Throughout all of history, women have historically been pitted against each other. We have grown up in a patriarchal society, one that relies on women focusing their energy on seeing their fellow female compatriots as competition to be squashed. In fact, researchers at Cardiff Metropolitan University found that women tend to blame “the other woman” in an affair, while most men solely blame their cheating wives.
But in the year of our Lord 2026, women are no longer idolizing patriarchy; they’re banding together to squash it. If you need proof, look no further than TikToker @erizzabef. This absolute queen was recently put to the test when an old high school friend reached out to her for a date… only she learned he was married. Instead of backing out of the date, she decided to accept and help his wife catch his cheating ways.
She began by explaining that he reached out to her through TikTok, saying he missed her and would love to get together. While she hadn’t spoken to him in 15 years, as most of us do, she lived a parasocial life alongside him through Facebook, seeing little posts here and there about his life as it unfolded.
@erizzabef ♬ original sound – LizNice
“He got married, he had a baby. They bought a house, they had another baby, they got a dog. How cool. So I’m thinking, it’s really weird that he’s reaching out to me at all, because why are you reaching out to me,” she said. “You’re married. And I was gonna say that to him, but then I thought, you know what? This is an opportunity that a lot of girls don’t get, and I am not gonna blow my cover.”
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A Plan Is Officially Hatched
Instead, she reached out to his wife, showed her the screenshot, and asked her if she wanted her to do some digging. The thankful wife agreed, and she got him to agree to take her out on a random Sunday afternoon. The wife texted her not long after and told the woman that her husband said he was going out drinking with some “buddies.”
So the two devised a plan. The TikToker would go to meet him and, admittedly, let him know she knew he had a wife to see what he would say. The wife booked a babysitter to meet her there after she gathered enough evidence, and they planned to confront him together.
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And because this saint of a woman is such a “girl’s girl,” she provided an update. She baited him with the wife question, and he flat out said, “She won’t be a problem… what she doesn’t know won’t hurt her.”
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What Ended Up Happening?
The TikToker ran to the bathroom and texted the wife the proof she needed. The two devised a plan to confront him simultaneously, and the TikToker got to watch the wife tear this cheater a new one.
After consoling her, the two unlikely friends spent the night hanging out together. And a pair of new besties was born.
@erizzabef Replying to @lindseytaylorh
♬ original sound – LizNice
“And I honestly can’t wait for the glow up. I can’t wait for the glow up. She just lost 150 pounds of dead weight. She’s gonna glow up and grow,” said the TikToker.
People in the comments were beyond proud of the TikToker and Wife for combining forces against the real enemy.
“I know you probably felt trapped and uncomfortable in that booth, but in that moment, she needed you. You were her moral support and she was using your strength to tell her husband what’s up. If it weren’t for you, she might not have felt strong enough to go off,” wrote one follower.
“The friendship origin story is the REAL treasure here,” added another.
“It’s only March and we already got the girl’s girl of the year,” one proclaimed.
That just goes to show, ladies, women are always there to rally around you if you call on them.
