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Who Would I Be If I Gave Up Lying?

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If I gave up lying I would have called PTW on his lies early this year. I was believing his lies in order to be a good girl, that 'fits in".

I did allow myself to set a boundary about him moving back in, and that was really important that I didn't believe the lies that I was told about it 'happening later in the year," because he would be living here now. Instead he is escalating his domestic violence with his ex and his daughter.
 
I stopped lying when I was 25. The best lesson I ever learned. Now I only sort of know who I am and what I want. I'm studying and in regular contact with my kids. Bring my husband into the equation and I don't have a f*cking clue what the hell I'm doing. Exhausting myself trying to make him happy but another couple of years down the line and I still can't give him what he really wants. At what point do you give up on Love? At what point do you set someone free who won't free themselves? I Hate what we've become it makes me feel sick.
 
So giving up lying has meant, for me, not believing all the bullshit lies I have believed or am believing, and it was most fortunate that I chose to not believe the lies of one particular person.

So giving up lying has meant giving up believing the spin, and lies other people are telling me.
 
So I gave up lying and that meant cutting my mum totally out and keeping my dad at some serious arm's length. It meant totally cutting my ex out.

It meant not being "nice" to my abusive narcissistic neighbor today, it meant walking out on a policeman today saying "well I can tell you aren't concerned" and not saying "thank you" coz he was being an arse (IMO) and I wasn't feeling grateful.

Not being too "nice" and arse licky.

I'm.usually very "nice" or avoidy. Sometimes I'm fearless and very much myself. Lots of the time I just want to hide. My guy gets extreme honesty from me and loves me for it, as I love him for the same.

I do "pick my battles" though. I don't like being unkind, ever, even when I'm really mad. But somtimes it's too hard not to show how pissed I am being lied to.

I got really mad today and I was still honest and not abusive (except when I referred to her as a lying c*ntface, not to her face, but she might have overheard it). I was authentic about having this ptsd thing though and I'm confused maybe that was the wrong thing to do? I'm really not well at the.moment and this person is exacerbating this condition in a big way. But to be honest? It's being really hard to keep it together in the face of this person's ongoing lack of integrity and honesty and accountability. A real trigger for me. I was honest and got very indignant and not calm when they came into my space today.

Actually told them to "get out of my face if you are not willing to be honest and accountable". They weren't, aren't, have obviously never tried because they told bareface lies instead, even to a policeman who didn't even care. Bad hurtful lies. That's when I was and am upset about and I didn't hide it today.

There have been deaths that this person is responsible for and she doesn't care at all. Furry four legged family member deaths and we are all hurting (my family and other side neighbors). Do I have to hide how much that hurts and their disregard makes me mad and that I want them permanently out of my face unless they stop the lying?

Usually I do hide, now I feel shame because I didn't today, but only because she came into my space with her callous go and bareface lies and lack.of accountability and I couldn't take it calmly after two pet deaths this week end, baby rape stuff coming up (me as a baby ,and my guy is away). I can't be superhumanly controlled all the time and I'm pretty good at major endurance of people's crap but I don't went to anymore!

I want to learn better being super-assertive calmness when I'm dealing with major lying assholes and not show how much they rattle me though. I still want that lie because apparently, according to the copper, I'm the dick today, because I don't want this liar and covert pet killer and neighborhood bully to come to my door for any reason at all and lie to me after all that she done that's been.very damaging to lots of us neighbors. I wasn't calm about that. That's how the copper made me feel, anyway, he didn't care as long as it wasn't humans getting killed and lies aren't crimes, apparently. I didn't like him and I'm not going to lie about that.
 
Geez...when did I finally quit lying and skirting around the truth about everything? I believe earlier this year when the trauma memories started fast and furiously entering into my conscious mind. I just couldn't keep up with all of my lies, theirs, too much.

So simplified now. The truth...and it is ever-changing. I don't tolerate liars in my life anymore. Fed up. Wore out. Tuned out...turned off. I lived in denial for decades and now...I simply...don't. And I have very stringent boundaries of whom I allow near me. And I have close friends who do not lie to me nor I to them. Progress.
 
I have come a hell of a long way since I started this thread as well. There is still a way to go, but I really have made a lot of progress internally, within myself.
 
Yeah, I've come a long ways as well since I first joined myptsd. Now in my 3rd year of college, still don't have my associates degree yet, and the load of abuse I still get, yeah I still wanna twist a few heads off, but oh well. Now on probation for the next 18 months for expressing my feelings in the presence of Jesus Christ, oppps, I mean a cop, and he didn't approve of it. Whoever said America is where people are free had to have been smoking the wrong batch of pot.
Again.
 
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