Do guys tell the truth when they're drunk?

[Anonymous]

My guy says demeaning things to me when he's drunk. I want to know if that's the way he really see's me. He also gives golf lessons - he told me while he was drunk that one of his clients booked a lesson because she likes to flirt with him. When he was sober he stated it was strictly professional. Any help?

[GoodManDave]

Not always. I think that the inhibitions are lessened, and so a person may be likely to say things they're feeling at the moment, but that doesn't equate to the truth, nor does it always equate that that's everything they feel at the moment.

However, he has to get a handle on it 1) If he's getting drunk a lot. 2) If he starts becoming physically abusive. 3) If he's a "rager" or he becomes suicidal when he's drunk. 4) He drives drunk.

If you don't want to live with that, you certainly don't have to. And if he's doing it a lot, it could get worse before it gets better. You don't have to stick around for that if you don't want to.

I wish you the best.

[TheUglyOne]

Intoxication does release mental inhibitions, which means we are more inclined to be truthful when we are drunk.

Regardless, his behavior towards you while drunk is reprehensible. And I have to wonder if on some level deep down, there is some basis to what he says. When I get drunk, I get all mushy-mushy sop towards my wife, saying all sorts of sweet but lame things to her. Because that IS how I feel, but most of the time I conduct myself normally.

About the golf client, well, he could be saying the truth while he is drunk, or, he could simply want you to believe that to project so sort of machismo image of him, i.e., like women still desire him.

[kespethdude]

NOBODY tells the truth when they're drunk, that's why courts ignore testimony from anyone legally drunk. Drunks have no credibility because the alcohol has taken over their brain for at least an hour.

[kespethdude]

I almost got arrested for prowling that I didn't do at a campsite once because someone else was prowling at the time, the next site neighbor has too much to drink that night, and she accused me of being the prowler when I was just hanging around outside my own tent. the police came and they eventually left without arresting anyone, probably told her to lay off the alcohol.

[TheUglyOne]

Not necessarily. The main reason is people are more easily manipulated, have decreases sensory perceptions, and more wild imaginations to put it mildly. A statement taken while drunk cannot be certain if it was true, imagined, or the drunk person was tricked into saying it. But of course, drunk people can still lie.

[dan87]

not necessarily more truthful but I'm a lot more in touch with my emotions when I'm drunk and I feel I say things I wouldn't say sober

[6Paul11]

Depemds on the person.