New to RP so got some catching up to do. Thanks for any feedback.

40 years old, 6' 215lbs Active Duty Military for 22 years, married 16 years, two kids (15 boy, 9 girl)

Read: NMMNG, The Unplugged Alpha, TRM books 1 and 3.

Got into RP to understand more how women/my wife operate, how society has discouraged Masculinity, and to take more control of my life and make myself my mental POO.

A few months ago my wife of 16 years had a trip with her girlfriends to celebrate a birthday. I usually don't trip about her going out because I'm secure enough not to think she's up to anything and she's never done anything to make me feel otherwise.

But on this particular trip, I received a text from her one night at around 11pm saying that her and her friends were having drinks after a show and she'd let me know when they arrived back at the hotel. I went to sleep shortly after.

Upon waking up the next morning, I noticed she'd never texted or called to tell me she got back. At around 8am I texted her to ask how the night went and check in.....no response, same at 8:30, 9am, 10am....you get the point. Finally at noon she calls back telling me how sorry she was and that she'd had a little too much to drink, got sick when she got back to the hotel and fell dead asleep and had just woke up. Needless to say I was livid, initially because I didn't know if she was in a ditch somewhere, let alone the thought of her cheating.

Although she's told me the story a few times, something still doesn't sit right. It's completely out of character for her and she'd told me her other girlfriends (both in LTRs) had been flirting with guys the whole trip.

I keep trying to play it cool as I have ZERO proof she's done anything. But the "medium is the message" right? Any other time she'd go out of her way to contact me and let me know her whereabouts regardless of the condition, but didn't this time.

Do I need to man the fuck up and accept the possibility that she hooked up?