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What made you think your partner was having an affair?

30 replies

AuntieN · 25/03/2023 15:42

I am not sure if I am being paranoid or not… Something in my gut is telling me that things are not right. We have been having a rocky six months or so but are trying to work through things. We’ve been together 30 years. DH has changed the passcode on his phone, and last week I came up behind him and he was messaging someone. He slammed the cover closed on his phone and then was extra nice to me. He said he was looking up something on the net, but it was definitely a messaging app. Why lie if he was messaging a friend or his Mum/Dad or work? There have been a couple of times where he hasn’t realised I was around. He’s been looking at his phone with a look that I would describe as pure happiness or even love. Not the sort of look you have when Facebook throws something funny up at you, it was more than that. I’m worried I am seeing things where there is nothing to see because we have been having some problems. If I confront him without any evidence I will blow a hole in what remains of our marriage. If I really want to know I am going to either ask him, or try to find some evidence. Were there any hints that his attention might be elsewhere? He doesn’t go out often, so if it is an affair he’s either conducting it during the day when I am at work, he WFH, or it’s an emotional online affair… Sorry, I have rambled a bit…

OP posts:
OssieShowman · 30/05/2023 15:27

Gut instinct. But turned out ‘stuff’ had been going on at least 6 years.

Opentooffers · 30/05/2023 15:47

I would be tempted to take a day off work without telling your DH, then leave for work as normal but stay in the near vicinity and observe the house.

Thinkingofmovingtosea · 31/05/2023 17:17

How are you doing AuntieN? hope its not what you thought it was..

BlastedPimples · 31/05/2023 20:48

Mine was absolutely foul to me when he was seeing someone else. Vicious words, picking arguments, screaming rages, eventually he was violent. Horrendous.

I hope you resolve matters quickly op.

craic74 · 31/05/2023 20:52

Mine was my gut . Simple and easily . In fact I was shocked as he was always the ' lover'
I was heading away for a week or so and leaving my 16 year old behind as she was training for football and development squads etc . She was going g to spend each day with a specific friend and then spend nights sleeping at home while dad was there .
When I told him this was the plan, his face said it all. It dropped.
It was then that I knew ...

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