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Help - husband has been texting a woman

109 replies

user1486246880 · 17/08/2017 20:02

I have just discovered today when my husband left his phone open next to me that my husband of 15 years (with whom I have three children) has been texting another woman.
I never look at the phone and a message had popped up and I saw it then scrolled through whatsapp and there were so many messages. Some saying miss you baby ❤️ And some photos - I didn't see anything beside a headshot but this girl looks in her Twenties. My husband is 40.
I never thought for a minute he would do something like this and I feel so betrayed and so confused.
I don't know the extent of it he says they go back 6 weeks.
I showed him the phone and asked if he would like to explain it to me. He immediately panicked and deleted everything so I can't see anything. I couldnt see much as it was all in Spanish as ahe is South American. He is English. But had.l been writing in Spanish using google translate.
I asked if they have met or done anything together and he furiously denies anything and says it was just chatting and that he wanted attention. What if I hadn't found it today?
He told me he bought her a months gym membership at pure gym that she asked for money.
We have a pretty normal relationship for a couple with three children with what id consider to be a healthy regular sex life. I am jus let baffled and don't know what to do or what to believe.
I really would appreciate advice from anyone who has been in this situation or also what others think about what I've found. Thank you.

OP posts:
inlectorecumbit · 17/08/2017 20:33

If he has been messaging her on an i phone l think you can retrieive the messages,
Ask him to do this to prove there is no relationship/haven't met.

Putyourhandsintheair · 17/08/2017 20:36

Do you have access to his bank statements/ credit card statements? Has he been protective of his phone?

PaganGoddessBrigid · 17/08/2017 20:41

If you need any help translating, I'll help.
How much does he admit to?
He admits to six weeks of texting
He admits to buying her gym membership

Just that much he admits to? Hmm. Just that much is pretty bad.

Hunkle · 17/08/2017 21:03

Can you access messages through an Ipad or phone bill?

BackInTheRoom · 17/08/2017 21:11

Good point Hunkle. OP, I once deleted my messages on my iPhone by mistake but they remained on my iPad....

Putyourhandsintheair · 17/08/2017 21:17

If it's on WhatsApp then any photos will have been immediately transferred into the photo album on his phone if it's an iPhone.

Beelzebop · 17/08/2017 21:26

He's having an affair.

CircleofWillis · 17/08/2017 21:27

Could she be a 'cam girl'? One of the women who parcel out affection online in return for gifts? There was a thread several months ago where a poster's 16 year son bought £300 boots for a woman in exchange for intimate pictures. He was convinced they were in a relationship but had never met her. Not sure if that would make the situation any better but it is possible he is telling the truth when he says he hasn't met her.

ilovesooty · 17/08/2017 21:27

He wasn't exactly very protective of his phone if he left it open next to her. She's seen his bank statement as well.

Aquamarine1029 · 17/08/2017 21:35

He's fucking another woman because his mother passed away a few years ago?! That's a new one for the Cheater's Handbook of Bullshit. He's definitely sleeping with her. Did he buy her a gym membership because he's worried about her health, too? What a spineless prick. He's been caught red handed and now he's lying his ass off.

user1486246880 · 17/08/2017 21:35

Theee are more things in the bank statement I just saw cash withdrawals too

OP posts:
Whataboutus · 17/08/2017 21:37

So he's admitting to buying her a gym membership but says they have never met?

inlectorecumbit · 17/08/2017 21:38

Game over then OP?

Putyourhandsintheair · 17/08/2017 21:54

Do you have proof from the bank statements that he has met her? Hotels, restaurants etc?

AradiasDaughter · 17/08/2017 21:57

LTB and kick him in the dick on his way out of the door (your life) arsewipe

Joysmum · 17/08/2017 22:01

Bullshit. He's trying to deflect from the fact that's he's cheating on you with an inappropriate relationship by trying to get you to see him as a victim. Don't fall for it.

DearMrDilkington · 17/08/2017 22:04

I'm wondering what he got her to do for that gym membership. Doesn't take much imagination to think what he'd want in return, does it?

I couldn't put up with this behaviour. You deserve better, remember this is only half a tiny bit of the truth. There will be much more to it. SorryFlowers

DearMrDilkington · 17/08/2017 22:05

Sorry I got all muddled in the last bit, my phones playing up. Hmm

oldlaundbooth · 17/08/2017 22:06

I'd be taking him to the cleaners op.

Royally.

Gym membership Hmm

oldlaundbooth · 17/08/2017 22:09

Get ducks in a row.

Passports, bank statements, mortgage details, all your kid's birth certificates etc.

Not on a USB, save it online.

DearMrDilkington · 17/08/2017 22:12

Also, the "miss you baby", makes it pretty obvious they've met at least once.

Ellisandra · 17/08/2017 22:16

No matter my shock and hurt, I think I would actually laugh out loud at the excuse of his mother dying years ago Shock

Arsehole.

I would tell him - any slim chance you had to turn this around died the second you deleted the messages which would have proved your innocence. Now fuck off.

Flowers
SlightlyJaded · 17/08/2017 22:18

He is full of shit

If she was harassing him, why delete their whole conversation??

You've been caught so you might as well 'prove' that she was just conning him.

You might as well show the whole conversation to your DW so you can 'prove' that you've never met.

Sorry OP but he is absolutely panic bluffing . And not very well. Seriously, you know your 'H". What are the odds of him getting 'accidentally caught up' in a scenario like the one he is describing? where is nothing more than an innocent fool? Does that sound like the man you know?

Sorry if this sounds harsh. I feel so sorry that this has happened to you and the final indignity of the bullshit just makes me so angry on your behalf.

Paperdoll16 · 17/08/2017 22:33

'I miss you baby' after 6 weeks and having never met? What is being missed then?

OP, the betrayal is like a knife going through you. I'm similar to you; felt like everything was perfect, three DC, relatively attractive (not as much as OW but he lapped up the attractive of a much younger colleague). I've stayed. It's been 8 months. Things are better but it'll never leave me. I don't trust him anymore. He's shown me he's capable of deceiving me and I'll always have my guard up now. It's not a nice way to live but I'm not sure that experience will mean I trust any man ever again. MN relationships board doesn't help that either!! Grin

You'll no doubt find out more in the coming days and weeks. They minimise and say it was only this and that. They also blame you or something external (his mothers death years before?! Hmm) NO. He's accessed a chat room to initiate this because he wanted to/let it.

Are you sure they don't work together? What is she missing?? I remember reading those words too. They don't leave you. Not ever.

FritzDonovan · 17/08/2017 22:35

I could actually believe that he hadn't met her and she was just seeing what she could get out of him. Doesn't make it any better as he's been spending family money on some other woman in order to get some kind of secret thrill. Where would that end?