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Imagine how crushed you would feel after finding out your wife of 14 months, partner of 3 years, was on Tinder. There’s no bigger betrayal than finding out someone who swore to be committed to you for life instead is trolling a dating site.
Now imagine you only found out because you yourself were trolling that same dating website. Instead of closing the app and thinking through the options, one man swiped right… and matched with his wife.
The couple matched 3 years ago on Tinder, the dating app that lets you ‘swipe’ left or right based on pictures and a short blurb. You swipe left if you don’t want to ‘match’ with a person, and right if you do. If both people swipe right, they can then chat and talk. Tinder is mainly used for hookups and short-term relationships, though clearly, some marriages come from it.
He says that they have been happily married, and he doesn’t understand why she was on the dating app.
The dating app he was on, too.
He went to Reddit for advice, claiming that he had only downloaded the app because he was bored, with no ‘intentions’ of anything else. This wasn’t the first time, either – he had downloaded it a month before while she was away again on business.
Tinder has a distance slider, though. You can only see the people in your immediate area, not anyone outside of it. So the question is, then; was she really on a business trip at all, or did she never leave the area?
He plans to confront his wife when she returns, but isn’t sure ‘how’. The pickle he is in is that he was also on the app, so his anger is fairly unwarranted. Can you be mad at your wife for using Tinder when you yourself were using Tinder?
