Private investigators share the five warning signs you're dating a cheater

A team of private investigators have revealed five warning signs that indicate you're in a relationship with someone who's cheating.

Next on the list is your partner getting 'excessively defensive' in conversations, followed by 'gaslighting' behaviour.

Gaslighting is when someone tries to get you to question your own reality and what you know to be true, perhaps by claiming you're remembering something wrong, or by accusing you of overreacting.

The private investigators also warned of the red flags of your partner 'accus[ing] you of cheating' in an attempt to redirect the blame, and having a 'history of cheating'.

In sharing the clip, the team asked anyone with any other warning signs of cheating to share them in the comments, prompting responses from dozens of TikTok users.

"They guard their phone like the FBI," one person responded, while another commented: "Sudden interest in their own appearance and weight."

The team agreed with both examples, responding to the latter to add: "Totally agree! New clothes, obsession with perfume/aftershave, more time showering and washing own clothes."

'Unexplained absences' and 'disappearing randomly' are two other signs the private investigator team agreed with, when the partner claims their phone is 'suddenly flat, or on silent all the time'.

"Yep, the phone behaviour changing is a very big sign," they wrote.

Of course, it should be stressed that people can display some of these signs without doing anything wrong - we all forget to charge our phones once in a while, after all.

However, if numerous changes in behaviour occur as more than a one-time thing, it might be worth taking a closer look.