Ruth Houston: The Valentine’s Day Infidelity Expert on Catching the Cheating Spouse

About half of marriages are lost to divorce each year, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, and many marriages find their own doomsday when at least one spouse starts to cheat. The signs of a cheating spouse abound in weakly founded marriages, and sometimes, temptation gets too great for even the strongest marriages, so that one spouse that you would not imagine cheating suddenly falls prey and loses his or her grip on the marriage vows. There’s still another way to catch those cheaters: try Valentine’s Day or thereabouts, writer Ruth Houston says.

Houston, who organized the annual Valentine’s Day Infidelity Awareness Campaign, may probably be the cause of why women and men are now more vigilant when the day of hearts comes along. Houston’s book, “Is He Cheating on You? – 829 Telltale Signs,” have allowed more people to be more aware of how Valentine’s Day can actually be the best place to catch a cheater. Houston sees the red-letter day as the peak season of cheating – it may be the most romantic day of the year, she says, but everywhere, cheaters will be roaming in order to give and receive gifts from their “special others” during Valentine’s Day.

The dark side of Valentine’s Day, Houston claims, is rarely examined or talked about, and is often overshadowed by the media hype of romance, places to go, gifts to get, and things to do. It is for this reason that Houston conducts the campaign every year, and, for its fifth year running, the theme in 2008 is How to Catch a Cheater on Valentine’s Day. The campaign itself, Houston says, is meant to increase public awareness about how Valentine’s Day and cheating are connected; encourage spreading the word through mass and online media about how Valentine’s Day is also fraught with cheating; and to alert suspicious people on how useful Valentine’s Day can be to catch cheaters, as well as to advise these people on how to catch the cheater.

The three days that sandwich Valentine’s Day are the best time to catch the cheating spouse, Houston claims. At this time, cheaters will start buying gifts and give them to their lovers personally. These gifts will leave a paper trail in the form of receipts. Cheating women will go through great lengths – and give tons of excuses – to make themselves available for receiving gifts from their secret lovers. For more information on how to deal with such spouses once they are caught, visit Houston’s blog and website in order to find out more.