10 Easiest Ways to Tell if Someone is Lying on The Phone or Text

Do you feel kind of stupid and sad when you find out someone has lied to you and you believed them? You aren’t the only one who feels that way. Quite the opposite, the fact is that we have all been victims of lies, whether on the phone or via text, and we have probably believed many things we shouldn’t have, even though the lies didn’t sound all that convincing. Why? The reason is not that we are simply naive and can’t recognize a lie. It may sound bad, but sometimes we believe a lie because we want to. We may care deeply for someone and we don’t want to lose them so we neglect the fact that they might be deceiving us and we go along with the lie. However, those are special situations and they mostly refer to couples. It is not unusual to become blind upon falling in love, but the good news is that blindness is not permanent. Putting all jokes aside, Insidermonkey experts made a list of 10 easiest ways to tell if someone is lying on the phone or text.

The first sign is the person changes the subject. If a person is hiding something from you when you are speaking on the phone or texting, they will definitely try to move from the subject as quickly as possible and start a new topic. If you ask a direct question when on the phone, and a person gives you a quick, undefined answer and then moves quickly to something else, this is alarming and can mean that the person is lying to you. It is similar with texting, so pay attention to how the person changes the subject. Verbal pattern and baseline are also important. If you want to be certain whether a person is truthful or not when speaking on the phone, it is useful to establish a baseline during the first few minutes of the conversation. That means establishing a verbal pattern while discussing some everyday things where the person has no need to lie at all. You can also check our list of 10 Ways to Tell if Someone is Lying About Cheating.