A woman has been warned her husband is cheating on her after she spotted something strange on one of her household appliances.
The concerned wife, who appears to be from the US, took to Reddit to share her suspicions – posting a screenshot from the app interface for her smart weighing scales.
Among the data shared to her smart phone is a weight of around 86kg (190lb), which she identifies as her husband. But another, much lighter weight is listed at around 54kg (120lb), which is recorded shortly after midnight.
Sharing the screenshot on the ‘Am I Overreacting’ subreddit, the woman revealed she was away from the house on the date the 120lb weight was recorded. She also confirmed she does not weigh that amount.
The wife revealed she and her husband are in a trial separation period after a strain was put on the marriage due to infidelity – but added they’d agreed not to see other people to ‘focus on ourselves’.
Although she said the reading could be a glitch, she ‘can’t shake the feeling that someone was there’.
She wrote: ‘This has been messing with my head, and I need some honest, outside opinions. We have another home that my husband has been staying in recently bc [because] we’re in the process of separating due to infidelity.
‘I checked the digital scale’s memory out of curiosity and it showed two “unassigned” weigh-ins at exactly 120 lb, logged at 12:25 a.m. and 12:26 a.m. back-to-back.
Among the data that is shared to the wife’s iPhone, there is a repeated weight of around 86kg (190lb), as well as what appears to be a much lighter mass of about 54kg (120lb) that takes a measurement at 00:25 – leading her to believe her husband was cheating
As irony would have it, the wife admitted in their post that the couple were currently separated due to infidelity but had made an agreement to not see other people while they ‘focus on ourselves’
‘For context, I do not weigh 120lb, and I was not there on that date, just my husband. Needless to say, I’m shaken. I’m in the middle of a separation from my husband due to past cheating.
‘He has been staying at the condo. And while I didn’t want to jump to conclusions, this feels like more than just a glitch. I didn’t say anything to him bc in the past he’s never taken accountability to the infidelities I’ve found.
‘I also want to protect my peace and not jump to conclusions. But deep down, I can’t shake the feeling that someone was there. The scale doesn’t randomly store numbers and he for weigh [sic] 120lb. It only logs a reading when someone physically steps on it.
‘So here’s what I’m asking Reddit: What would YOU conclude? Can a digital scale do something like this on its own? Or is this a clear sign that someone else was in my home when I wasn’t supposed to have company?
‘I’m trying to stay strong, but this is eating away at me.’
She then further clarified in a reply: ‘We separated and one of our boundaries was to not see other people but rather to focus on ourselves so we could then work on our marriage.
‘This other home is a family home where we all hangout on long weekends and such not meant to be his bachelor condo.’
Users online were quick to pile in on the brazen husband’s antics and sided with the wife, many agreeing that the suspicious log of weights points towards another person being over at the house late at night.
Some users online were shocked that weighing scales could keep a history and applauded the wife’s investigative talents
One user wrote: ‘Just more closure to finalize the separation. Now you can have peace knowing that this is the right decision.’
Another similarly said: ‘Why does it matter? You’re divorcing for infidelity. Sounds like he’s continuing on as if nothing has changed.’
One person responded: ‘If he cheated when you were living together, of course he’s going to have company when he’s living alone. I feel that’s obvious, and it’s a naive agreement that you believed in. He only agreed to it for the sake of peace from you, and so you don’t have company yourself.’
While one person wrote: ‘I think it’s pretty clear he had someone over. And 120lb after midnight – not one of his male buddies. Blessing in disguise, better to have confirmation now so you can proceed confidently with the divorce.’
However, one user was more sympathetic, writing: ‘I’m actually baffled at the number of comments saying something along the lines of “you’re separated why does it matter”. Separated is very different from decidedly moving toward certain impending divorce. Many times, couples separate while they figure out what to do.’
While others were more impressed with the way the wife discovered the cheating: ‘This is expert-level sleuthing. Men underestimate our level of intuition. When you confront him, he’ll probably try to paint you as crazy or paranoid. You’re not. They don’t get it – they could fart differently and we’d know something’s up.’
‘Damn. Never knew digital scales have a log. There’s no doubt OP. Get this dead weight off your back, quick,’ another said.
A minority of commenters felt that the wife was reading into the measurement too much, especially considering that it was perfectly round number.
‘I also want to protect my peace and not jump to conclusions. But deep down, I can’t shake the feeling that someone was there,’ the wife wrote
One wrote: ‘To poke holes in your theory, the weight is at EXACTLY 120lb, with no deviation. Every other weigh in on your app has a deviation of .2, .6, or is a whole number but never the exact same as the previous.
‘You say you want to protect your peace, and I understand people being mistrusting from previous actions, but you are doing the opposite of protecting your peace here, you are actively looking to sabotage it by trying to make these neurotic connections.’
Another agreed, saying: ‘I also find the 120lb exact weight suspicious. I mean… it’s not a 0 per cent chance someone is 120 exactly, but it can’t be super common either.’
But one person pointed out: ‘Could the scale randomly show you a weigh-in that never happened as a glitch? Sure I believe that 100 per cent. What are the odds that it would be a suspicious weight rather than idk [I don’t know] 20 pounds or 999 pounds or 400 pounds? That to me is very suspicious.’
However, there was a humorous side to this discovery as people online were quick to point out that they could see the husband would presumably weigh himself before and after he went to the toilet.
One user wrote: ‘I would like to point out that it’s also obvious from this record that the guy weighs himself before and after he takes a d**p.’
Another said: ‘I’m looking at the time entries of the 190 pounder — does he weigh himself before and after poops?’
From the screenshot, the weight that is presumed to be the husband’s often will take a reading and then not long after will take another measurement, which will be lower.
