in them hearing about it from the affair partner.

There are some things that your significant other says that you just don’t know how to respond to. This sudden accusation was shocking enough on its own without the conversation that followed.

Before this person even had time to respond, their partner made it clear exactly where the thought came from. They’d only accused them because they were ready to confess their own extramarital affair. This would be an absolutely brutal way to find out and we can only imagine that you’d still think of it more than a decade on.

You’ve probably heard the saying, “An eye for an eye.” It basically means that you’re getting equal revenge for some wrong done to you.

That phrase has also been continued to say that “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.” In other words, revenge doesn’t always pan out the way you want it to. We can see how this person got to the conclusion of their own affair but they weren’t left feeling as justified after they had an affair of their own.

When you’re in a taxi, you often just want to get to where you’re going, pay your fare, and leave. Sometimes, though, you get in a taxi with someone you have a conversation with.

As for this person, they found themselves caught in a situation that was more than a little awkward. It was his first day too and he still decided to unload all of this relationship information — which made this OP more than a little uncomfortable and angry.

When your self-esteem takes a blow, someone showing interest in you can mean a lot. The only downside here was that this person was already in a relationship — not that it stopped them.

They shared that when they started to receive outside attention again, they fell to the temptation. On the one hand, they wonder if marriage was right for them. On the other hand, it was a painful experience that they regretted fully.

Even in the best relationship, you’re going to hit rough patches. When stressors are everywhere like for this young couple, you might react to it in ways that you later regret.

This person thought they’d fallen out of love and looked somewhere else for it. In many cases, a husband finding out his spouse is cheating is a straight line to divorce. It seems that these two were able to work through it, though!

Ruining the relationship with your spouse is one thing. However, there’s an extra layer of hurt when the affair partner is someone close to the partner you’re cheating on. We can see why this person lost a best friend when they had an affair with his wife.

Even worse, it wasn’t a case of love under impossible circumstances but just the case of a partner trying to be vindictive. It’s nearly impossible to bring a friendship back after something like this.

If you tell someone that their partner is cheating on them, even if they’re the person that they trust most, there might be some denial.

After all, it’s something that you never want to happen and it’s hard to believe. How could they do this to you? This is one of those moments that you’d need good friends around as you process everything.

We’ve all called someone by mistake or left a silly voicemail. However, there are some misdials and forgotten “end call” buttons that will change lives forever and not for the better.

Hearing a voicemail like this when you’re home with the kids would be devastating enough. What made the whole situation even worse, this cheating partner wasn’t afraid to lie about something as tragic as a death in the family to do what they wanted.

There are some things that you might get from your partner that no one else kids. Who hasn’t sent a risque picture to the person they’re dating?

So, when this person got a picture of their wife in the bath, they were pretty happy. That was crushed only moments later when, for some reason, she told him that wasn’t actually for them. If not their partner then who exactly were they sending pictures like this to?

With so much technology in our lives, it’s no surprise you might need some help troubleshooting from time to time. Maybe it would have been better to take this one to a professional.

This person’s partner just needed a little help with her iPad. That being said, you might not want to hand an iPad full of steamy messages and plans with your ex. We’re going to guess that they didn’t bother fixing this iPad.

There are some things that you ask your partner that give you red flags before they even speak. Body language and expressions can portray a lot.

Seeing that someone they weren’t confident that their partner didn’t like changed their relationship status, they asked a simple question. Given that it was followed by a few minutes of awkward fumbling before they came clean, we’re going to guess that this guy had a bad feeling before she even got the words out.

When you have an affair with someone outside of your current relationship, there are a few risks to someone finding out. For one, not everyone is okay with being “the other person.”

When this guy realized that he wasn’t in an open and honest relationship, he was quick to try and end things. However, he made sure that he reached out to her current partner too so that they weren’t left in the dark.

When you live with a partner, you get used to a lot of the things they do and their mannerisms. This also means that you notice when something is a bit off or not right.

When this person’s partner made their way up the stairs without a word, they thought something was amiss. Something in their gut must have told them too because it seems like they knew what was up right away.

There comes a point when it’s hard to hide the fact that you’ve had an affair. For instance, most spouses and partners need a few more answers when child support is suddenly subtracted from their finances.

This person found out when it was impossible to deny anymore. After all, an affair with no result is easier to hide than an affair that leaves you with another child. At this point, he really had no choice but to come clean.

We talked earlier about how sometimes affair partners find out they’re the other person and reach out. This one happened a little differently.

This person had been dating their girlfriend for a year when they were suddenly accosted at the mall. Unbeknownst to this person, their year-long girlfriend had actually been in a whole other relationship for four more years before they got together. That wouldn’t have been a problem if she’d broken up with the other guy first.

When you throw a party at your house, you might see your friends doing things that surprise you as the night goes on. Sometimes, this means breaking out into a dance when you’ve been partying or even going on an impassioned rant.

As this person was clearing out their house after a party, they found two people they knew in a rather compromising situation. They were just trying to check on their girlfriend, who wouldn’t let them in. When they saw their ex-best friend minutes later, it was clear what had happened under their own roof.

Sometimes, you don’t find out about someone cheating until well after you’ve broken up. That was the experience that this person had when they noticed something interesting.

In most cases, you probably hope that your ex finds someone who’s right for them even if you didn’t fit each other. Yet, it was hard to celebrate after realizing that the math was a little off here. It seems like she’d been in two relationships for at least a little while.

If you live with someone, the odds are that you’ll overhear something you weren’t supposed to at some point. Some of these things are just silly, so you can brush past them.

Hearing something like this would really raise a red flag, though. If you’re going to shower your affair partner with love, it might be a good idea to at least make sure that your current partner isn’t standing right next to you.

If you feel your marriage has run its course, the best thing to do is to talk to your partner and try to end things as amicably as possible, especially if you have kids.

While he admits that it wasn’t an excuse, this person fell into an affair after his wife wouldn’t entertain the idea of splitting up, for any reason. What was really important to him, though, is that his kids understood that despite the marriage ending, it was separate from their love for their children.

There are some texts that you don’t expect to see on your boyfriend’s phone. This guy was just waiting for their partner to get out of the shower when they realized they had a text from a ghost.

This alone would shake anyone and make them wonder what exactly was going on. After a bit more investigation, he realized that his boyfriend wasn’t just having an affair but had hidden it under the name of a lost family member.

If you’re worried about someone your partner is hanging out with, you might ask them for reassurance. This OP was a bit more comfortable after their partner insisted that the other person was just a friend.

That didn’t last forever, though. No matter what surrounded this situation, receiving a picture like this would hurt a lot. This is the kind of betrayal that’s hard to get over and move on from.

If there’s infidelity in a relationship, there are probably other problems too. This means that you might split for reasons other than finding out that your partner was seeing someone else.

For this couple, the truth didn’t come out until after their divorce was finalized. It wasn’t her admission either. Instead, one of her friends just couldn’t stand by and let him know what happened. At that point, they decided to focus on moving on.

When we think of finding out someone is having an affair, we think of catching them in the act. That’s how it happens in the movies, right?

The thing that really got this person, though, was that they weren’t expecting it at all. There wasn’t even an ounce of suspicion to prepare him. Plus, he shares how something like this can affect someone and their relationships for a long time afterward.

This person offers a bit of a refreshing and level view of this topic. Oftentimes, when someone shares a cheating story, the other partner becomes the instant “enemy” to readers.

As someone who had been cheated on, ending in divorce, but they’re not just full of hard feelings. From their perspective, their partner shouldn’t have cheated but no one is perfect and their ex still had plenty of time to do good things, even if they’d made a mistake in the past.

If you’re suspicious of your significant other and someone they know, you might ask them about it. You might also trust them if they promise you have nothing to worry about.

That’s what this person did, at least. They trusted their partner not only to not have an affair but not to have one with their ex specifically. So, when they received a phone call they never wanted, they were left devastated by the whole situation.

Of course, we’re going to look at more than just people who were affected by their partner’s affair. Some people have come forward to the circumstances that led them to cheat.

This person didn’t get into detail but they boiled it down to the basics. Why did they step outside of their relationship? In the end, they were miserable. Still, they note that it wasn’t an excuse for what they did, just the process that led them to their decision.

All affairs hurt. However, there are a few things that are so hurtful, you know that they’re going to leave a massive impact on the family it happened in.

For instance, it’s hard to think of something worse to happen to your relationship than walking in on an affair just before the wedding no matter who it is. For it to happen with your fiancée and your dad, well, that implodes quite a few relationships all at once.