Detect His Lies Every Time

If you smell a rat, get to the bottom of your suspicions by reading his body language.

1. The ear pull: If he tugs on his ear, it may be a subconscious ploy to distract you from the big, fat fib coming out of his kisser.

2. The arched eyebrow: A cocked brow sends a contradictory signal-half aggressive, half scared. The unmixed message: he’s hiding something from you.

3. The chin dip: Right before a cunning cutie coughs up the Story of the Century, he’ll sometimes gulp and lower his chin to keep down the butterflies in his stomach.

4. The shoulder shrug: A shoulder shrug feigns bewilderment, as in “How could she think I’d lie to her?” But what he’s really thinking at that moments is “How the heck did she catch me?”

5. The hand rub: If your sweetie’s sweating buckets, his palms will itch, forcing him to rub them together or wipe them on his pants.

6. The leg shift: Shifting his weight from one leg to the other may indicate a shifty response to the burning question you have put to him.