‘Isn’t that abuse’: Husband catches his wife on dating apps, has her date serve up a nasty surprise for her

A TikTok video claims to show a married woman aggressively approaching her husband and attacking him after she was served divorce papers by none other than the person she’d gone on a date with through a dating app.

The clip, posted by the account caughtcheating20, carries on-screen text alleging that the husband found his wife on dating apps and arranged for her date to bring the paperwork to their next meetup. It has drawn more than 100K likes and thousands of comments. 

It shows a dining table, presumably inside their home, and the woman who lunges at the man and repeatedly hits him with the papers and her bag in anger. The man laughs and calmly retorts with sarcastic remarks.

Nothing in the post names the people involved or say where it was filmed, so the story cannot be independently verified — if they’re acting, it’s very difficult to read from the emotions conveyed. The comment section, meanwhile, was abuzz with all sorts of reactions to the video.

“Why is she mad when she’s the one at fault?” asked one user, garnering more than 10K likes. 

“Sue her for assault,” one comment read, and another user wondered: “Isn’t that abuse?” Other users touched on the same subject, like this one person who added: “Abuse towards men is so normalised that no one even talks about it.”

Others really liked the premise and what he did to get payback for cheating. “Bro, that was freaking genius lol,” one person wrote.

Some wondered if the video was real. The genre does have a track record on social media, though there’s been no indication so far that this was an ad plug or a scripted skit.

What the law says about a stunt like this

If the scene is real, as far as the husband is concerned, what he did fits the rules to a large extent. Some states’ court systems tell divorcing spouses that they don’t have to hand over the papers personally. Whoever makes the delivery, however, must afterward sign a proof-of-service form that gets filed with the court. 

But as for the woman’s reaction, things get a little complicated there. Striking someone who has not agreed to it is battery, which is a crime as well as grounds for a civil lawsuit, so the man could go to police and sue no matter how the evening began. A divorce lawyer would care most about the footage — as some users pointed out in the comments — and they could use it as proof of the affair, or to push other things like child custody, credibility and leverage, and even protective orders.