What's up with the lies?!

[Csaw]

I remember when i first met my SO - and no it wasn't a "business" meeting - she would always tell me these stories of things that she'd done/experienced/seen...mostly normal everyday things. Then later i would find out it wasn't true. But i couldn't get it...still don't...why she would make up things with no real purpose. I mean, people lie for a reason - whatever the reason might be - but there was just no reason for the stories she would tell me...it wasn't to impress because there wasn't anything impressing about the story... she was obviously not trying to impress. It wasn't to hide anything. It wasn't to gain anything. They were just mundane stories that you would never think weren't true because you would have absolutely no reason to think so. It was just making up stuff just for the sake of making up stuff. Absolutely no purposed. And then when i confronted her, she would just laugh it off as if it was so silly that i would even bring it up.

Now obviously it didn't stop at those little lies...there were much bigger ones too.

 

Anyway, never thought much of it... until a friend of mine recently told me about how his Thai wife would always lie so much that he doesn't believe anything she says...at least right away. I'm wondering if this is a common thing among Thai women/people. Is it normal...part of culture perhaps?

Edited October 23, 2017 by Csaw

[pgrahmm]

Not mine...She's so straight forward honest it almost takes the fun out of it....Honest to a fault....

 

She basically cannot tell a lie....

[Kwasaki]

She was bored and probably still has some growing up to do..

Someone making stuff up usually serves to occupy the brain of the subject when he or she has nothing better to do with their time and has grown tired of using their creative side and/or imaginative ability to construct a realm where to have everlasting fun.

Edited October 23, 2017 by Kwasaki

[MaeJoMTB]

Never listen to women, never confront women (Nationality and race not important).

Makes life so much  easier.

 

I've never met a woman that says anything I wanted to hear.

(apart from 'yes' now and again to keep it legal in some countries)

Edited October 23, 2017 by MaeJoMTB

[Kwasaki]

2 hours ago, MaeJoMTB said:

Never listen to women, never confront women (Nationality and race not important).

Makes life so much  easier.

 

I've never met a woman that says anything I wanted to hear.

(apart from 'yes' now and again to keep it legal in some countries)

      Thankyou captain scarlet.

[Been there done that]

7 hours ago, pgrahmm said:

Not mine...She's so straight forward honest it almost takes the fun out of it....Honest to a fault....

 

She basically cannot tell a lie....

She succeeded then 

[cornishcarlos]

My wife will lie to her Mum, just to avoid confrontation or worrying her. Nothing drastic, more bending the truth to suit the situation. Example, we had work done on her old pick up, cost 54k but she told her Mum 42k just to stop her stressing :)

 

Does she lie to me ? Maybe, again for the same reasons probably. Am I bothered, not at all as long as she's there when I get home :)

Edited October 23, 2017 by cornishcarlos
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[dotpoom]

There are as many different personalities as there are people.

My question is...what is an "SO"? 

[klauskunkel]

1 minute ago, dotpoom said:

There are as many different personalities as there are people.

My question is...what is an "SO"? 

Superior Officer

[seancbk]

Maybe she was just trying to make conversation to practice her English?

[Pungdo]

My wife couldn't lie straight in bed, she tells me so many lies, that I can't tell what is true and what is a lie, mostly about money I might add.

She hit me up last week for money to pay Land Taxes on her properties upcountry, I told her that I wouldn't give her anything until she told me exactly to the satang just how much it was, so she supposedly caught the bus up there and rang me the next morning to tell me how much, later that day she sent me a hand written receipt without anything official looking about it for that amount, looks like she wrote it out herself and she was back home that night.

I now suspect that she never even went upcountry at all as she has never been up there and back that quickly, around 30 hours, normally a 12 hour trip both ways and gone the best part of 2 days, but I can't shake her off her story which I normally can do.

[Been there done that]

8 minutes ago, Pungdo said:

My wife couldn't lie straight in bed, she tells me so many lies, that I can't tell what is true and what is a lie, mostly about money I might add.

She hit me up last week for money to pay Land Taxes on her properties upcountry, I told her that I wouldn't give her anything until she told me exactly to the satang just how much it was, so she supposedly caught the bus up there and rang me the next morning to tell me how much, later that day she sent me a hand written receipt without anything official looking about it for that amount, looks like she wrote it out herself and she was back home that night.

I now suspect that she never even went upcountry at all as she has never been up there and back that quickly, around 30 hours, normally a 12 hour trip both ways and gone the best part of 2 days, but I can't shake her off her story which I normally can do.

You married a true gem 

[MaeJoMTB]

8 minutes ago, Pungdo said:

My wife couldn't lie straight in bed, she tells me so many lies, that I can't tell what is true and what is a lie, mostly about money I might add.

She hit me up last week for money to pay Land Taxes on her properties upcountry, I told her that I wouldn't give her anything until she told me exactly to the satang just how much it was, so she supposedly caught the bus up there and rang me the next morning to tell me how much, later that day she sent me a hand written receipt without anything official looking about it for that amount, looks like she wrote it out herself and she was back home that night.

I now suspect that she never even went upcountry at all as she has never been up there and back that quickly, around 30 hours, normally a 12 hour trip both ways and gone the best part of 2 days, but I can't shake her off her story which I normally can do.

Sounds like my wife, but I'm not daft enough to pay her 'land taxes'.

Edited October 24, 2017 by MaeJoMTB

[tifino]

 

... would love to see a compilation of standard lies heard, again and again:

 

 

often heard at the temple, when the monk wants people to come together to get some work done:

from all the thai men there it's all the same:

"I busy",

or after finding out what day is required, then it will be that day plus a few either side, when the man cannot help.

 

But, because a thai cannot simply lie, with a straight, honest 'No',

there's always the decoy: - 'but 2 weeks later I would have been free'

 

It's sad when the Monk simply replies 'that in any 24hours you cannot always busy, as you have to sleep... sometime!'

 

and then the falangs, and the vietnam neighbour, step in to do the job

 

Edited October 24, 2017 by tifino

[superglue]

'Why tell a lie when the truth will do' (unless you are Thai).

[OmarZaid]

19 hours ago, MaeJoMTB said:

Never listen to women, never confront women (Nationality and race not important).

Makes life so much  easier.

 

I've never met a woman that says anything I wanted to hear.

(apart from 'yes' now and again to keep it legal in some countries)

Never wrong, never at fault ... rules of the game

[seancbk]

11 minutes ago, Been there done that said:

17 minutes ago, Pungdo said:

My wife couldn't lie straight in bed, she tells me so many lies, that I can't tell what is true and what is a lie, mostly about money I might add.

She hit me up last week for money to pay Land Taxes on her properties upcountry, I told her that I wouldn't give her anything until she told me exactly to the satang just how much it was, so she supposedly caught the bus up there and rang me the next morning to tell me how much, later that day she sent me a hand written receipt without anything official looking about it for that amount, looks like she wrote it out herself and she was back home that night.

I now suspect that she never even went upcountry at all as she has never been up there and back that quickly, around 30 hours, normally a 12 hour trip both ways and gone the best part of 2 days, but I can't shake her off her story which I normally can do.

You married a true gem 

 

I don't understand why anyone would marry such a person, let alone stay married to them.  

Unless of course she's stunning.

 

 

[Pungdo]

Just now, seancbk said:

I don't understand why anyone would marry such a person, let alone stay married to them.  

I didn't know what she was like until a few years into the marriage, been together now for over 10 years, we also have a 6 year old daughter that I won't walk out on, so it is a case of I have made my bed and now I have to lie (sic) in it.

[Suradit69]

22 hours ago, Csaw said:

would always tell me these stories of things that she'd done/experienced/seen.

Maybe she's a fan of Trump and wants to emulate him.

[sanemax]

5 minutes ago, Suradit69 said:

Maybe she's a fan of Trump and wants to emulate him.

Please stop all these continuous references to Trump

Or are these Trump forums ? 

[1FinickyOne]

I don't believe this question. Why would you ask such a thing.... it is meaningless. 

[1FinickyOne]

25 minutes ago, seancbk said:

 

I don't understand why anyone would marry such a person, let alone stay married to them.  

Unless of course she's stunning.

 

 

Stunning like a stun gun?

[Suradit69]

12 minutes ago, sanemax said:

Please stop all these continuous references to Trump

Or are these Trump forums ? 

Please stop all the fantasy threads about the behavior of "girl friends." Or is this a teenage "romance and dating" forum for adolescents.

 

 

 

 

Edited October 24, 2017 by Suradit69

[AjarnMartin]

1 hour ago, klauskunkel said:

Superior Officer

I would have thought: “Significant Other”?

[sanemax]

1 minute ago, Suradit69 said:

Please stop all the fantasy threads about the behavior of "girl friends." Or is this a teenage forum for adolescents.

This is a Thai forum and threads about Thai partners is to be expected .

Constant references to Donald Trump quite often turns the thread to a discussion about Trump .

   I am just so tired of reading his name on here

[tifino]

6 minutes ago, sanemax said:

This is a Thai forum and threads about Thai partners is to be expected .

Constant references to Donald Trump quite often turns the thread to a discussion about Trump .

   I am just so tired of reading his name on here

it is so simple!  ignore the irelevant Posts, and leave it to the mods

 

whenever I see that word which bugs you,

I twist the context like a thai does,

and think : 'trumped up lies of a thai'

[Songlaw]

1 hour ago, dotpoom said:

There are as many different personalities as there are people.

My question is...what is an "SO"? 

 

1 hour ago, klauskunkel said:

Superior Officer

That was brilliant. I wish I'd thought of it. From here on out, I will probably "allow" people to think I did - barring any wild protestations on your part - Klaus. I've enjoyed your work on a number of occasions, by the way. Incisiveness is one of the few art forms I recognize and tend to respect.

[sanemax]

12 minutes ago, tifino said:

it is so simple!  ignore the irelevant Posts, and leave it to the mods

 

 

What about the red bull heir who killed a policeman , did he tell lies ?

[tifino]

2 minutes ago, sanemax said:

What about the red bull heir who killed a policeman , did he tell lies ?

 

ummm, probably not (didn't stay around long enough) - he just ran away

 

 

anyhows, my ealier Post was simply about the 'off-topic' context

[Berkshire]

It's sort of funny that this thread is running the same time as this other thread...

 

 

So who lies more, farangs or their Thai wives/GFs?