Woman opened fiancé’s phone to share vacation photos and found a LinkedIn message to his ex. She walked out that night — but it wasn't over yet
But instead of apologizing, her ex accused her of not showing enough affection and interest in intimacy
It's a routine task that every couple knows well: picking up your partner's phone to text yourself a few photos from a recent family trip, right? However, for one woman (u/accomplished_cat5721), a simple swipe through her partner's photo gallery left her heartbroken. What was meant to be a harmless transfer of memories exposed a late-night admiration text to an ex. On July 7, the woman took to Reddit to share her frustration and her final decision to call off her engagement. Her post has received over 6,500 upvotes online.
The red flag
The now ex-couple started dating five years ago, which eventually led to the birth of their daughter, who is now two years old. In October 2025, the couple officially got engaged and started planning for a future together. However, after a trip, the woman casually picked up her partner's phone while he was fast asleep to transfer some photos. Swiping through his phone, she stumbled upon a LinkedIn text sent at 3:57 a.m. to his ex-girlfriend. "Hi, just wanted to tell you that you're beautiful. I miss you more than life itself," the message read. Her ex-fiancé further mentioned he regretted taking her for granted and that it haunts him every day. "I woke him up, threw the phone in his face, and left with our daughter for the day," the author recalled. But instead of apologizing, the man accused her of not showing enough affection and interest in intimacy.
He refused to give up
Things didn't end there. The author broke off their engagement, but despite that, the man refused to leave the house. As for the woman, she argued that while he wasn't physically involved with another woman, he was clearly unhappy in the relationship. Moreover, the author explained that her ex-partner's former partner had been married since 2017. "In 2018-19ish, she left her man for this man. Obviously didn’t work out, and she went back to her man," she added.
Cost of online cheating
As it turns out, about 1 in 10 relationships have fallen apart because of a confrontation about "suspicious" phone activity, according to a Compare and Recycle survey of 2,000 adults. Meanwhile, a staggering 18% of people have caught their partner red-handed while engaged in a digital affair with someone else. Out of these, more than half, or 59% to be precise, have broken up with their partner after catching them. This perhaps comes as a result of 66% of participants considering online and physical cheating equally hurtful, just like the author.
'Stand your ground'
Nonetheless, more than anything, netizens were baffled seeing the man going overboard to reach his ex-girlfriend. u/Okay-Pumpkin777 wrote, "Reaching out to an ex through LinkedIn is wild." On the other hand, u/Dependent-Trip-5991 commented, "You’re going to get a lot of tough love, but unlike your ex-fiancé, these complete strangers care more about you than him. I’m sorry."
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