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Husband dating apps- please help

35 replies

robinfoodie · 09/12/2017 17:44

So I was using DH computer to do some work and went on the google taskbar to search for something. When I put in something that started with "m", it put in match.com as a suggestion. I thought maybe this was just being suggested as it is a popular sight so I took a look in the history. Yes looking in his history counts as snooping and I would not normally do this at all but sure enough, a few days back he has looked at match.com, plenty of fish, tinder and something called widow dating. I have literally been having palpitations and am in complete shock. On the one hand, he may have idly looked at these sights out of interest (yes I am probably grasping at straws) but I want to know what I am dealing with. When I went into the match.com website I couldn't find evidence of an account/ saved login details. I haven't been able to look on his computer anymore as he is around. He is very tech-savvy and works in IT so I don't think he would leave anything obvious around and I am not tech-savvy at all.

For background, we have probably never been as happy in our relationship as we are at the moment (I thought?!) and he has never given me reason to suspect him. He is also very busy so I don't know where he would even find the time to meet someone.

Does anyone have any suggestions of how I could look further into whether he has done anything on these sites? I don't want to confront him now in case he then hides something as I want to find out the truth, whatever that is. Should I go on there and make up a fake profile of my own to then try to find his? I am not on them myself obviously and I guess you can't look unless you join.

Can anybody give me any advice? Many thanks in advance.

OP posts:
AnonEvent · 09/12/2017 19:31

Sorry the above works in Safari, NOT Chrome.

loveyoutothemoon · 09/12/2017 19:58

I also think you should check Google maps to see if he's been anywhere unusual.

Whoneedsaman · 09/12/2017 20:48

Love the browser search, anon, I'll be using that.
How do you search Google maps history?

flutterby12 · 09/12/2017 20:54

What does he do for a job? Could it be legit that he'd be doing something for work?

notapizzaeater · 09/12/2017 20:56

Has he an iPhone - can you see where he is ?

Didn’t even know some of those sites existed so doubt he ‘found’ them by accident

Bluemoon1 · 09/12/2017 20:59

If he had anything to hide and he was good at technological and IT stuff I would guess that he would delete his history, but on the other hand, maybe not.
When I wanted to find some info on someone (I am pretty good at research and tech stuff) I came across a website called "PIPL" - perfectly legal and a website that finds 'hidden' info from all over the World..

You can put his name or email address in the search box and also it's helpful to add the location too to narrow things down especially if he has a popular name. The website will show you details of all social networks he is on.....facebook, Twitter, Tinder, Instagram etc.... it also gives details of "usernames" so for example if his 'edward123' (an example) put that into Google and you should come across all the websites where that username is used.
Hope that makes sense.

Bluemoon1 · 09/12/2017 21:01

It is a real good website.....finds things that it could take hours to find and I did the same searches on Google and it didn't find half as much.
Any questions or confusion just ask

robinfoodie · 09/12/2017 21:24

Hi everyone, thanks for replies. I got access to his laptop again and have looked all over and can't find anything at all. The searches last week all took place within one minute and so he didn't actually go on any of the sites properly as far as I can see. I haven't got a chance to look at his phone but will try tonight. He is involved in working on websites and it is possible he has been doing some work on a different type of dating website, I remembered afterwards that he had mentioned something about this. But I feel like I need to be sure because it would just be a nightmare for me to discover he was doing this type of thing behind my back. There is relevant history there (none at all involving him but in relation to someone else in my past) and it does make it hard for me to completely trust. To be fair, DH honestly has not given me reason to suspect but when I saw this I was just immediately thinking wtf!!? I will definitely look at his phone in terms of the history and anything else that might seem suspicious. If I can't find anything on the phone I will talk to him about it then and see if there is a reasonable explanation. Thank you all again for your replies.

OP posts:
flutterby12 · 09/12/2017 22:49

Does he work in SEO or anything?

PinkChestnut · 10/12/2017 21:09

It sounds like he just did a quick search to look at the layout of their sites then if he is currently working on a similar dating site.

Hopefully nothing to worry about OP!

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