I Found Out My Boyfriend Was Cheating - So on My Birthday, I Publicly Exposed Him

A woman shared her heartbreaking experience on TikTok, revealing how she uncovered her long-term boyfriend was cheating on her. Devastated by the betrayal, she bravely decided to confront him publicly, exposing his cheating ways for all to see.

The woman, Carlita Victoria, said that the two had planned a trip to Charleston for her birthday weekend. Since the two were in a long-distance relationship, the boyfriend drove six hours from Atlanta to North Carolina to pick her up.

Carlita and her boyfriend had planned that they would stay at her place for a couple of days before heading to Charleston. When the day came to drive to Charleston, the two were rushing to get to the car and Carlita noticed that her boyfriend was distracted by his phone texting.

"So, I was like, 'who's that?' and he gets defensive and he gets upset," narrated Carlita. The boyfriend then told Carlita that he was handling his business on the phone, which the TikToker noted was new as he'd never done that.

This scenario made Carlita suspicious but they drove four hours to Charleston without an incident. When they arrived, Carlita began clearing her side of the car before they got into the hotel but then she spotted white sunglasses that weren't her boyfriend's. The sunglasses, which were under her seat, are also the kind typically worn by women.

Carlita asked her boyfriend who the sunglasses belonged to and surprisingly, he said he didn't know as much as his car was brand new and had only been bought two weeks ago. The boyfriend then said maybe the sunglasses belonged to one of his two female best friends.

Carlita asked her boyfriend to make sure he texted the two women to find out if the sunglasses were theirs and he promised to do so. The TikToker waited for her boyfriend to give her an update about the sunglasses, but he never did.

He ignored the whole thing until the end of their day two at Charleston, when Carlita asked him about the sunglasses again. This time, the boyfriend said that maybe they belonged to his esthetician who had been in his car once.

First, the boyfriend refused to give Carlita the esthetician's name and when he finally gave her, the TikToker googled and found that he was lying. At this point, Carlita was convinced her boyfriend was cheating. So, she kept watching him as he unlocked his phone, and each time, she learned his passcode.

On the day of her birthday, Carlita spotted that a number had texted her boyfriend in the morning while he was in the shower. She wrote down the number, hoping that it would come in handy in her quest to uncover that her boyfriend was cheating on her.

Carlita also decided to check her boyfriend's messages to his best friends to see if he asked them about the sunglasses as he had promised and said he would. She wasn't surprised when she learned he hadn't asked them even once. As she scrolled through his messages, Carlita came upon a text thread between her boyfriend and a woman, whom she decided to call Sally.

This text thread between Sally and her boyfriend included hotel links. The boyfriend was also sending Carlita money as they discussed where, how, and when they'd meet. Carlita reeled in shock as she finally had the evidence that her boyfriend was cheating on her. Since it was the morning of her birthday, and she was already dressed up Carlita wasn't sure if she should confront her boyfriend then.

However, she went online to Google about Sally and quickly found her. She realized the number she had written down earlier was Sally's. Carlita also got Sally's email and social media details. She drafted a message to Sally, telling her that her boyfriend wasn't who she thought he was, revealing his betrayal and cheating.

Still, Carlita didn't send the message yet as she wanted to confront her boyfriend first. She also made up her mind that she'd confront him in public at her birthday party. At the end of her birthday dinner, which was attended by family members, Carlita began thanking everyone who attended one by one as she went around the room.

When she got to her boyfriend, she thanked him "For the love that he's given me." Carlita also thanked her boyfriend for how he went directly to her family and told them how serious he was about their relationship.

"And then I told him thank you for doing all of that and being so loving and committed to me and then cheating on me. Now you can get up and you can leave," shared Carlita. The TikToker recalled that her boyfriend was smiling when she began her speech not knowing how disastrous it would end.

Carlita was also surprised when her boyfriend laughed immediately after she mentioned that he was cheating on her. She then realized that he was laughing because deflecting is his way of running away from handling real emotions. Eventually, the boyfriend was shocked as reality hit him when Carlita asked him to pay for his own food and get up and leave.

The TikToker smiled at him as he left as she knew she was done with him. As the boyfriend drove away, Carlita immediately sent the drafted email to Sally, revealing to her who he really was.

Carlita never blamed Sally; instead, she told her that the two were being lied to by the same man. Sally also reached back, thanking Carlita for letting her know. She told the TikToker that she wasn't the owner of the white sunglasses, which Carlita took to mean that her boyfriend must have had yet another woman.

Sally also told Carlita that she and the boyfriend were yet to meet and that she found him to be weird, adding that she would have canceled their plans if he was serious about pursuing them. In the end, Carlita and Sally ended up being great friends.

Carlita also spoke to her boyfriend's mom to let her know that her son wasn't a good man to her. The boyfriend didn't like when she did this and a week later, Carlita also sent him a text saying, "I never would have thought you would end up being exactly like the guy right before you."

After she sent this text, the boyfriend called Carlita. He didn't show remorse or apologize; instead, he asked her not to let the general public know what had transpired between them. Carlita refused to be silenced. The two spoke for three hours and Carlita had to demand that he apologize to her.

But even after he apologized, he went back on the apology several times and tried to gaslight Carlita. The boyfriend blamed Carlita for ruining her own birthday, refusing to take responsibility for the effects his cheating had. The boyfriend also insisted that he didn't know who those sunglasses belonged to, emphasizing that he didn't cheat.

Carlita eventually came to terms with the fact that her boyfriend would never admit that he cheated or offer her a sincere apology. She noted that sometimes you will not get closure from such people. The TikToker hilariously added that the best closure for her was that even the woman her boyfriend was pursuing did not want him.

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