My friend lies all the time

[boobyprize]

She is nice enough.She just tells white lies all the time.Anyone got experience of this?

What sort of lies? Is she a close friend? Maybe you could pull her up on it next time she does it, in a nice way of course.

She will ask you around for dinner and then cancel.Later I find out she has gone to the cinema.She had a party for her birthday and we didn't get invited.When I found out she said it was a suprise party and she didn't know.She got discount for a school playground mum in her shop and just told me today she can't get discount.She does my hair and charges me £30 to colour and cut my hair,while she is doing it I am cooking her and her ds dinner and she is drinking our wine.Am I unreasonable

I just wouldn't treat a freind like this.Sometimes I think I expect to much.

Thats dicount in the salon that she works in.

Hmmm. not someone I would like to call a friend tbh

You're not unreasonable. She sounds like a pita.
Why are you friends with her?

I think I am asking myself this now? but I don't know

I'd find her behaviour irritating to say the least.
I have a ''friend'' who tells stupid lies....ie cannot meet for a coffee, because my Nan has collapsed.... WTF. In fact, I haven't bothered to call or email her, and have basically dropped her.

I had a friend who did this a few years back, always little white lies and tall stories. I could never figure out why she was doing it- it was never anything major, but eg she told me a story as though it had happened to her, a few mins later I was flicking through a magazine and read the same story with identical phrases in it. SHe seemed to like her life full of drama and it was just too much for me to handle - we drifted apart a few years ago.
Boobyprize,sorry this isn't much help, but if anyone has insight I'd love to know what makes people act like this?? Have to say the charge for a haircut when you make them dinner is a cheek - next time you should present them with a bill (+10% service charge) on the way out

Hmm, I have a 'friend' like this. Everything is a major drama, some fabricated bullshit. She and her family are also supremely happier/more successful than us or anyone else. Oh and no matter how much effort I put in with her and her daughters, she still takes back every gift I've ever bought them, claiming they're broken or some such shit. Probably to get the money or despite my efforts, she's annoyed it isn't from 'the list'.

Its all a crock of shit. I give up with her.

My blood pressure is normal and I have less frown lines. People like this do not deserve friends.

Move on, get a new hairdresser, its far too exhausting being invited out and dumped like that all the time.

I had a friend like this. She was very bright and lots of fun but always trying to engineer things to what she wanted and that would involve lies. I got sick of it and stopped communicating with her. I miss her fun but am not prepared to put up with the lies to have it. I think it was based in a lot of insecurity.

I have a v old friend who is a pathlological liar. She makes up all sorts of stuff which I know to be untrue.

However she is a very sweet, kind person in other ways and her dh is lovely so we overlook it.

I think what I am trying to say is if it doesn't impact you directly and you like her otherwise then maybe not an issue. My friend never lies about anything important really, just stuff to make her seem more important or exotic usually and tbh if she needs that then that is her issue.

Actually have just realised that I said it was never major, but thinking back she always had pregnancy scares, abortions, and she once had cancer.
if she did I feel terrible for doubting her, but...I found her difficult to believe alongside all the other stuff and felt as though I was being taken for a mug