Spying on a Cheating Spouse

3 Legitimate Motives for Spying on Your Cheating Spouse

By Dr. Bob Huizenga, LMFT, CSW

Should you spy on your cheating husband or wife? You believe you see signs of a cheating spouse. The need to know whether your spouse is cheating and EXACTLY what kind of cheating is taking place is often strong.

There are a number of reasons why the drive to spy is powerful. Here are three:

Needing to Know the Truth

Trust is a big reason, not of your partner, but yourself. Probably for some time you have sensed something is different or questioned the change of behavior in your partner. Perhaps you confronted your cheating husband or cheating wife and it was met with denial. This created a huge dilemma for you because a part of you was screaming, "Hey, this doesn't fit! I don't believe it"!

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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer.
- Calvin Coolidge

To deny this part of you, which KNOWS the truth, creates a tremendous internal turmoil. If the truth (as you suspect it) is confirmed, you can take a deep breath and at least know that you can trust yourself. You are NOT CRAZY! Spying is a way to confirm your suspicions and trust more fully your gut feelings.

Trying to Maintain the Ties

Spying on cheating husbands often helps the person feel connected to the partner who seems to be steadily moving away. It is a way of maintaining contact and having some sort of connection to this stranger who once was well known. Isn’t it like the game of hide-and-seek we used to play as children? Sometimes there, sometimes gone. At least it is a game, and a game is at least some contact, some involvement. You miss the connection and try to find some way to maintain the ties.

You Need Resolution

Spying on a cheating spouse may be an honest attempt to bring resolution to the relationship. You want to know the truth. You sense something does not fit. You suspect there is a breach of something. You want to know what you are up against. You are not willing to stand pat and wait. You are a person of action. You want some sort of movement. You want to get on with the relationship. You want to get on with your life.

You know that it is difficult maintaining your sanity when there might be this huge elephant that no one is talking about. You want to know the truth, face the truth, deal with the truth and be free.

Is Spying on a Cheating Spouse an Invasion of Privacy?

My, how the cheating spouse cries foul when he/she discovers you are spying.

Indignant man denying any wrongdoing

Outrage can be intense: “How dare you!! I never thought you would stoop to that! How could you!? How can there be trust in this relationship if you do that? This is none of your business; I don’t spy and go behind your back! Now you know why I want to pull away from you. How could I love anyone that would do something like that to me? On and on it goes.

Cheating husbands usually will not admit the duplicity of their clandestine behavior. But you are made out to be the villain if you use detective work to discover the truth. It doesn’t make sense, but then again not much about infidelity borders close to sanity.

Are you a morally corrupt duplicitous character hell bent on destroying the integrity of a relationship through spying? No of course not. The integrity of the relationship has been destroyed through the extramarital affair. The affair shattered the promises and mocked the vows that the two of you made.

You saw clearly the signs of a cheating spouse. The affair invaded the domain of your marriage and crumbled its protective boundaries. The marital infidelity broke the contract of the marriage; it was the act of betrayal. Spying does not damage the marriage. It is an attempt to seek the truth and resolve the pain and deception.

Spying is often used to grasp the reality of the situation. Its intent is to find the truth. Spying on your spouse can be done in different ways and one of the easiest ways to do this is to use keystroke logger software which is available at a very low price, easy to install and to configure on your spouse's computer.

Only the truth can provide a foundation from which to begin resolving the hurt, pain and forging a direction for the marriage and enable each person in the marriage to attain health and sanity.

Article by Dr. Bob Huizenga, the "Infidelity Coach".  Bob is the creator of the Break Free From the Affair website which helps couples deal with emotional infidelity and Extramarital affairs. If you think your spouse is cheating, visit today. And if you're serious about saving your marriage, you can get started at the Infidelity Recovery Center.

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