What changes in your partner’s behavior and emotions are worth paying attention to.Infidelity, real or suspected, remains one of the most insidious challenges a couple can face. Sometimes suspicions of betrayal become real paranoia, forcing you to look for it where it has never been, blaming an innocent partner, and ultimately destroying the relationship.
But if your partner is really cheating on you, then for your suspicions to gain weighty grounds, you don’t need any biased interrogations at all, ordinary insight is enough. Because in order to try to hide what is happening and deflect suspicion from themselves, people usually use the same behavioral strategies that are easy to identify if you know what to look for:
A partner who has a “snout in a cannon”, in order to disguise betrayal, begins to behave especially affectionately and tenderly, just like at the very beginning of the relationship.
2. “How dare you!”
If you directly ask if your partner is cheating on you to gauge his reaction, he will either put on a stony expression or fake outrage at being suspected of something.
3. Encryption
To prevent you from tracking his movements and location, the unfaithful partner avoids mentioning the names or addresses of the places where he is supposedly going. In addition, he tries not to leave electronic traces of his infidelity, deleting correspondence in chats and instant messengers, and does not share his adventures with friends and acquaintances, especially with your mutual acquaintances.
4. Nerves are on edge
Cheating is a nervous matter that brings with it a lot of stress. If you feel that you are playing on your partner’s nerves more often than before, that he has become more irritable and you have to watch your tongue more closely to avoid quarrels, it is quite possible that the reason is not in you at all, but in his bad conscience .
5. Suspiciously pleased
When a previously demanding and always dissatisfied partner suddenly becomes surprisingly content and undemanding, most likely his needs are being met somewhere else.
6. Sudden interest in your schedule
An unfaithful partner may suddenly begin to take an interest in things that he had no interest in before, such as when and where you will go, when you will arrive, and so on. However, it doesn’t seem like he suspects you of being unfaithful because he never asks who you’re with.
Most likely, this interest is not connected with the desire to have dinner together, but in order to be on the safe side and know exactly your location at the time when he meets with someone else.
7. Something on my mind
You notice that your partner’s behavior, behavior, gaze, facial expression have changed, as if something different appeared in his thoughts. Such changes are difficult to express in words, but they cannot be ignored.
8. Changed schedule
Suddenly, the partner began leaving work earlier, or staying late. At the same time, he cannot provide any clear, logical explanation for such a change, or these explanations seem false to you.
Of course, all these changes by themselves, or even in combination with each other, are not clear evidence that you are being cheated on.
However, since healthy relationships require trust and responsibility, being aware of potential red flags will help you avoid wasting time with an unfaithful partner. Life isn’t endless, so it’s worth maximizing the likelihood that you’ll be spending it with the right person for you.