Christmas Gifts Can Be a Cheating Husband’s UndoingWritten by Ruth Houston
Have you been plagued by nagging feeling that your husband might be having an affair? Well. Christmas is probably ideal time to confirm your suspicions and perhaps find additional proof of your husband’s infidelity, as well.It’s only natural for lovers to want to buy gifts for each other like everyone else during holiday season. But this exchange of gifts could prove to be a cheating husband’s undoing. An observant wife can find some important clues if she knows what to look for. Gifts cost money. No man who’s cheating on his wife is going to give his lover a cheap token of his affection. If he doesn’t want to incur her wrath, he has to buy her a decent gift. Unless he’s been squirreling away small sums over a period of weeks of months, money has to come from somewhere. Have there been any suspicious withdrawals from your checking or savings accounts? Check time period shortly before, during, or after holiday season. Have there been any sizeable, unexplained ATM withdrawals during this time? What about credit card statements for same period of time? Has he made any unusual charges at jewelry stores, boutiques or women’s specialty stores? What about actual store receipts? If you find records of purchases made for gift items that you didn’t personally receive, that should raise a red flag in your mind. Who did he give these gifts to, if not to you? Look around your home for hidden gifts – underneath bed, in back of a drawer, on floor at back of closet, back of a little used shelf. Don’t forget to check car, as well. – under seat, in glove compartment, trunk, tire well. If you find a hidden gift, don’t automatically jump to conclusions unless it’s obvious that gift was not intended for you (too large, too small, a color or style that he knows you wouldn’t wear, or has another woman’s name attached) But if New Year’s Day rolls around and you still haven’t received gift, then obviously it was given to someone else. Make it your business to find out who.
| | How I Broke Myself from Asking “What Are You Thinking?” Written by Tracey Winfrey
It’s only four small words, a seemingly innocuous question. Yet a question, sound of which is worse than ten sets of sharpened nails screeching across a mile-long blackboard – “What are you thinking?” It is a question men loathe and dread, mainly because much like meaning of life and world peace, there is no clear, definitive answer. Often, answer truly is nothing (or nothing of significance). Yet, as women, often question is one we cannot stop from asking, particularly if we are feeling uncertain or apprehensive. Perhaps a woman feels uneasy about status of a relationship and then, out of nowhere, with first pensive glance or scowl to cross her man’s face, question comes out of her mouth, virtually unstoppable. The question takes on a life and mind of its own, leaving us helpless victims compelled to utter question. First, I tried logic to free myself from compulsion. Logic dictates that it’s too broad a question and doesn’t really lend itself for what I want to know. Specificity, yes, that was it exactly (or so I thought). I would force myself to ask clearly and directly what I wanted to know rather than ask dreaded question. But, to no avail, question still popped into my head and straight out of my mouth before I could stop it. I resigned myself to my fate. I would go through life as a victim of my own compulsion. Then it happened. You see, aside from very real possibility that answer is truly nothing, or nothing of value (which is
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