Forgiveness

United States
May 21, 2010 1:36pm CST
Lets say that you found out that your girlfriend lied to you about how many ex-boyfriends she had. Instead of six she actually had five. Would you forgive her? I personally don't see why not especially if she is sincere about apologizing that she lied. You both declared that you love each other. Shouldn't forgiveness, especially over something like this, be easy to do if you love each other? I don't know what to do.
10 responses
@rosie230 (1696)
21 May 10
Yes... thats not really a bad lie to be honest... i mean you say she told you six, but really only had five... well I think that if she had lied and it was really a lot more than she had mentioned then maybe things would be more difficult, but on this i think yes to forgiveness...
• United States
21 May 10
i didn't think it wasn't that bad of lie either. can you please tell my bf that? lol. thank you for responding and happy mylotting.
• Philippines
11 Aug 10
For me, I will go for 'forgiveness' Because If you really love him/her, every sin or single sin He/she committed, you will forgive it with forgetting every single data of this sin. And, atleast if he/she apologize, accept it because it signifies only your true and genuine love. It is just like what Jesus did. He forgive us even though we are much sinner. think of it. If you will not forgive him/her, will you benefit from it. I know you have pride but pride must not be exist in 'LOVE'. Forgiveness is one proof that you love someone. And in addition, we are not perfect so we should forgive 'coz we know in our-self that we are also a sinner.
• Philippines
23 May 10
I'd say she's a liar. I wouldn't trust her again ever. I don't like lying women. I mean what's even the point of lying? That's absurd. Why lie on how many exes you'Ve had. That's just childish.
@rhinarea (311)
22 May 10
Past is past i don't think theres anything wrong with that as long as she apologize to you.
• United States
24 May 10
its not a bad lie at all, there was less boyfriends after all. thats always better. You should be happier it was less after all. But its always important to be honest. You gotta choose your battles. This is something that shouldnt effect a mature couple thats really in love.
• Kenya
10 Aug 10
i think we should forgive because we also lie about the number of gals we ve been with,
@jugsjugs (12967)
21 May 10
I would forgive her as it is better that she only said six where as she could have said 4 and then you found out that she had 5.So she was only one boyfriend out do it really matter as that was before she met you.
@olepmis (840)
• Philippines
21 May 10
Lying in the first place is not good. Forgiveness is something you should practice if the person is sincere but be a little cautious. Telling a lie is easy which creates more problem than a solution. Beware.
21 May 10
It depends why they lied really. If it was a mistake, that she simply miscounted, then obviously it wouldn't even cross my mind, if she had called someone a boyfriend who wasnt technically a boyfriend, but was "on the scene" shall we say, then again it wouldn't cross my mind. If she made someone up, then I would ask why she had done so, if it was a genuine reason, then yes I could forgive that, but if there was no reason at all, then I would be a bit confused, I wouldn't end a relationship because of it, but it would confuse me and maybe make me wonder what else they had lied about, but it also depends on how long ago it was too- if it was quite a while back and your relationship was great now and all times inbetween then why ruin a good thing for something silly! :)
@amorlife1 (370)
• South Africa
21 May 10
Why does it matter? So many people ruin perfectly good relationships by focusing on unimportant things. I think that what happened before you two got together doesn't have any place in the relationship. How many boyfriends has she had since she met you... that's a relevant question. The question is, whether she had 5 boyfriends, or 6 or 50... what're you going to do with information? How's it going to benefit you? Life is too short to be spending so much of your time worrying about how many boyfriends she had... I hope you get what I mean?