5 signs your partner is texting messages to cheat on you

There are several ways someone can cheat on his/her partner. Among them, text messaging provides for a safest mode to maintain illicit communication. Lack of voice component enables cheaters to stay connected and communicate secretly without leaving any trail of their betrayal. It allows them even to cheat by texting messages right in front of their unknowing partners. It can happen when they are lying next to each other in the bed, riding in the car together and sitting in the living room talking to each other.

It is hard to catch a partner involved in text message cheating. Despite the secrecy and safety that text messages offer to dishonest partners, there are certain cues if observed mindfully can expose the text message cheating. Following lines discuss briefly those cues which are hallmark of cheaters; if you detect any of them, probably, it is time for you get on high alert.

Number of messages in the inbox:

If there is a mismatch between the frequency your partner sends or receives texts and number of texts in the inbox. Often, you see his/her fingers moving across the mobile phone writing texts or find his eyes fixed on the screen busy reading texts, but whenever you get a chance to look into his/her inbox you find only few old dated text messages. It is a sign that there is something that your partner is trying to conceal.

Setting a password on the phone

Recently, your partner has set a password on his/her phone. There may be other reasons for this, however this should send a word of caution to you. It is time for you to think about the possibility of being cheated on without getting excessively negative. Particularly, you need to be sceptical when you ask him/her about this and he responds too angrily.

Your partner does not leave phone around

You notice something unusual about the way your partner keeps phone. If you watch your partner does not bother much where his/her cell phone is lying in home, then all of sudden you observe him/her either carrying phone all the time or put it just next to him/her. The underlying reasons for both types of behaviours are different and manifest different intentions. In first case, a partner does not need to hide anything and there is no concern where his/her phone is lying. Whereas later case shows, one doesn’t want his/her partner to access his/her cell phone most probably for unjustifiable reasons.  

Phone using behaviour

You steps in the living room and you watch your partner immediately drops the phone off from his/her hand. But as you leave, hands rush back to the phone again and you observe this for couple of times. It may be a finest cue that your partner is no more fair in his/her relationship with you.  

Your partner’s response

Your partner doesn’t want you to go through his/her phone, nor he/she likes to be questioned whom he/she is texting or talking over phone. Any such query draws his/her fury and a mad response from your partner. Usually, such partners come up with logics that “you spying on me, and I don’t like when you mistrust me”, or “I don’t go through your phone, you should not go through mine”. This negates the relationships are build upon trust and sharing; clearly it is a warning sign there is something wrong to be cautious of. Gauging your partner’s response carefully would reveal the extent your partner is honest and fair in relationship with you.