Let your intuition guide you. Picking up on. Sensing. Something that you feel.
An officer picks up on something that isn’t right with a married couple at a church. He hears the husband slander the wife. Witnesses hear how the husband is being dishonest and disloyal. An officer, is led by his intuition to go to the O’Henry hotel at a particular time and date during Christmas. He catches the husband on a date with another woman. The officer now has witnessed (evidence) that can be taken directly to a judge.
In church, the wife is stressed, shaking, and clearly not feeling well in proximity to her husband. The husband harasses her, not leaving her alone for a second. Others notice how nervous and anxious she was around him. She kept him in sight and would not take her eyes off of him. The wife mentioned to security at the church that she was being stalked. They were concerned for her safety.
All of these are signs. Not to be mistaken for hypervigilance due to a trauma. This is something different.
The officer observes the couple at church, the husband does not introduce her, but ignores her. Why is this a concern? Something is developing. The husband is pretending he does not know the wife or is affiliated with her in any way. He does not associate with her. Who is he hiding from her? He has been creating online relationships with women, lying about his relationship status. He tells people to stay away from his wife. This is out of character for him. People become suspicious of him. Something is clearly wrong. The wife is a ghost to him. No one is picking up on it. Individuals observing begin to think the husband assaulted the wife. Something is definitely wrong here.
Questions: Do you think I’m making assumptions, jumping to conclusions, seeing things that aren’t there, reading into the behavior?
What else is going on in the background? The mother-in-law has been actively breaking up the marriage of her son and daughter-in-law, by introducing her son to other women. She set the dinner date up with her son and the unknown woman. The wife knew. It comes at Christmastime. The mother-in-law has been trying to break up this couple for a very long time, with discouragement, deception and division. Evidence against the mother-in-law is accumulating. This isn’t the first time she did this. There is a consequence for her too.
What do we see here?
1. It takes time to catch a cheater.· The longer something goes on, the more witnesses there are to support the evidence.
2. An officer is there to witness the behavior of the wife, husband, other woman and mother-in-law in multiple situations, over multiple events and over a period of days to weeks.
3. Observing the verbal interaction with the husband and what he says compared to how the wife actually acts in reality.
4. Witnesses who observe the behavior of the couple begin to notice marked deficiencies in the relationship denoted by nasty and caustic remarks.
5. The mother-in-law planted seeds of divorce, separation, clashing personalities, blaming, bad choices and insulting the daughter-in-law on a daily basis. This is an example of actively causing division and discouragement in a marriage.
6. Careless comments by the husband began filtering back to the wife. He’s been making her look like a fool, he’s thrown her under the bus multiple times.
What is the husband NOT doing that raises concerns?
a. Not taking an interest in the wife.
b. A lack of care and concern.
c. Not concerned for her well-being.
d. Not concerned with who she is at the gym with.
e. Not concerned with who her friends are and where they go.
f. He ignores and neglects her.
g. He “lets her” drive a car that is lacking in safety.
h. Not concerned with her brick-and-mortar business.
i. Gives her the silent treatment, ignores, neglects her.
j. He cuts her off financially; straddles her with debt.
His parents blindly support him. The end result is that the son will be taken into custody for questioning. The ruling will be for the wife. The wife is fully supported in the community. She’s vindicated. The officer - is awarded a medal – he is promoted to Detective.
Final Thoughts: In this particular case, the mother-in-law successfully broke up her son’s marriage by setting him up with another woman whom he had an affair, and then married the affair partner. The wife was being stalked – by the husband. She did fear him. He wanted to make sure she wasn’t cheating on him; yet he cheated on her the whole time. All these things did happen, and were seen by a police officer and multiple witnesses. The only individuals who were “clueless” were the husband’s coworkers. They didn’t pick up on anything, however, “suspicion” was aroused at church. Witnesses noted the husband not doing much work during the day. He was caught on multiple occasions dating the affair partner. Soon, a tornado would require him to account for his whereabouts to his wife and daughter.
“Your husband’s got some explaining to do.” Says a private investigator. Although tangible evidence must be captured by still pictures, video, audio and even DNA, let your intuition by your guide.
“We’re done here.” Says the police officer.
Disclaimer: Details have been altered to protect the privacy of the individuals.
PC: AndreyPopov
