Right, so my best friend and I were going to use my father's phone for a phone call (because the home phone sucks) and when we opened it there was a text message. No big deal, --it was to someone we knew-- Amy. She's our "roommate" in our house. Been living there since she divorced her husband. But the problem was the messages contents... It said things like "That was perfect. With the rain and thunder... The release..." And others such as, "I was soaking wet. It felt so good with you inside me." Yeah. Ew.

Anyway, I took the phone downstairs and confronted him about it and said, "What is this?" And showed him the phone. He responded with, "What, what am I looking at?"
I said, "These messages, with Amy calling you love?"

"Amy calls everyone love."

"Okay, but what about these?"
I show him the more 'explicit' messages and he say, "I still don't know what I'm looking at."

I say, "Is there, like, something going on?"

"No." He claims, and proceeds to 'subtly' delete the message thread.

I say, "Can you at least tell me the context, because this looks bad!"

He says, "This is old, I dunno the context!"
Cept' a little further down there was a message referring to something that only happened a few days prior.

By now I'm pretty sure something is up, and he says he has to go to the bathroom. He then tried to take the phone to the bathroom and I say, "Ew, don't bring your phone to the bathroom." Of which I spend that fifteen seconds snooping. (Yes, I know it's wrong, but I did it anyway.) And that really just confirmed it...

Now, I REALLY want to talk to Amy about it-- of which I intend too-- but what about my mother? She's under enough stress, and as far as I know it might not be what it sounds like... Then again, she and I had our suspicions, and I really want to deny it, but I'm not that type of person. I talked to my best friend about it, and she thinks he's cheating, too.

So what should I do? Honestly, it's been stressing me out, and I could use some advice... I... If I do tell my mom, I really don't know how to break it to her-- let alone if I should... So if you could tell me how, that'd be great, thanks... If you have questions, just ask, so I may clear it up.

One, tell your dad to tell you the truth, if he is cheating then you cannot tell your mom about, that is for your tell. Your dad has the power of choice to confess to ypur mom. If he does not confess you must advice him to see marriage counselor. He's an adult he's go to grow up and take action. If does not do anything about this. Tell him how you feel about him and this affair he has.

Telling the truth to your mom might be the best way. But,if it's hard, I think it's ok if your mom doesn't find out as long as your father don't cheat anymore

This must be really totally shocking. You don't want to be responsible for the break-up of your parents relationship, right? Then leave it to them~ It's not your problem~
Or use the information to get what you want! You could blackmail your dad! Isn't this exciting~!?

>>4 don't give a bad advice, and its not exciting to blackmail your parents

Just be honest, cause either way, it's gonna hurt. And there's no easier way outta situations like this anyway to begin with. But being honest, allows others to open their eyes and use their heads for once. Not saying your mother hasn't put some pieces together before you found out or anything. But it's a given that after this, things can only go south until someone eventually desires to restart back up. Though don't let this affect you too much. You'll only really screw yourself over in the end if you do so.

>>1 Talk to your dad one more time. Maybe it's a missunderstanding?