Recently I read an article on Pinocchio Parenting, and it reminded me of one I read about white lies when my daughter was young.  That one made an impression.  So I’ve tried to keep it in mind while raising our daughter and more recently two grandchildren who’ve lived in our home for the past 14 years.
Do we tell our children not to lie, that it’s bad to tell a lie, yet they hear us telling “white lies” and even letting them do it for us?  In other words, do we have a double standard for what we say and what we do?
Are there gray …read more

Over the last week, I’ve found myself in the midst of a situation that I’m just not sure what to think. So, as I’ve done before, I’m going to call on our wonderful readers to offer up their insight which I’ll pass on to the couple I’m discussing here.
This couple has been together for just over a year. They’re not married, but she has children who see him as their father figure.
Apparently the girl caught the guy in a couple of white lies over a year ago and has let the doubt and lack of trust build from there. …read more

One of our Dating Dames readers and a fellow blogger read our 10 Lies Men Tell and has in turn offered up all the reasons why men actually do lie.
It’s refreshing to read the male perspective on this topic.  I always wondered just why some men would lie and well, now I know…
Michael Smalley shares his views on Crash Into Love

Sometimes, one might say, lying is necessary, but other times, we might be better off just admitting the truth. You can try to justify your lies by convincing yourself that you’re simply optimizing your truth management skills, but at the end of the day, you know deep down inside that you’ve been keeping the truth neatly tucked away. Here are 10 of the many lies men opt to tell.