Woman discovered her husband was 'cheating' after noticing strange pattern on fitness app
Of all the ways to discover your partner is apparently cheating on you, you wouldn't expect to find out on a fitness app.
And yet that's exactly what happened to one TikToker, who posted a video about her experience.
Megan McGee (@meg.c.mcgee) from Savannah, Georgia, recounted a time when her now ex-husband asked to go on a break out of the blue - which sent alarm bells ringing in her head.
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This sent her to do some digging, thinking something "bigger must be going on here" - leading her to check his profile on Strava.
ICYMI, Strava is a fitness app predominantly used by runners and cyclists to track their routes on a map.
"The important thing to know about Strava is it shares your map with people," McGee said, meaning if you have a public account or have opened up your account to your friends, they can see where you've been.
As a married couple, McGee was obviously following her husband on the app, so could see his tracked workouts.
"Looking back I even remember there being times when I offered to go on runs with him but he would make up some excuse about how he was going to run too far for me, I wouldn't be able to keep up," she remembered.
She refers to herself as an "FBI-like detective", scrutinizing Strava maps and realizing that it looked like something fishy was going on - she thought the data revealed that he was constantly running to someone else's house, leading her to suspect an affair.
"What I ended up finding out through the Strava running maps was that he would start his 'run' at our house and he would end it at her house - she lived probably half a mile away," she said.
Of course, maps aren't exactly hard proof of a partner with a wandering eye, but McGee said this helped her build up a picture of what she thought was happening.
"While this didn't tell me the whole story, it sure gave me a lot of reassurance about who he was cheating on me with and what he was doing all those times he was gone," she said.
McGee's story has obviously hit a nerve, racking up 154.K likes on the TikTok post, and the comments section reveals she's not the only person who's used modern technology to find out about a potentially cheating partner.
"I found out my ex cheated on me when the Airbnb host left a review about how 'he and Martha' were such great guests. My name isn't Martha," one commenter wrote.
Another chimed in: "I found out through the grocery story app. I saw that he was making purchases for items we didn't have at a grocery store nowhere near our home."
A third said: "I found out through Netflix because someone was binging Gossip Girl...".