While TikToker Francesca (@francesca71775) was pregnant, her husband started having affairs with women online. Then, he eventually began pursuing their au pair and had an affair with her.
So, Francesca had always felt secure with her husband, especially since he gave her the passcodes to his phone. He also never went out on his own. He was always with her, and he worked from home, so she didn’t ever think he could be cheating on her.
But then, in October 2024, they had just come home from a date night when Francesca thought she saw something fishy on his phone. She asked to see his phone, and he handed it to her for a moment before ripping it away from her.
They started arguing, and he tried to accuse her of being crazy. After a week, he finally apologized and claimed that he had been texting a coworker about divorce and was sympathizing with the guy. He didn’t want Francesca to see it and get the wrong idea.
She still thought something was off, and he wouldn’t let her go on his phone again. She locked him out of the bedroom and realized his watch was in the room. She checked the watch and saw that he had texted the au pair about how cute her hair was.
When Francesca confronted her husband, he claimed that he was just trying to be nice because her uncle had just passed away. He promised never to text the au pair again without her.
She believed him when they started going to therapy, but she still didn’t fully trust him. He continued to be strangely protective of his phone.
One night, she programmed her face into the face recognition feature on his phone while he was sleeping so that she could continue unlocking his phone if he ever changed the passcode.
Two months later, on the day before Christmas Eve, he left his phone next to the bed while he was taking a shower. She checked all the apps and found an incriminating conversation between him and another woman.
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She kept scrolling and discovered years’ worth of conversations between him and two other women.
Even after such a terrible discovery, Francesca proceeded with hosting Christmas. She invited the au pair and her boyfriend to the party and didn’t let anyone know that she was dealing with a catastrophe.
A few days later, a new message from a woman named Marina popped up. The messages between her husband and Marina were way worse than the other girls’. He had been talking to Marina for three years.
She brought up the issue in therapy, and he admitted that he had been unhappy for quite some time. They talked about him finding a hobby he enjoyed.
She also never gave his phone back and told him that he needed to get a flip phone. He even agreed to put a tracker in his car. Furthermore, he kept his phone on the counter and went to individual therapy.
Slowly, they began to repair their relationship. But Francesca found out that her husband had taken the au pair out on a date. She never would have suspected the au pair because she was in a serious relationship with her own boyfriend and was almost like a part of the family.
“Clearly, she had an agenda to stay at all costs,” said Francesca. “Why else would she end up pregnant one to two weeks after I kicked her out of my house?”
By Emily Chan
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