Easy Give-Aways to Let You Know That He is Cheating on You

Before I get to the "meat" of my story, we need to look at some staggering facts. About 17 percent of divorces can be blamed on infidelity. An amazing percentage, considering there are so many other reasons for divorce . Now get this fact: 70 percent of married men admitted to cheating on their wives while another study found that two thirds of women are blind to their husband's cheating.

I will not pull punches. And I will certainly not sugar coat the topic of today's topic. This is probably the saddest of all the hubs that have came from my imagination through my fingers onto my keyboard.

Cheating husbands are all alike in one way: They all have a loyal, loving wife who cooks, cleans, runs errands, takes care of the kids, so they will not tell their trusting wives of their infidelity because they do not want to lose the good thing they have going--at home and with their girlfriends.

I have a rather odd opinion of "these" cheating husbands without backbones. I think that if they are truly drawn to another woman and serious about a relationship with her, they should have the nerve to sit the wife down and although it will not be a pleasant scene, it will be an honest confession by the straying husband. If the honest cheating husband and trusting wife divorce, at least they can part and not have a nasty memory of name-calling and sometimes violence hanging over them for life.

I have put it off long enough. So please brace yourself as I present for the ladies who are dating a possible "Mr. Right," or have said "I do," to who they believe is "Mr. Right."

Easy Give-Aways to Let You Know That He is Cheating on You

Your husband . . .

• Is many times restless even while he is supposed to be relaxing at home with you and the kids. You, out of curiosity, ask him why he is so restless. He offers a quick, believable reason: Work-related tensions. That is the most-used excuse used by cheating husbands.
• Is suddenly not interested in accompanying you to the parks, museums and other places you frequented while you were dating. Now it's, "Naaah, dear. I have worked like a dog this week and I just want to kick-back and watch National Geographic." You reply, "But dear, you were off all last week." He grins and snaps, "Just kidding," but you know that while you were away, he was either going to call his new girlfriend or even go to a secret rendezvous with her.
  Is always finding reasons to go into work on weekends. You are suspicious because he is not the workaholic type.
• Is always using more of his cologne and pays extra attention to his appearance even when he says he "has" to work one of his weekend gigs. You grow worried when you ask who else is working and he replies, "just me." But you being the trusting wife, do not want to start an ugly fight with him.
• Is growing later and later for dinner. For the first ten years of your marriage, he was "Johnny-on-the-spot," and sometimes even home earlier than usual.
• Is tossing and turning while sleeping. To make things more suspicious, he mumbles a girl's name more than once. But you, the diplomatic wife, remain cool and at breakfast the next morning, you do not ask him who the girl was he was calling in his sleep.
• Is now taking you to places where you know he could see his mistress even while having dinner with him. This is a brave move even for a cheating husband.
• Is very careful to not put motel or gift receipts in his pockets so you will find them. But you can carefully inspect the ashtray in the car. If you spot a cigarette butt with lipstick, then you have the first plank in your "foundation of suspicion."
• Is first to answer the phone before you or the kids. No matter if he is in another part of the house, he yells, "I will get it!" You remember not too long ago he said that he was around phones so much at his job that he hates hearing the phone at home ring. Funny now he is the best operator on the block. Telephone operator, that is.
• Is getting sloppy in his vocabulary. More than once when you and your husband are having a conversation, he uses another girl's name then catches himself and apologizes. But explains that the girl's name is one of the girls at his job. Now you are really getting ready to ask what is going on because you know for a fact that there are NO women at his job site.
• Is going out of his way to hide a lavish gift wrapped for a woman. You accidentally find the gift under the car seat, but it does not have a name tag. Still, it is not anywhere near your birthday or anniversary.

Ladies, no thanks necessary. I was glad to help.