Man’s cheating accidentally exposed by baby announcement in newspaper

Explaining the explosive tale on TikTok, the woman claims she spotted a birth announcement in the newspaper with her man’s name listed as the father, The Sun reports.

The mum-of-four, who has remained anonymous, responded to the TikTok trend: “Tell me how you found out your ex-spouse was cheating on you.”

She declared: “I have a great story” before sharing how her marriage of almost 10 years allegedly ended.

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She revealed that she was in her office, presumably at work, when she spotted something very suspicious in the newspaper.

“At that time, in the newspaper, they would publish birth announcements,” she explained.

She went on to say that the announcement always included the parents’ names, the sex of the baby and the place they were born – and that’s where she allegedly spotted her husband’s name in bold print.

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“So, I see my husband’s name and some other female’s name – I know it was his name because it’s an unusual name,” she said.

Wanting to delve into it deeper, the woman claimed that she “looked at the hospital website where they also post pictures of new babies and typed in his name and her first name.”

“Sure enough, they had a baby boy, a few days prior,” she said, which is when she realised that not only was her husband cheating on her, but he’d fathered another woman’s baby.

She then learned that he’d apparently already had a child with the same woman prior, so they were actually parents of two.

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“They had a baby girl about a year-and-a-half before that,” she said.

“So yeah, that’s how I found out I was being cheated on.”

Confronting husband over having another family

In a follow-up clip, the woman said that she confronted her spouse, admitting that she was “obviously very upset”.

She revealed that her husband said he was working “overtime” but she suspected he was “probably going to spend time with his other family”.

While he was gone, the woman claimed to have packed up her kids’ things, picked them up from school and checked into a hotel for the night.

She went on to claim that she stashed all of her husband’s clothes in rubbish bags and apparently dropped them off at the home of the woman he’d been “cheating” with.

The original clip garnered over 200,000 views and people were shocked to learn of the man’s apparent “other life”.

“My mouth stayed agape after the phrase ‘birth announcement’ and stayed until the very end,” shared one user.

“My worst nightmare. Horrible. How can they do that?” said another.

Many people questioned how the situation could have gone on for so long without her knowledge.

To which she replied in the comments: “In hindsight, I [saw] a ton of red flags, but honestly didn’t suspect this during my marriage.”

This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission