What is a lie you've told in your relationship that you feel is better than telling the actual truth about?

[Anonymous]

Like sure that dress did not make her look fat...

Like sure, you don't mind if she has a total mental breakdown during the fourth quarter of the game...

Like sure that thing he does in bed is AMAZING for the billionth time...

Like sure his friends aren't total losers...

[Finchie40]

I choose to be honest and not lie at all , if my partner can’t handle my honesty , then she isn’t the girl for me. People that can hold lies and secrets from their partners’ don’t really love their partner , they only love themselves and love what they can receive but they do not know how to give. When I was younger I admit o fibbed here and there with girlfriends’ until I realized it’s stupid and dumb for me to do , I want a girl to love me for me the same way I want to love her for her , so once I witnessed liars getting caught and busted was when I completely stopped lying all together. Honesty gains respect , Lying gains disrespect , I rather be respected by my partner then disrespected by my partner. So if you truly love someone , you are best to be completely honest with them or you are in a fake relationship based off of lies. If your partner doesn’t like your honesty , then so be it , there are plenty of fish in the sea

[Fireguy17]

In the beginning my actual income.
They could tell by what I owed, my lake house etc. that I did well, but never the actual number.
In the beginning I would meet them somewhere, go to their house i would always use my pickup.
It wasn't fancy, clean, reliable and not any indication of what I had.
That way I could tell more if they liked me for who I was, not what I had.
Obviously they could just look me up on the google and have a pretty good idea, but I felt that some mystery about the actual number was best.

[AvaRay]

Hit me with the truth but not with sweet lies.

I don't believe that connection either is friendship / relationship can be built based on lies / deception..

I ll never speak lies to my partner / friend.. even if that's hurt

[DishLady]

I don’t lie. Period. There’s no reason to start a relationship with lies.

[Asker]

People who say they don't lie, are always liars. It's just something they say to make themselves feel better. You may not lie about big things, important relationship things, but you definitely still lie.

[DishLady]

Wow. You’ve got a very special thought process there. You should see someone about that.

[ohsheeT]

I think some little things are just better not said. But when I a relationship the moment the first lie comes out of either mouth. It's the start of the end of the relationship. Because a lie is always found out

But when you have a true bond it is a beautiful thing to be honest if im wrong about something im going to say. I hate to say this but your right im wrong and then the reason why. If she want to know about her butt in what she's wearing. I won't say yes or know i will say wait a minute. Try these on for a second let me look at these and when she does get old touchy feeling
It's not so much what her butt looks like. It's what the clothes make her butt look like some clothes are just better

[Purpleronnie]

As I see it ‘Honesty’ is one of the pillars of a strong relationship , not untruths or half truths. The only slight grey here is how it’s delivered , as not all truths deserve to shared or communicated the same way each and every time. However I’d much rather be given or deliver truth badly than not at all.

[bobalife]

Very well said, my adopted buddy. I’m proud of adopting you as my buddy 🧐😆

[Wuai201]

I don't think it counts as a lie
You can tell me if it does, but I told him (them)
to tell me what's on their minds. I act real cool about it because honestly I need time to process what they're saying.
After I process it, I realize I don't like what they said and ghost them.

[WhiteSteve]

Just a lie by omission, but I never told her that her sister flirted fairly hard with me maybe six months before I met her. I wasn’t into her, so nothing happened. Never came up again, I think it just went unacknowledged. It was nothing crazy, but it was just pretty clear she was throwing me some signals, you know? That was probably like ‘06, so it doesn’t matter. Nothing to be gained by bringing it up. My lady would probably be fine with it, but why even open that can of worms?

[beenherebefore]

I lied about my past sexual experiences. I thought lying was better than telling the truth and that he would never find the truth but realized that lying and hiding things from my Partner wouldn't work in a long term committed and solid relationship. My Partner now knows everything about me.

[BeenThereLovedIt]

Hahahaha. Everyone lies, at least the vast majority of you. Take it from a HF autsitic, I've told the truth, and nobody, and I mean nobody can handle it.

Do you look fat in that dress?

Truth: Yes.

Relationship over.

You will lie. You all will lie.

[Twalli]

I've never actually lied about anything like that. Heck, I've told her which of her friends I find attractive. Most of them are my friends too, since we were part of the same friend group while single. So, we're still hanging out with those friends just publicly dating while we are.

[SquishyBuns2628]

I love you, when in actualality I truly cared for my recently ex boyfriend of 6 years. Just not enough to love love him. He wasn't my definition of masculinity of how a man should be ie

[Clear_Skies10]

I was always ridiculously honest in my marriage even when it got me in trouble. Thankfully I never thought a lot of bad things, so the truth was usually pretty sweet anyway.

[Anonymous]

You raise a good point. It’s up to you whether to confront the problem head on by telling the truth or simply decide it’s not that big a deal and tell the person a white lie to make them feel better.

[Asker]

Somebody gets it! People are like, I'm so perfect, I never lie. That's a lie. Never met a couple that told the truth to each other 100% of the time, it's just they don't recognize "the white lies" as lying, or the times they told a lie just to get through the day. I'm not talking about earth shattering break up the marriage/relationship lies because you cheated with someone, just "yes, I really do like that cake you made."

[Nikki1989]

[bobalife]

Always remain honest even during tough conversations

[Agape93]

Yes that was 100% chicken meat. Definitely not a rabbit from the butcher shop.

[jahaims]

I have only ever lied to my wife to set up surprises for her

[Pearl222]

That’s really sweet

[queenofcardio]

I really did not like some of his friends, they made me feel uncomfortable sometimes. I tolerated them most of the time.

[InknKink]

She means nothing to be baby. I swear.

[HellGeist]

The best relationships are built on lies.

[Ariesman81]

Of course I don't think your sister's hot

[Anonymous]

I've actually never been in a relationship.

[Elena_adobra]

That i don't mind he's small cock