When someone lies to you do you confront them or just make a mental note of it?

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When someone lies to you do you ever confront them or just make a mental note of it?
Do you try to correct a lying person?

Or just let them say what they will say?
 
I don’t think there is any single “correct” response that will cover all cases. For a start, it will depend on who the person is and what kind of relationship you have with them. It’s one thing, obviously, if it’s a father catching a young son or daughter telling a lie, but it’ll be different if the son or daughter is a 30-year-old adult.

If it’s someone you have dealings with in the course of your work, or someone who is not personally connected with you in any way, then it’s harder still to pin down a single formula that will tell you how to react in every case.
 
I make a note of it and if it continues to happen I will avoid that someone.
 
Say nothing for who are we to judge and accuse? Love that person as if they had not lied,
 
It depends on the person and my mood at that moment. If I know the person isn’t going to listen or will deny lying, I just make a mental note and pray for that person.

If I know the person is open to correction, I let them know right then.
 
Some people are just pathological. I can understand saying a lie occasionally, “i can’t mske your party, because I am sick”

I can’t get inventing entire scenarios. Someone once told me that they could not drive for medical reasons, then I see them driving. :woman_shrugging:t2:

Some people are like con artists, making up wonderfully interesting lives and backgrounds.

Those types of liars are best avoided.
 
I just make a mental note. I don’t want to embarrass another or upset him or her.
 
Hello.

Depends on the seriousness of the lie and why, it seemed to me, the lie was being told.

Out and out betrayal, I do not do well with. Need to get beyond my unforgiveness on a betrayal by a family member that happened a long time ago. It was pretty serious.

However, if I just got up, and I’m all sleepy looking and my husband tells me I look nice, why he can lie to me like that all he likes.
 
In my job I found it amazing how some if the liars I worked with could control the conversation
 
Working in the customer service industry we are taught to say “sorry”
 
It depends upon the circumstances. If the lie causes serious, irreparable and/or enduring injury to someone, I’m inclined to say something. If it’s something minor that we’re all likely to get over, I move on.
 
I make a mental note in case that same person again makes a serious request of me. Fool me once, shame on you … fool me twice, shame on …
 
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