Lisa discovers a suspicious text on her husband\u2019s phone. When she invites the sender over, hoping to find more information, she gets way more than she bargained for. So, my husband, David, asked me to answer his Mom\u2019s call when he was in the shower. Routine stuff; we answered each other\u2019s phones all the time. After telling David\u2019s mother we would fetch her for her weekend visit the following morning, I put the phone down.But then, a message popped up that turned my world upside down. Please don\u2019t tell Lisa yet. We\u2019ll do it together. At that moment, I was convinced that David was cheating on me. I sat there on the edge of the bed, listening to the water and David humming in the shower. My mind spiraled to a dark plac,\n
David and I had been together straight out of high school \u2014 he was all I knew. And I was all he knew. But the thought of him being with someone else terrified and angered me simultaneously.That night, after David had showered, we both settled to watch a movie in the living room. But I couldn\u2019t concentrate on the sounds of gunshots from the action movie that David had chosen. \u201cHoney, I\u2019m going to bed,\u201d I told him. \u201cYou can finish the movie, though, before coming up.\u201d Then, I did something I never thought I would do. I snooped through David\u2019s phone. It was right there,\n
at his bedside. There were no love notes, secret rendezvous plans, or sneaky photographs \u2014 but they were talking about me. About where I worked and what I enjoyed doing for fun. And on it went. Without thinking, I replied. Come over tomorrow, my place, at 2 p.m. Lisa will be at work. The next day, as I sat in front of my laptop trying to work, I couldn\u2019t shake the feeling that my life was about to change. At 2 p.m., the doorbell echoes through my house, sending my heart rate into overdrive.\n
I opened the door looking into the face of a woman who seemed so familiar \u2014 but I couldn\u2019t place her. Her eyes widened when she saw me. \u201cAre you Lisa?\u201d she asked. \u201cI\u2019m Gloria.\u201d Panic set in. I couldn\u2019t understand why I was so shaken. Even if David was cheating on me with this older woman, I should be the furious one \u2014 not panicked because she stood on our doorstep. I held the door open for her, letting her come in. \u201cI\u2019m your mother, Lisa,\u201d she said. he room swayed as I struggled to comprehend the weight of Gloria\u2019s words. knew I was adopted \u2014 my parents had told me early on. They even showed me a photograph of my biological mother when I was pretty young. Tell me everything,\u201d I said, walking to the kitchen. \u201cYou were born out of love, Lisa,\u201d Gloria explained. \u201cBut circumstances forced me to give you up for adoption. Your father and I were only fifteen.\n
We were children going to have a baby. My father refused for me to have you. He was worried about how it would reflect on him.\u201d Gloria paused. \u201cMy mother tried to let me keep you, but in the end, he took you away in the middle of the night. He took you to a hospital and left you there. You must have been four days old.\u201d I silently worked around the kitchen, making hot chocolate as she spoke. I had always wanted to know my story, but all I knew was that I was left at a hospital with a photo tucked into my blanket. Inscribed on the back were the words Gloria Manson, 1987. We were about halfway through our hot chocolate and toast \u2014 my comfort food \u2014 when David walked in. \u201cOh honey,\u201d he said, looking at me. \u201cI didn\u2019t know how to tell you, Lisa. Gloria contacted me months ago, and I\u2019ve been helping her reconnect with you.\u201d \u201cDavid\u2019s wanted to tell you about me for a while.\n
I kept telling him not to,\u201d Gloria explained. \u201cI needed to get my bearings first. Up until last night, he wanted to tell you.\u201d That explained the text. Why did you both wait so long?\u201d I asked I felt betrayed. David had known for months. I know that he wanted to protect me, but there were just some things that needed to be told immediately. \u201cI was afraid, Lisa,\u201d Gloria said. \u201cHow do you tell your child that you were barely a teenager when you had her and that her grandfather took her away?\u201d I sat back, trying to figure out how I felt. \u201cThere was a photo of you,\u201d I said. \u201cIt was left with me. My mother showed it to me on my sixteenth birthday, but I didn\u2019t know how to do about it.\u201d \u201cI\u2019ve watched you from a distance,\u201d Gloria said. \u201cMy father recently gave me a few details about you, and through the hospital, I discovered who you were.\u201d From how Gloria spoke, I knew she wanted to be a part of my life. \u201cI understand if you\u2019re angry or confused,\u201d she said. \u201cBut I needed you to know the truth.\n
I\u2019m here if you want to get to know me.\u201d At that moment, all my anger dissolved. Sure, I felt deceived, but I had always longed for a connection between my birth mother and me. And here it was, the opportunity waiting for me to grab it. It\u2019s been a year since Gloria has been welcomed into our family. I\u2019ve discovered that my biological father lives in South Korea with his family, wanting nothing to do with Gloria or me \u2014 which isn\u2019t a problem for me. I\u2019m just grateful that my parents have allowed Gloria to get to know us all. And as for David? I couldn\u2019t be happier to be married to a man who always wants to protect me. Would you snoop through your partner\u2019s phone, not knowing what you could uncover? Here\u2019s another story for you. Corporate lawyer Josh champions double standards in marriage only to confront the repercussions of his toxic beliefs. He has found a mistress online to escape his boring wife, but his actions come back to bite him when his secret lover\u2019s identity is revealed\u2026\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Wife Sees Stranger\u2019s Message About Her on Husband\u2019s Phone, Takes a Risk by Inviting the Sender Over Lisa discovers a suspicious text on her husband\u2019s phone. When she invites the sender over, hoping to find more information, she gets way more than she bargained for. So, my husband, David, asked me to answer his Mom\u2019s\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":74623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[855],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-74620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-story"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/11-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}