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It’s never easy to stomach the idea that your significant other might not have been all that faithful to you, and even more so when you end up catching them.

But let’s take it one step further… and two steps back. Imagine your significant other finds out you cheated on them, when you actually didn’t, and they just misunderstood the signs, or train thereof.

Redditors have been sharing their experiences of being incorrectly accused of cheating, elaborating on their partners’ proof (or lack thereof), leading to anything from silly misunderstandings to a tad bit of crazy.

The now-viral thread with over 29,000 upvotes and over 40 awards engaged users to share and comment over 8,600 times. Scroll down to check out the best answers from the post, and why not upvote, comment, and share your stories in the comment section below!

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#1

36 Folks Online Share Their Awkward, Wild, Or Just Funny Stories Of Being Wrongly Accused Of Cheating My ex was incredibly distrustful. I was young and didn’t know any better. One day he confronted me saying he had proof I was cheating. I was incredibly bewildered as I am the faithful type and wouldn’t even look at another man. When I pushed for proof he admitted to having me followed by a private detective who had seen me get into a red mini. The mini belonged to a colleague who gave me a lift home from work one day. A female colleague. I ended the relationship there and then and chalk it up to a lucky escape.

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Lord Mysticlaw
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had a very similar experience. But I wasn't as smart. Continued for months with a relationship that slowly but surely became more and more abusive. (By month 6 I was not allowed to have friends anymore because he had accused me of cheating on him with every male and female friend I had.)

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36 Folks Online Share Their Awkward, Wild, Or Just Funny Stories Of Being Wrongly Accused Of Cheating She saw the names of my female family members in my contacts. She freaked out and angrily asked who my stepmother was, my stepsisters, my cousins, my auntie. It lasted about two minutes. She started to realize she was being an idiot, and I realized I didn’t like her anymore.

NOSRETTAP_RAPS , Jacqui Brown Report

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Jo Choto
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you don't trust your partner to know/have friends/colleagues/family of a different gender, then you really should not be in a relationship.

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#3

36 Folks Online Share Their Awkward, Wild, Or Just Funny Stories Of Being Wrongly Accused Of Cheating She heard a woman in the room laughing through the phone when she called me to accuse me of being out with another woman.

Turns out there are other people in the world and when you're out in public you just may encounter them.

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36 Folks Online Share Their Awkward, Wild, Or Just Funny Stories Of Being Wrongly Accused Of Cheating Other way around, actually. I was the suspicious one. We were a middle-aged, long married couple. I was looking for something on his computer (not uncommon. He had a better computer for some things.). I ran into a file called "bedroom shots". WTF!!! I KNEW he had not taken any bedroom shots of me! Opened the file (of course) and it was pictures of our bedroom, just the bedroom, that I had taken years earlier to use for a paint program that changes the colors of the walls. I had named the file myself when redecorating and forgot about it.

aeraen , Amy Ross Report

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Chris Scritchfield
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would mess with you. R*****g a file containing pics of car tires. Epic wood pictures of trees in the neighborhood. I think she got crabs pictures from different seafood restaurant.

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#5

36 Folks Online Share Their Awkward, Wild, Or Just Funny Stories Of Being Wrongly Accused Of Cheating She knew that if I drove exactly the speed limit and hit every light that it would take me 12min to get home after work. The one time I showed up in 14min was all the proof she needed.

Skinnee11 , Leonard J Matthews Report

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Mad Dragon
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How much time and effort on her part was spent on her researching exactly how long the drive "should" take? Absolutely crazy!

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#6

36 Folks Online Share Their Awkward, Wild, Or Just Funny Stories Of Being Wrongly Accused Of Cheating When my wife and I had 1st begun dating, I had a phone that had a bad habit of butt dialing. One day, she was acting very standoffish So I could tell something was up. I kept asking her, and finally she got really upset and started grilling me about who that girl was that I was flirting with on the voicemail I left her when I butt dialed her.

I pulled up my call logs, and sure enough I had accidentally called her the previous afternoon. While she and I were hanging out in the library. She was concerned that I was cheating on her with herself.

ETA we were high school juniors at the time. We've since ceased to be quite so jealous lol

blindfire40 , George Gillams Report

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Guy MacGregor
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For me, "ETA" means Estimated Time of Arrival. I fail to understand the meaning of it in this sentence.

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36 Folks Online Share Their Awkward, Wild, Or Just Funny Stories Of Being Wrongly Accused Of Cheating I have poor handwriting. I was running a business and someone suggested I contact "Till" about some sales. I wrote "Till" down in my phonebook (it was long ago when people used personal phonebooks).

I come home months later to the question "Who's Jill?" I don't know anyone named Jill. I am stumped. After a few rounds of who? huh? why?, my girlfriend shows me the entry in my handwriting. It takes me a while to place the name. I explain that it isn't Jill but Till, a man.

That was the end of it, but I never got over her looking through my personal phonebook for revealing entries.

In the end, we split 2 weeks before we were to get married. Till never did buy anything from me.

bicycletourist , Denise Krebs Report

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AxleMunshine001
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Till did you one better, he saved you from an unhappy abusive marriage and a divorce

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#8

36 Folks Online Share Their Awkward, Wild, Or Just Funny Stories Of Being Wrongly Accused Of Cheating Her "proof" was that I was friends with a woman in the same area on Facebook. I did volunteer work at the local hospital, I was friends with a lot of the hospital staff on Facebook. Her accusation came very shortly after my brother caught her on a date with another guy.

yankstraveler , Sarah Marshall Report

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Jo Choto
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

See, I have this theory that super jealous people are actually the ones who are not to be trusted.

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#9

36 Folks Online Share Their Awkward, Wild, Or Just Funny Stories Of Being Wrongly Accused Of Cheating She said “Look at me” so I did, then she started bawling her eyes out saying I’m probably cheating on her because “your pupils dilate when you look at someone you love” Stage 7 crazy.

Burnsiealex , grendelkhan Report

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Zedrapazia
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Your pupils dilate because you focus on something or because you are in the dark. Like cat eyes. Has literally nothing to do with love or no love.

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#10

36 Folks Online Share Their Awkward, Wild, Or Just Funny Stories Of Being Wrongly Accused Of Cheating She had a dream.

sudorootadmin , The Sleep Judge Report

#11

36 Folks Online Share Their Awkward, Wild, Or Just Funny Stories Of Being Wrongly Accused Of Cheating I told the waiter I loved his hair. At the time I had purple hair and he also had purple hair. I was just happy to see another purple haired person. He accused me of cheating with a purple haired waiter.

celestial_mommy , Jennifer Morton Report

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#12

36 Folks Online Share Their Awkward, Wild, Or Just Funny Stories Of Being Wrongly Accused Of Cheating Apparently the online support group for my father's brain tumor was a "chat room" for casual hookups.

Dad had the tumor. Ex had the insane jealousy.

Dad didn't survive glioblastoma.

Ex has long since been vamoosed.

doublestitch , Nika Vee Report

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Chris Scritchfield
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wait this was a family guy skit. A woman has an inoperable brain tumor and that's her boy friends fetish. Next olly with the weather

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36 Folks Online Share Their Awkward, Wild, Or Just Funny Stories Of Being Wrongly Accused Of Cheating This was pre mobile phones. I was at my parents house he tried to call and it was engaged, my dad was on the phone. He called his best friends house and his phone was engaged too! Clearly we were talking to each other...

zelda4444 , Billy Brown Report

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Daniel Marsh
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So fellow Americans, how far did YOU have to read to figure out that "engaged" means the phone was busy?

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#14

36 Folks Online Share Their Awkward, Wild, Or Just Funny Stories Of Being Wrongly Accused Of Cheating The mileage on my car didn’t add up by like a mile or something - apparently he counted it before I went to work and when I got back from work. I literally went from his place to work and then came back to his place.

DontStopMe_ , Pete Report

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Jo Choto
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Please, people, at the first sign of this kind of control, you leave. You have to leave.

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#15

36 Folks Online Share Their Awkward, Wild, Or Just Funny Stories Of Being Wrongly Accused Of Cheating She found a pair of women's panties in my underwear drawer. The brand was "Strawberry", embroidered strawberry on the waist, powder blue, size small. I told her they were hers and I had washed them. She wasn't having it. I told her to show me the underwear she had on at that moment. "Strawberry", embroidered strawberry on the waist, powder blue, size small. She still didn't believe me

patmcgroin , ewan traveler Report

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Yort
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not to be all femcel here, but it’s so irritating to see all these crazy bitches in relationships when I’m not in one despite not being a crazy b***h and I can recognize my own underwear.

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36 Folks Online Share Their Awkward, Wild, Or Just Funny Stories Of Being Wrongly Accused Of Cheating He had an Android. I have an Apple. He saw the heart icon for the health features on my phone screen and assumed it was a dating app and accused me of cheating.

munsiemuns , Forth With Life Report

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36 Folks Online Share Their Awkward, Wild, Or Just Funny Stories Of Being Wrongly Accused Of Cheating I had a girl cheat on me and she told me she did it because she thought I was gonna cheat on her so she did it first. Super hot girl thought the world of warcraft nerd was gonna cheat on her.

Lachigan , Quinn Dombrowski Report

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May
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yup. That wasn't a lame excuse, trying to make herself the victim, at all.

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#18

36 Folks Online Share Their Awkward, Wild, Or Just Funny Stories Of Being Wrongly Accused Of Cheating Because she hit *69 on my phone and a girl answered. Turned out to be her roommate, because the only person I ever called from my phone was my girlfriend.

NOTE: In the olden days, before cell phones, you could hit *69 on a landline and it would redial the last number you called.

jephistopheles , Leonardo Rizzi Report

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36 Folks Online Share Their Awkward, Wild, Or Just Funny Stories Of Being Wrongly Accused Of Cheating My phone was off while I was at work.

I work in an office where we are not allowed to have our phones out due to HIPAA and she knew this…

SenseiOnara , Kai Hendry Report

#21

36 Folks Online Share Their Awkward, Wild, Or Just Funny Stories Of Being Wrongly Accused Of Cheating I got a happy birthday text from a guy. It was my brother in law.

SnowballinHell247 , Steven Miller Report

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GlitterQueen541
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't understand the impulse to automatically assume anyone your partner is seeing of the opposite gender MUST be an illicit relationship... people can have friends!

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#22

36 Folks Online Share Their Awkward, Wild, Or Just Funny Stories Of Being Wrongly Accused Of Cheating Wasn’t sleeping with them as often so I MUST have been seeing someone else. Wasn’t sleeping with them due to me working an ungodly amount to pay the bills since they didn’t have a job at the time. That and I would work 6-7 12hr shifts in a row with a day break, and the last thing on my mind was exercise.

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36 Folks Online Share Their Awkward, Wild, Or Just Funny Stories Of Being Wrongly Accused Of Cheating She got mad because she found locks of blond hair on the bed

It was hers, she changed her color from redish to blonde literally overnight and forgot

Iperovic , Anniina Rutanen Report

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36 Folks Online Share Their Awkward, Wild, Or Just Funny Stories Of Being Wrongly Accused Of Cheating I went to Irish dance class, which I went to every single Thursday, then stopped to see him on the way home. I was wearing sweatpants, you know, to DANCE in, which was apparently suspicious and meant I had been out cheating.

tuxedo_mirage , CamelCrusher1978 Report

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Gabby M
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

♫ ♪ ♫ Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est? ♫ ♪ ♫ Run, run, run, run, run, run, run away♫ ♪ ♫

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#25

36 Folks Online Share Their Awkward, Wild, Or Just Funny Stories Of Being Wrongly Accused Of Cheating She has cheated so many times that she immediately "recognized" my behavior.

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36 Folks Online Share Their Awkward, Wild, Or Just Funny Stories Of Being Wrongly Accused Of Cheating She found a necklace in my bed and I didn't know how it got there. Turned out to be her necklace that she had lost and didnt recognize in the dark.

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36 Folks Online Share Their Awkward, Wild, Or Just Funny Stories Of Being Wrongly Accused Of Cheating They saw I was online on Skype. Thought I was talking to some side piece. I was talking to my cousin who lives in another country.

daughtersoflilith6 , Dominiek ter Heide Report

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36 Folks Online Share Their Awkward, Wild, Or Just Funny Stories Of Being Wrongly Accused Of Cheating I got a similar tattoo with a women who has been like an aunt/mother to me… she’s older than my mom would be…

Joseph4040 , Mark Report

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Yort
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well lord knows it’s impossible to be attracted to someone who’s a good deal older than you.

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36 Folks Online Share Their Awkward, Wild, Or Just Funny Stories Of Being Wrongly Accused Of Cheating A telemarketer spoofed a phone number in my area. Gf didn’t believe me when they called at 10pm and I hung up immediately . She called the number back and a girl answered. Next thing I know, I’m going through all of my call history on Verizon’s logs to show I wasn’t cheating.

bad5190 , Mike Mozart Report

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#30

36 Folks Online Share Their Awkward, Wild, Or Just Funny Stories Of Being Wrongly Accused Of Cheating My so called best mate told her so it must be true. It appears everyone in the village knew too . Except me and the girl involved. Slept with my mate to get her own back.

bikeymikeywikey , Clyktose Report

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Memere
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'd say the best mate had a plan & it worked. Hope he's a former mate!

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36 Folks Online Share Their Awkward, Wild, Or Just Funny Stories Of Being Wrongly Accused Of Cheating Her gut feeling

Mariuxpunk007 , Andrey Report

#32

36 Folks Online Share Their Awkward, Wild, Or Just Funny Stories Of Being Wrongly Accused Of Cheating I KNOW that you are.... sorry but saying it louder doesn’t make it so.

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#33

36 Folks Online Share Their Awkward, Wild, Or Just Funny Stories Of Being Wrongly Accused Of Cheating Because I hung out with friends without her. We were LD. What am I supposed to do?? Not have friends???

ZampyZero , abbamouse Report

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36 Folks Online Share Their Awkward, Wild, Or Just Funny Stories Of Being Wrongly Accused Of Cheating I responded to a Discord bot with a female picture. I said get f**ked to the bot. She saw the two bubble chat. Accused me of having a relationship with another women and said if I used that language with other women it’s like cheating.

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#35

36 Folks Online Share Their Awkward, Wild, Or Just Funny Stories Of Being Wrongly Accused Of Cheating I exchanged dirty pictures with a woman 2 years before I met my gf (at the time), while single.

LodgedSpade , Andrea Parrish - Geyer Report

#36

36 Folks Online Share Their Awkward, Wild, Or Just Funny Stories Of Being Wrongly Accused Of Cheating An old picture from before the relationship.

For some context, because I love my wife.and don't want everyone to think she's crazy, when we were in the beginning stages of dating she did catch me messaging a couple former hook ups, and made me s**t or get off the proverbial pot if you will.

The picture was discovered at a later date and reopened some old wounds. Completely my fault, but I didn't know she had even seen it until years later when we had one of "those" conversations.

MonkeyArms725 , Brad Montgomery Report