Why do men lie?

I am a man and I can say that allot of times it is pride that us men do not want to speak the truth!Also most of the time men are frientened to face the fears of what they have done wrong! They are afraid it will only belittle them and make them inferior to the opposite gender! Are all men this way no!! But allot are!!

Men like women alike lie often for various reasons. People lie to preserve pride, they lie in an effort to help them get away with something, they lie because they can get away with it, they lie out of fear of the truth. Some people make promises to gain a benefit for themselves. Once they get what they want they feel it is ok to dismiss the promise previously made. Sometimes they lie because they are weak. It doesn't make it right or okay by any stretch of the means.....but it does happen.

Well, obviously I'm not a man, and probably can't speak for one with legitmacy...

However, experience has taught me that of the two species....male and female...I think females keep up their end of the lying habit. I've known many who couldn't tell a boyfriend/spouse the truth if it sounded better.

A man probably lies for the same reason anyone does: there's an expected pay off somewhere in their mind for the lie. Either they think it's better to tell someone they're involved with what they want to hear, or they think the truth will hurt the one they are with, or it will hurt themselves.

Sometimes it's just a lazy habit. There was a couple we had been friends with "forever" and the man told more lies than he could count. If he was opening his mouth, he was lying somewhere in the sentence he spoke. For him, I think it was a compulsion, a disorder; he always spoke in words what he wanted to have happened. This lifetime habit caused him and his wife, and children much misery. He had other redeeming qualities, and we could walk away when we got our gut full, but his family of course, could not.

Encourage truth by being strong enough to handle what we may not want to hear. Praise truth and model it in our own lives, and I think we'll see it more in those who mean so much to us.

If not, walk away. Habitual bad lies are harmful.

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because ladies always ask for it.Ladies like not to be sure for Men.So it is fatal

A man tells you he's interested because he wants to get laid.

That same man makes promises to get in the panties.

Once you gave up da Punani there were no issues left to confront.

Beat it!

We all lie irrespective of gender, but some experts claim that men lie more than women. Of course, other experts claim the opposite. But, since we are talking of men here, lets just focus on them and the... keep reading →

Well lol that's both gender both men and women lies, I do believe that men lie most of the time due to pride, some of us find it hard to put our pride in our back pocket. see that's why I believe one should not make promises because we can't foresee the future, and love is more complicated then we think.

They are scared they will upset you and think you wont find out the truth.

Well, regardless of what intrinsic formalities and propensities one may attempt to place upon either of the genders, the fact is that lying is sociological and is affected by the many common policies employed throughout society, either spoken or unspoken. If it is acceptable to select mates according to social status, economic status, purely physical attributes, etc...then humans will continue to seek inter-relations as a form of entertainment and pleasure. This form of sociological penchant will demand that deception be a common tool. As well, there are far too many women who will make snap judgements about men according to a plethora of cookey cutter, and many times illegitimate, parameters rather than actually take the time to get to know somebody and be friends for a logical portion of time before expecting to find mr or mrs rights. Really, people should give people a break, then there would be much less lying. Most women appear to be ridiculously intolerant.

Unfortunately, much of the dating scene is rampant with exploits seeking one aim only, casual sex with as little consequences or accountability as possible. This is being engaged in by both genders and only adds fuel to the flame.

A few months ago my response would've been "Because it's men we're talking about here.." but within the past few months I've done some more growing up and observing and I think that some men feel the need to lie because they think we can't handle their cold truths or because they're not that into us, they're just telling us what we want to hear to get us to "shut up". Hope I helped! Feel free to contact me!

-h

Why do women do the exact same things? Maybe to keep from hurting the other person's feelings, maybe to keep from having to make a definite decision, maybe out of fear of committment.

The point is, to try to pin it all on men is unfair, because women are just as duplicitous.

I think in the beginning of relationships both genders misrepresent themselves for whatever reasons. Years ago I read a really good book, "Men Who Can't Love". It was very good and I only wish I had read it when I was younger and 2 marriages earlier.

Beacause if they tell us the truth we get mad at them. LOL