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He knew she wasn't being faithful. He knew he shouldn't have expected her to be, especially after being dead for seven years. It's alot easier to slide into a familiar routine than to shatter the illusion that he had a home and a family to come back to. But she became cold an withdrawn as the days passed and she realized what it meant for him to actually be around. Eventually play pretend had to come to an end.
She sighs and looks up from her plate. "I refuse to live a lie, Goku."
And he cringes. "What lie?"
"Even you're not that dumb. So let us do ourselves a favor and face the music."
"No."
"No?" She repeats incredulously. "Wouldn't you rather hear the truth than live a lie?"
"Honestly, No. I don't prefer the truth. I wished you had kept up the lie, Chichi. Now what do I have? Training? There's only so many hours of the day I can fill with training! No one comes calling me unless the world's gonna end!"
"Then that's your problem" she snaps. "Because I'm done, I'm sick of playing house with you, of being alone!"