The subtle signs your partner might be cheating on you

Whether you’re married, in a long-term relationship, or only recently coupled up, finding out your partner has been cheating on you is never a pleasant experience. While it occasionally arrives as a bolt from the blue, there are some subtle telltale indicators suggesting you’re not your other half’s sole romantic interest.

Reddit contributors revealed some of the “subtle signs” they’d noticed before uncovering their partners’ affairs. Contributors agreed that the primary clue relates to changes in your partner’s wardrobe choices. One commented: “His clothes: He suddenly had sandals and button-up shirts that I’d tried to get him into for literal years.

“I guess that means he did listen. All those things I told him he’d look good in, he started wearing as soon as he cared about looking good for someone else.”

Another contributor shared: “My ex asked me to help him pick out new clothes for a business trip. It was a trip with a co-worker, but not a conference.

“They’d been dating for about a year at that point and he wanted new clothes for their Florida vacation! We had been together 11 years, married for eight.”

Another user shared their painful story, revealing: “My now-ex-husband did that too. Suddenly was interested in working out and putting effort into his appearance. Wearing things I had suggested for years. After taking him out shopping for practically a whole new wardrobe for a birthday gift he asked for a divorce and I later found out he was cheating on me with one of his co-workers.”

A further commenter disclosed: “My ex asked me to take her shopping because she wanted to ‘dress better’ for the woman she’s seeing now.”

One person recounted: “I am a t-shirt, shorts and flip-flops guy but I started wearing more button up shirts and closed-toe shoes because of health issues. My biggest fear when I started the change was that my wife would think that I was cheating. Luckily my sense of style is so bad she doesn’t notice a thing.”

Another contributor mentioned that their partner’s mobile phone had offered a crucial hint. They explained they’d noticed the most recently used emojis on the keyboard were a heart, a broken heart, and lips, commonly employed to represent a kiss, reports the Daily Star. They noted: “They were not being sent to me.”

A different respondent detailed: “Constantly finding other women’s hair and accessories, him smelling weird when he came home, having make-up on his clothes, change in attitude, he became incredibly cold and cruel towards me. I found evidence of him buying gifts for women that I never got. We even had a run in in public that was extremely weird.

“I became extremely sick. Would never admit any of it and insisted it was all in my head.”

Another shared: “I’d come home from work at lunch to surprise her, she wasn’t there. I went back to work and come home normally. Asked her how her day went. ‘Nothing much, just hanging around the house’.”

In response to this, another user commented: “The trend I’m coming across going through these comments is how nonsensical and non-believable their reasoning is for new behaviour. It’s like catching a seven-year-old with chocolate on their cheeks and listening to them insist on how they weren’t eating candy. You just want to shout in their face ‘you sound like an idiot and no one believes you’.”