.... but I'd better not as, clearly, he'd rather we didn't.
What a shame. I think that the art of being able to lie convincingly is a wonderful way of keeping the waters calm in a relationship.
'Do you like my new dress?'
Now, I don't know about you, but I'd much prefer a blatant lie - something along the lines of:
'it's a stunning dress and you look gorgeous', to this kind of truth:
'It's a beautiful shade of yellow'.
There's lots more I could say, but I'm sorry, I must dash - and that's no word of a lie!
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Hmm, I've had to come up with a solution to that one, as David is absolutely hopeless. He just does complete and utter honesty, doesn't try to soften the blow at all.
My solution?
I don't ask.
And I take a good friend with me that I can trust and who isn't brutally honest, just tactful!
(The punchline here should have been "I just look in the mirror", but I don't trust my own judgement!)
My husband can't get it right - he says 'you look lovely, dear', before he's actually finished raising his head to look at me - so he gets it in the neck for that!!
Your story is so mysterious!~
The truth of the matter is that I wanted to lie to get myself out of attending a meeting last night. I wanted to pretend that I had a headache. But I felt awful about lying - partly because I thought I'd be making a coward of myself and partly because I think that, on balance, lying is not good! But, whilst pondering all of this, I couldn't help but see some good in lying - I mean it can get you out of tricky situations quite well sometimes.
Anyway, I went to the meeting and thoroughly enjoyed it!
Well written article.
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