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Serious question, wrote down every lie I told for 30 days and the worst one was to my own mom
Last month I started a note in my phone on March 3rd and logged every single time I said something I did not mean, even small stuff like telling a buddy in Cleveland his band sounded good. Hit 41 lies in 30 days, and 12 of them were just me dodging phone calls from my mom in Toledo. The brutal part is I showed her the list when she visited and she laughed and said she already knew. Does keeping a lie log actually make you more honest, or does it just make you feel worse about stuff everyone already does?
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elliotadams25d ago
Yikes, the part that gets me is that you showed her the list and she already knew. That means the log didn't teach you anything about your mom, it just gave you proof of something she'd been clocking for years. Here's the thing nobody talks about, the lies you tell your mom to dodge calls aren't really lies about her, they're lies about you not wanting to deal with something, and logging them just lets you feel bad without changing the call. Maybe the real test isn't counting the lies, it's picking one person on that list and telling them the truth next time instead of writing it down.
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