What is everyone's response now to the knowledge that someone is being dishonest with you? Do you call them out on it? Ignore it? Ignore and drop them from your life? Try to forgive and forget? Anything else?
I actually contemplated this question for a long time after finding out my stbx was lying to me about her A.
I couldn't decide if she was being dishonest to me to protect my feelings or if she was doing it to serve her own purpose. I still don't really even know to this day. We were always honest with each other during our M. Sometime I think she did it to string me along and then there are times I think she did it to protect my feelings or to soften the blow.
I think how I would react (forgive, forget, ignore, drop them, etc,.) depends on what somebody's reason is for being dishonest with me.
I think I could forgive easier if they were dishonest to me to protect my feelings or if there was no malicious intent. If the intent was self-serving, vindictive, or to cause harm to me in some manner, then I would have a harder time with that one.
"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare." -Mark Twain
