Few things are worse than being cheated on, but the fear that your partner might be unfaithful can be just as tough. That nagging uncertainty can keep you up at night and make you second-guess everything—all while slowly chipping away at the trust in your relationship.

Thankfully, psychological research can help us cut this awful process short. An April 2022 study from Personality and Individual Differences explored the common strategies cheaters use to hide their infidelity. According to the author, cheaters have been found to employ over 53 different strategies to hide their infidelity—and up to 70% of them use seven or more at the same time. However, 11 strategies are most commonly relied on.

These are the most common, subtle strategies that people use to hide their affairs—each of which can be spotted by paying close attention.

To cover up their infidelity, cheating partners might go out of their way to make you feel like you’re the center of their world. They do this by being overly affectionate, performing more acts of kindness, giving unexpected gifts, or initiating sex more frequently than usual for your relationship. This sudden increase in attention is often a tactic to divert suspicion and reassure you of their devotion.

Cheaters often go to great lengths to remove any digital evidence of their affairs. They delete incriminating messages, emails, and call logs to ensure that nothing suspicious remains on their devices. When using social........

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