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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/TheUniballer321 on 2024-11-18 14:44:47+00:00.

Happened last night, was at a get together with my wife, her friends celebrating the hosts birthday. His wife and my wife have been friends for years and teach together.

She has an Alexa screen and realized it was giving them updates on orders, including contents. Not wanting to ruin Christmas surprises for her kids and asked if I knew how to fix it. Told her I did (had same concern with our kids) and took her phone to turn off the shipping notifications.

While I had her iphone a message notification pops up with the header “My wife’s name Swallows”, like “Jane Smith Swallows”. Wife’s friends next to me so don’t open the thread and start snooping but internally I’m obviously very concerned. I decide either

1. My wife’s friend actually hates her mean girls style

Or

1. My wife’s in the group and done something to gain said title

I manage not to say anything and just focus on having a couple beers and watching the NFL game. I’m thinking “well yeah she does occasionally but our sex life isn’t that noteworthy, is she cheating” etc.

We get home and she starts bathing my daughter. I ask for her phone (she gives it to me no problem) and I open the messaging app. I immediately see a group chat called “swallows”.

I ask her why it’s called that, apparently there was an inside joke where one of them thought they saw bats in the backyard and another told them they were clearly swallows. I didn’t realize that when you text a group chat the notification is “Sender Name Groupname”. She had been texting her friend from the kitchen so it popped up displaying Wife’s name swallows. Naturally she died laughing and shared my mistake with everyone else.

TL;DR: was using a phone belonging to my wife’s friend and co worker. A notification for a group chat comes up that says “OP’s Wife’s Name swallows”. I spend the evening stressed she cheated on me, turns out it was her texting a group chat called “swallows” named after a bird related inside joke.

Update: OMG SHE WAS REALLY CHEATING just kidding i know it’s funny but quick disclaimer - most of the relationship stories on Reddit are fake and the real ones are posted because of heartbreak, so don’t get tricked into thinking every guy gets cheated on. Go out there and pursue a relationship without being possessive and paranoid. We’ve been married for 11 years have two kids and share everything, password and locations. We’ve had our ups and downs but love each other and would never step out, this was just a humorous story of seeing something glaringly sexual on its surface about my wife that ended up completely innocent. I even asked if they did it as a joke so it’d say “X swallows” whenever one of them sent a message and it never clicked with them. I asked her how she would feel if she borrowed one of my employees phone and “TheUniballer eats ass” popped up and she was howling laughing but understands why I was concerned for a moment.