Is Honesty Always the Best Policy?

Honesty is always the best policy in every relationship. If you want to maintain a good relationship with your spouse, your children, your friends, your relatives, your colleagues, your boss or any other person you know you need to be honest. Nobody can appreciate you are lying and other persons will lose confidence in you if you hide the truth.

Honesty means you are always telling the truth and you expect from someone else they are honest to you; so you need to be honest to them too. Friendships are valuable and if you are lying you will lose your best friends. Lying will always hurt someone else; maybe not immediately but after some time your friends will discover the truth and know you were lying. They get a bad feeling and confidence is lost.

However, honesty is the best policy; there are situations which may be difficult for telling the truth. Suppose you have a friend and you know his or her spouse has a relationship with someone else and your friend doesn't know that. Is it really the best policy telling that? There are different opinions; maybe your friend won't believe you and you will get trouble with your friend.

Maybe you can consider hiding the truth and avoiding this subject because you better avoid interfering within their relationship. On the other hand your friend can blame you for not telling this if he/she discovers you knew this already for some time and didn't warn him or her because you are considered to be " a confidential friend" for him or her.

If you are married honesty between both partners is absolutely necessary. You can't maintain a good relationship if there is no honesty between both of you. There are always problems which arise and you need to be honest for solving the problems and maintaining a substantial relationship. When one of the partners discovers his/her spouse has lied he or she will always feel hurt and loses trust to the betrayer. Confidence is broken and he/she will always fear this will happen again.