When your partner leads a double life..............................

When your partner leads a double life

To the outside world, he looks like the perfect gentleman but beneath that carefully put-together front lies a completely different persona. Photo/FILE
By IRENE NJOROGEPosted Friday, December 3 2010 at 13:44

Walking down any street, you will see many men, most of them looking normal and respectable.

However, if you were to scratch beneath the surface of many of their lives, it would come as a shock to discover that some of these men, who happen to be people's husbands and partners, have a very dark side to them.

Many women are living lives of quiet desperation, having realised that the man they have loved, lived with and borne children with are in reality, double – sided characters with a dark sides and mysterious side to them.

In a true story, one woman cannot still comprehend what she discovered about her husband of two years.

Cindy, 32, suspected that her husband was cheating on her. All the signs were there – he would linger in their car after work and claim to be listening to music while, in fact, he was busy making phone calls.

At times, he would go to the bathroom with his phone and make calls and talk in a hushed tones, as though trying to ensure that no one would overhear him.

At other times, his phone would ring, and he would appear startled and decline to take the call. Cindy noted these actions, and would scroll through his phone several times and make calls to all the numbers, missed calls and received calls, but no woman ever answered.

She also noted that her husband Leo had become extremely fastidious about his dressing and grooming habits. He had always been a nifty dresser, and that was one of the things she liked about him, but lately, he seemed to be going overboard.

He dared not miss his barber's appointments, not to mention the new colognes he had taken to using. He even bought himself a new set of underwear.

One evening, in one of her spying missions, she found a packet of condoms in his gym bag, which he usually kept in the boot of the car.

When she confronted him, he vehemently denied that they were his, and said that his friend from the gym had asked him to keep them for him briefly, as he did not have a bag.

"I forgot to give them back to him," was his rather lame explanation. Cindy was more convinced than ever that her man was up to no good. Later that week, she noticed that he had a bite on his neck. This caused quite a row between them, and her suspicions were raised even more.

At this juncture, she decided to do her homework and quietly hired a private investigator to follow him for a couple of weeks. The private investigator followed his clients brief to the letter, but yielded nothing to report after one month.

"Your husband is Mr. Clean, madam" was the feedback. She remained unconvinced and decided to continue snooping until she found out which woman it was that he was dating so earnestly. She got a different and more expensive private investigator.

Her patience and determination paid off, because as they say, if you want to trap a thief, take your time and be stealthy. One early evening at 6pm, as the private investigator sat in his obscure van near their home, Leo came home, changed into jogging gear and took off from their home.

When he got round the corner, he slowed down and walked across the road to some flats. The private investigator observed as he walked into a hidden bed-sit without knocking.

After about an hour he left the flat and jogged back home, showered and sat relaxing in the living room just in time to kiss his wife as she arrived home from work.

The private investigator thought he had finally cracked the puzzle, and decided to snoop around the flats, in order to find out who this woman was.

To his utter surprise, he was informed that no woman lived in the bed-sitter. He decided to observe the situation very keenly.

He took a hidden camera along. In keeping with his routine, Leo would leave his house to go for a jog, get round the corner and slip into the flat.

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