It's that time of the week again. We've made it to Thursday and that means we take a dive into the world of True Romance.
We're going to hear about a married man who has found himself in a tough spot after his wife and mistress joined forces. His troubles all started with a misfired sext.
Once we get through that, we'll be learning about the unexpected details of an alleged OnlyFans romance scam. It's a good reminder to ease your way into matters of the heart.
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All that takes us into some potential crimes against romance. With claims of marrying for logical reasons, not for love. That's not what we're all about here. We let our hearts lead the way.
Speaking of marriages, and logical reasons over love, when Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift tie the knot this weekend, will she take his last name, or will he take hers? I think that's a valid question.
If it is a marriage based on love, I wish them well. Even if it's not, it has helped romance this week. One of the annual traditions this time of year, Michael Rubin's White Party, was moved up to Wednesday because of the Kelce-Swift wedding, and romance was in the air.
Alex Rodriguez was caught sharing a kiss with an unknown woman at the party. It's good to see A-Rod back out there following his breakup earlier this year. Good for him and good for the romantics out there. I look forward to seeing them in the gym together very soon.
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Being married and having a mistress is all fun and games until a sext to your wife ruins everything
A married man who has been having an affair for the last three years is now stuck in the middle after his wife and mistress joined forces.
He wants to know why he can't keep both of the women in his life. He wants to do what he wants and have a great time while he's doing it.
His wife and mistress have other plans. After a sext to his wife that was meant for his mistress ruined everything, they want him to choose.
"I’d happily carry on with this arrangement until my dying day; only they’ve got together and are ganging up on me. Basically, they are demanding I choose one over the other and I’m struggling to make that decision," he wrote to the Daily Star.
A married man's texting mistake leads to his wife and mistress joining forces. (Getty Images)
Each brings something different to the table and compliments the other by filling in for the other's weaknesses. One can cook, the other can't. One can dance and has a sense of humor, the other can't do either.
It's a situation he had to know prior to misfiring a nude to his wife that was too good to be true. You can't have it all and that's why a mistake was made. He let his guard down and started believing he deserved it all.
It's a mistake that happens over and over again.
"My wife first found out about my affair when I accidentally sent her a sexually explicit message and picture of my naked self, by mistake," he wrote. "At first she was reasonable and said that she’d give me two weeks to sort everything out."
Two months have passed, and she's selfishly wanting a decision to be made. The women have contacted one another and the heat is on. He doesn't want to sell his house, fork over money for a divorce and give her half his pension.
"Why can’t she simply turn a blind eye and pretend nothing is happening like they do in other cultures?," he understandably asks.
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You know, I want to go against this guy, but he's had a three-year taste of the good life. A life full of romance, and he doesn't want to let that go without a fight. He could have approached this much differently.
He could have said that he wanted neither of them. He didn't. By not choosing one over the other, he's saying he wants both.
There is something special there. I don’t want there to be, but there is, and I'm a big enough person to recognize that. Are his wife and mistress?
I don't know.
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An alleged OnlyFans romance scam lands man in hot water
You think OnlyFans scam, and you think a man is throwing away his life savings on a model. Or someone is catfishing someone and having them empty their bank account.
That's what I thought at first, but that's not what is being alleged here. The alleged victim is a woman who started out as a paying customer of the man being accused of being the romance scammer, reports WRNJ.
The State of New Jersey is seeking the forfeiture of vehicles, electronic devices, and financial documents and has filed a complaint in Hunterdon County Superior Court.
The woman alleges that the relationship between her and the content creator started out as many do on OnlyFans. She was purchasing sexual content from him. Then the messages became more personal in nature at the end of 2024 into early 2025.
An alleged OnlyFans romance scammer has been charged in New Jersey. (SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
According to the complaint, she believed that the two had a future together and that her shelling out money for content and several personal items were all part of an "investment" in their future.
Someone told her that wasn't the case. That person alleged that her content creating online romantic interest was operating an organization to make women believe they were in romantic relationships while cashing in.
There were tens of thousands of dollars sent to him, the complaint alleges, for things like dental work, a pickup truck, a motorcycle and to fund a legitimate social media career and future together.
There are allegedly others out there who sent money to him and the alleged OnlyFans romance scammer was charged with "theft by deception, financial facilitation of criminal activity and falsifying or tampering with records."
You love the enthusiasm for romance, but this serves as a reminder that you can't trust everyone you're purchasing sexual content from on the internet. I wish that wasn't the case, but it's a sad reality.
Choosing logical choice over love?
Believe it or not, there are people out there marrying a logical choice and not someone they love. They're not locking eyes with someone across a bar and following the butterflies into an eventual relationship.
They're marrying for central heat, health insurance and because the person has a car. They're skipping right over the part where you let the passion in a relationship burn out over many years of marriage.
There's no passion, so there are no complications that come along with that. I don't want to say that these people need to be jailed for crimes against romance, but these people need to be jailed for crimes against romance.
Here are some of the responses to the Reddit question: People who didn’t choose a partner for love but chose a partner that was a good logical choice, how did it work out?
- chose someone i genuinely liked as a person before i ever thought of them romantically. figured if everything else fell apart id still have someone i actually enjoyed being around. been 9 years and honestly the friendship underneath everything is what makes the hard parts survivable.
- I asked my grandma how did she know grandpa was the one? She said he had a car and a job. Over 65 years together.
- I’m the product of an agreement between my parents that they’d marry so my dad could keep his married man’s tax allowance and also live in my mum’s house which had central heating (he’d been living with my grandparents during his separation from his first wife, and they didn’t have central heating) and if they were still happy with each other after a few years they’d have one child. I’m in my late thirties and they’re still together, so maybe it wasn’t a great romantic story but it clearly worked out well for them.
- It’ll be 20 years soon and it’s a stable relationship. My partner is a wonderful parent. Movies and books make me feel like I missed out on some great love story, but I have no idea if that was actually ever in the cards for me.
- I made a choice to only fall in love with people who were a good logical choice. When I met my husband, I knew he was the one, and I’ve been having the best time falling more in love with him every day since.
- I got cancer, got married for the health insurance. But I found that I love this person with every fiber of my being. A good solid caregiver, parent and lover. He is hilarious and has terrific hobbies. He loves his work. He is just an amazing human. I got so lucky.
- I did, I guess. We definitely loved each other, and we were a good match, but I never felt the butterflies. It was a stable, mature relationship... until a few years later when he left me for someone 20 years younger and married her within a year.
- I'm six years into a marriage like this. It's very much a pendulum. On most days, I appreciate the stability and acknowledge my life would be a lot messier had I pursued something more passionate. Other days, I crave the fiery romance and it leads to resentment and picking unnecessary fights.
- I married my best friend, I developed romantic love for him, he developed resentments. 5 years later, he met the "love of his life" on the internet, moved across the country to be with her. Left me & our 2 sons behind. He did marry her eventually, and came around to being an involved Dad. I thought I was being logical, putting any shallow desires aside. Now I vowed to never settle again.
- I'm an artist. I always daydreamed about the intense and kind of toxic artist with artist relationship where I could collaborate with my romantic partner, sort of like Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. I ended up marrying an engineer with a very steady job and income. I have no regrets.
- It's great. We have scheduled physical contact every fiscal quarter and our Excel spreadsheets are perfectly synchronized.
- Married for 13 and have a 11 yo. We both felt like we could have found someone "better" but time was running out. Our day to day is predictable and stable. We don’t have these wild romantic feelings like having butterflies in our stomachs and all that but I think that’s ok. Our bedroom is obviously dormant and dead, but that’s ok too. It’s a peaceful albeit boring life.
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- Tom writes:
I don't know if you can understand this but in the early 70s and into the disco era and early 80s if you were a really smooth dancer and good looking you had as much sex with as many different women as you could handle. I was known from Cleveland to Youngstown to Pittsburgh for my dance moves (think Soul Train and Saturday Night Fever) and after an hour of dancing on a lighted dance floor at Holiday Wildlife in Youngstown, Ohio my dance partner put her arms around me and said, "You just reek of sex."
Another time I was at the Stable Pit and Pub dance club near Meadville, Pa and was drinking more heavily than normal, picked up this chick and we were going to her house. I got to my car, said excuse me and went to the rear and hurled. I was pretty dizzy when she walked over and asked, "Can you still get it up?" I was stunned, I mean, I had just vomited and she STILL wanted sex. I just shook my head "No" and said, "You drive." I slept on her couch.
My friends and I attended a Black Oak Arkansas concert in Warren, Ohio in the 70s. We were standing near the front center stage and Jim Dandy, Ruby Starr and the boys were going to town rocking. This girl in front of me backed up and started pushing her butt against my crotch. She got the reaction from my 25 year body that she was hoping for and never stopped grinding nor looked at me for the full hour and fifteen minutes. When the concert was over, she finally turned to me, smiled and said, "Thanks for a wonderful evening" as if we had been on a date and walked away.
I miss that time period.
SeanJo
Tom, I have a feeling this is just the tip of the iceberg. Feel free to send in more of your stories of romance.
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That will do it for this week. We'll do it again next week. Feel free to reach out, anonymously if you prefer, at [email protected].
Send me whatever you want. I get plenty of hate mail as it is and yours will be a welcomed addition to the pile.
Sean Joseph is a writer for OutKick.
