Beating Cheating Digital Betrayal How cheating husbands and wives use phones and computers to communicate
March 8th, 2008These days it’s easier than ever to communicate with people – we’ve got
high-speed internet connections (wireless & otherwise), mobile phones, pagers,
fax machines. We can talk at the touch of a button, across cities, countries,
the entire world. Furthermore, communication through these digital protocols is
almost instant, fairly cheap and – if you want it to be – completely private and
hidden.
While advancements in digital communication are, on the whole, a great thing,
they do have their down sides. One disadvantage is that cheating husbands, wives
(or, for that matter, girlfriends or boyfriends) can communicate with their
private lovers away from the prying eyes and ears of their trusting partners. It
happens every day: thousands upon thousands of text messages are sent by
disloyal men and women to those they’re sleeping with behind their real
partners’ backs.
Back in the day, the only way a guy or girl could arrange a clandestine
meeting would be over a hard-line (either a house phone or a payphone). That
meant the cheater would either have to make risky calls from the home of their
unsuspecting spouses, or secretly take a trip to a local call box and do it from
there. Both of these methods of communication could often be spotted by the
betrayed party quite easily.
But that’s now a thing of the past. It’s now a cinch for a cheater to send
messages to their secret lovers from work, a locked bathroom, even from under
the bed covers while their current, faithful partner sleeps quietly and 100%
unaware of what’s going on just 6 inches away from them.
It’s true; things are easier for cheaters these days…but not that easy. Just
as all others kinds of cheats – be it a card shark, a conman or a computer
hacker – leave signs of their dishonesty behind, so do disloyal partners. And
looking for the right signs, in the right places, is the absolute best way of
knowing for sure if you can trust your partner.
Okay, you know now how easy it is for cheaters to communicate with their
secret partners using digital communication. But what are the signs, the
indications, the clues of this kind of activity? Let’s take a look:
1. Computers offer cheaters a multitude of communication methods, including:
email, instant messenger programs, chat rooms and forums. Although it can be
difficult to tell what your partner’s doing online without actually looking over
their shoulder (tricky!), there are indications you can look for more easily.
One is an increased amount of time spent at the computer for no apparent reason,
perhaps when you’re in bed or before you get up. Another is your partner quickly
turning off the computer monitor or turning it away from you when you enter the
room.
Also, try checking the internet browsing history of the computer your partner
uses most often. Sometimes there are web pages, chat room locations or other
signs that your partner has been taking part in internet infidelity to be found
there. Other times, you’ll find that the browser history has been freshly
deleted – this, as you can imagine, could be equally suspicious.
2. As mentioned earlier, mobile/cellular phones make quick and private
communication easy. If you feel comfortable doing so, checking your partner’s
phone’s call history, address book and text message archive can provide you with
a wealth of telling information. Bear in mind, though, that cheating partner’s –
in an effort to remain uncaught – often keep their phones on their person most
of the time. If your partner used to leave their phone lying around, but now
never seems to do so, you must ask yourself why.
3. Last but not least, don’t forget or ignore the “old” style methods of
cheater communication. Many cheaters still use house phones to call their secret
lovers. Check your itemized phone bill for calls to local numbers you don’t
recognize and that aren’t in your phone book. Also, pay attention to how your
partner reacts when you walk into the room when they’re on the phone. It’s
difficult to mask panic and surprise when the partner you’re cheating on walks
into the room while you’re chatting to your secret significant other. Quick
hang-ups could be a sign your partner’s being disloyal over the phone and,
perhaps, elsewhere.
By keeping your eyes peeled and ears open, you can sidestep the advantages
new methods of communication offer cheaters and, hopefully, discover what’s
really going on.
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Beating Cheating Common Signs your Partner MAY be Cheating on You
An unfaithful husband, cheating wife, any kind of disloyal partner, is an
ugly prospect. And that feeling of being betrayed by someone we thought we could
trust more than anyone else is one of the worst. People who discover their
partners have been unfaithful to them go through a hurricane of different
emotions – anger, sadness, shame, dejection, sometimes even relief. It’s a
grieving process, not of a person that’s died, but of a relationship and level
of trust that’s instantly disintegrated. In short, it sucks.
But before you can begin “grieve” that loss of trust, or simply throw caution
to the wind and ditch your partner for good, you need to make absolutely sure
your reaction will be 100% warranted. You need to know without doubt whether
your lover has, in fact, double-crossed you by looking for, finding, and
partaking in, an affair.
The only guaranteed way of knowing this, aside from finding damning physical
evidence or seeing the affair with your own eyes (both pretty rare), is by
hearing a confession straight from the horse’s mouth, by communicating your
suspicions with your partner and listening to what they have to say – however
heartbreaking or relieving their response might be. But before you take that big
step, there are a few simpler and smaller steps you can take to make the whole
process, the whole “investigation” and confrontation of your partner, easier and
more factually accurate.
The first thing you should do is look for some of the most common
signs/groups of signs people produce when they cheat. I’ve listed 3 of them
below. Read over and think about each and carefully consider if they apply to
you, your partner and your relationship.
1. Changes in sex drive and sexual behaviour.
Sex is almost always an integral part of a happy and healthy relationship
between two people. So when one of the two, regardless of whether it’s the guy
or the girl, begins to cheat, it doesn’t come as any surprise that changes in
the way they feel about having sex with their partner can be brought about.
There are two main ways these changes can manifest themselves. When the cheater
initially begins their affair, they may – out of guilt and in an effort to avoid
the newly formed affair being rumbled – actually increase the amount of
attention they pay their real partners in bed. Conversely, and usually a little
while after the affair has begun, the cheater may appear to have a loss of sex
drive. They, for some reason, seem to not want to be intimate with you as much
as they used to. Once again, this can be attributed to guilt, but more often
it’s to do with a fear they’ll reveal their infidelity through they way they
behave before, during and after having sex with you.
2. Peculiar changes in habits & schedule.
When people cheat, they invariably change their behaviour and/or habits in
some way, small or large. The reason they cannot avoid these alterations is
because, no matter how infrequently or secretly they see the person they’re
having an affair with, they MUST – at some point or another – go out of their
way to do so (and thereby break or change habits and behaviour). So, look for
recent and pronounced modifications in the times they come home/leave the house
(and whether the changed times ‘repeat’ weekly), increased usage of the phone or
computer for no obvious/innocent reason, and other differences in the way your
partner acts and behaves. You know your partner’s old habits and ways of living
better than anyone, so draw from that knowledge to compare how they might have
changed them and to decide if the changes are to be taken as possible
indications of betrayal.
3. Miscellaneous indicators of infidelity.
Lastly, there’s the group of infidelity indicators that don’t fit in any
other box or under any other title. They’re the things you notice, question and
cannot innocently explain away. They’re the things you spot but almost choose to
forget because you’re so unsure of what they may or may not mean and whether,
ultimately, they are true signs that your partner is cheating on you with
someone else. Here are just a couple of miscellaneous indications of infidelity:
A. Your partner no longer seems to get angry with you when in the past they
always seemed to be picking a fight or getting worked up over any tiny issue.
Cheaters often ‘let their partners off’ because they want as little
confrontation (which could lead to a discovery on your part) as possible.
B. She or he frequently shifts the focus onto you. Cheaters often asks their
partners more questions about how their day went, how they’re feeling, etc,
again, to shift the attention away from them and their guilt.
Remember, when you suspect your partner may be cheating, always take the
smaller steps – by looking for the kinds of subtle signs listed above – before
taking the biggest step of all: confronting them. Doing so will give you the
very best chance of a happy, or at least a more manageable, final outcome.
For more ways to catch a cheating spouse,
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Beating Cheating How to reveal if your lover is cheating on you by
keeping a special DIARY
Our minds aren’t perfect at remembering special details and specific facts –
far from it. Our brains work selectively; they store and recall certain bits of
information while forgetting others. For example, you might remember – for
whatever reason – a phone number that has little or no importance to you, but
forget the birthday of someone you really should buy a present for. On the most
part, this selective/subjective memory trait creates no real problems in our day
to day lives. We can look up a number if we forget it, or ask a friend of a
friend for the day of the month on which someone’s birthday falls.
However, sometimes it can make things slightly trickier. One such time is
when we suspect our partner may be cheating on us. Imagine you walk into the
room just as your partner is putting down the phone and they seem a little on
edge or tense as they turn around and see you. The incident may stick out in
your mind for weeks, niggling at you, making you wonder: did it mean something,
was it a sign? Fast forward to a different occasion, when your partner returns
home from a business meeting or other engagement late and immediately jumps in
the shower, even before properly saying ‘hi’ to you. You might rationalize their
behavior by thinking: “Well, they were probably tired or something. They surely
just felt like refreshing themselves with a shower,” then forget all about it.
You might be 100% right, but that’s not really the point. The strange phone
incident and the unusual dash to the bathroom on returning home could both have
happened because your partner is cheating on you, and conversely they both could
be wholly innocent and not caused by infidelity. The point here is, remembering
one incident over the other and thus giving it more weight or meaning than the
other in your mind could potentially make it much more difficult to ascertain
what is or isn’t going on – whether they’re trustworthy or not.
So, to combat the human tendency to selectively remember and therefore
consider some incidents more than others, and therefore improve your chances of
revealing the truth, you should keep an objective, non-selective record of
everything that happens. Here’s how it works:
1. Use a journal or diary, not a digital method of recording events, changes
in behaviour/habits/moods, etc. Noting things in your own handwriting allows
each piece of information recorded to be absorbed more deeply and permanently by
your mind than if you type them out quickly on a computer. Also, paper records
(a diary, journal, etc.) are usually more portable than laptops, PC’s, etc.,
which could come in handy if/when you spot a potential sign of infidelity away
from home.
2. Keep your journal as objective and neutral as humanly possible. Note the
time something unusual, strange or suspicious occurs, if you’ve noticed it
before, and what it consists of. For example, saying: “Today (insert date) they
came home 2 hours later than usual from work, it’s happened once before and they
offered no reason or explanation for their lateness” is much better and more
useful in the long run than: “They came home late again! They had no reason to
be late at all. It must mean something.” So, be specific, neutral, accurate and
non-judgemental. A time will come when you’ll make a decision on whether or not
you can trust them and it’ll be then when an emotional response will be
completely warranted and understandable. Until then, record what happens like a
robot – it’ll help unravel the mystery and reveal what the hell is or isn’t
going on.
3. Finally, keep your journal/record hidden away somewhere where it won’t be
stumbled upon by your partner. If they ARE cheating and find your diary, it
could easily make them more secretive and more careful not to give out
noticeable signs of their infidelity in the future – thus making your job of
uncovering the truth more difficult. If they find it and are NOT cheating, they
could feel insulted or hurt that you don’t fully trust them. That’s an issue
that, if appropriate, can be brought up by you after you’ve completed your
little ‘investigation’. For now, secretiveness is quite possibly one of your
greatest allies in discovering whether or not your partner’s having an affair.
For more ways to catch a cheating spouse,
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Article 4. The action you can take to discover if your husband or
wife is cheating on you
Do you have a feeling in your gut that’s something wrong in your
relationship? That maybe, just maybe, your partner’s being unfaithful? If you
do, then you have a decision to make and several options to choose from.
First, think about how sure you are of their infidelity. If you aren’t sure
at all, then option 1 – confronting them right now, without wasting any time –
is completely out of the question. Doing so could ruin the relationship because
it’d highlight, rightly or wrongly, that you don’t trust your partner.
The second option: ignore your suspicions, assume they’re unfounded and that
they always will be, that nothing’s going on, and continue as normal. This
option’s one many people take, either to avoid being confronted with an ugly
truth – that their lover’s doing some extra ‘loving’ behind their backs – or
because they fear they’re being unfair to their partners by being suspicious of
them and doubtful of their devotedness.
Third option: do something to help eradicate your suspicions – find out
either way what’s going on, if your partner’s cheating on you or if they’re
being faithful.
Okay, let’s assume option three is the one for you. You want to find out the
truth and don’t want to simply ignore your gut instinct and continue on as
normal. What methods of investigation, ways of discovering the facts, are there
at your disposal?
1. The simplest way (often considered the first step), and something you
might have already begun doing, is looking for obvious signs of potential
betrayal. Your partner smells of a fragrance, perfume or after-shave you don’t
recognize. They’ve been leaving the house for work half an hour earlier than
they’ve ever done before, for no apparent reason. They don’t seem to enjoy sex
with you as they used to, or choose to avoid it completely whenever they can.
Keep an eye out for these surface signs of potential infidelity – in a way,
looking for them and recording them in your mind or on paper can be considered
harmless, it’s free information there to be noticed…if only you’ll look.
2. After the obvious potential signs of cheating dry up, or when you feel
you’re at a dead end looking for and analyzing them, more forthright, headstrong
action may be called for. Some people, at this point, reach straight for the
Yellow Pages, thumbing right to the private investigator section. That’s one
option, sure, but there are things you can do yourself before calling in a third
party. First, you could try setting a trap. It may sound a little primeval, like
catching a wild animal, but really it’s more like a test. These tests can take
many forms. For example, arrange a “trip,” say you’re going away for a couple
days to visit your folks, or friends, and use that time to keep track of some of
the things your partner does. You don’t necessarily need to sit outside in the
car with a pair of binoculars 24/7, just pay attention to key times when your
partner would – if you were home – do certain things, like leave the house for
work, come home, etc. You’d be surprised how many cheaters embrace these rare,
private opportunities to further their affairs and indulge in some extra-marital
‘relations’.
There are also subtler ways of testing your partner’s fidelity and
faithfulness. One of them’s called the ‘gossip’ test. It involves bringing up
the topic of cheating using a fictional third party, such as one of your work
colleagues or friends. Mention, without hinting at your suspicion of them in the
slightest, that your friend (or whoever you’ve chosen to use for this test)
confided in you that they’re cheating on their partner. Most people are, to some
degree or another – even if it’s just to maintain conversation – interested in a
little gossip, especially if it involves a subject as juicy as infidelity. But
when cheaters hear the topic of cheating brought up, they tend to silently panic
– a rush of nerves sweeps their consciousness. Have they been rumbled? Is this a
test? Am I reacting like a non-cheater would to this kind of chat? Keep a close
watch on how YOUR partner reacts…it could provide a telling insight into their
current state of mind, how they feel about cheating, and whether or not – when
you boil it right down – you can trust them to not cheat on you.
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