He told me Lauren was a guy, and did a whole spiel about men called Tracy etc (to be fair, Jess in my username is a boy) and I believed him! Or rather, I wanted to believe him. Oh. Dear. God. How we delude ourselves
The elaborate manipulations and lies. I don't understand why some guys do this. I suppose they get a kick out of "fooling" us. It makes the idiots appear smart (to themselves, if no-one else).
The thing is we're not fools or deluded. We believed them because it never occurred to us that a man professing to love us would tell us all these shitty lies. We're not stupid - we just believed they had integrity.
I'll never be 100% the trusting person I used to be. Maybe that's a good thing.