Biggest threat to a marriage: social media.

My youngest kid was playing a game on my wife’s iPad and asked me to help him download a new game. I noticed she had recently downloaded FB and FB messenger app on it. Curiosity got the best of me and I opened her FB messenger and perused all of her convos. Mostly old chatter between friends…. BUT..

I saw one interaction between her and a guy she briefly dated for a few weeks before we met. But their conversation took place a year ago. We’ve been married for 11 years so it was odd she still was in communication with him. I opened it and was pretty upset what I saw.

He had reached out to her on her birthday, but instead of writing on her wall a quick HBD, he felt it appropriate to send her a direct message wishing her a HBD. She responded with a thanks! Only for him to strike up a “how have you been?!” convo. After a brief back and forth, this guy says “I was just thinking about that time when we where on my boat… ugh, so wishing we could do that again!!!”

My wife responded “lol, that was hot!” Ouch… He told her how she’s “a total milf” and that he regrets not committing to her back then. Thankfully my wife didn’t engage further and said “you’ll find someone!” “Well, if things don’t work out between you and your man, let me know. I’d love to see you sometime.” Was the last thing he said. Thankfully, my wife didn’t respond.

But it was a reminder to me just how easy it is in todays world of social media for temptation to creep into a marriage. And a wake up call that guys don’t care if a past fling, gf, etc is married. They’ll shoot their shot just to see if they can score. Beware.