Guys, do you ever lie about having a girlfriend?

[Anonymous]

This is referring to when you’re single and you lie that you have a girlfriend. Do you guys ever do that?

[zeitgeist057]

Never even occurred to me. Interesting, as I read some answers before answering. The thing about rejecting someone and lying to not hurt their feelings I think of girls doing that more than guys, but I think it's a shitty thing to do no matter who does it. Lying to someone is not a way of showing respect, it's the opposite. Dishonestly hurts the liar and the lied to. The other thing about saving face or trying to seem cool or whatever also has the opposite effect: it makes you heaps more pathetic than the mild status loss of not being desired romantically/sexually.

I was honestly uncertain wth the question meant, because when I clicked on it, I assumed it was asking if guys who have a girlfriend lie and say they don't to try to flirt with another girl they are attracted to.
Which I can proudly say I don't do that, either. Being poly means I am honest and open rather than deceitful and trying to hide/suppress/lie about my feelings the way so many monogamous people do. That's why it really cracks me up when monogamous people try to bag on poly people as unethical or immoral. The hypocrisy is so ironic.

[WhiteSteve]

I’ve done it if I wasn’t interested in a girl who was making herself available to me, and I didn’t want to hurt her feelings. Only works if I don’t run in the same circles, though, obviously. But if I’m out at a bar and someone I’m not into asked for my number, I would just tell them I was very flattered but I have a girlfriend.

[Kaneki05]

Who don't? It's a easy way to get rid of someone without hurting their feelings. Ya just say oh sorry I have a girlfriend or sorry I am interested in someone else simple solve. Rather than saying anything mean.

[Phoenix98]

I've done it once only because it was a girl I wasn't interested in and it was kind of the only way she'd leave me alone and I didn't want to hurt her feelings.

[Telekinetic-Potato]

Only if I can see the girl I'm flirting with is a degenerate whore.

[nawtee_me]

Would you be my girlfriend so I don’t have to lie about it? lol. really I have never lied about me being single or not.

[Zestyassmf1997]

I don’t. But I bet it happens.

[Asker]

Why do u think people do it?

[Zestyassmf1997]

Trying to save face.

[Anonymous]

No I always tell the truth. Of course I'm a pathological liar. And I'm even lying about that.🤣

[BarryLiverstone]

I did that as a teenager

[BarryLiverstone]

Why do you ask?

[Anonymous]

No, but I'm pretty sure girls pull that stunt.

[Jamie05rhs]

No. I don't do that. I own my shit.

[verylovelyguy]

No. I admit to being an incel

[Roudyrebel8]

No why would I?