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Apr

11 Subtle Signs Your Girlfriend Slept With Someone Else

Sometimes, they may even point fingers at you and accuse you of cheating. Lengthy, rehearsed responses and incredibly vague answers are equally doubtful as signs. Whether it’s the way you dress, the way you look, the way you hold yourself in social occasions, or even the way you eat, your partner now dislikes every single thing about you.

The difference here between him being genuinely busy and cheating is if he tells you where he’s going versus sneaking off or being secretive. If you trust one another and he has done nothing to break your trust, believe his words, but if things seem shifty, watch for other signs he is seeing someone else too. But when it comes to being in a relationship, building a bond and getting to know someone, nothing beats talking to them on the phone. The next time he asks to see you on a weekday, suggest a weekend night instead. If he claims he’s too busy or he already has plans, let it slide the first time. But the second time he pulls this same excuse, then you already know that he isn’t serious about you at all, and he’s definitely keeping his options open.

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Nobody should tell you how to run your singlehood. As long as you find it okay to date a couple of people at a time, that’s fine. However, it’s better to be honest about it so he doesn’t feel cheated or disrespected. This isn’t a competition about who’s getting the most attention from suitors.

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He may genuinely like those men as long as they don’t try to date you because he’s hoping to move into that position. His proximity to your male friends gives him a chance to limit their alone time with you. Social media stalking can get creepy, but a regular nice guy driven by jealousy might not cross any lines. He’s the first one to give you thumbs up or smiley faces or leave a friendly comment.

Take all of these clues together and reflect on that with your waking life. If they come up with an excuse for the casual scenario without an end date—”Work is crazy” instead of “After my real estate exam, I should be able to commit more”—don’t expect things to change. “In some ways, we might be okay with a casual situation, but we might also be thinking, ‘If this is what they need, that’s fine; I can accommodate that,'” Tcharkhoutian says. Research shows that doing new and different things stimulate the brain’s reward system, flooding it with feel-good chemicals (dopamine and norepinephrine). That neurological reward system just happens to be the same part of the brain that lights up in the early stages of romantic love.

He’s Drifting Away

The next time he asks to see you, try asking him if it’s okay to invite your family to meet him. If he knows how to truly love, whether it’s in the past or present, then he knows that there’s no such thing as loving less or loving much. Otherwise, the guy must be sugarcoating the fact that he just played with the others. Luckily, there are some signs you can look for that tell you what the other person is feeling without you having to ask outright.

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He texts instead of calls, or he texts more often than he calls. When a guy likes a girl, he wants to hear her voice. “Texting is not an easy way to communicate—it’s an easy way to avoid communication,” says Mike. I met half a dozen men over the next few months and slept with three of them.

But once in a while, a good man will become curious about you and decide he needs to know more. You will stand out from the other women he’s texting. You are interrupting the pattern of your behavior and doing something unexpected.

But the guy who is dating multiple women will suddenly disappear off the face of the Earth for days at a time…without any explanation, of course. If you’ve historically had an open communication built on trust, if they start to evade certain line of questions or say the vanilla umbrella mob things like “why does it matter? ” that can be a sign that they’re trying to hide things from you. While the signs in this article will help you understand if your partner has cheated on you, it can be helpful to speak to a relationship coach about your situation.

In fact, a 2018 study from The University of Alberta showed that men and women across all cultures use similar behaviors when they like someone. So if you think a man is into you, they are probably exhibiting signs that you might do yourself. Hiding his phone is classic cheating behavior, especially if he was pretty open with it before. It is a treasure trove of guilty data and a guy who’s interested in someone else will try to protect it at all costs.

They may at first only entertain the idea of chatting with other guys. But after they’ve developed feelings for another person, they usually get confused and have a big decision to make. If your girlfriend stopped making plans with you out of the blue, however, you have every right to be suspicious of her loyalty. You need to look out for yourself because you deserve to know the truth even if it’s hard for her to tell it.