A side-piece anti-hero has gone viral for sharing how he defended the honor of his married maiden after her husband was caught cheating.
In a viral TikTok with 879,100 views, @xessvess350 says he’s been seeing a married woman for about a year. He knew she was married and had no qualms with it. (Nobody’s perfect, right?)
Things were going swell until a few days prior to when he filmed the video. He says he got a call from a random number. The man on the other end asked, “How long you been messing with my girl?”
The TikToker questioned who he was referring to and when told they were talking about a woman named Evangeline, he denied the affair and said they were just co-workers. The man said the TikToker didn’t have to lie as he had been following the two around and had seen their text messages.
“On the real, I don’t even care,” the TikToker reports the other man saying.
Confused, he asked the husband what he wanted. The man explained that he wants to take another woman out and wants the TikToker to entertain his wife in the meantime, keeping her as far out of the city as possible. He said he would finance the excursion by sending the man money via CashApp.
He gets revenge
That didn’t sit right with the TikToker. He says he found out what restaurant they were going to and made reservations for the table next to them using the husband’s money. He says they walked in while the husband and his mistress were enjoying their meal, and the TikToker looked at him like, “You think you gonna cheat on my girl and I’m not gon’ say nothing about it?”
In a follow-up posted five days later on June 23, the TikToker says Evangeline recognizes her husband immediately and calls his name. The husband, Henry, looks at the TikToker in shock, seemingly surprised that he broke their agreement. The TikToker confronts Henry and Evangeline asks whether he knew about the affair. He admits that he did and Henry tried to pay him off. At this point, Evangeline thanks him.
“I knew he was cheating but I didn’t have the courage to confront him,” she says.
The TikToker notices something shiny in Henry’s pocket and thinks he may have to prepare to fight if the man has a weapon on him. However, before things come to blows, Evangeline recognizes the woman, who had been hiding her face the whole time.
“My cousin Ethel?” she asks.
Henry denies the affair and says they’re trying to plan Evangeline a birthday party. The TikToker says this is when he pounced on Henry and procured intimacy-enhancing honey packets and condoms from his pockets.
“So, how you explain this?” the TikToker asks. The video cuts off before we learn how Henry tried to talk his way out of that one.
‘I love whatever is wrong with you’
In the comments section, viewers applauded how the TikToker defended Evangeline—though they were a little taken aback by the infidelity of it all.
“Now that’s loyalty. I think. I’m not completely sure,” one said.
“I’m confused, conflicted and inexplicably here for it,” a second wrote.
A third summarized, “This is one of those down is up & left is right things n it kinda makes sense.”
But wait, there’s more to the ‘cheating’
For those of you who were conflicted about being on the TikToker’s side, I have good news: There’s no need for a moral crisis as the story is likely fake.
For starters, it’s implausible that the TikToker found out where Henry and Ethel were dining, let alone got a reservation at the same time as them and at the nearest table. It’s also strange that they got there in the middle of the other couple’s meal if they had the same reservation, though perhaps they arrived obscenely late.
The five-day gap between the videos is also strange. Each video is only one minute long. The TikToker could have very easily uploaded the second part the same day. In fact, there didn’t even need to be a second part since TikToks can be up to 10 minutes long.
Additionally, four days after the second part was posted, the TikToker re-uploaded the first video—this time, in a different car. The car interiors seen in the original video and re-upload are both images projected behind the TikToker using the green screen effect, as evidenced by warping when he moves. He has similarly double-posted stories about his ex’s new boyfriend forcing his son to call him dad, hitting his children, and his ex asking for extra child support and spending it on her boyfriend. He also appears to be using the green screen feature in these videos.
Reposting and using a green screen aren’t evidence of lying. He could be doing so to protect his privacy and boost engagement. But the strange posting habits and frequent outlandish stories—like this one about getting kicked out of church for performing a wedding ceremony with his ex’s boyfriend’s mother’s ashes—call into question the veracity of his posts.
What should I do if I get caught cheating?
Setting aside that the story is likely fake, it’s unclear whether Henry and Evangeline wanted to salvage their marriage, given that they were both cheating. However, if for some reason they did, a marriage and family therapist told Medium how to go about that.
The eight emergency measures to take after being caught cheating are:
- Don’t go it alone: Get professional help from a marriage and family therapist.
- Get individual help:
- Get rid of your affair partner.
- Understand post-affair dynamics: Your partner will obsess over the affair and have millions of questions, which you should answer, despite the fact that they may annoy you or otherwise make you uncomfortable.
- Clearly and sincerely express that what you’ve done is a major deal.
- Disregard friends and family who will not stay neutral or are unsupportive of you working things out.
- Avoid thinking about the single life:
- Consider whether you’ll regret leaving: Statistically, you likely will. A landmark study found that 90 percent of people who divorced their partners wished they had worked harder to save the marriage when looking back on things 10 years later.
What else?
An important detail to note is that these tips are not for serial cheaters who only find one fault with infidelity—getting caught. Dr. Whetstone says you must be willing to put in the work to change as a person as just trying to be on your best behavior won’t cut it. If you’re not willing to change, she says your personality may be incompatible with relationships and marriage.
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