<human>: This may seem like a petty thing, but it is weirding me out. My husband (married 3 years, together 5) has always been a bit of a jocular liar, but never about anything important or anything involving money. Tonight he walked in with a lovely pair of earrings for me for Christmas. I fawned over him, told him he was wonderful, etc. He told me that they were "24 carat diamonds" (my first tipoff that something was off), that he had gotten them on layaway, and that they had cost $1000. That make me uncomfortable. We have a good bit of money in savings, but we are pretty careful and don't spend money without mutual agreement. 

Shortly afterward, he went out to visit a friend, and I looked them up on the website for the store where he got them. They are cubic zirconium set in silver, and they cost $95. I was really relieved. It would be ridiculous to buy me a pair of diamond earrings, and they really are beautiful anyway. Still, this is really, really weird and is setting off alarm bells. 

Add to it that he goes out with friends multiple nights a week, is making a huge effort to get in shape all of a sudden, and is no longer interested in me physically (I weigh exactly the same as when we started dating, and I put effort into my hair/makeup/clothes - he says he just misses the thrill of the chase), and I kind of wonder if he is trying to use this as a money laundering scheme to finance an affair. 

Is this completely paranoid? Should I say something to him or just move on and keep my eyes open? The alternative hypothesis is that he is getting in shape because he finally realized he was looking kind of bad, goes out because he loves his friends, and lied because he wanted to impress me but couldn't afford to give me what he really wanted to.

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<bot>: My husband said a pair of $100 earrings cost $1000 and made a big deal about it, and it is setting off all kind of alarms for me. Should I ask him about it, or am I being paranoid?