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" You know that urge you get to strangle your boyfriend after he&amp;#039;s fed you some lame excuse for why he didn&amp;#039;t call? Well, there&amp;#039;s something you should know: While being lied to definitely doesn&amp;#039;t feel good, it doesn&amp;#039;t necessarily mean your guy is trying to cover up something horrible. See, unlike girls, when guys lie, we&amp;#039;re not really thinking about the benefits or consequences to what we&amp;#039;re saying. It just happens in the moment \u2014 we haven&amp;#039;t sat and thought about the lie for hours. And often, the reason we&amp;#039;re not doing as we&amp;#039;re saying (or saying as we&amp;#039;re doing) is fairly innocent. So before you inflict bodily harm on your guy, check out the most common reasons that guys lie. Then maybe (just maybe!) you&amp;#039;ll forgive him? BECAUSE WE DON&amp;#039;T LIKE BEING WRONG  If there&amp;#039;s one thing every girl should know about guys, it&amp;#039;s that we&amp;#039;re wrong \u2014 a lot. But we&amp;#039;d much rather insist that our shortcut to your house is 15 minutes faster (even after you clock us in 15 minutes late) than admit that we&amp;#039;re off base. We have egos, and we&amp;#039;ll stop at nothing to keep them intact! BECAUSE WE DON&amp;#039;T WANT YOU TO YELL  Believe it or not, we generally don&amp;#039;t like arguing with people we care about (e.g., you). It&amp;#039;s much easier for us to say we fell asleep early than to admit we were at a friend&amp;#039;s house playing Halo all night. We&amp;#039;re hardwired to avoid conflict \u2014 it&amp;#039;s our way of keeping things hassle-free. And since girls are pros at verbal arguments, we know that getting into a heated debate with you will be a long, uphill battle \u2014 one that we&amp;#039;ll never win. So we&amp;#039;d rather not even go there. BECAUSE WE&amp;#039;RE AVOIDING HUMILIATION  When it comes down to it, we&amp;#039;re pretty fragile creatures. So if we feel like an idiot for some reason, we start making up stories. It&amp;#039;s a defense mechanism we use when we&amp;#039;re feeling hurt and/or embarrassed. Why did your guy say he was flirting with some girl at a party (when he actually didn&amp;#039;t talk to a single girl all night)? Because he saw you chatting up some guy earlier in the evening \u2014 and got jealous. A little make-believe flirtation simply makes him feel less like a loser. BECAUSE WE NEED OUR SPACE  As much as we like hanging out with you, there are times when we just need to be alone or with our guy friends. But since we don&amp;#039;t want to upset you or get into a two-hour discussion about why we don&amp;#039;t want to sit through The Notebook for the ninth time, we come up with reasons we &amp;quot;can&amp;#039;t.&amp;quot; In our book, saying we have a date with Grandma sounds much better than &amp;quot;I need guy time.&amp;quot; Agree? BECAUSE WE LIKE YOU!  When a guy&amp;#039;s getting to know you, he may think he needs to lie a little to get you to like him. We haven&amp;#039;t grasped the fact that people can like each other even without having the same taste in music. (You like Justin Timberlake? Wow, me too!) So later in the relationship, when we feel more comfortable with you and reveal that we actually can&amp;#039;t stand J.T., please don&amp;#039;t be offended. Be flattered. After all, we suffered through singing along to &amp;quot;SexyBack&amp;quot; all those times just for you! Now that we know you like us, we feel safe being 100 percent real. BUT SERIOUSLY:  No matter how small the lies are, if your boyfriend is a repeat offender, it&amp;#039;s not okay. Try talking to him about it. Tell him that with every little lie he tells, he loses your trust a little. And if your guy is blatantly lying to you about important things \u2014 say, seeing someone else or using drugs \u2014 then it&amp;#039;s time to reevaluate your situation. But you already knew that, right? THE DUMBEST LIES EVER! These guys&amp;#039; lies are so outrageous, they&amp;#039;re actually funny! &amp;quot;One night, my ex-boyfriend told me he couldn&amp;#039;t go out because his dog was &amp;#039;upset.&amp;#039; He actually said to me, &amp;#039;Buttons needs me tonight.&amp;#039; That was the same night one of my friends saw him out with another girl.&amp;quot; \u2014Teesha, 16, Maple Ridge, BC &amp;quot;My ex-boyfriend lied and told me that he&amp;#039;d broken his arm &amp;#039;playing sports.&amp;#039; But it turned out that he&amp;#039;d actually broken it at school trying to break-dance with his friends. So ridiculous!&amp;quot;  \u2014Emily, 15, Perry, OH &amp;quot;My ex always used to say he was going to buy his little sister Bridgette ice cream, or help her with homework. I later found out that Bridgette was just his excuse to get off the phone with me. She didn&amp;#039;t even exist!&amp;quot;  \u2014Gemina, 17, Los Angeles, CA "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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