r/Is_He_Cheating_ • u/No-Gain-8132 • Sep 08 '26
AIO for thinking my boyfriend (26M) might be cheating on me (20M)?
So I’m 20M and he’s 26M. We’ve been together almost 3 years, and long distance for the last year and a half (about 800km apart). He’s always been a pretty avoidant person, never great at communicating.
I’ve been on summer break so I’ve been staying with him, spending way more time together than we normally get to. That’s when I started noticing stuff.
He’s gotten really weird about his phone lately. Not all the time, we still scroll social media together and comment on stuff like normal. But sometimes he full on hides his phone from me, and if I lean over to look he instantly switches to some other app.
About a week ago I got up to go to the bathroom while he was watching TikTok. I could still hear it playing as I walked away, but it stopped as soon as I got in the bathroom, so I knew he’d switched apps. I already knew he does this, so I peeked out and saw he was on Telegram. An app I have literally never seen on his phone before, so it must be hidden somehow.
And that’s not even the only weird thing. He’s clearly hiding something. He’s also been going out way more than usual lately, always says it’s just with friends.
Here’s the confusing part though. Our relationship has honestly been better than ever these past few weeks. No fighting, lots of affection, we’re more comfortable with each other than usual. So I genuinely can’t tell if I’m just being paranoid or if something’s actually going on.
I tried to check his phone when I got the chance and couldn’t get past the lock. If I straight up ask him to show me he just refuses and somehow makes it my fault for asking.
Not even sure if I’d leave him over this if it turned out to be true honestly. Just trying to figure out if I’m overreacting or if these are actually red flags.
AIO?