The habitual liar ..do you know someone like that?

United States
April 22, 2010 7:56pm CST
Do you know someone who can create stories that are untrue and relay them so perfectly that people believe them.? Do you know anyone who simply cannot tell the truth ..?
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@RL2006 (494)
• United States
27 Apr 10
Yes, I've known people who just couldn't possibly tell the truth no matter what they were going to say. They would tell one un-truth, then tell something else to cover up the un-truth, then possibly tell a third one which is still not the truth. So that was a habitual liar.
• United States
27 Apr 10
Very good explanation of the habitual liar..Would you say that someone who tells lies all the time becomes convinced that his/her lying is the truth?
@ada8may21 (2404)
• Philippines
23 Apr 10
I know a person like that, she is my roommate and then co-worker. Since we know each other and the people that surrounds us. Even if we know each other, she still managed to fabricates a lot of stories. From one person to another person. Sometimes I would end up stupid because I believe to her fabricated stories. There was a time that karma went to her side, because she really like doing fabricated stories.
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• Philippines
23 Apr 10
I know some people who doesn't show the true thing. Their alibi is that, people do not care about the truth. To them, listening to the truth is accepting another foreign culture. Because of this there is no point of telling the truth.
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• United States
23 Apr 10
Seems like this would be a poor reason for creating a lie ...just because people don't want to listen to the truth..but seems that that is the way some people choose to go.
@basqui (3888)
• Philippines
23 Apr 10
I think I know someone like that back in my college days. He used to tell stories about him then We would later discover from his siblings that those are not true. I wonder why they need to make up stories than tell the truth?
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• United States
26 Apr 10
You think he created those stories more to have something to talk about then to be creating a truth? Some people have nothing to say and want to say something so make it up..I have known such people
• India
23 Apr 10
Yes, I came across them many times. Dealing with them is quite a task. These people resort to telling lies, regardless of the situation. For them telling lies is a sort of routine. For them it is just a habit a way of life. It is something like forming a second nature. They tend to bend the truth in almost all issues whether large or small. It seems they draw a kind of comfort from it. To them lying seems always right. Telling the truth, on the other hand, is difficult and uncomfortable. Once a person turns a liar it turns into a sort of addiction. They find it difficult to stop. In lying, he or she feels always safe and this fuels the desire to lie even more. They are quite oblivious to the fact that their lying hurt people around them. The habit of theirs invariably ruins their relationship with others. Sometimes counseling and therapy can treat them. To reform a liar you will have to confront him over and again with the truth to let him see the futility of it. However, it is a long, systematic, and strategic process. You will have to shake him out of his habit to tell lies.
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• United States
26 Apr 10
Sometimes I think some people get so use to saying lies that they believe that lying is truth and truth is lying.
@catalyser (531)
• Malaysia
23 Apr 10
Yes, I know a person just like that. She was my ex and I dated her for about a year or so. She could not tell the truth even if her life depended on it. She would lie to everybody, even her bestfriend. She would twist the story to her advantage, I would always turn a blind lie because the lies she tells was small and to me, was harmless.. This went on for the whole duration I was with her and then I just gave up. I broke up with her because of that. Even know when I talked with her friends, they would still uncover some of the lies that she told me and her friends, imagine that.
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• United States
26 Apr 10
I wonder if such people can be cured? Is this something that follows them to the grave. Liars never admit they are lying.
@chiyosan (30186)
• Philippines
23 Apr 10
Yeah, i think there is one that i know who likes to lie quite often... she would even say different things to different people about a certin thin, or certain issues and when we all talk about it to clarify, apparently, it was her that told everyone this, and that lies to make everyone kind of hate each other, perhaps?! i think this kind of person does not deserve a friend!
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• United States
23 Apr 10
Sometimes the type of person you talk about here..may not be so much interested in lying as seeking friends for herself. Yes she lies about each person but it's more because she has no friends..she thinks by telling info the person receiving it will be her friend.
@srjac0902 (1169)
• Italy
23 Apr 10
i know a few people who cannot hide the truth
• Bulgaria
23 Apr 10
I know that kind of guy pretty well, but the situation is, that no one from his friends doesn't believe anymore to his stories. He use these stories for excuse of uncomfortable situations, but only a guy who doesn't know him can believe him already.
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• United States
23 Apr 10
you are right: only the person who doesn't know the habitual liar falls for the lie he/she fabricates..