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Infidelity Warning Signs

If you're in a committed relationship, it's best to be aware of the most important infidelity warning signs. Unfortunately, affairs are a painful reality even in what seems to be the most committed of relationships ~ and prevention is much better than cure. Prevention is about an awareness of the risk factors and proactive thinking about what could put each of you in harm’s way and managing those situations more effectively.

How Affair-Proof is your Relationship?

Affairs often transpire when one or both partners in a relationship feel that important needs are not being met. For men, it's often sexual needs; for women, it's more likely to be emotional needs.

In order to make your relationship affair-proof, you cannot hide your head in the sand. You need to understand the infidelity warning signs that an affair could happen, as well as how to strengthen the areas in your relationship that may make one or both of you vulnerable to an affair.

Most Important Warning Signs

An affair usually starts as a friendship with someone that you or your partner spends a lot of time with outside of your relationship. One of the most important infidelity warning signs is the need to share your problems with someone else rather than addressing feelings of discontent with your partner. Or, if the shoe is on the other foot, noticing that your partner has stopped talking to you about issues in your relationship whilst spending a lot more time than usual at the office, with a 'friend' of the opposite sex, or travelling.

Another one of the most telling infidelity warning signs is when you start spending a lot of time fantasizing about someone outside of your relationship. Don't get me wrong, sexual fantasies can be a very healthy part of any couple's sex life, but when fantasies become romantic infatuation with a particular person, your relationship is in trouble. If your partner is the one at risk of cheating, this warning sign may show itself by new and unusual sexual requests that point to changes in your partner's fantasy life.

Grudges, walling off, neglect, and secrecy are also common infidelity warning signs. It is easy to take a relationship for granted rather than recognizing the need to create and sustain ongoing attention and affection, positive input, and an active, mutually fulfilling sex life. If you or your partner are unhappy, it needs to be taken seriously and addressed with a proactive solutions-focussed approach. Talking openly has its risks, but it is secrecy which destroys.

* Infidelity: Different Types of Affairs

* Reasons Men have Affairs

* Reasons Women have Affairs

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