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White lies - yes or no?

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TessMcNess · 11/02/2017 22:34

Can I ask what you think about white lies? My very new date - 3 months - is, I feel, far too honest and hurts my feelings when he could avoid it. For example, I cooked for him for the next day when I wasn't going round. He told me that evening it didn't look very appetising and went to his friends to eat instead. He sent a photo of some chocolate he brought me for next week. Then he said he'd eaten it because he was hungry. I said I looked a mess first thing in the morning, he agreed. Such tiny things I know, and having been with a prolific lier I don't condone dishonesty, but surely white lies to spare someone's feelings aren't bad? Or is that the start of a slippery slope?

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HarmlessChap · 12/02/2017 23:02

He's not Dutch is he? I knew a Dutch guy just like that, someone once said that brutal frankness is part of his Dutch culture, albeit I have no other experience.

FWIW he meant no harm and was otherwise a top bloke.

Chickiwick · 13/02/2017 01:54

My husband can be a bit thoughtless and speaks before thinking which can occasionally irk. But he is never cruel and in the first three months of our relationship he never had anything but nice things to say to/about me.

Didn't like to food? Make a joke and get s pizza - not fuck off to a friend's!

I think he sounds unpleasant.

MsStricty · 13/02/2017 10:16

What a piece of work. My concern is that you can't see it, which may mean taking some time to learn how to put yourself first.

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