Cheating WARNING: How to tell if your spouse is having an affair at Christmas
CHEATING is terrible at any time of the year, but it hurts more if someone is caught at Christmas, traditionally a time for family. These are the signs you might have a cheating wife or husband at Christmas time.
Cheating at Christmas time is something that a whopping 5.8 million Britons have admitted to doing. A recent study has revealed that one in 10 have strayed away over Christmas.
More men have cheated around this time, at 14 per cent, while 8 per cent of women have cheated during the festive period.
Thirty-eight per cent of Britons have kissed someone at a Christmas party and a huge 71 per cent of those who have cheated did not tell their partner.
The findings were found by Insurance2go, who polled the nation about their love lives at Christmas time, and with these shocking stats in mind, some might be feeling anxious about their own partner’s behaviour.
Adulterous behaviour is reportedly hitting a high as the cold weather sets in.
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Cheating wife or husband - signs they are having an affair at Christmas
Cheating dating websites are inundated with people looking for love outside of their marriage.
IllicitEncounters.com, the UK’s leading dating website for married people, has seen a 45 per cent week-on-week increase in the number of people signing up to the site as a result of the snow.
The surge in subscriptions were most evident in parts of the country where the snow has hit hardest, with users in the East Midlands, Wales and the South West seeing as much as a 30 per cent week-on-week increase in the number of people signing up to the site.
IllicitEncounters.com’s spokesperson, Christian Grant, explains: "After you've got a couple of hours of enjoyment playing around in the snow, the reality of being housebound with your partner kicks in; after just a few days, couples experience cabin fever.
“When a marriage is fractured, time away from your partner prevents the cracks from turning into chasms. But when you're trapped indoors, instead of kicking your feet up and nestling in front of a cosy fireplace, many instead descend into arguments, and it doesn't take very long for those arguments to spiral.”
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If you are worried about your partner sleeping with someone else, these signs could reveal unfaithful behaviour.
Signs your partner is cheating on you
Women
Judi James told Express.co.uk revealed that women tend to show four body language signs they they cheat.
These include sensual signals becoming more common. She said: “This can look a bit like preening with increased eye-checks in the mirror and a softened, smiling expression when she moves around generally.
"This display will then disappear rather than increase as usual when her regular partner makes a move to respond though, leading to signals like a facial clamp with the lips narrowed and self-diminishing gestures that can involve covering the breasts or crossing the legs.”
Anxiety rituals such as shallow breathing and foot-tapping or playing with jewellery can be a sign, as can blushing or neck-blotching.
A woman getting in touch with a former flame, which can be more common at Christmas, is also a sign of cheating.
Over a third of women who met up with a former-lover admitted that it led to an affair, at 32 per cent.
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Men
Judi revealed that men are likely to show high levels of stress when cheating, such as fiddling and sweating, combined with a swagger and suppressed smiling.
Keeping their phone with them at all times, as well as going into another room to speak on the phone, is a bad sign. Judi said: “They’ll want to know where it is all the time, keep picking it up when it rings and if you go anywhere near it they’ll almost rugby tackle you.”
If they seem to have forgotten a co-worker, they may be pretending not to know who they are to prevent their facial expressions giving them away.
Insisting on doing the washing when they usually shy away from the task may also be a sign of cheating. That is according to dating and relationship advice and etiquette expert April Masini.
She told Reader’s Digest: “There may be evidence on the clothes or in the pockets, and it’s much safer for someone who’s cheating to handle their own laundry and dry cleaning.”
Tracy Cox told the Daily Mail that if your partner’s colleagues are acting strangely towards you, this could be a sign they are being unfaithful at work.
The same is true if their work colleagues are a bad influence, enjoying boozy nights out and encouraging bad behaviour.
