Dh has text me from a different number.

[Sickandanxious]

Please be kind. I'm sitting here feeling sick to my stomach and feeling panicky. I'm hoping that I'm mistaken and that there is an explanation for this happening.
I sent DH 2 texts one after the other with different questions. He answered the second question but not the first which I thought strange but maybe he was just busy with work.
Later he text me with a question to which I answered. A bit later just as I got home another text appeared in answer to the first question I asked.
This is what's weird. The text was from a different number!
He has recently bought new phone and changed his provider but has kept his number so how is this possible?
I didn't mention keeping my cards close to my chest MN style and hoped it would all become apparent and that it's something to do with his new phone etc.
I've had to look on his phone, the second msg he sent me isn't there so I think he may have royally fucked up and maybe he has a second sim or phone?
I know I shouldn't have looked on his phone but it's making me feel so ill.
What an I do to check? If I put the number in my phone and there's a WhatsApp attached will a photo come up and will my number then show on that phone?
I'm not at all tech savvy.
I don't think I'll sleep tonight.

If I had a burner phone to hide stuff from my husband, I wouldn't put his number on it!

It really sounds like a new phone glitch but if you wait until his new phone is completely established, you can check the numbers match.

Put the number into WhatsApp then block the number . They can’t see you but you will see if there is a picture.

Have you actually just asked him and see what he says? Surely that's the first step

Both DH and I changed phone provider recently and this happened to us. Some messages appearing as our own number and some appearing as a temporary number. It was odd and really annoying as some messages got lost

It's not a dual sim - if it were, both messages would still appear on the thread on his phone.

Tbh I think believing he's cheating and has gone and replied a question about her jumper (and his reply has no context so it's likely he was looking directly at her message as he replied) on his burner phone, perhaps while manually inputting her number into his burner phone, is more far fetched

You don't have to switch between anything. The switching in settings is so the phone knows which sim network to use for calls, messages, data, etc.

However, in individual messages, you can manually change which sim you're sending it from.

You also don't have to switch sim to see anything new – all the text history will be in the message thread even if you were texting someone from multiple sims. That information is held on the phone, not the sim card.

This happened to my husband the last time he got a new phone. He was sat right next to me sending text messages as tests as they were coming both from his old number and a new random one! Absolutely no idea how it was happening but happen right in front of my eyes it did.

I changed my sons number and his old number is still registered on whatsapp on my phone, i

I hope your worries are unfounded.

Last time dh changed provider his phone hopped between normal number and temporary one for ages.
He thought he was replying to a chain of messages, so I'd suddenly get this random looking message from a different number.

Along the lines of
Old no: home late. Can put dinner on
Me: What time?
Old no: 8.30ish, maybe 9
Me: Will put something in the oven. Not sure what we've got.
<half an hour later>
New number: casserole bottom drawer freezer left hand side

He works at the same office as Dd and they travel together and she verified that he sent them all straight after each other from his phone.

Same happened to me! Moved provider, kept my number but the temporary number they gave me still seems to be registered so iMessages and FaceTimes and texts (I think) come from the temp number apparently 🤷🏼‍♀️

It's just because of the transition of numbers. I had this and my number came up as the temporary number whenever I called or text my son for weeks after the switch. I had no idea as I was using my phone as normal. Don't panic!

This happened to me too when I changed my phone.
Had a ridiculous exchange via text with one friend trying to prove to him that I wasn’t a scammer.

Hi OP. I came on to say, my husband has more than one SIM card/handset he uses and it's for business reasons, not because of cheating. (I mean, he might be cheating AS WELL, wouldn't put it past the bugger, but certainly I am aware of him using more than one phone so that's not the ONLY reason.)

If you husband was cheating, he would put your number in his secret phone and text you from it.

I'm not even sure how a secret phone or SIM would help someone cheat, realistically speaking. Surely you would just text the AP from your existing phone, with notifications off and deleting their texts as necessary? Carting around a whole second phone secretly seems just to add to the likelihood you would be found out!

It’s happened to me! Sent messages on different numbers when phone was changed over. It’s really super common.

Whats concerning is you feeling so off balance over this and this woman’s number being saved on favourites is definitely a conversation I’d be having.

The fact he's sent you the same message twice makes me feel like it was a crossover and he didn't realise it had gone through the first time hence texting it through again and you normally come up as a temporary number until your new number is transferred over.

I don't use favourites on my phones, but somehow have three people in my favourites - one a person I have not spoken to for 12 years, my sister who I never call (she does not hear well so we tend to use facebook messenger and whatsapp) and someone I worked with 15 years ago who I have not spoken to since then. I only notice it as when I attach my phone to the car, they come up automatically for some reason. Just saying that some people don't care who is in favourites so it could be someone from 20 years ago!

Unless he remembered it hadn't replied to a message, what the message was asking and then just sent the reply.

This thread is populated by people with similar tech skills to the OP.

If it quacks like a duck… come on now.

My husband switched his number over about a year ago and still occasionally comes up as the number that his SIM card came with rather than his number that he ported over. Hopefully there’s a simple explanation.

I have two numbers on my one phone-one actual sim and one e-sim. One’s for work and one is personal. I am forever flipping between the two and sometimes text/call from the wrong one. All messages show up in the usual way

My thoughts exactly. Why are you jumping to the worst case scenario? If this happened with my DH I'd think it was odd and ask him what happened. I wouldn't be lying awake at night feeling sick.
Why don't you trust him?

If it’s an iPhone this can sometimes happen. It happened to me and it happened to my manager last week. Go into settings, then messages, then under the iMessages there is send & receive. You need to tick which number to send and receive from. It is likely that both the number he wants to keep and the SIM card number are ticked. Untick the number he doesn’t want and it will be fine. This is all assuming that it is a technical issue. Hope things a bit better this morning OP.

When I got a new phone this happened with me. Sometimes when I sent a text it came from the number I had kept but sometimes it came from the number I didn't want that had been attached to the new SIM. If this happened with my DH I would assume similar. The fact your mind has gone elsewhere may indicate you don't trust him.