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Would you trust your husband visiting massage parlours regularly and hiding it from you?

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Stargazer84 · 18/09/2026 06:16

Need help, I’ve been with my husband 7 months, it’s been perfect, and I believe he really loves me and I love him to bits, I’ve done everything to try and make him happy.

He mentioned when we met he sometimes goes for cupping therapy by a Muslim guy, and it’s above board and asked how I would feel if a woman did massages to him and I said it wouldn’t make me feel comfortable, he agreed he wouldn’t allow a man to massage me, a few months after he came hope with cupping marks and said he went to his usual guy, then he’s in the shower and a notification pops up from an Eastern European woman’s name I’ve not heard him mention, I questioned it and he admitted it was a new place, a woman near a site he was working at, I said that’s wasn’t ok to not tell me, he said she was sending him stretches on Watsap because he asked for them, I said that was a bit odd but he showed me the messages.

Months passed and I thought he wasn’t going for anymore massages, our sex life is great and I massage him daily! Massage has always been part of our foreplay and he likes his nipples to be kissed and down below. This week I booked him a surprise massage at a fancy spa for his birthday, then on Thursday I had suspicions when he left site late and sent me a satnav screenshot at a residential address he was driving slowly down, I looked it up and low and behold there was a Polish massage place at a private house, I could smell the oil on him when he came home and confronted him, he freaked out, said I was controlling for accusing him, that night I managed to hack his pin and saw the transactions on his phone, one £50 the one I suspected and one £55 the previous day to a Thai place at a different address where he was was working (he’s a site engineer on the road all day at different sites) I didn’t admit I knew this about the payments I’d seen and tried to give him chance to own up but he just kept lying about it.

That night I got into his iPad and his work watsap and found the whole story, he’s been going regularly to massage places, mainly Thai, some of which also run as ‘hotels’ he swore blind he never would go to backstreet Thai places as they offer happy endings and he said he did that once before he met me and felt disgusted and was only after proper deep tissue massages. I then admitted I had seen it all on his phone and he hit the roof, accused me of being controlling. I’ve since gone on his iPad again after guessing the changed pin and his satnav history, he’s searched or called massage places 27 times in the last 2 months, all different places near the sites he works at, he also showed me multiple payments some of which aren’t even legit names like a woman’s name then ‘beauty’ there was 2 payments to a woman’s name followed by ‘beauty’ registered on company house to a hairdresser in a block of flats in the city centre, I messaged the woman and she said she was a salon but there were massages at a different flat, and I’ve since found out via messaging she is an escort.

I went on his satnav history again and found the address and name of the place, it takes you to a directory of masseuse on a site called ‘deluxe massage’ and there’s pics of beautiful women, one of which looks like a pornstar, in tight dresses showing her rear like a PLT model, it says she does ‘Swedish and relaxation’ massage, I text her but she said to only contact on watsap for full details. She offers happy endings and shower for £120, normal massage is £60, u know he paid £60 after him showing me the payment.

She even sent me his watsap message saying he was after a 30 min sports massage back in feb which I couldn’t believe she went it, he says ‘nothing sexual just sports masssge’ she then sends the sordid prices saying £60 for relaxation massage and £120 for ejaculate where you want and have a shower. He swore blind it was just a massage and she was wearing ‘pyjamas’

I confronted him, he said he’s been to her twice but just for massage, he swore on his daughters life nothing sexual has happened at any of these massage places and he just goes to relax when he’s stressed, he’s spending a small fortune at these places. I told him he has a serious problem he needs to get help with, and kicked him out of my house, he’s gone back to his ex wife’s house where his daughter lives. He’s now blaming me for accusing him and saying I ruined it.

While I was doing the dinner for him and washing his clothes thinking he was working on sites he was also fitting in massages at all these seedy places on his lunch breaks or when finishing work early, some right on my doorstep.

I’m shocked to the core, I don’t know what to do, I’ve not eaten for four days straight, we rang eachother and cried and he asked if I want him to come back and I gave in because I’m weak and needy and he’s been here since and we’ve back and forwarded.

Would anyone put up with this? Could it be innocent? He says if it were sex or extras the payments, but to me £50-£65 is prob enough and we don’t know the massage duration it’s prob 30 min and a HJ or BJ or worse! And there was the one place he’s paid 2 lots of £50 and swore blind they must of charged him twice in error! God I feel so sick and still feel like I don’t want to leave this man! How?!

Update-last night I got all my evidence and confronted him, I asked him 3 questions based on the lies he told me before ‘did you know the escort was a sex worker, did you go after your dad died because you felt so low, did you contact her more than once? He’s swore all of these things to me for days on end, he swore to me there on then on his daughters life that all this was the case; it was a one off innocent mistake because he was distraught and needed a massage and was shocked when he got there and she was in ‘pyjamas’. I calmly told him I had evidence otherwise, I showed him the video she sent me of his phone showing he watsapped her in feb before his dad died, that he knew what she offered because she sent him the full details and even said she didn’t know what a sports masssge was but she can do ‘relaxation massage’ yet he still went along! And that he contacted her feb, july (unfortunately there watsap timer had deleted the July chat! And he also made an outgoing call to her in June, he looked shocked and admitted ok he lied but it was JUST a massage. There’s 3 payments this year £65,£60 and £61.50 and I think they’re all her, one I can link to her address on 1st July; other 2 are random thai sounded names that don’t come up alone, but on both dates he’s also contacted this woman but then again he’s also contacted about 10 different Thai places across the midlands so could be any! And what does it even matter!

I also asked him last night if he ever paid for extras before me and he said yes once he went to a massage place in Derby and payed for a HJ and regretted it. So he’s obviously ok with doing this in these places, so how can I believe he now just keeps his pants on and battles these gorgeous young women off his boner when they are making advances for extra money?

So he’s hid this all from me for 7 months, frequented the most seedy back street Thai massage parlours in the Midlands including one that my friend said is a well known brothel that runs also as a hotel, after saying he would never go to those places and only ever goes to reputable sports masssge places, and put himself in a position where women touch his body and try sell HJs and BJs and probably worse and every times he’s kept on his boxers and said ‘oh no sorry love! I’m married! Just the deep tissue massage please!’ And done this twice monthly! Sometimes 2 times a week! He even had one on a Friday and one on a Monday one week!

Im so broken! I honestly feel like this might kill me, and I’m worried how safe he’s been and if I’m just riddled and my life is over.

He says it was a mistake, won’t happen again, and if I have a big heart I will forgive him.

And this is a man who due to his religion won’t pay 5p a month interest on his savings; but will happy pay £200 a month maybe more to known sex workers.

Please help.

OP posts:
Oopstheregoesanotherhouseplant · 18/09/2026 20:50

You have two choices;

  1. end it now, rip the plaster off and heal.
  2. keep going, live a life like this - guessing, suspicious, at risk of STIs with a man who doesn’t love or respect you - until it ends and you have a harder and longer healing journey ahead of you.
Oopstheregoesanotherhouseplant · 18/09/2026 20:52

Stargazer84 · 18/09/2026 06:59

The whole relationship, we’re not officially married its an Islamic Nikah, it holds no legal grounds, no right to anything, just a blessing by an Imam in a mosque.

I own my own house, it’s entirely mine, he’s unofficially lived with me in it since end of June

You are in a good position financially. He will get nothing. The longer you are with him the more complicated it gets.

Pack up his stuff, leave it in the drive and change the locks. That’s my advice. You deserve better than this.

Pinkissmart · 18/09/2026 21:15

OP

He hasn’t changed, he’s been backed into a corner.

He will just do/ say anything at this point to keep comfortable.

If he respected you in the tiniest bit he wouldn’t have done this and he wouldn’t have lied.

Finally, none of this is your fault!!

Pipsquiggle · 18/09/2026 22:48

Get rid of him @Stargazer84

He's a liar, a cheat and probably a sex addict.

He's literally a cocklodger - in your vagina and home and all the local massage parlours - how lovely

Seriously, get him out tonight and get yourself checked for STDs

PotatoLove · 19/09/2026 01:37

Stick him in the bin.

hardshoulderr · 19/09/2026 06:22

You should've left him years ago

Imbusytodaysorry · 19/09/2026 06:27

@Stargazer84 i can’t believe you have to ask. I don’t think anyone would put up with this . At the least you know he gets turned on by massage and you bonus with together .
Yet you believe a she wants you to believe he attends for a massage regularly and it’s just a massage . Even though he attends brothels ???
op send the guy to wherever he came from tell him never to contact you again . Block and delete.
He will hurt you over and over if you don’t . Better to hurt once instead of torturing yourself .

FairyMaclary · 19/09/2026 06:37

He won’t change. He will just leave his phone in the car next to the mosque when he visits the prostitutes.

This guy hates women. He sees women as beneath him.

You, his ex wives, the women he abuses.

He no doubt thinks he is Gods/Allahs gift to women too.

Crazy to let him back, no kids, no real marriage. Dump him. His bed sit will be closer to the prostitutes anyway.

NewGirlInTown · 19/09/2026 06:38

I just knew this would be a Muslim ‘husband’!
Absolutely standard pattern behaviour, their cultural hypocrisy knows no bounds.
OP don’t entertain this filthy man any longer. Get rid today, so glad you are not legally married.
Get tested to protect your health, and move on. Don’t lie to protect him.
By the way, your detective skills sound top notch, you could make a career out of it!

Imbusytodaysorry · 19/09/2026 09:35

@Stargazer84 this is nuts op . You are writing massive essays each time on what he’s up too. Everyone gets what he is up too. You know what’s he’s up to he knows what he is up too .
At a mosque my area he is !
You are clearly a catch and he is a cheating lying scum bag .He won’t change . Rip the plaster off before this gets worse. .This is him on his best behaviour . Once he know you will accept anything he dished out he will be doing worse to you then he did any of his exes . Is this the life you want ???
Do you have real life friends you can talk to who can help you get rid of him and support you .

Naurrr · 19/09/2026 09:48

hardshoulderr · 19/09/2026 06:22

You should've left him years ago

I agree, but they've only been dating a few months. He's not worth a nanosecond of thought.

ExtraOnions · 19/09/2026 10:27

OP will be back in 12 months, saying how he changed for 3 months, but is now back at it.
….it will be another year wasted.

Stargazer84 · 19/09/2026 11:21

I don’t think he will ever change, he’s trying to convince me that now he’s searching ‘mosque near me’ instead of ‘massage near me’ too much of a coincidence he decided to go Friday prayer yesterday on his lunch break at a mosque literally round the corner from the undercover Thai brothel he went to a couple weeks ago, he also had his bank cards in his car. Park at the mosque leave phones in the car, walk to the hotel, pay by card, there was a notification of a Barclays payment at the exact time he was supposed to be in the mosque praying, I asked him to show his banking but I couldn’t see it as outgoing on either account, which I can’t make sense of, I checked both his accounts from yesterday and it wasn’t there, no cash withdrawals either

OP posts:
KiwiFall · 19/09/2026 11:30

I think you already know the answer.

Maybe he loves you but he doesn’t respect you and to me that needs to be in love or it’s not love is it?

I doubt seriously he’s just getting massages. In which case not only does he not respect you he doesn’t care about your health. Either way he’s also spending money which could go on your life together.

He won’t change as he’s addicted. Do you want this for all of your life with him? No respect, care, or money.

Throw him out, change the locks and get a STI test.

Allthatwegotisthispalebluedot · 19/09/2026 11:38

OP do you have support in real life? Maybe someone from the same community as you who will reinforce just how awful this man is being to you and how much you need to leave him?

You cannot buy consent. He is a cheat and an abuser and your life is going to be miserable if you stay with him.

get support and leave.

ChiliFiend · 19/09/2026 11:42

Stargazer84 · 19/09/2026 11:21

I don’t think he will ever change, he’s trying to convince me that now he’s searching ‘mosque near me’ instead of ‘massage near me’ too much of a coincidence he decided to go Friday prayer yesterday on his lunch break at a mosque literally round the corner from the undercover Thai brothel he went to a couple weeks ago, he also had his bank cards in his car. Park at the mosque leave phones in the car, walk to the hotel, pay by card, there was a notification of a Barclays payment at the exact time he was supposed to be in the mosque praying, I asked him to show his banking but I couldn’t see it as outgoing on either account, which I can’t make sense of, I checked both his accounts from yesterday and it wasn’t there, no cash withdrawals either

Good grief, how stupid does he think you are? Are you going to twist yourself into a pretzel trying to find a way to make his lies work so that you can carry on being in this relationship? Find your self respect; find your anger; and ultimately find someone else who deserves you and your faith and commitment.

1coconut2coconut3coconut4 · 19/09/2026 12:10

Honestly why bother tracking him? If he takes videos of him with 500 prostitutes saying yes I did it, or he covers his tracks well, the fact is you know he is doing it. You know it. You know he won't stop. Don't torture yourself obsessing about it. Just decide what you will do - stay and try to find a way to accept what he is doing, or leave. I know which one i would choose.

JLou08 · 19/09/2026 12:18

I like a massage, but there is no way in the world I'm going to one that offers sexual services. They could be the best massage therapist in the world and I still wouldn't go in there. People only go to them places for sexual reasons and no one could convince me otherwise. He's an absolute sleeze. Walk away and don't look back.

PinkWaffleMaker · 19/09/2026 12:20

OP I’m not sure why you’re having the conversation. Ask him to leave, the relationship is over.

Winter2020 · 19/09/2026 12:42

This man has had a string of “wives” and treated each one of them like shit.

Boot him out of your lovely house and back into his HMO. He hasn’t “changed”, he hasn’t “stopped”. He is gross.

Pipsquiggle · 19/09/2026 12:54

Stargazer84 · 19/09/2026 11:21

I don’t think he will ever change, he’s trying to convince me that now he’s searching ‘mosque near me’ instead of ‘massage near me’ too much of a coincidence he decided to go Friday prayer yesterday on his lunch break at a mosque literally round the corner from the undercover Thai brothel he went to a couple weeks ago, he also had his bank cards in his car. Park at the mosque leave phones in the car, walk to the hotel, pay by card, there was a notification of a Barclays payment at the exact time he was supposed to be in the mosque praying, I asked him to show his banking but I couldn’t see it as outgoing on either account, which I can’t make sense of, I checked both his accounts from yesterday and it wasn’t there, no cash withdrawals either

@Stargazer84
So what are you going to do?
Are you going to ask him to leave?

Stargazer84 · 19/09/2026 13:48

I can’t go on the rest of my life tracking his live locations it will eat me up inside, and the locations mean nothing if he’s going to leave his phones in the mosque car park or gym car park or anywhere else near a dirty masssge place when he has a spare hour

OP posts:
DropOfffArtiste · 19/09/2026 13:58

So tell him to leave and change the locks. What's stopping you?

Pipsquiggle · 19/09/2026 14:02

Stargazer84 · 19/09/2026 13:48

I can’t go on the rest of my life tracking his live locations it will eat me up inside, and the locations mean nothing if he’s going to leave his phones in the mosque car park or gym car park or anywhere else near a dirty masssge place when he has a spare hour

So again @Stargazer84 what are you going to do?

You have agency in this situation. You can decide that the relationship is over and get him out of your house.

He is using you.

iamnotalemon · 19/09/2026 14:04

Honestly, he is treating you like you are an idiot and sadly, it sounds like you are believing it. Kick him out and have some therapy to explore why you are allowing this type of treatment.