- Is offended by small comments that once went unnoticed.
- Begins taking a stronger interest in his or her appearance or becomes obsesses with losing weight/gaining weight. They will often join a health club, begin body building, sun-tanning, etc.
- Will begin to keep company with certain persons or groups unknown to you. Many times, these people will be someone with whom they are sharing the guilt.
- Will begin to be "working late" when they seldom have in the past.
- Will often lose sexual interest in you.
- Will become offended and sometimes ask if you are checking up on them.
- Will frequently have unexplained absences.
- Will make comments when questioned or condemned such as "Not everyone feels that way."
- Will sometimes ask for a divorce without reasonable explanation.
- May get a post office box and not allow you to have a key.
- Will no longer allow you to use the family credit cards or see the bill.
- Will arrive home smelling like cologne or perfume other then their own.
- Will sell or transfer ownership of many of the family goods to prevent them from becoming part of the property settlement.
- Will begin to consume drugs and/or alcohol.
- Will lose interest in his or her home life and children.
- Will charge up all credit accounts in preparation of ending the relationship.
- Will become cold and inconsiderate of your feelings.
- Will buy a new wardrobe or begin wearing a new cologne/perfume.
- May find reasons to get away from family gatherings on holidays, etc., to wish holiday greetings to a lover.
- May begin to take showers as soon as they return from work/going out, when they never used to.
- Names of strange places will appear on credit card bills. Usually these names will appear to be restaurants, but you can not find them in the phonebook. Many times these are gentleman's clubs or cabarets (a.k.a. strip clubs).
- Will do the laundry when they never used to, or at a time when they normally wouldn't. They may try to hide the signs of smoke, lipstick, body fluids, etc.
- Lingerie is missing from drawers or found in dirty clothes.
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