The GPS Timeline Betrayal

I was five minutes away from giving the biggest presentation of my career when I opened our shared

laptop to grab the file. A notification for "Timeline Insights" popped up on the

home screen, showing a weekly summary of frequent visits to a residential street miles away

from any office. My heart dropped. That street was exactly where my partner Jamie’s

‘colleague,’ Alex, lived—the same Alex I’d been told was just a work contact. Jamie had sworn

those late nights were spent at the downtown headquarters. But as I scrolled through the digital

map, the timestamps told a different story. The laptop had synced Jamie's phone data,

showing the car stayed at that house until 3 AM every Tuesday for a month. This wasn’t just