How cheating lovers manipulate their partners

Once you suspect that your lover, partner, or spouse is cheating on you, they will almost certainly dismiss your suspicions by manipulating you physically or emotionally.

Men tend to ignore a woman’s suspicions by appealing to her emotional side. Simple words like ‘I love you’ or ‘you are the only woman for me’ are usually enough to melt a woman’s heart.

Women will later arouse a man’s suspicions through physical contact. A simple, seemingly loving kiss, wrapping your arms around your partner’s neck, or even a simple caress on the arm or face can be enough to make a man go weak in the knees. And of course, sex is the obvious way to put a man at ease.

Cheating lovers often instinctively know the best time to manipulate their partners in this way. The early stages of an affair are exciting, lovers feel confident and imagine that their partners cannot know what is going on. Therefore, deflecting suspicion through physical or emotional manipulation is natural.

And of course, the cheated partner is desperate to ‘know’ that their partner really loves them and only them. So when a man says what his partner really wants to hear, or offers him a romantic gesture like bringing flowers home, suspicions melt away. When a woman offers warmth and a loving sexual response, her partner feels that their relationship remains the same.

So how can you see past this emotional and physical manipulation to the truth? How would you know if your lover is really cheating on you?

If you feel like you’ve been neglected, treated coldly, or had endless arguments for a while, and then your partner’s attitude suddenly changes when you raise even the slightest question about their whereabouts, that should arouse your suspicions.

If you have been physically ignored or emotionally abused for a few weeks or months and suddenly your partner does something to reassure and soothe you, then beware, you are being manipulated into a false sense of well-being.

These emotional and physical tricks are just to get you out of the way of suspicion. Do not be manipulated, discover the truth.