An office worker in Berlin has admitted to having destroyed six hard drives in the course of an affair with a younger woman. The disks contained data belonging to the employer that will cost around €70,000 to replace.
The 51-year-old man meticulously shredded each disk into tiny pieces before throwing them into various waste bins around the city center. He paid attention to the details when hiding evidence of his affair and went to extremes.
Affairs drive people to affairs when it comes to hiding the evidence. Destroying evidence of an affair indicates a guilty conscience. The man, who has already resigned his post, was confronted with the shredded disks when he took extended sick leave due to stress.
The 51-year-old told BZ newspaper that he had destroyed the hard drives because they contained information about clients and suppliers that must not fall into the wrong hands. His excuse made it sound plausible, even though the reality was he was only covering evidence of his affair.
In previous generations, with some hiding of evidence and creative lying, cheaters could easily hide an affair. These days, those strategies don’t work like they used to.
I was reminded of this with one of the bothersome emails I wanted to remove. It was from my insurance company. They want me to download their phone app.
Although they make it sound beneficial, the reality is that it also includes tracking capabilities. There’s something bothersome about an insurance company knowing all my whereabouts.
I know I’m already being tracked by Google. Each month I receive a report about all the places I’ve been during the month. Any place I take my cell phone, it puts down a trail of bread crumbs to follow.
Then, there’s also the GPS in some vehicles that keep track of where you’ve been along with time stamps. It makes you wonder why any spouse would hire a private eye, when technology does the work for them.
This means that betrayed spouses no longer have to purchase GPS trackers. All they need these days is the ability to access your Gmail account and they can know where you actually went.
This advance in technology also means that lying about where you’ve been or who you’ve been with no longer works. A creative spouse with the Google information can generate all kinds of information you thought was destroyed or hidden.
It also means that if you’re a cheater who can’t remember everything, there are ways of finding out. There are cases where cheaters zone out to such a degree with their cheating, they have little to no recollection of what they’ve done or where they’ve gone.
Whether you hide information or can’t recall it, your betrayed spouse knows. Either way, whether your caught up in your own denial or forgetfulness, now is the time for doing something about the affair.
No matter what you do to try and hide it, nothing works anyway. It’s just a waste of your energy when you’re better off working on rebuilding the relationship with your betrayed spouse.
In the video “Help for the Cheater: Starting the Road to Recovery”, you’ll find what you need to do in starting the journey of getting your life back together.
Just click and download the video and within a few minutes you can be on your way to turning things around.
Keeping It Real,
Jeff
