Tiger Woods's, pictured with wife Elin Nordegren, multiple infidelities were revealed by over a dozen women
Now, I am not a woman who spies. I know this is an odd admission, but I have met so many women who do spy on their partners that it seems almost natural to assume we all do.
Just look at the selection of love rats - Ronan Keating (who would have thought it!), Ashley Cole (everyone thought it), Vernon Kay (but only of the text messaging type). Even that lovely Mark Owen from Take That has had a series of affairs.
Women have become so paranoid they spend their lives electronically checking up on their husbands. They hack into their emails, scroll through their iPhones and constantly sneak peeks at their BlackBerrys.
This seems crazy, but when I ask my friends why they do this checking up, all of them say they believe all men would have an affair given the opportunity.
And that opportunity has come everyone's way thanks to the internet, Facebook, Friends Reunited and text messaging ... on and on it goes.
I have never suspected my husband of anything. I have never had any reason to. He has three phones. I don't access any of them. I would feel it was an invasion of his privacy - I also don't know how to access his phones as I am a technophobe. I don't even know how to turn on an iPhone, let alone find incriminating evidence on it.
I don't check his mobile phone bill, re-dial numbers he has called or do any of the stuff that so many women do.
Women faint when I tell them this. They think I have gone mad. 'HE HAS THREE PHONES!' they shout. 'WHY DON'T YOU CHECK UP ON HIM?'
I then reveal that, half the time, I don't even know where he is. That makes them nearly tear their hair out in frustration.
But, I say, there are many reasons why I don't. For a start, our relationship is hardly going to work if I trust him so little. How can I expect us to function if I am constantly demanding to read his text messages and hacking into his Facebook account? Also, maybe I don't want to know if he is having an affair (which I am sure he is not).
This is a concept most women struggle with. Yet why would I want to know? What effect would it have on my family and I? It would turn me into a screaming harpy, demanding to know where he was every second of the day and becoming rigid with paranoia like most other women I meet.
It would make me feel undermined, lied to and unloved. I trust my husband, so I have decided maybe it's better to leave it at that and not go digging around in order to unearth something that might tip our world upside down.
In order for us to continue our harmonious life, maybe it's better not to know.
I want to tell so many of my friends this. I have seen them destroyed by what they discover. Yet what good has it done them?
Yes, their husbands may be having affairs but, if this isn't impinging on their marital lives, as long as their husbands are loving towards them, make them happy and play a supportive role in their lives, what is the point of tracking down a hunch? Yet, as I said, other women think I am mad. They check on their husbands constantly because they absolutely have to know.
It has all got so complicated! In my mother's day, men only really had affairs with either someone in the office or someone they met on a business trip.
Illicit communication was conducted through letters or phone calls, with the mistress hanging up when the wife answered. Nowadays, a man can be having an affair and it's almost impossible to find out.
This is why women have turned into detectives. I have one friend who, out of the blue, decided to open her husband's emails. She had never done this before. She told me she probably knew he was having an affair but had made the decision she didn't want to know.
But then, one day as, yet again, her husband was mysteriously 'late home from work', she opened his account and there were endless messages from his mistress.
'It was devastating,' she told me. 'Not just that he was having an affair but because of the things he'd written about me. He'd called me fat and boring. He said he didn't love me. It was excruciating.'
She and her husband split up and she is dating someone new - and she watches him like a hawk.
'I demand to know his passwords to everything.' she says. 'I scan his computer, pore over his text messages and missed calls.'
Health Top Tips Nutrition Love Lifestyle Happiness Weight LossShe told me that he changed the password to his mobile phone the other day, saying he thought he was being hacked into. She told him she would ask him to leave if he didn't give her access to his phone right then and there.
But does her new partner do the same to her? Of course not. In fact, men generally don't. I can leave my mobile phone lying around and my husband would never dream of looking at it.
I think there are many reasons for this - women are far more suspicious about their men than men are about their women, which is odd because if men are having affairs they are (usually) having them with other women and not all of them can be single.
Yet the fact of an affair seems to obsess women. I was talking about this with a friend today. She found out her husband of ten years was being unfaithful.
She told me she never checked his emails, mobile or Facebook and then, one day, she found a receipt for a dinner for two in London. It was for a restaurant she had never been to with her husband.
She checked the date - he had told her he was out with 'a few work colleagues'.
Then she went online and found he had been seeing someone for the past year - his calls were logged on his account on the internet.
The problem is that you may find out things you don't want to know. You may find out your husband is cheating on you, that he has lied to you - and it's possible to find out things even worse than that.
One friend of mine found a cache of intimate pictures his mistress had taken of herself. It made her feel so sick she walked out of the door and never went back. I agreed that it was a humiliation too far.
But let's say it's not as bad as that. What if it's a few flirtatious text messages? An over-emotional email to an ex-girlfriend?
What do you do? Make a fuss and demand constant honesty? Think again. Even if your husband vows to end it, who's to say it really is over?
Men can be devious. They just find new passwords for their accounts and get a new telephone.
Short of stalking them every single minute of the day, what more can you do?
In fact, I know some women who are so obsessed with the idea that their husband might be having an affair that they go to all sorts of electronic shenanigans trying to find out - they lie to mobile phone companies to get past records, they go online and set up 'honeytraps' for their husbands.
I, for one, have no time for this. Our electronic suspicions are killing our marriages. It is time to leave those mobile phones where they are and learn to trust again.