What’s worse in a relationship than a man cheating on you? A man trying to cheat on you and failing—not because he had a Saul in Damascus moment but because nobody else wants him. Sherry wasn’t prepared for what she found when she looked through her boyfriend’s phone. Barry and Sherry had been dating for almost a year. Barry didn’t use a password to unlock his phone, so Sherry didn’t think he was hiding stuff from him.
She had no reason to go through his phone because he wasn’t acting dodgy, but we can blame it on a ‘spirit of curiosity’ that told her to check his phone. People in relationships often talk about having access to the partner’s phone, and many cite having passwords and strange behaviour as indicators of cheating. However, Sherry hadn’t noticed any of that from Barry, so when she decided to go through his phone, she didn’t expect to find anything.
It didn’t take long for her to find something. The first message thread she came across was between Barry and a woman whose user name was Aphrodisiac. The name was enough to raise Sherry’s hair. She felt her heart race as she began reading through the messages. Barry was asleep in the bedroom, and she was fully engaged in snooping on the couch in the living room. The first part that stung was that Barry had reached out to Aphrodisiac. He had initiated their conversations.
Aphrodisiac’s Instagram page was public, so Sherry could see her posts. Most of them were thirst traps, with her showcasing her ample bosom and the curves associated with African women. Barry seemed to have seen them too and wanted ‘a piece’ of that as he had texted the woman. Sherry read through more messages in the thread, and it appeared Barry was always the one trying to hit on the girl, but she wasn’t responsive. Sherry experienced a feeling that she couldn’t describe.
After reading the chats with Aphrodisiac, she ended up down a rabbit hole. She went through all the messages. Barry had been reaching out to many women and girls on the platform. Three more responded to his messages, but many ignored him and his advances. At least two other girls blocked him. Sherry felt like she had been stabbed in her chest.
She hurriedly opened the threads with women who responded to Barry. She took screenshots of the messages and sent them to her phone, then returned the phone where Barry had placed it. Sherry didn’t go back to bed with Barry but instead spent the rest of the night analyzing the messages. She looked at the periods that Barry had exchanges with these women. It started happening five months into their relationship.
Sherry also analyzed the similarities between the women he had contacted to understand why Barry would do that. She couldn’t find any real connection. The women were diverse in their physiques and online personas. Then, finally, she realized that while Barry had hit on all these women, none of them had seemed interested in him.
Barry found her seated in the living room when he woke up.
“Babe, what time did you wake up?” Barry asked Sherry.
Sherry didn’t respond but shot him a look, indicating anger.
“What’s wrong, Sherry? Why are you looking at me like that?” Barry asked Sherry.
“Aphrodisiac, Mweni, Amanda, Karen and the list goes on and on,” Sherry told Barry with a look of disgust.
“Babe, what are you talking about?” Barry asked her, looking shocked.
“Don’t pretend you don’t know what I’m talking about,” said Sherry as she grabbed his phone and opened the messages.
“You went through my phone?” Barry asked her.
“It seems I should have started doing it a long time ago. I would have been saved the humiliation of a man who hits on anyone and everything,” Sherry told him.
“Babe, that’s an invasion of my privacy,” Barry told Sherry.
“Privacy, Barry? Is that the point here? I don’t know what’s worse, you hit on all of these women or that none of them fell for you,” Sherry yelled.
“Babe, I did nothing with them. It was just harmless flirting,” Barry defended himself.
“Yes, nothing happened because they wouldn’t let it happen,” Sherry told Barry.
“I’m sorry, Sherry. I’ll not do it again,” Barry told Sherry, and he went to his knees.
Sherry felt disgusted by him. She knew she could never see him in the same light after the discovery. His pleas for forgiveness felt pathetic, and she kept thinking that she was with a man who had been rejected by the women he had wanted to cheat on her with. It made her feel like the loser who fell for the guy. She took her things, left Barry’s house and ended the relationship.
This story was inspired by a story on Twitter which you can find here – a confession on X.
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