So, don’t set up this dynamic. If a cute girl walks into a bar, ignore her. If you like a guy’s shoulders, don’t stare. No ...

Your relationship is not a safe space for you. In some contexts, we lie for self-preservation. We don't want to be punished or harmed, so we bend or skip the truth to meet our needs without dire ...

An online study called the Lies Lovers Tell Survey asked men and women about lying tendencies in romantic relationships.

While some lying is normal, and can serve as a way to keep the peace or avoid hurting the other person’s feelings, trying to cover up actions or telling repeated lies can undermine a relationship.

Lying can be a long-established coping skill that becomes part of a dysfunctional pattern in relationships. The key for relationship partners to break a dysfunctional pattern is for both sides to ...

Lying has it's place in even the healthiest of unions. In fact, there are times when lying is even good for your relationship. Of course, I'm not talking about the kind of lying that involves ...

Sometimes a new-relationship lie is for self-preservation; sometimes it's motivated by embarrassment. A friend of mine DM'd me on Twitter about a lie he once told: "I pretended I wasn't living ...

Halfway through writing this article, I realized I hit almost every single point indicating I was lying to myself about the signs that I'm in a dysfunctional relationship. They say hindsight is 20/20.

The other day, I was having lunch with a girlfriend who was complaining that she hadn’t heard from a guy she went out with a few times. I asked her what she thought the reason was that he has… ...

Couples lie to each other an average of three times a week, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing, according to a recent study soon to be published in the journal Communication Quarterly ...