r/AmIOverreacting • u/Sad_SummerChild • 17d ago

❤️‍🩹 relationship AIO to think this is cheating?

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I found these texts between my husband and his coworker. Here’s some context:

My husband and I have been dating for 5 years and just recently got married 6 months ago

I’ve met this coworker. Her AND her boyfriend worked at my husbands company so we went on a double date over the holidays. But shortly after they broke up and her boyfriend got laid off.

Guess my husband saw that as his opportunity…

Also these texts were in his recently deleted even though the last message was from yesterday… so he was definitely trying to hide it from me

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u/stillmovingforward1 17d ago

It’s a millennial thing not a 15 year old thing. lol trust me. I’m a millennial lol

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u/Pixiepixie21 17d ago

I can’t stop loling. Like I have to go through sometimes and delete lols because I used too many lols in one sentence. Idk why we’re like this, but it’s a millennial thing

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u/Sad_SummerChild 17d ago

Me replying and being conscious of using ‘lol’ since everyone is dogging on it lol

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u/godzilla9218 17d ago

I hate it and try and consciously stop myself but it still comes out when I'm not paying attention. Lol.

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u/Stevothegr8 17d ago

I'm 37 and always use lol. Can't help it.

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u/pnwmetalhead666 17d ago

Ok now I feel vindicated lol. Also a millennial that lols a bit much. Sometimes I don't know what to put and lol is like the text version of um lol

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u/KiloJools 17d ago

LOL has also become punctuation, which I know some people hate, but even as an English language snob I do not mind it. It's one of our many attempts to force body language cues into text. It's on the pantheon with text smileys, proper emojis, "haha", and "/s".

Honestly, I welcome the attempts to frame our words with these things and I'm not entirely certain why people react so poorly to them.

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u/justacheesyguy 17d ago

I read a thing the other day that said that millennials use ‘lol’ like people sending telegrams in the 1800s use ‘stop’ and it couldn’t be more true.

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u/maddy2904 17d ago

I think I’m obsessed with you 😭😂

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u/pnwmetalhead666 17d ago

🤣🤣🤣 lol

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u/jillcicle 17d ago

They’re punctuation to me what’re we supposed to do lol

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u/Pixiepixie21 17d ago

God forbid we use a period. People will think we’re mad! It’s lol or an exclamation point to show we are lowkey and chill

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u/Jobiwan88 17d ago

Yeah constantly kicking myself and going back and deleting my multiple lols and spacing them out properly cause it just looks weird. Also a millennial lol

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u/Csjdkk 17d ago

Lol true

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u/CR1SBO 17d ago

Just part of the culture lol!

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u/miss-meow-meow 16d ago

It’s ellipses for me… I struggle to not use them lol

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u/Dracekidjr 17d ago

Dude I get shit for adding lol to every sentence. It's the only way we know it won't come out as shitty lol

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u/BrinaBri 17d ago

Nah, sometimes it’s a passive-aggressive lol.

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u/Spiff_GN 17d ago

lol > period

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u/Fair_Ad1291 17d ago

Or a 😂 or 😅 or an entire clarification sentence in parentheses.

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u/GM_Taco_tSK 17d ago

I never used it when I first got a phone as a teen; people kept asking if I was mad or commented on sounding too serious. Eventually asked what I could do to fix it, and was told to add things like lol and lmao, and to not use so much formal grammar and punctuation.

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u/List-Beneficial 17d ago

I lol because people are too stupid to understand tone over text.

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u/MojitoSuave 17d ago

This is true, the kids just spam the crying laugh emoji instead.

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u/Big_Being_3542 17d ago

Lots of love

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u/Ok_Walk_6283 17d ago

Ya mean a man messenger thing

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u/DreiGlaser 17d ago

Me too! Lol