When the Cheating Spouse Comes Out: How Investigators Get to Work on V-Day

When the fourteenth of February comes around, lovers and spouses alike start getting ready for the hoopla. Reservations for first class restaurants start shooting through the roof. Flower fields are stripped entirely of their blooms and florists gain enough to make up for their thinner profit margins throughout the rest of the year. Traffic mounts to a standstill, annoying people whether or not they are in cars or waiting for a ride. Cheating spouses start hiding from their husbands and wives and meet with their lovers. This is the point where the private investigators start to point and shoot.

Indeed, private investigators have a day for profit making on Valentine’s. According to one of the partners at Brown & Depp LLC in Orlando Florida, they experience as much as a thirty percent increase in profit because of spouses wanting to spy on their cheating better halves. The day, after all, is not so much about love as it is about showing tokens of love – whether it’s legal or a lusty kind of loving.

According to the owner of Silent Witness Investigations, which is based in Longwood, some clients can go as far as having four dates on that day making cheating almost like an institution that is at home with the day of lovers. This makes Valentine’s the best day to catch a cheating spouse, and surveillance will often do the trick. This can happen successfully thanks to a spouse who might recognize the haunts of his or her cheating spouse, and who can give the detective tips on where and when to catch the villain.

Hence, a perfect time to catch them, and the most common way to do it is surveillance – one or two investigators following the suspect, usually with clues and leads from the spouse who hired them. The fees for investigators vary, but the usual range is in the thousands of dollars – this is not something that any suspicious spouse can afford, especially if the hunch may actually be unfounded.