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"Raise your hand if you&amp;#39;ve heard one of these stories or a similar one before: A guy tells his girlfriend he&amp;#39;s just not into marriage. They break up, and six months later he&amp;#39;s engaged to someone. Or maybe a girl tells her smitten guy friend that she&amp;#39;s just going to concentrate on her career for a while, but the next thing you know she&amp;#39;s quitting her job and moving cross-country to live with her new boyfriend. Dang, you guys. Salt, rubbed in wound.\nPinterestFacebook&amp;quot;I don&amp;#39;t believe in love! Wait, yes I do! Just not with you!&amp;quot;\nA similar thing happened to a friend of mine recently, and I&amp;#39;m totally indignant on her behalf. She worked with a close-knit group of friends, and she had kind of a thing going with her close friend/male co-worker. However, they never solidified it into a relationship, and one of his main reasons for doing so was that it wouldn&amp;#39;t be appropriate for them, as colleagues, to date. She eventually got a new job and moved away, and guess what happened a few months later. Yep, he&amp;#39;s dating a new co-worker&amp;#8212;and making NO effort to keep it a secret to be &amp;quot;appropriate.&amp;quot;\nMy friend, being a worldly woman and all, isn&amp;#39;t shocked per se. Everyone who&amp;#39;s ever heard of He&amp;#39;s Just Not That Into You knows the drill about excuses. But it does feel like a slap in the face, especially since this guy was a good friend of hers. Key word: was. Now he&amp;#39;s just the guy who lied to her and made her think they were something they weren&amp;#39;t.\nLook, I&amp;#39;m not saying you can&amp;#39;t lie to some random guy in a bar and pretend you already have a boyfriend. But if it&amp;#39;s a person you care even remotely about and want to be friends with in the future, then don&amp;#39;t lie. Don&amp;#39;t make excuses. Just say, &amp;quot;You&amp;#39;re great, but I&amp;#39;m not interested in a relationship with you.&amp;quot; And then, you know, don&amp;#39;t act like you might kind of be into it maybe after all if it weren&amp;#39;t for that one little detail and string the person along until someone else comes into the picture. That move is for babies, kids. Be a grown-up.\nHave you ever been in a similar situation where someone made a fake excuse to not date you? Or have you ever been the faker? Do you agree that it&amp;#39;s best not to make excuses and just be up front?\nThe dog never really ate your homework, did he?\nThe Most Elaborate Excuse a Man Has Ever Come Up With to Explain Not Calling\n15 Good Excuses to Invite Someone Over to Your Place\nThe 10 Worst Guy Excuses for Turning Down Sex\nPhoto: Fox Searchlight Pictures/Courtesy Neal Peters Collection"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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