Should you forgive a partner who lies if their intentions were good?

[HawkPerception]

Yes

No

A total of 14 votes were cast: 9 girls and 5 guys. See detailed results

[michalpl00]

No, if you lie to me as a partner, you will break my trust and my trust is a foundation for the whole relationship. I trust people who are trustworthy and if you show me that it is OK and your morals to lie and be deceptive. It is something that is going to break the trust completely and honestly, this is what destroyed my last relationship. My ex-girlfriend lied to me, but I stayed with her because she was truthful and she told me, but after that, I became resentful, and I never trusted her again which of course killed the relationship. And I don’t think there is a good reason to lie about anything. She lied about me being the only one, but in reality, she slept with another guy while we were dating, and she had been telling me that I was the only one since the day we met 2 months later I find out it wasn’t true. It means that she lied and was being deceitful about having attraction for somebody else other than me and was OK with hiding it as if I was the only one basically didn’t want to tell me because she thought I would leave so yes also my ex-girlfriend showed me in many circumstances that it’s OK in her morals to hide things for exampleI accidentally hit my dad’s car just a little bit on the side and she suggested that I could just not tell him which shows that it’s OK for her to hide things which is also big red flag

[RingOfFire]

Generally yes. But I can probably think of circumstances where it might be an unacceptably bad thing for them to do even if their intentions were good. So I'm not sure how forgivable it would be at that point.

[alice55]

if I saw their reasoning as fair I would personally forgive them.

[ohsheeT]

No you need to nip that in the butt right now the very first lie

And let it be known that it won't be tolerated the moment you like the very first time everything will start going downhill from there there's no reason to lie about anything.

If you can't own it don't do it

[madgoat]

Depends on the context but if they were working from the heart and with good intentions, you can probably on some level accept their actions. Even if you don't agree overall.

[TheStaleMarshmellow]

I did once. It didn't make them change a bit.

Not. Fucking. Worth it.

[Emmytexrex]

Hmmm this is a tricky one I hate lies 😡

[Garud]

good for who

[CarolinaGirl5]

No..

[Dongie]

Yes, of course.