Woman, 28, is left devastated and 'ashamed' at discovering the man she'd been dating for six weeks was MARRIED - after her mom ran a background check on him

A woman has revealed the jaw-dropping moment she discovered that the man she had been dating for the past six weeks was already married.

Christina Gavin, 28, was devastated after her mother ran a background check on her mystery man and uncovered the fact that he was already in a nine-year-long marriage.

The California-based podcaster admitted that she 'did not see any red flags during the first few dates,' however, that changed around around the fourth or fifth outing.

After discovering the truth, she said: 'It was a gut punch. I felt like I had lied to myself. I felt ashamed. I couldn't believe that I let myself be involved in this situation.'

While looking for love, Christina decided to use dating app Bumble to try and meet someone after spending the majority of her life single.

And, just after her 27th birthday, the podcaster connected with a guy on the platform and the two hit it off immediately.

With Christina's history of hopeless dates, she was pleasantly surprised that her courter had put a lot of effort into their first evening together and planned out the entire thing.

Not noticing any red flags from their first interaction, Christina decided to continue seeing the mystery man as their relationship started to develop.

'I only had two or three nights a week that I could really hang out and he would only make dates for those days, so to me that was a green flag,' she explained.

'I did not see any red flags during the first few dates.'

However, as time went on, Christina started to pick up on a few things that she believed seemed odd. 

'It wasn't until dates four or five that I started to notice that some things weren't aligning.'

Around this time Christina began picking up on little bits of information that didn't quite add up.

Firstly, she noticed that he was always covered in dog hair - despite not having a dog.

He would also only ever go to her place, never exposing where he lived, and was always very careful about what he told her.

This triggered some questions in her mind, and she even considered doing a background check.

Eventually, she decided to have one of her friends look into it and at first glance, everything was all above board.

But then Christina's mother got involved and finally uncovered the truth after spotting a leasing agreement which had his name along with that of an unknown woman.

Using this information, the persistent mom found a wedding website, where she made the shocking discovery that her daughter's new partner was already married.

'My mom is actually the one who did the background check and on first glance, everything looks completely normal, with everything saying who he says he is — no arrest record, no criminal record,' Christina shared. 

'However, his lease had two people with the same last name on it and I know this was not his siblings name. 

'My mother then went and found his wedding website and that's how we figured it out.

'I was asleep. My mom kept calling, saying she really needed to talk to me.

'At the time I said, I just don't care, let's talk about it in the morning.

'She then called me at five in the morning because she wasn't able to sleep, and she told me that he was married. I didn't believe her at first.

'Then I was racking my brain through all the interactions I had gone through with him, and I ended up being able to find his wife on Instagram, see all of her photos, and see photos of them together.

'When he had told me he was doing something, he was doing that thing that he had told me, but it just happened to be with his wife and their dog.

'I reached out to his wife first to see if maybe there was an extraneous circumstance; they were separated or something like that.

'She confirmed that they were, in fact, still married, still living together — no plans on divorce.'

She continued: 'That's when I confronted him. He basically said, "Oh, well, I'm getting a divorce," and I said, "Well, that's not what your wife has to say."

'He was also very nonchalant. I said, "You know, your wife deserves better. I deserve better."

'You could tell that he had been confronted about this many other times and he just couldn't care less.

'I was really worried that his wife would be angry at me and she wasn't. 

'She was heartbroken. Her suspicions were true that she had suspected for the last few years.'

Christina has since moved on and has been in a happy relationship for the past year. 

She recently posted a loved-up snapshot with her new beau alongside a lighthearted caption which read: 'Would you like to renew your subscription?'