One woman got revenge on her husband after she caught him liking his coworker’s selfies on Instagram, having found out what he had also been getting up to on his lunch breaks
Social media can hugely impact a relationship, particularly if your trust is tested after catching your husband liking a string of selfies on another woman’s Instagram account. This happened to one woman, and after her suspicions got the better of her, she sought out an obvious revenge.
The 28-year-old woman shared a post on Reddit explaining the situation and asked if she had been in the wrong for how she reacted to the situation. The wife first explained that she and her husband Tony, 30, had moved from a “beautiful mountain city” to somewhere which she described as “nowhere” for his promotion.
“He’s always been very work-oriented, and that was something I admired about him when we first met, so I agreed to support him and move,” she shared in the post before outlining some issues.
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She said: “After the move, I struggled. I have two toddlers, I’m socially awkward, and it’s hard for me to meet new people. The only people I knew here were a younger couple (Lauren 24F and Matt 25M) who moved with us because Matt works directly under my husband. Lauren and I were friendly, though not super close.
“One day, Lauren reached out because she thought I should know something. Apparently, Tony had set up a little ‘lunch spot’ on the roof at work – a canopy, blanket, the whole thing. But instead of eating up there alone (like he’d told me), he was up there every day with his 22F receptionist, Becky.
“Lauren even sent me Becky’s Instagram so I could see for myself. That’s when I noticed Tony not only followed her but had gone through and liked all of her selfies. That stung, because he’d completely left out the part about her joining him for lunch every day. On top of that, she’s supposed to be answering his phones, not picnicking on the roof. So it felt… fishy. Fishy enough for Matt to notice and for Lauren to feel like I should know.”
The wife continued: “I decided not to be mad at Becky. For all I knew, she didn’t even know I existed – which didn’t feel impossible since, when I once stopped by his work, some of his coworkers seemed shocked to learn he was even married.”
She then hatched her revenge: “So I came up with an idea: if Tony is liking all of her selfies, then I’d go through and like those same exact posts. No comments, no follow request, nothing else – just the same likes. My thinking was that she’d notice, click on my profile, and realise Tony has a wife and children. That way, if anything shady was going on, she’d know I was aware. If it was innocent, maybe she’d just think I was weird for checking her out. Either way I knew she would tell Tony.
“Well, Tony blew up at me. He called saying I could cost him his job with ‘drama’. He insisted nothing inappropriate was happening and that I was overreacting. But to me, it felt backward: actually sleeping with your receptionist would be what loses you your job, not your wife liking a couple of Instagram posts.
“Now he says I’m being dramatic, invasive, and unprofessional, and that I embarrassed him. But from my perspective, he lied by omission, downplayed his daily lunches with Becky, and made it seem like he was up there alone.”
At the end of the Reddit post, she asked for advice and whether she had been in the wrong for seeking out the revenge. One commented: “Nta I love this move. But now that Becky and husband are aware YOURE aware, I’d finally reach out to Becky myself. It’s pretty obvious he’s at least trying to have an affair, so I’d love to know what he said to Becky, whether she knew you existed, and how far it has gone.”
A second wrote: “You’re not being dramatic. Dramatic would be announcing it to the office. Him passing himself off as a single man is concerning and that other people noticed. Liking posts is not dramatic, his reaction is.”
“Absolutely NTA. Your husband, on the other hand, is acting shady. Thank goodness there are people in his company who thought you should know what was going on,” a third said in support.
In an update, the wife further commented: “I just heard from Lauren and she has the deets from Matt on what happened after I did the ‘liking’.
“Apparently, Becky didn’t see her Instagram until her lunch break WHILE up on the roof with Tony. I don’t know what her reaction to Tony was while on the roof but she came back down acting pi**y. She asked Matt ‘Did you know Tony has a wife?’ to which Matt was honest about because he didn’t know there was a lie he was supposed to be keeping.
“He let her know that yes, Tony is happily (haha) married with two kids. She did not like that answer. I assume she and Tony talked more after that and it couldn’t have been good if Tony came home concerned about losing his job.”
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