41 Times People Got Superrrrrrrr Petty Revenge On Their Cheating Exes (And Yeah, It’s MESSY)
“I became best friends with the girl he cheated with. Not a planned revenge, but the best kind. I gained a sister, and he has to watch us thrive together!”
We asked members of the BuzzFeed Community if they’ve ever gotten revenge on a cheating partner, and ooooooh, their replies were wild!! While we can’t condone a lot of the behavior mentioned, we can still share people’s stories and let you form your own opinions! Sooo, let’s dive in!
1. “I commented his phone number on all the One Direction fan forums, saying, ‘Harry’s number leaked.’ He had to change his phone number three times.”
—Anonymous
2. “Bleaching his clothes seemed so trite, so I took it up a notch and dipped a Q-tip in bleach and bleached my name into all of his underwear, then dumped all his stuff on her porch. I’m sure neither one of them forgot my name after that!”
—Anonymous
3. “My ex’s bank statement came and still comes to my email. Since we broke up, he’s been wining and dining his new girlfriend; however, he was telling a judge that he couldn’t afford an increase in child support payments to his baby’s mom. So, I gave her his bank statements over the last three months. She appealed and showed the statements to the judge, and he now has to pay double what was initially ordered to pay!”
—Anonymous
4. “After I found out he cheated several times, we broke up. He was still using my Netflix account, so I waited until the show he was watching was almost finished. He had three more episodes left when I changed my password. It was a small thing, but it really made my day.”
—maximeg461d946b4
5. “I found out that my husband had an affair with a coworker over the course of a few months. We had been having issues, but didn’t think they were to the extent of his needing to cheat. I had previously found him a therapist to potentially help him with some personal things, but he neglected to go because ‘they had mutual friends.’ When I found out about the affair, I reached out to the therapist, who happened to be attractive, and slept with him. Let’s just say he and my husband have more than mutual friends in common now.”
—Anonymous
6. “I found out he hooked up with a girl he met on spring break in Florida. This was over 20 years ago, before social media and cellphones. The girl wrote him a physical letter and included nude photographs. I poured pickle juice all over the inside of his car, which he never locked because he lived in the country. I left the letter on his desk and put a Post-it note on top that said ‘F YOU!'”
—misspsychoscorpio
7. “My boyfriend invited me to his ‘homeboy’s’ house while he was house-sitting. The place obviously belonged to a woman with a cute dog. However, I am terrified of dogs, and he had to put the ‘friend’s’ dog in the bathroom while I stayed over. A few weeks later, I noticed him liking a lot of pics on Instagram. Lo and behold, a woman was snuggling the same dog in the same apartment. I commented on a pic of the dog and said, ‘Aww, so sad we had to put her in the bathroom while you were away!’ Needless to say, my boyfriend was dumped twice over in one day.”
—Anonymous
8. “My ex was a POS. He cheated with dozens of women. I found out, befriended the ‘other woman,’ and when he got her pregnant and ditched her, guess who became the new baby’s favorite aunt? She is now one of my best friends, and I met his baby before he did. Seriously, he was a POS, but since he has similar taste, his side chick and I got along AMAZINGLY.”
—danieller4306a3f50
9. “Not my ex, but I did this on behalf of a friend in college who found out her ex was cheating. She still had his key. So, while he was in class, I went to his house, made sure all the fans would come on as soon as he flicked the light switch, and emptied full bottles of glitter onto EVERY SINGLE BLADE! The living room, his bedroom, and the spare room all got it. In his bathroom, I left a lipstick note on the mirror that read, ‘You know why!’ I hope he is still finding glitter everywhere 16 years later!”
—kate3
10. “The ex-wife had Chevy calling me for payments on her car. When I told them she was no longer my wife, they said it was still my responsibility, so I asked them who was on the title, and they told me it was her and my best friend from kindergarten (who she was cheating on me with). I told them where she worked and when she would be there, and they went and repossessed her car. At the same time, I had her served by the sheriff’s department with the divorce papers. What a day she had at work!!”
—Anonymous
11. “Many years ago, I worked at a resort and began dating a guy who worked in the next office. He mentioned that he belonged to several dating sites, but since we were now dating, he was no longer active on those sites. So I began to visit the sites he mentioned and noticed he was active daily on them. I created a fake profile and made myself very enticing in my description on one of these sites. I sent him a notice that I was interested in him and asked if he would like to meet for lunch. I set up several restaurant ideas — all belonging to the resort where we both worked. He turned down all the local restaurants, saying he thought an ‘ex girlfriend’ (me) might be spying on him, so I agreed to meet him in a nearby city.”
“I didn’t know I was his ‘ex’ at that time, but it was fun trying to set up a lunch date as myself while he was trying to meet this mystery woman! He really squirmed and stuttered. I ended the relationship right after that.”
—jenderock
12. “I took all the stuff that I had bought from his place. He was basically left with a TV and a bed. In my pettiness, I went through the kitchen cabinets and completely emptied them. I even took the spices. I can’t even begin to describe my satisfaction when he texted me the next day, ‘Did you take the salt?’ 🤣🤣”
—whale_tail
13. “I was with this girl and discovered she was still seeing her ex-husband. I took a day off work and came home when I knew she would be gone. She collected Barbie dolls. I packed my stuff in the car first, then dumped an entire syrup bottle into all of her doll boxes. I closed each box so that it appeared that they were never opened. Since they were in the back of her closet, I imagine she didn’t see them until the ant/insect problem came up. She called as soon as she came home and asked where I was and why my stuff was gone. I told her I would just leave that to her imagination and hung up. I never saw her again.”
—Anonymous
14. “Not me, but a woman I once met at a party. She found out her (now ex) husband was cheating on her, so she had all his suits taken in half a size. Apparently, seeing his distressed confusion was excellent.”
—fruit_bat
15. “I deleted every song and playlist off his Spotify account (he’s a music lover), ordered over $100 worth of children’s and romance movies on his Amazon account that was still logged in on my TV, and treated myself to a shopping spree with his credit card. The girl he cheated on me with contacted me and sent me a screenshot of the card. Oh yeah, and I keyed his truck on both sides.”
—Anonymous
16. “I found out that my boyfriend of three years was cheating on me with over 30 women. I decided to use his mugshot, which I found online, to create ‘wanted’ posters. It read: ‘Wanted: lost dog. Last seen: following a hoe. Tricks: lying, cheating, and manipulating. If seen, please contact your local health department to be checked for STDs.’ I posted it all around his neighborhood and outside of the bar he worked at. He was MORTIFIED, and I have never laughed harder! Oh, and then I told him I hoped he got hit by a car…AND HE DID! He had to have surgery for a broken bone and everything! Best day ever.”
—Anonymous
17. “Not me, but this was a friend-of-a-friend who had been cheated on by her partner. Her ex-partner went on holiday, and the friend-of-a-friend put the garden hose under the bottom gap in the front door, turned on the tap, and OMG, what a mess after two weeks.”
—Anonymous
18. “I gave his wife (not an ex, a very current wife) all the IMs we exchanged. It detailed all his lies and cheating for seven months. He told me later, when he called wanting me to forgive him, that I cost him an additional $600k in his divorce.”
—kaylachinga
19. “I honestly suspected he was cheating for a while, but when I learned he was, it was still so infuriating, especially because he had been sleeping with my aunt! This was the kind of horrible story I would hear as a middle schooler and be shocked that these people even existed, and now it was my life. So, I decided if this was going to be sordid, it would be SORDID. I slept with HIS aunt. I don’t regret it.”
—Anonymous
20. “This is actually a story about a friend-of-a-friend who was cheated on by her husband. She found out when he bought extra Christmas presents using their credit card. She found out that he’d been buying some clothes for raves and other stuff for some early-20s girl in another state (they’re in their early 50s, by the way). We signed the husband up for Scientology emails/newsletters since they famously will not stop sending you information once they have your contact info. We found out the girl’s Instagram was public and had her email in the bio, so we signed her up, too, which I do regret slightly because the husband was the cheater. Shortly after, the girl made her profile private and took her email from her bio. The cheating husband has been kicked to the curb, and the friend-of-a-friend only has contact with him when they need to discuss their two teenage daughters.”
—Anonymous
21. “I scrubbed the toilet with his toothbrush and then packed an overnight bag for him and told him to stay at her place.”
—Anonymous
22. “I was cheated on, and then he brought her to my work for drinks. I worked with some loyal colleagues, and when he returned for his car in the morning, it was on its side. Sorry, not sorry.”
—dsw62
23. “My sister is a QUEEN. She found out her boyfriend was cheating on her. He’s one of these guys who LOVES his Levi’s and loves them tight. She got into his apartment, removed the inner seam on every pair of jeans in his closet, hung them all back up, and left. I still wish I could’ve seen the look on his face when pair after pair ripped apart.”
—Anonymous
24. “Not me, but a gay friend. He found out the man he’d been dating for a few months was actually married to a woman and had several children. Come Valentine’s Day, he has roses delivered to the guy’s office, knowing noisy coworkers would read the card. He signed his name! Also, he had roses delivered to the guy’s home when he knew the wife *would* be home! Oopsie.”
—kermudgeon
25. “I used cement glue and silicone to glue his car doors shut.”
—Anonymous
26. “Long after we divorced, I became close friends with one of her favorite football players who had retired. A couple of years later, I dropped his name to one of her friends to ensure she found out. I know it’s petty, but it still makes me smile a little. She and I are still divorced. He and I are still good friends.”
—handsatlanta
27. “I slept with his hot uncle. Oops.”
—sinn45
28. “He cheated on me and still wanted to be friends, so I instantly blocked every single new girl he started to date on social media, and when they tried to look for me and couldn’t, they got mad at him like he was hiding something. His next four relationships never took off after they fought about me.”
—silverwings713
29. “My trashy ex-boyfriend cheated on me with a girl who had NOT known that he was in a relationship and was super nice, and she was very angry at him. We decided to team up and teach him a lesson. He had a major hoodie obsession and owned more than 15 hoodies, so we shredded every single one of them!”
—Anonymous
30. “I went to his place while he was at work, and his roommate let me in. I apologized to the roommate, stating that I was taking back all the items I had given him — dishes, glasses, silverware, linens, and the new shower curtain. Also, I put some freshly laundered shirts that he’d left at my house, folded neatly on his now bare mattress, with the snipped-off right sleeves of each tucked inside.”
—ginnyjensen
31. “After being with a serial cheater for many torturous years (I was younger than him and so in love, so I foolishly thought I could love him into being the perfect man for me 🤪), I am now getting my just desserts! His 10-years-younger-than-me nephew has been blowing my back out for quite a few years now! Apparently, I’m now a cougar! Rawr!!!”
—Anonymous
32. “We were together on-and-off for 20 years. I suspected he was cheating, and I was right. I ghosted him weeks before I found out through my best friend. I didn’t bother to ask for an answer or respond after he knew I knew. They say revenge is best served cold: I had zero reaction (different from what he expected), lost 40 pounds (which felt like two tons after I stopped speaking to him), and I watched him make a fool out of himself with the woman he cheated on me with, who went back to her husband. He took me through hell, and three years later, I lost more weight, bought a new car, and got my dream job. His response to this? He hates me for making him look foolish.”
—Anonymous
33. “I became best friends with the girl he cheated with (obviously, she didn’t know about me and was also quite hurt by his infidelity). Not a planned revenge, but the best kind. I gained a sister, and he has to watch us thrive together!”
—avasexton64
34. “In high school, I was dating a guy who cheated on me with multiple people at our school — one being his stepsister. He was a football player, and one night at the game, I went out to his truck and keyed it from bumper to bumper on both sides.”
—Anonymous
35. “I dated this guy for almost three years. About two years in, I found out he had cheated on me multiple times with multiple women. For some reason, I was foolish enough to believe him when he apologized, and we stayed together, but I never fully trusted him. About a year later, I saw messages and calls from a random number I didn’t know, and he dared to call me gross. So, we ended things. Five years later, I made a fake account on Facebook and got this man to start talking to me. He told me all about his new relationship and how great it was. Then, of course, he started flirting and asking me to meet. We talked for a bit longer as he dug himself deeper into his cheating hole. Then, he described, in great detail, what he wanted to do when we met.”
“So, I screenshotted it all and sent it to his current girlfriend. Weirdly, he then reached out to me on Instagram to let me know his whole world had imploded, and he didn’t know why. Oh darn, did I do that?”
—Anonymous
36. “I signed his number and email up for business spams, and I put him on dating websites as a girl who just wants fun only, and said to send pictures to his WhatsApp. I booked him appointments for STI checks. I sent different religious communities to knock at his door to discuss conversion. I sent him an anonymous glitter bomb. Oh, and when he decided he wanted to see me again and go out on dates and tell me how much he was still in love with me, I sent all the messages to his girlfriend, with whom he had cheated on me.”
—tullulah
37. “He left his Facebook account open on my tablet. I gradually deleted his friends over months, so he thought no one liked him. I also superglued his front door lock, padlocked his back gate (and kept the key).”
—lucyec1980
38. “Nothing too wild, but after my cheating boyfriend and I broke up, I signed him up for every spammy email list I could find. He was also the paranoid type, and after he decided to sleep around, I signed him up for some newsletters centered around treatment for STDs and what symptoms to look out for. You know, just trying to keep him responsible while hopefully ruining his morning.”
—cheesemonster
39. “I sent his new girlfriend all the lovey-dovey messages he was still sending me. He didn’t like that AT ALL.”
—francescao3
40. “I was living with a dentist, and we planned on getting married. I found out he was cheating on me, and I decided to move out. Before I left, I took his toothbrush and cleaned the toilet with it since that was something he never did. I then cleaned his toothbrush on his bath towel and placed it back in the toothbrush holder. It’s been years since I did this, and even though I’ve seen him several times since, I’ve never told him what I did.”
—lmathai
41. And: “My best revenge is that I am now in a loving relationship, have multiple degrees, do something I’m passionate about, have a wonderful relationship with my family, live somewhere I love, have adorable pets and foster pets, and am happy. Last I heard, he is divorced and unhappily single, in a dead-end job he doesn’t like, broke, and honestly, I don’t know what else because I don’t pay attention to him.”
—userrname
Holyyyyy moly. Yeah, cheaters are the worst, but, uhhh…don’t get yourself arrested over their crappy behavior! Anyway, that being said, have you ever gotten “revenge” on a cheating ex? Come on…what did you do??? Tell us in the comments or share anonymously using this form.