How do you deal with someone who lies while acting completely innocent?
What do you do when you know someone is lying to you, but they keep acting, faking, and maintaining the story as if nothing happened?
Especially when it’s someone you trusted deeply — literally the last person in the world you could imagine lying or manipulating through actions, emotions, or appearances. Someone who always presents herself as fragile, innocent, naïve, authentic, and ‘not the type to lie.’
I think what hurts the most isn’t even the lie itself. It’s the fact that you already see the truth clearly, yet the person still has the courage to look at you and make you feel like you’re wrong, crazy, or imagining things — as if you’re stupid enough to believe everything.
And honestly, with people who look mentally and physically fragile and innocent, it becomes even harder to process, because you never expect that kind of behavior from them.
Do you think it’s a good idea to have one last calm conversation with that person just to explain what hurt you and then decide that the friendship should become more calm and distant afterward? Or is it better to just distance yourself silently?
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