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I once saw a strip club called Working Late. If a wife ever asked her husband where he was, he could honestly say “Working Late.” Of course the poor wife would think her hubby was poring over mounds of paperwork not making it rain on the mounds of strippers.  Lies by omission are just as painful and wrong as lies by commission. Check out these 10 signs that your man is talking slick.

He always goes to the other room to talk on the phone.
Sometimes going in another room to talk on the phone is just the polite thing to do, but if your husband ALWAYS goes somewhere else to talk, he’s talking about something he doesn’t want you to hear, which means you probably need to hear it.

Multiple late night texts and phone calls.
No grown man should have a curfew per se, but common decency is the order of the day. Grandma always said ain’t nothing open past midnight but legs, so nobody should be calling up your husband in the booty call portion of the night.

Too much or too little eye contact.
It’s all in the eyes. Some people refuse to make eye contact when they are lying, it’s a subconscious  thing. Others try really hard to prove they are not lying by locking eyes with you intently while they feed you a bunch of crap.

He has “good friends” that you haven’t met.
It’s quite understandable that perhaps you have not met your husband’s old pal from college that lives on the other side of the country, but if he has a close friend in the city that he spends lots of time with, this is someone you should know.  You are the most important person in his life and presumably one of his best friends, shouldn’t you know his other best friends?

He all of a sudden starts complaining about your spending habits.
Not all lies are about creeping, financial problems are often the source of marital strife. If your husband all of sudden starts complaining about you buying things you’ve always bought, he might be hiding some financial troubles.

Explanations of his whereabouts are vague.
“Where you at? Who you with?” There are nicer ways to ask those questions, but it’s really basic stuff that shouldn’t be too difficult for a husband to tell a wife.  A vague response about being “somewhere” with “friends” doesn’t exactly cut it.

Everybody is “lying” on him.
Hopefully, you don’t have a bunch of people all up in your marriage, but if multiple people are giving you the same unsolicited information about your boo, that might be worth investigating.  Don’t let him turn it around on you into a “Oh, you gonna believe them over me” type of thing. Asking a logical question is reasonable.