Why do friends tell lies?

Eliza_2

merlin68 wrote: »

Omg eliza it must be same person, as this one is the same.

I bet there are loads of people like that really, it's fairly easy to live another life on t'internet, but some people aren't clever enough to see it through.

Funny if it is the same person though, it can be a small world! However I do have to keep reminding myself that she has mental health problems so deserves sympathy and help. Fortunately I don't see her much these days!

I just wish I knew what to do about it.

merlin68

But how can so many illnesses and disasters, befall one person constantly. Eastenders pales in comparison.

Slinky

I had a customer once who told me how he represented his country (not UK) at a particular sport. I googled his name in context with the country and sport and nothing came up. However several years later after he'd stopped being a customer, I spotted his name in the paper. He'd been done for fraud (multiple companies set up, forging paperwork, changing his name 7 times). He got six years for it but is probably out by now.

Eliza_2

merlin68 wrote: »

But how can so many illnesses and disasters, befall one person constantly. Eastenders pales in comparison.

Yep, The Lancet will bring out a special issue on her soon, I'm sure, she's such a survivor!

alias*alibi

My brother is the biggest liar of all; so much so I've cut myself off from him and wouldn't care if I never saw him again.

When he was younger he was in the army. He had a girlfriend and would leave the barracks to see her. One day to get time off he said that me and my mum had died in a car crash. His Sargent phoned my grandad to pass on his condolences who said 'I have no idea what you are talking about as his mum is sat here with me'. Que dishonourable discharge from the army. I don't think he has ever told any of his many partners this; he still hangs up the photo of him in uniform at every house and his recent Facebook profile pic is a slogan 'VETERAN; Been The Best'. He never got as far as active duty. It kills me; I don't know how he has the audacity really. The final straw for me was creating such a web of deceit with each new relationship he would go into that I would have no clue what he told them was real or fake and it was like stepping on eggshells all the time. Nightmare. Good riddance to all that.

166million

I think I do this. I'm worried i make up lies without realising.

AmyTurtle

My half brother is known as a bit of a fantasist and tells people lies....last year he told a close friend of my dad's who works in the same industry as my dad that my dad had had a heart attack....they found out when the friend rang my stepmum to offer to finish any of my dad's outstanding jobs while he recuperated!

A few years ago he told another of my dad's acquaintances that my dad had died. I'm not sure why he does it, but we all joke if he tells you the sky is blue you need to check.

An uncle on my mum's side is the same - for example, he told me he has a customer who is so pleased with his work she takes priceless paintings off her wall and just gives them to him.....

krustylouise

I have the same thing going on. My neighbours son is the biggest liar going. We know he lies constantly and I mean every conversation we have includes a lie.

We realised not long after meeting when every conversation revolved around him being someones saviour, or being hard done by, or every time he signs on to JSA they take over 9 months to process his claim and his poor Mum has to support him on her pension alone for the duration of that time.

He has blatantly lied to us {my DH and I} and we have known the truth. We have never pulled him up on it, what is the point? He would just fabricate another lie to cover the last one? So we prefer to listen intently, smile inside and be satisfied with the fact we know he is lying to make himself look better when in fact he looks much worse.

I genuinely do feel sorry for his Mum though, she believes every word that comes out of his mouth.

Caroline_a

My ex was like this. He told me he'd been in the army, done service in N Ireland, been to Canada with work and so on and so on. Initially I believed him, until I bumped into his ex wife - who laughed like a drain and said 'what a load of rubbish'. She'd been married to him all the time this was supposed to be happening....

No guesses as to one of the reasons why he's an ex now!

raven83

Auntie_Social wrote: »

I know someone who has been nicknamed Billy Bigger as what ever you have he has something Bigger / Better / Blacker ..... he's so bad, if you tell him you have been to Tenerife - he's been to Elevenerife! It's got to the stage where when I know he is lying, I just nod and smile lol

God I hate it when people are like this, I just play up to it and see how far the will go with their fantasy :rotfl: