A woman has spoken out after discovering her husband’s disturbing online activity — a discovery that’s since gone viral and sparked huge debate across social media.
According to reports, the woman, 31, from Manchester, had been married for six years when she started to notice her husband acting “weirdly distant.” He was spending late nights on his phone, taking it everywhere — even to the bathroom — and brushing off her questions with excuses like “just scrolling TikTok.”
But one night, curiosity got the better of her. When he fell asleep on the sofa, she checked his phone — and what she found left her “physically sick.”
“It wasn’t just messages,” she told UNILAD. “He was joining private groups, commenting disgusting things under random women’s posts, and even pretending to be single to chat people up. It made me feel like I’d been living with a stranger.”
Screenshots from the woman’s viral Reddit post show that her husband had multiple fake profiles, each with a different name and photo. In one, he was pretending to be a gym instructor; in another, he was flirting with women online while posting pictures of “his single life.”
The post has since gained over 2.3 million views, with people from around the world flooding the comments to share their own similar stories.
“The internet has created a new kind of betrayal,” one user wrote. “It’s emotional cheating — and it hurts just as much as the real thing.”
The woman said she confronted her husband the next morning, and his reaction was “cold and defensive.”
“He said it was just a joke — that it didn’t mean anything. But when you see your partner saying vile things to strangers online, that’s not a joke. That’s who they are when no one’s watching.”
The story has since been picked up by major outlets, with relationship experts calling it “a modern wake-up call” about digital infidelity and toxic online behaviour.
As for the woman, she’s since confirmed she’s moved out and is focusing on herself.
“I don’t care how many filters he hides behind online,” she said. “In real life, the mask came off — and I’m done.”
