Promises are made to be broken?

This could be true--but let me also add that it isn't limited to one gender. The same could be said about women. Promises can be made with all of the wrong intention--where they're lies and never meant to be fulfilled AND where this is done to manipulate others. One of the oldest lies (usually done by a man to a woman) is telling the woman, "I love you!" when all he wants to do is to get in her panties. This could include a promise to go steady or even get married "someday." So, that would be a promise that the smooth-talking bachelor never had any intention of keeping. The next kind of promise--something more typical of women than men--might be to be in charge of something such as a church bake sale, if Mrs. Brown is unable to do so. So, the woman makes the promise--while not seeing any reason why she would actually be called on, since Mrs. Brown has never yet failed to rise to this occasion. So, why might the other woman make the promise? Possibly, because she might have been put on the spot and didn't know how to gracefully say, "No," considering the fact that, for one reason or another, she seems to be the least busy of all of the women at church, so it might make her appear "selfish" or "lazy" not to say, "Yes." Now, she's been put in the position to rise to the occasion because this would be the one year that Mrs. Brown wouldn't do it. Possibly, she might go ahead and keep her promise. However, if she doesn't really feel up to it, she might apologize and say that it turns out that she wouldn't be able to do this. Finally, there's the third kind of broken promise--which is where somebody promises to do something and is really 100% sincere about it at the time--but some unexpected circumstances end up coming up. When it comes to my own self, I don't like to break promises--although I do at times--so I've simply come to the conclusion that (knowing how busy my life seems to be where other unexpected things seem to happen a lot) it's best for me to simply say, "I promise to try!" or "God willing and the creek don't rise!" Here are my conclusions on this matter... Situation #3: This could happen to anyone, so don't point an accusing finger at the one who had to back out of a promise and call him or her names like "Promise breaker!" because he/she likely feels bad enough already about not coming through. Situation #1: The promise breaker is a jerk! Plain and simple! Situation #2: I think that people--and, especially, we women--need to develop better skills at turning down an offer without feeling guilty. Furthermore, people need to help us out by not being so quick to pass judgment on us. Otherwords, if I were to tell somebody that I could help out, go somewhere, etc. just leave it at that! Don't badger us and/or lay guilt-trips on us trying to wear us down so that we change our minds. That is being manipulative and selfish!!!