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Neighbour having an affair - do I report my suspicions?

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AmzJS · 29/05/2025 20:53

We live next to a couple - lady is probably mid/late 30’s, the man in his 40’s. They don’t have children.

Both are pleasant, and the man does shift work - one week a month he leaves early evening and works into the following day (we often hear his car pull up in the early hours).

DH and I have both noticed over recent months that a couple of times a week when her partner is on lates, the lady will be picked up by a car (the same one) around 6.30/7pm (she doesn’t drive) and not return until closer to midnight - the car will usually linger outside with the engine running as they are in it chatting.

With the lighter evenings, we’ve noticed that on these occasions she is always ‘done up’ in make up and wearing flattering outfits - tight dresses, heels etc. On one occasion, my DH was out the front and he said there was an over bearing smell of perfume. She rarely appears like this at any other time when her partner is home.

She has gone out again tonight and we’ve noticed her - again the same car, and her all dressed up.

We are convinced she is having an affair, it has all the hallmarks and it’s too much of a coincidence to only be when her partner is working lates.

I feel like morally, I should say something - but I don’t want to put my foot in it. Would anyone have ideas on how to approach this?

OP posts:
XWKD · 30/05/2025 20:32

AmzJS · 30/05/2025 08:16

There are no winners in this - I certainly won’t be revelling in anyone’s misfortune.

You are revelling. It's none of your business. It never was and isn't now.

Hollowvoice · 30/05/2025 20:37

AmzJS · 30/05/2025 09:00

My DH has just made a good point whilst we’ve been chuckling at some of the replies.

We wonder how many MN’rs themselves have had affairs? Quite a few we suspect.

Jumped the shark there but nice try

TheRoundTable1983 · 30/05/2025 22:01

AmzJS · 30/05/2025 08:26

Most posters seem to be falling over themselves to 1. Defend a potential adulterer and 2. abuse me.

It’s a good job I’m thick skinned…

‘Thick’ being the operative word.

dustygrey · 30/05/2025 22:13

BunnyLake · 30/05/2025 12:32

Apparently it’s a pilot trial. For what or why is anyone’s guess. It’s called infinite scrolling, no less! You can ask to be removed from this trial if you go on the thread for it. I found it on google. People hate it (quite why anyone would like it would be a mystery to me). You’ll find me on there and I’m not a happy bunny 😂

I love the infinite scroll, I can't bear the pages

😊

mindingmyown37 · 30/05/2025 22:43

Unless you 100% know for sure don’t get involved, which judging by your post you Aren’t entirely sure.

BunnyLake · 30/05/2025 22:48

dustygrey · 30/05/2025 22:13

I love the infinite scroll, I can't bear the pages

😊

Really? Why?

treesareforlifenotjustforchristmas · 30/05/2025 23:38

OPs storytelling is like gcse course work😂im howling😂 keep up the good work OP

BornSandyDevotional · 31/05/2025 00:17

I reported a neighbour for having an eclair once. Went round to apologise when I'd sobered up. She told me to choux.

Namechangedformyanswer · 31/05/2025 11:00

ilovesooty · 30/05/2025 16:23

From her other threads it appears that he has to do as he's told.

Oh dear. Emasculated hubby, also.laughs along with you @AmzJS bet he'd love to visit your neighbour 😉

Willpowders · 31/05/2025 18:48

Heylittlesongbird · 30/05/2025 08:39

OP did you get propositioned by your kids teacher in a bar recently and kick up a stink with the school and governors? You have a very similar writing style.

YES!!! I was thinking the exact same thing. OP is having a great time trolling utter nonsense.

Lucythesquirrel · 01/06/2025 22:41

No, this post is a joke post isn’t it? It can’t be serious? Actually either way, I say this in the nicest, most sympathetic way possible…Get a life x

ContraryNoodle · 02/06/2025 12:51

OP, you sound like a total nutjob! I genuinely feel sorry for anyone in your life.

NigellaWannabe1 · 02/06/2025 12:56

I feel sorry for you, OP.

ilovesooty · 02/06/2025 13:09

I don't feel very sorry for attention seekers and busybodies. I do have a degree of contempt for them though.

Poohbear333 · 14/03/2026 21:47

Not again, you nosey neighbours u der the guise of “do-golfers” put 2 and 2 together and come up with 26. Stay away. It’s NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS. You have no idea what’s going on.

SunMoonandChocolate · 14/03/2026 21:54

Sorry not read the full thread, but for all you know, she could be working as an escort to earn some much needed extra cash due to the cost of living, or even to get enough cash together, without her DH knowing, so that she can leave him. Keep your nose out of other people's business would be my advice OP.

ClarasSisters · 15/03/2026 11:43

Poohbear333 · 14/03/2026 21:47

Not again, you nosey neighbours u der the guise of “do-golfers” put 2 and 2 together and come up with 26. Stay away. It’s NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS. You have no idea what’s going on.

What possessed you to come onto a thread over 9 months later and not even bother to read the op's updates? Especially with a response that adds absolutely nothing different? Confused

LBFseBrom · 16/03/2026 19:30

AmzJS · 30/05/2025 13:55

Midday update - she hasn’t gone to work as usual, so it looks like there are some crisis talks!

Whatever, it is not your business.

I'm amazed that you notice so much! I lived almost forty years in my previous house and never noticed anything much about neighbours. A few years back we were having building work/renovation done downstairs and I was at home; I took to sitting at the desktop computer in the small front bedroom and I saw people coming and going, funeral cortege going up and down and people opposite having building work done on their house (theirs didn't take as long as ours and was far better). Other than that, I knew nothing.

Your post reminds me of my mother and relatives when I was a child. I'd come home from school and they'd be pulling the neighbours apart. There was a lady opposite who regularly went out with a guy in a BT (or telecommunications, can't remember what it was called), van. A couple of times a week including weekends.

My mum and Co would talk about Mrs So and So and her 'fancy man', wondered how her nice husband put up with it.

When I went up to 'big' school I got to know the lady's daughter who was older than me and went to the school I started at. I also came to know the family.

Mum was a telephonist in London. She and the telecommunications engineer were ballroom dancers, in a telephone exchange formation team. There were photos of them, with others, in their sitting room, mum in a powder puff dress. The family were all very proud of mum, including dad who was lovely. They were a very happy family. No doubt they had ups and downs, occasional raised voices, like any family but nothing adulterous.

I can remember relaying this information to my mum and being cross with her for her malicious gossip. She denied ever saying it!

I wonder what the neighbours say about you and your curtain twitching. You should join Neighbourhood Watch.

cheesycheesy · 17/03/2026 02:55

Report to who? The church elders?

nomas · 17/03/2026 03:03

AmzJS · 29/05/2025 22:01

We wouldn’t be shouting the odds in the street - a discrete word with the man was what we were thinking. He’ll know if it’s legitimate and in that case I am sure they’ll laugh it off - no harm done.

Old post but…I’d shove you out my house if you came to my door.

Letitgoooletitgooo · 17/03/2026 04:05

Perhaps she has a night out with friends when her DP is on late shift
we don’t even know it’s a man that’s picking up dropping off
it could be that friend is designated driver / doesn’t drink
The shouting and DH calling her liar though , could be about anything
Maybe he doesn’t like her going out and found out she has been
Why so suspicious OP?

Bridgetjonesheart · 25/03/2026 18:13

AmzJS · 29/05/2025 20:53

We live next to a couple - lady is probably mid/late 30’s, the man in his 40’s. They don’t have children.

Both are pleasant, and the man does shift work - one week a month he leaves early evening and works into the following day (we often hear his car pull up in the early hours).

DH and I have both noticed over recent months that a couple of times a week when her partner is on lates, the lady will be picked up by a car (the same one) around 6.30/7pm (she doesn’t drive) and not return until closer to midnight - the car will usually linger outside with the engine running as they are in it chatting.

With the lighter evenings, we’ve noticed that on these occasions she is always ‘done up’ in make up and wearing flattering outfits - tight dresses, heels etc. On one occasion, my DH was out the front and he said there was an over bearing smell of perfume. She rarely appears like this at any other time when her partner is home.

She has gone out again tonight and we’ve noticed her - again the same car, and her all dressed up.

We are convinced she is having an affair, it has all the hallmarks and it’s too much of a coincidence to only be when her partner is working lates.

I feel like morally, I should say something - but I don’t want to put my foot in it. Would anyone have ideas on how to approach this?

Get a life

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