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Signs of a Liar

Written by admin on July 25th, 2009

If a person looks up and to the right before answering a question are they telling the truth? What about looking to the left? Do you know the “pantomine,” or the eighteen different tell-tale signs of a liar? I can always tell when my daughter is lying because falsehoods begin with the phrase: “um . . . uh . . . what’s it called?”

It’s a scary prospect when the person lying happens to be your spouse and you suspect an affair. Even after years of disharmony signs of an affair can come as a shock. We may sense we’re drifting out to sea and feel the life-line being stretched thin but somehow we never think it will snap. If you ask your spouse straight out, a skilled liar will know enough not to over react; an amateur will become outraged. Either way you may not know what to believe. What are the signs?

In days of old there were the paper trails that proved irrefutable. Now that we are living in the electronic age hard copy receipts are obtainable but paper has become less reliable. Still there are ways. Cell phones that come with tracking devices are available if you want to go the route of amateur sleuth. Along the same lines are actual bugging devices and, of course, you can hire a professional. If hiring a professional is simply not who you are or beyond your means and you feel compelled to get at the truth, Deep Throat’s advice to Bob Woodward is always a good place to begin: “follow the money.” If you keep your money separate as some couples do, it’s back to square one. This is getting slightly ahead of the game, however.

To begin at the beginning, you would never want to falsely accuse your beloved of cheating unless you were convinced of it. Everyone of us is more than capable of putting two and two together to come up with eleven, and jumping to conclusions can make for a whole lot of trouble. Suppose you went through all that, learned the awful truth, gathered the evidence and confronted your spouse, what would be the desired result? That may seem like an absurd question to some but, before you make that giant leap it’s best to know what you’re jumping into.

A woman’s intuition is often better than a man’s even that is not infallible. Several words of advice are perhaps in order before going off half-baked:

Never assume anything.

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