Family drama!!! I need advice

I need to vent and could really use some advice on what I should do!! So I just found out my mom is cheating on my dad and I confronted her about it and she denied everything and also got super defensive and was asking a bunch of questions how I seen these. It’s literally eating me alive not saying anything to my dad and if I don’t I’m gonna feel guilty. But at the same time it’ll prolly ruin their marriage which I would feel guilty about as well. I know that it’s not my place to say anything and it’s not my relationship but I care to much to let my dad live a lie and not deserve what he should. This is a terrible position for me to be in. Also in the past my mom has straight up told me that she had feelings for this guy she cheated with, which started my suspicion. A couple nights ago my little 6 year old brother was playing on my moms old phone and the internet wasn’t working and he asked me to fix it and so I fixed it and I went to close the tabs and seen these messages. I know it was wrong of me to look at it and thing her privacy but I didn’t start scrolling through their messages because I didn’t want to know more than I just learned. Anyways my mom is promising me that all they’ve done is kiss one time and they hug every so often and she’s really narcissistic and I feel like if I say anything and she’s is telling the truth I’m gonna feel horrible. So she making me believe that I’m reading in to it to much and it is just them going to hug. But my mom also watches my daughter 2-3 times a week while I go to work and I honestly don’t trust her and want my daughter taken care of properly. I’m so confused and stuck on what I should do? What do you guys think of these messages, think it’s cheating or am I overthinking it…. There was also dirty talking messages as well but I’m not gonna post those ones.

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What an awful situation for you! I’d give her a chance to tell him or you do. It will be hard for you either way but if the truth always come out and your dad finds out you knew and didn’t say anything I think he’d feel even more hurt x

Oh dear 😢 i would find a way to gently tell my dad and show him the texts, because I would Definitely want to be told. But that's just me. If she wasn't guilty why would she get upset? It doesn't make sense.

Your mom is defensive because that’s exactly what all cheaters do - deny, and then once they can no longer deny they act like it’s someone else’s fault. She is cheating and it isn’t acceptable. There’s no wrong choice for you. It’s a really hard situation. I’d consider giving an ultimatum that either she tells your dad or you’ll you’ll tell him. I would also stop letting her watch your daughter, id consider her an immoral person who I don’t trust to be alone with my children No matter what happens, it isn’t you causing the pain - it’s your mom. I’m so sorry this is happening

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I feel the same way that if I don’t say anything and it comes out my dad is gonna hate me but at this point the relationship with my mom will never be the same so I’m not too worried about that. But I just keep talking myself out of it like what if she’s telling the truth but then I look at the messages again and there’s no way I’m overreacting. But she got super defensive when I confronted her and was lying to me and half the time it didn’t even make sense what she was saying and nothing would line up she was all over the place

In one of the other messages, it cut off but it said that they had to find a dark spot and be quick

If she’s telling the truth, then telling your dad that you saw some suspicious messages and you recommend he talk to her about it would be a good thing, because it puts the onus on him instead of you. If it’s all a misunderstanding, that’s great and he will find out and he will let you know. But it doesn’t sound like a misunderstanding