A man discovered his wife’s secret Google account filled with 348 photos of his ex-girlfriend, revealing his wife’s obsession with mimicking her. Read on to know full story!
Reddit post titled “I found my wife’s secret Google account and I’m sick to my stomach” goes viral. | Image: Unsplash
New Delhi: A man was shocked when he found his ex-girlfriend’s photos in her secret Google account. He shared about the astonishing discovery in a Reddit post titled, “I found my wife’s secret Google account and I’m sick to my stomach.”
The man said that he met his wife Bailey (name changed) through mutual co-workers. “I had gotten out of a toxic, dare I say abusive, long-term relationship right before that with a woman Bailey had been acquainted with, but not friends with,” he said, adding he blocked his ex-girlfriend after breaking up.
He got married to Bailey at the end of the pandemic and the couple recently became parents to a baby girl. “I’m having a blast being a dad, it’s kind of a dream come true. I finally got my happy life with my perfect wife. My perfect wife! Until last Monday,” he wrote.
Wife’s secret Google account
His laptop’s battery died and he decided to use his wife’s tablet. He said, “We’ve never asked permission to use each others devices, we’ve always been open like that. There’s nothing for us to hide. That’s what I thought.”
He noticed that his wife had an incognito tab open on the internet and his life fell apart. He discovered that his wife has a secret Google account with a photo album named “XX”.
Nope, she wasn’t cheating on him.
The album had 348 pictures of his ex-girlfriend – the woman who tormented him and made him feel worthless.
“The album said it was started back right around the time Bailey and I started dating, and was updated as recently as two weeks ago. The photos range from candid shots with family, to pictures at her work functions. There were even pictures from her YEARBOOK, I don’t know how Bailey could have found her high school year book photos? Photos from vacations, ID photos from work, pictures of her in crowds, screenshots of videos, and screen recordings of videos. Just her,” he noted.
Wife turns herself into ex
Bailey had scribbled out other people in the pictures or cropped them out. There were other disturbing things in the other albums which made the man realise that his wife had been secretly stalking his ex “to the point of buying her exact clothes and changing her hair.”
His ex-girlfriend lives in another country now.
“Now I’m starting to realize Bailey’s new interests over the years were just my ex’s. Bailey has turned herself into my ex,” he said.
He added, “Everything feels like a lie. Our love feels like a lie. The things we share feel like a lie. I threw up and had a panic attack. I looked at our daughter and felt betrayed. I haven’t confronted her yet. I don’t know if I want to. I want to run away with our daughter. I want to print out all her pictures, leave them on the table, and disappear. I don’t know what to do, I just want to throw up.”
Netizens react
Redditors took to the comments section to share their thoughts.
One user said, “The only option here is to sit her down and ask what the hell is going on. Don’t let her bog you down by bringing up that you snooped. You did, don’t deny it, but that doesn’t compare to her cyber stalking your abusive ex and imitating her look. It’s creepy and I can’t even begin to imagine why she would.”
Another asked, “Any chance Bailey may have had something to do with your breakup with ex? As in, maybe she somehow manipulated the situation so she could start dating you?”
Yet another added, “Somewhere historically your wife has been deeply hurt and she has internalized it. She is feeling threatened, unattractive, insecure, unworthy. Maybe a comparison was made between her and your ex and she misinterpreted it. I see her behaviour as not “measuring up” to your “ex” in terms of how she looks and maybe her success too. Hence, she is trying to appear more like her. I see this as desperate efforts/measures to be someone she thinks you are physically attracted to. She has compartmentalized omitting the abusive portion. Now, years later, its grown into a compulsion and obsession. I most certainly think you both need separate therapy and joint therapy. I wish both of you healing, ultimately to move forward with a stronger marriage.”
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