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.

Even if you have problems in your marriage and it happened to you having an affair with someone else it is best you are honest to your partner and apologize for committing adultery. There is no good reason for cheating but maybe you can save your marriage with honesty and apologizing for what you did. It is better being honest before someone else tells your spouse you had an affair with someone else. Honesty is the key for a lasting relationship.

Honesty is not only the best policy in your marriage or between friends; it is also the best policy in your job and for making career. However, there are sometimes opportunities for promotion and competition exist with someone else for the same job; honesty is the best policy to reach you goal. Your boss will decide if you get the job or not and honesty will help you for enjoying unconditional trust.

If you work in a company with different colleagues you need to work together. There is need for good agreements and only honesty can help you to reach a good team work. Planning, understanding, respect between you, your colleagues and your boss are essential for good team work. Honesty is the key to have success in your work.

Honesty gives you a better feeling. Even if you didn't succeed in certain things you were always honest and no one can blame you anything. Honesty can be hard in certain circumstances but necessary for avoiding problems. Suppose you are the boss of a certain company and someone applies for a job it is better telling if he/she has not the capacities for the job than avoiding the real reason and searching excuses.

Honesty is always the best policy. Maybe it doesn't prevent every problem but you can't blame yourself anything for making the best of your relationship. Honesty is the key to live with a pure conscience and provides the best for most everyone.

Be honest and you will enjoy the benefits in the long run!