By Greg Bartlett

If your spouse was cheating on you, you would want to know, right? This question sounds a lot like a line from one of those TV sitcom episodes where the husband is acting suspiciously and the wife gets herself all worked up. Come to find out, he’s been planning a big surprise birthday or anniversary party for her and by the end of the 30 minute show everyone is happy and in love again. Sound like real life? Not really.

So what do you do if you have suspicions about your spouse and your birthday or anniversary is not in the near future? Well, you could hire a private investigator, another thing commonly seen on movies and TV. But if that sounds too expensive, there is something else that you could try.

A GPS tracking system in the car of your spouse would allow you to track his or her movements. Not only can you be sure that your husband really is working late when he says that he will be by tracking his location, the GPS car tracker also tells you how fast he is going and how long he is parked anywhere. This ensures that a spouse cannot rendezvous at a location that could easily be explained. If you have proof that your wife was parked at a gas station for 2 hours, you know she was doing more than filling the tank and buying bread. If a spouse became worried that she was being tracked and decided to leave the car at work to make her whereabouts untraceable, you would still know just how long she was at work and how fast she sped home to try to mask the time gap.

For a relatively small cost, you can get a very reliable and accurate GPS tracking system. Many systems are magnetic, which allow you to stick it easily in an obscure place until you are ready to plug it in to the computer and see where your spouse has been lately.

Of course, this kind of system is not fool-proof. There are ways to get around a GPS tracking system, like parking at work and taking a taxi to another location. This would also not help track affairs with coworkers. However, this kind of a system would help in many situations and make it very difficult for a spouse to cheat and get away with it.