15th April 2016
Many statistics published for years with remarkable regularity and great media impact in Germany’s highest-circulation daily newspapers and magazines show that the topics of infidelity, adultery and cheating affect both genders equally, often revealing high percentages of unfaithful men and women. Certainly, statistics on this topic must be treated with caution, since adultery is hardly something people proudly advertise and many men and women are likely to conceal affairs even in an anonymous survey. Nevertheless, despite their number, these studies often report surprisingly similar results. In a 2013 investigation both men and women admitted to cheating or having cheated, women even a little more often than men (38.9 percent versus 37.1 percent), which roughly accords with the experience of the detectives of Kurtz Investigations Bochum in observations of both genders.
The psychologist Dr Ragnar Beer of the Georg-August-University Göttingen attributes this slightly higher percentage, in an interview with the fitness magazine Fit for Fun, to the fact that women today must reckon with fewer social consequences than in earlier years; divorce is no longer regarded as a social stigma and the increased and normalized employment of women means they can provide for themselves and are no longer solely dependent on a husband — which formerly was an important deterrent to affairs and to their exposure. The emancipation of women in terms of sexual self-determination therefore goes hand in hand with the financial and social freedom to commission our private detectives in Bochum to investigate unfaithful male partners.
If a first basic mistrust exists and one no longer feels secure about the partner’s fidelity, it is possible to engage the detectives of Kurtz Detective Agency Bochum to either confirm an initial suspicion or, by means of an observation of the partner, to establish that despite initial doubts one can still trust them. What is important in such an assignment, however, is the legally required legitimate interest, because in Germany protection of privacy enjoys very high priority. In long-term relationships, in de facto marital cohabitation or in cases of a shared household or common children, this legitimate interest exists and may, in the case of an observation, outweigh the privacy rights of the person under surveillance.
If, however, a relationship is comparatively young — for example only one year in duration — and the partners live in two separate flats and households, the private and corporate detectives of Kurtz Investigations Bochum may not act, because the preservation of the privacy of the potentially unfaithful partner takes precedence over the interest in clarifying an affair. Of the partners of the 3,334 men and women surveyed in the adultery study by the aforementioned psychologist Dr Beer, only one in four men and one in three women admitted the affair to their partner, which means 44 percent of men and 46 percent of women have to discover their partner’s affair themselves. In investigations into affairs and adultery, our detectives in Bochum, throughout the Ruhr area and across Germany are therefore always available to help create clarity for the suspicious partner and provide them with certainty: +49 234 3075 0073.
Furthermore, Dr Beer’s study found that a large proportion of affairs and adulterous encounters do not arise from fleeting acquaintances in bars, restaurants, clubs or cafés, but rather begin directly with people from the victim’s own circle of friends (31 percent of unfaithful women and 24 percent of men), colleagues (26 percent/24 percent) or even mutual friends (20 percent/15 percent). The detectives of Kurtz Investigations Bochum repeatedly experience that the betrayed partners often personally know their partner’s lovers and are thus hit even harder by a double betrayal. By means of observations and photographic documentation of the unfaithful partners after work, during leisure time or on business trips, our detectives from Bochum repeatedly succeed in proving affairs, adultery and trysts and thereby give the betrayed partners — albeit sometimes with sad consequences — an important certainty.
The ever-better networking and technologization of the world also makes it easier to uncover infidelity, affairs, flirts and trysts oneself, whether via social networks such as Facebook and the like, communication programmes, dating portals or even so-called spy apps that can be installed on smartphones and then forward all communication and GPS data to the suspicious partner. Accordingly, many men and women therefore know about their partner’s affairs: in a Statista survey, for example, of 1,134 men surveyed, 62 percent stated that they were aware of an affair by their current partner, and 14 percent of men reported more than three affairs.
Interestingly, Dr Beer’s team also found that more than half of the men (51 percent) and women (58 percent) who had already suspected infidelity by their partner ultimately did discover the affair — whether independently or with the help of a detective. These figures therefore rise considerably compared with the above percentages of 44 percent and 46 percent who discovered affairs themselves, when an initial suspicion already existed. As a result, fewer than one in five unfaithful partners confessed the affair after the betrayed party’s first suspicion. Understandably, betrayed partners are correspondingly less willing to trust the unfaithful partner again if they discovered the infidelity themselves, than if the “perpetrators” had confessed their affairs of their own accord.
If, however, the possibilities to actually establish and prove an affair are exhausted or limited, the private and corporate detectives of Kurtz Detective Agency Bochum are always flexibly deployable to remove any doubt about the current and factual status of the relationship — and the partner’s fidelity: kontakt@kurtz-detektei-bochum.de.
Author: Maya Grünschloß, PhD
Kurtz Detective Agency Bochum
Kohlenstraße 55
44795 Bochum
Tel.: +49 234 3075 0073
E-Mail: kontakt@kurtz-detektei-bochum.de
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