If someone Lied to you, and you knew it, would you confront them or let it go?

@lpetges (3036)
United States
March 6, 2007 8:50am CST
i just found out that i have been lied to. how would you handle this situation?
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6 responses
• United States
7 Mar 07
If I found out that I had been lied to by someone close to me, I would confront them to find out why they lied. If I had been lied to by an aquaintance, I would probably let it go, and chalk it up to not believe what that person says anymore.
@lpetges (3036)
• United States
8 Mar 07
it hits you hard when you have been betrayed. i wish i could just forget about it. wouldn't it be nice if your eyes twitched or your fingers curled up or something when you lied, so that was a giveaway...? it just should not come so easy for people to do.
@yomoho (361)
• Sweden
6 Mar 07
Tell him/her to stop,because if you don't tell, maybe he/she will do it again.Think about it.
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@jess368 (3368)
• United States
6 Mar 07
well i haev been lied to before, and the only way to fix the problem is to comfront it. This is your bast option. I have been on both sides of a lie and its not so bad to comfront nor is it that bad to be comfronted. sometimes you need this to change your actions.
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• United States
8 Mar 07
What have you decided to do and/or did you do something already???? As I mentioned before, after a friend lied to me and I confronted it, the friendship dwindled. Trust had been broken. Realized not much of a friendship to begin with if one resorts to a lie.
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@lpetges (3036)
• United States
14 Mar 07
i haven't done anything, i am still in shock.
• United States
6 Mar 07
I truly believe it is the best to confront the person. Keeping it to myself would really bother me. Is this a person close to you or you thought was close? I have experienced this, and sadly the friendship dwindled. I then came to the conclusion it was the the bst of friendships to start with. What are you going to do?
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@lpetges (3036)
• United States
6 Mar 07
i don't know what i'm doing about it. i feel very betrayed, and somewhat shocked. i know that people do lie, and generally i think nothing of it. but, when it is someone that you really thought of as a friend,, wow it hits you hard.
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@easy888 (10405)
• Australia
17 Mar 07
If someone lied to me and i discovered their lies, I will not confront to them, i just let them go. The situation will only be worse if you try to confront with them, they must have their own reasons to lie, and the result would be the same no matter how you confront them, on the other hand, if you are generous and let them go, the situation may be better .
@dellion (6698)
• Malaysia
17 Mar 07
I agreed with you on your views here as me too always think that someone who lies may have their need/reasons to lies in which we ourselves might do the same when needed. I don't encourahges lies and most of the time hate it but I truly understand sometime it just needed to lies and that's life.