Chaos ( member #61031) posted at 11:20 PM on Monday, October 19th, 2026
BS here and I guarantee if roles were reversed he'd be going through the roof.
If it smells rotten - it usually is.
Let me bring this down to the lowest common denominator: He didn't want you to find out. And therein lies the problem. IF you aren't doing anything wrong, you don't give a rat's ass who knows. The fact that he's kept her his dirty little secret is a HUGE RED FLAG.
I wouldn't waste time talking to her - she's got her alibi/story down.
Now...reaching out to her spouse and sharing the info you have - totally appropriate. In fact, I highly encourage it. But if you choose this route, don't fire a warning shot (let on that you may do this) or they will have a funny way of talking you out of it, bullshitting you so much you question your own sanity, get their stories straight, delete any & all correspondences, any/all the above.
BS-me/WH-4.5yrLTA Married 2+ decades-2 adult children. Multiple DDays w/same LAP until I told OBS 2018- Cease & Desist sent spring 2021 "Hello–My name is Chaos–You f***ed my husband-Prepare to Die!"
Pogre ( member #86173) posted at 12:49 AM on Tuesday, October 20th, 2026
My husband is not a deceitful person and he is very honest. When I asked him why he did it, he said because we had agreqed to be honest and communicate and that he wanted me to come to him directly instead of going behind his back.
Given the most charitable interpretation of this, he was having innocent clandestine conversations that he suspected you were checking. So he intentionally started deleting them to lead you on and hid his intentions from you for doing it. All that instead of just asking you outright if you were checking his phone and addressing head on whatever issue you might have with it.
That's not very honest thing to do, nor did he come to you directly when he perceived there might be an issue.
And that's using the most charitable interpretation.
[This message edited by Pogre at 12:51 AM, Tuesday, October 20th]
Where am I going... and why am I in this handbasket?