Honesty is best policy?

honesty is the best policy. i do believe telling a lie is the worst thing you could do, and one lie would leed to another and another. all you land up doing is try to hide your lies with another one. i do believe how much ever it hurts you should be very honest in your relationships and if you have done wrong its better you tell the truth accept it appologise and move further rather than tell another lie as that can turn into disaster

it would be best if i tell the truth even though i know that it would hurt him/her. but in order to hurt his/her feelings that much, i use to talk to them in a nice way

I'm a woman and i do think honesty is the best policy. Little lies tend to come back and bite you. The bigger lies will eat your relationship up and spit it out. I have been told that if one cheats or does something big to compromise the relationship that it is selfish to come forth with the truth....that you are only trying to relieve your own guilt. To me that is like covering one lie with another and soon it snowballs. Once you cheat, you've already broken the honesty pact. it can only get worse. I have lied in a relationship. I was with a man just last year who was jealous over everyone and everything. I work nites. He wanted to spend the nite when I got out of work. I didn't allow that when my daughter was home but it was the weekend and she was usually at her dads. this nite, however, she called me and asked me to pick her up when I got out. She wanted to be with me. She comes first. I called him and cancelled. I got out of work...went to pick her up and she had fallen asleep. I left her with her dad and went home. My boyfriend called me to say good night and then asked to speak to my daughter. He was always so suspicious that I lied and said she was sleeping. Since I'd just gotten home, he didn't think she could be sound asleep and asked me to wake her. I just confessed at that point. I lied to avoid the hassle of him thinking that I'd lied about having my daughter as he'd of thought I was hooking up with some other guy. The relationship didn't last. Trust is important too.

i dont think ANY lie is good at all. even if it spares the feelings of another. some think its OK for certain things, but if someone asks you if they look alright, or if their hair is ok.. and it isnt, and you tell them its fine? you are then subjecting them to ridicule from strangers when they go out looking the way they do. lying to protect someones feelings, doesnt protect them at all, because when they learn the truth (and they always do)not only are they still hurt by the fact itself, but also by being lied to by someone they trust, doubleing up the pain you were hoping to help them avoid in the first place, AND they no longer trust you fully. there are NO justifiable lies, ever, to those you claim to care for.