The Top 10 lies happy husbands tell
To your man, it's quite straightforward: honesty just isn't always the best policy. Well he would say that, wouldn't he? Keith Blanch tries to explain
You want to know the truth? Men lie - occasionally, compulsively, desperately. We certainly don't have a monopoly on lying - I've seen women pull off some whoppers - but we men, over centuries of tinkering, have developed hardy, scrutiny-resistant strains. In the interests of furthering intergender understanding, I talked real men into identifying, and explaining, their biggest lies.
1. 'Yes, that dress looks fine on you.'
Why he tells it: hassle avoidance
Men employ these 'forgivable fibs' not just to avoid hurting you ('Of course you don't look fat in that outfit'), but to make their lives easier ('I think that wallpaper looks great') and to steer clear of trouble ('I guess Cindy Crawford's "sexy" in a conventional kind of way, but she's not my cup of tea').
'Lies at this level are a way to cushion the shock of two individuals interacting with each other,' says Arthur L. Kovacs, PhD, a psychologist in Santa Monica, California. It's not that your man doesn't care what you wear or what the living room looks like - he does. It just doesn't matter as much to him as it apparently does to you, and often he'll decide that voicing his real opinion is not worth the cost of disrupting an otherwise pleasant car ride or spending another half hour at Ikea.
The bottom line: we lie because we love you. (If one of our mates asked us to help choose wallpaper, we'd say, 'Why don't you photocopy my arse five hundred times and put that up?')
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