Why do you think that some people hide or deny the truth

It is just a personal defense mechanism that is really hard to explain. SOme people think that when they lie, they will escape facing the truth or the consequences.

People are dishonest for many different reasons, but mostly I think because there is something wrong with them.

Some people feel that people will think better of them if they lie and cheat. They seem to get away with it so they continue to do it. People need to set up boundaries and not let people treat them in any way but with respect or they don't associate with them. We are able to make choices and those choices deem whether we have losers in our life or not.

I honestly think that the reason that there are a lot of people that aren't able to tell the truth and that are not willing to be a good friend is because of the way that they were brought up. There are far too many people in the world that would rather cause problems and drama than to be a good friend and stand by those people that care about them through the good and the bad times in their lives. I've seen that far too much recently.

People tend to really fear a lot about the truth. Yet there is really nothing to fear, it is going to be there, no matter how many times you shield yourself from it. No matter how many times you try and hide from it. Often times, denying the truth is going to cause it to really bite yourself really much more in the end. There are many people who think that a little lie here and there, are going to really be not a problem but the truth of the matter is that it can be a big problem. I really find there are many times in life where people lie the most of all to themselves and they convince themselves of the truth. To protect themselves from the harsh realities that are out there. Yet that is really something that you do have to deal with. No one really said that life is going to be easy. Life is in fact not that easy at all, it can really be have a lot of problems to say the very least. Still the truth is there, even if you try and delay it.

Hi! I think people to it for various reasons. They may be protecting somebody or themselves or they are afraid of the consequences of telling the truth, afraid that it will hurt their loved ones. But regardless of the reason ,the truth must always be revealed. There is no secret that will not be revealed, so better tell it than them to hear it from others.The truth will indeed set us free!!

Because they are uncomfortable. Some feel lying is the way to go and I think they begin to believe the lie themselves. They don't want to fess up because they are uncomfortable with being the bad guy. They want people to think better of them when in actuality it works just the opposite.

It reminds me of a story: a little fox has had to learn to be sly and shameless from his father. Once, after playing with other animals, the little fox felt depressed. He came to his father and asked :"none of my fellows like me. Why must we be hypocritical? " "Son, through thousands of years practice,our ancestors proved that being sly and shameless is the easiest way to survive in the world." his father answered. To some extent, the old fox's words make sense. And some people embrace this philosophy piously. No wonder we find such people everywhere.

In my opinion, your friend is like that, so the other one will not get hurt of knowing the truth. I think , she would rather hide it, that it's her who will be telling your friend and hurt her.

Definitely their an instance that you an meet people whom you think they are good to you.They are displaying a friendship whom you want to have.But later only to find out esp when their is trouble you are the one being betrayed. We have lots of friends but we can count a real friend who are really true to you.

Well, usually the reason for dishonesty is simply a fear of what will happen when people find out the truth. When one is dishonest, he or she isn't thinking "oh this will cause more problems when the person finds out..." they are usually thinking more so along the lines of "I must prevent them from every finding out at all costs!" If you think about it, how often are people really dishonest about trivial things that don't matter? Usually they don't bother being dishonest because it takes some level of effort to be dishonest without being caught and called on for it, and it doesn't matter whether you tell the truth or not on such trivial matters, so why bother lying? What do people usually lie about? Usually people are dishonest about things like stealing, being scammed, being abused, being involved in crime, cheating, not knowing how to do something, requiring help on something, etc. Now cheating and stealing in themselves are dishonest. People are dishonest about whether or not they involved themselves in such things because they are afraid what people might think if they find out. They usually cheat or steal though because they feel they can't do it any other way without help, and are afraid of what people will think if they find out that they require help. Almost any dishonest act or action you can mention or think of, if you really think about it, the reason for the dishonesty almost always is to due with a fear of what will happen if people find out about something.