You and your boyfriend get into it because you find out they were lying to you about something.
The argument blows over, but you eventually realize that he is yet again… lying to you.
Today we’re going to discuss why your boyfriend keeps lying to you and what to do about it.
“Why does he lie to me?”
He doesn’t want to stop what he is doing.
Depending on what the lie is about, he honestly just wants to keep doing whatever it is because he knows it’s wrong. You’d be surprised by how many people will lie just so they can get away with something. It’s clear they don’t care, but they don’t want you to know it.
He could be a habitual liar.
He maybe a person that lies for no really good reason. This is something that he’d have to deal with on his own by going to therapy, but to be honest he may not even own up to consistentl lying though.
He doesn’t want to start and argument.
He probably lies so he can avoid arguments. For example, I’ve seen people lie about a lot of things just so they can not have that confrontation.
He knows that if he is truthful about what he is doing, you’ll want to breakup with him.
Most guys know when they are doing something wrong so they lie about it. They don’t want to be honest because they know that what they are doing is wrong and they know you’ll breakup with them because of their actions so they hide it… until they get caught and keep up with the lie.
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What should you do if your boyfriend keeps lying?
Confront him about the lie.
Show the facts you have and talk about it. Ask why he lied about it or why he wanted to hide this from you? Ask why he did whatever he did in the first place knowing how you felt about it?
Whatever it is… discuss it so you can understand the reasoning behind it.
If he doesn’t want to be honest or keeps doing something he shouldn’t be doing, leave.
Let me just be blunt.. leave if they keep lying or doing something you don’t like.
No reason to stay with someone who keeps doing something that isn’t right.
People change if they want to and they’ll do it without being asked.
My two cents from my experience..
To a degree everyone lies even if it’s a small white lie, but I know for me personally..
If I had a boyfriend that was lying to me, it would all depended on what they were lying about.
Were they lying about another woman or relationship?
If they were… I’d just end things. No questions asked especially if you catch them doing something inappropriate or disrespectful to your relationship and to you.
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So I hope you guys found this “My boyfriend keeps lying to me” post helpful.
Let me know how you feel and if you’ve been in a similar situation by leaving a comment down below!
In this article you’ll learn:
- The answer to your question: “My boyfriend/husband is lying to me, what does this mean?”
- What to do when he lies to you in a relationship.
- The shocking truth about lies, what science reveals about lying.
- Dr. Xavier Amador (author of the book I’m Right, You’re Wrong, Now What?) explains why men do lie.
- How to get him to stop lying and start telling the truth.
Most women don’t know why men lie or what it means
Recently I got a question from a woman who said:
“My husband is lying to me, why does he lie to me if he loves me”
Fair question.
She didn’t mention in the email what he lied about, but I guess she wasn’t all that concerned about the reason why.
In this article, I want to briefly discuss this topic.
Here are the 7 tips for when your husband or boyfriend has lied to you:
1. Realize that he is only human
Regardless of whether you are a man or a woman, everyone lies now and again.
The fact is, that men get caught more often, but that’s because women are slightly better at it.
But here’s what it comes down to:
Men lie. Women lie. People lie.
And it’s a lot worse than you might initially think.
Now you are probably thinking: “How bad exactly?”
The Shocking Truth about how often people lie
During a study at the University of Massachusetts, they had 242 students in 121 pairs have a 10-minute conversation with each other (one-on-one).
What the students didn’t know is that the conversations were recorded with a hidden camera.
Very handy, because this made it possible to find out what percentage of the participants lied within this short time.
Guess what?
No less than 60% of the participants lied, with an average of 2-3 lies per conversation.
Do you understand what this means?
It means that more than 50% of all people you have met, are likely to have lied to you three times during the first ten minutes. And when you think about this, you might get paranoid.
This is what Robert S. Feldman (researcher) had to say about the matter:
“People tell a considerable number of lies in everyday conversation. It was a very surprising result. We didn’t expect lying to be such a common part of daily life”
Shocking? Yes. And it gets worse…
Before you think that you are part of the forty percent that wouldn’t lie during a conversation of ten minutes (which is a pleasant thought)
That same study revealed that the VERY people who thought that they would never lie, lied.
So keep in mind that we have a terrible judgment when it comes to telling the truth.
During a conversation that lasts longer than ten minutes, everyone lies sometimes.
So by definition, is it a bad thing when your boyfriend lies to you?
No, of course not.
Lying is not necessarily bad in itself
Based on the fact that 60% of us lies within ten minutes, we cannot possibly say that we are all bad people.
It rather says something about the fact that lying is something human.
So knowing that your boyfriend has lied to you, how bad is that really?
Alright, in many cases it’s not as bad as you’d think. Because he’s only human.
But let’s discuss further why men do lie.
2. Why do men lie
“Men tell little lies to avoid conflict”
That’s what Dr. Xavier Amador (author of the book I’m Right, You’re Wrong, Now What?) says about this subject.
He explains in seven words why men do lie: to avoid conflict.
How does this work in real life?
Usually something like this…
Ellen and John are walking along a shopping street on a summer day. Suddenly a gorgeous woman walks past them wearing a rather short dress. From the corner of his eyes, John discretely looks at the woman but makes sure that he does it as inconspicuously as possible.
However, Ellen notices this and immediately becomes insecure. So she asks him the following question “Do you think she is prettier than me?”
And unless John is really stupid or doesn’t know anything about women, he will answer: “Of course not. Yes, she is pretty, but she is not really my type and I think you are much more gorgeous.”
But the funny thing is that he will always say this. Even if he thinks she is prettier.
He does this because he doesn’t want to hurt Ellen’s feelings.
Yes, she might be very literal about it and think:
“He lied to me”
But does this make him a terrible liar? Or a caring boyfriend who takes his girlfriend’s feelings into account?
He simply lies to avoid a conflict.
Why women sometimes unconsciously force men to lie
Scenarios like in the example above will definitely make your boyfriend or husband lie to you.
Because let’s be honest, he is never going to say that he thinks another woman is prettier than you (although he might think that).
I only bring this up because the woman also plays some part in whether a man is lying or not.
So what can you do to avoid your partner lying to you?
Don’t ask him any questions that force him to lie to you.
Instead, look at the reason why he lied.
3. Focus on WHY he lied to you
As I explained in tip #1, a man who is lying is not something you should be concerned about. It would be more worrying if he would never lie to you.
It’s much more important to know why he lied.
Look. If he lies to you because he doesn’t want to hurt your feelings, or because he wants to impress you by lying about something…
Well, then it is not necessarily all that bad that he is lying.
When lying becomes a bad thing
Lying only becomes a bad thing when he lies about some awful thing he has done, for example, cheating.
Then it’s only normal that you question him about it.
Here’s the thing…
You have ‘good lies’ and you have ‘bad lies’
A good lie could be that he says to you that you look sexy in a specific dress, when he actually doesn’t like it that much.
A bad lie would be when he lies about the fact that he has stolen money from you.
You can’t blame him for the first lie, but the second lie is rather a different matter.
So the reason why he lied to you is all-important, and not the fact that he did lie to you.
As I’ve mentioned a few times now to hammer this point home.
But apart from ‘good and bad lies’ there is also the one that has both.
4. The lie that is both good and bad
Suppose you have been in a relationship with a guy for three months and you ask him if he’s still in touch with his ex.
He says: “No”.
But one way or another you find out that he still has contact with his ex, and when you ask him about it, he says:
“Yes that is right, I sometimes text her but I didn’t want to tell you because I was afraid that it might make you insecure. It doesn’t mean anything.”
In this kind of situation, it’s a lie that is both good and bad.
On the one hand, he has her best interest at heart, but on the other hand, he flat out lied about it.
So if you catch him doing this, then it is crucial that you clearly communicate to him that you absolutely don’t like what he’s doing.
5. Keep your emotions under control
Let’s say you just discovered that your boyfriend did something bad and then lied about it, then it’s very tempting to get very upset.
Although I can understand why you are doing this, it doesn’t help you with the situation.
For a man, an angry girlfriend is like a boring high school teacher. He pretends to listen but in reality, he’s just thinking:
“I can’t wait for this to be over.”
As a result, he doesn’t learn anything from it, and she gets even angrier because his body language tells you that he doesn’t give a shit.
There is a much easier way to handle the situation and get him to stop lying to you.
6. How you condition him to stop lying
Suppose he told you a bad or semi-bad lie, then it’s important to ‘condition’ him as fast as possible.
The best way to do this is to give him a negative incentive when he is lying, and a positive reward when he stops doing so.
In other words, operant conditioning.
Here’s how it works…
When he lies to you, you tell him that you hate it and what the consequences are (negative incentive) if he does it again.
Subsequently, you reward him when he’s telling the truth and doesn’t do it.
Want to read more about this? Operant conditioning is only one of the 10 tips to change a man, click here to read them all.
7. Tell him how his lies make you feel
Every guy wants to be the best boyfriend in the world (long live the male ego). When you let him know that he’s not, he will try harder for you.
If you tell him: “You lied to me, and I don’t like it.”
Then he will probably say something like: “Ok, I won’t do it again.”
But if you tell him how his lies make you feel, it will have more IMPACT on him.
Men are bad at picking up non-verbal signals. But if you explain how bad it makes you feel, then he’s much more likely to do something about it. Simply because he wants to be the best boyfriend in the world.
Now you know the real reasons why men lie and how to effectively handle it
It’s never nice to be lied to.
Sometimes it’s good to look at the situation objectively and from another perspective. Because things are not always as bad as they seem.
Othertimes, his lie reveals a darker uncomfortable truth that you need to face rather than run away from.
Love,
Tim