breaking promises is equivalent to lying

For some people "Promises are meant to be broken". After reading this post I began pondering whether it is true for men or for both men and women. Well, I must say you are right. It is true that men make many promises in a day without the intention of keeping them and therefore they end up breaking them. Men don't even realize that making promises and then breaking them can hurt someone. Whereas girls do not promise for something they don't intend to keep or something they know they cannot fulfill. I too have been a victim of false promises.

No comment :D I'm a guy though. Not being sexist, but I find your point surprisingly true. (though I'm a guy) well, based on my opinion, guys tend to lie more than women as men is more to the aggressive kind. Maybe due to the bold nature of men, or the tendency of not minding others opinion ( selfishness) , men lies more easily. Whereas, women are more feminine compared to men. Thus, the tendency to deceive others are lower. Women are more emotinal and sentimental compared to men. Men tend to just brush things off. I ever heard from a science teacher of mine about the brain of a man is different from a women. The brain of the man is cover with some sort of liquid which somehow removes negative feeling upon waking up. Thus, when men wakes up they tend to forget about yesterday's bad stuff. Or so I heard. Whereas women do not have such stuff. Anyway, I think my teacher is just trying to fool me. Lol== sorry about being deceived by men. I believe not all are that bad though. Haha

I think the key word here is "intent." If a person doesn't intend to keep his or her promise, then that is certainly the same as lying. But not keeping one's promise due to unforeseen circumstances isn't lying. There are factors beyond our control that can prevent as from fulfilling something we promised to do. I'm not really sure though which gender has a knack for not keeping promises. Personally, I don't think we can really group "liars" into genders. I mean, I still feel it's how the person was brought up, regardless if he's a he or she's a she :)

men are prone to this because there are more insensitive than women. but we can not generalize them all for one is different from another. as the saying goes, promises are made to be broken. that is why when you get married is not called promise of love but rather covenant of love.

it depends on the situation, if the one who promised doesn't intend to fulfill it the moment he/she made that promise then that I consider lying but if someone make a promise and really meant to fulfill it but weren't able to because of a reasonable excuse then I won't consider that lying. There are some things that we don't have control. Just for example if you promised to your son that you will be present on his school dance performance but weren't able to be there on time because of a road accident that cause heavy traffic then I think it's understandable and can not be considered lying.

I would not always say breaking promises is lying. In some situation, people are break promised because of important matters that arise along the way which needs more and urgent attention.

I've found the opposite: very few men have made promises to me and gone back on them, whereas women have done it ALL the time. Personally, I never make a promise unless I intend to make absolutely every effort possible to keep it... but that's just me. Most people aren't like that. Like most words, "promise" has become watered-down in meaning in the modern world. The majority of people use it instead of "I'll try".

Breaking promises has nothing to do with genders. Both men and women do the same. It depends on individual I must say. One may experience the opposite- can't deny as there is only men and women, if we are supporting one gender we may against the opposite~ For me we can't say that it is a promise until one say, 'I promise to...'. If one just say that , 'I want to do this for you', 'I will','In the future..' there is uncertainties so we can't say that they are making promises. It depends on their intention as well. Sometimes they really mean it but the situation did not allowed them to fulfill the words. We all have it and I am sure we all did it at least once in our life~(^^)

Hi! It is true. SO we must be careful on what we say. Let us not make promises which we cannot fulfill. We may only hurt the person and may result to distrust. Government officials always make promises during election and forget it when they are on the position. So we too must not break our promises to anybody.

I think it depend on the guy if he is the type of liar or he is is just not serious when he make promise. I have an ex boyfriend,he is always breaking his promises to me then i find out the reason why he always don't do his promises,because he already have his other women. He not keep his promise because he is also lying or cheating to me.

im with someone now who thinks its ok to break promises and lie and not defend me when some one calls me names ete what happen to the days when men worked hard and went by the old saying a man is only as good as his word

i think that it can be be anyone who can break a promise. it does not mean that men always have the tendency of breaking promises. it means that they promise without giving a proper thought, and without the proper knowledge of fulfilling it. but i do not think that breaking promises is equivalent to lying since people can promise someone from their heart but if ultimately even after making an effort,they failed to keep the promise it does not mean that they are lying or they cheated. many people have many hurdles and problems that forced them sometimes to break promises be it anyone men or women.

Promises should not be break, isn't it? But why humans do? They may have many excuses. I think man and women is the same. Lying or not is depend on the experience one going through. If one want to do that and they will do. All men are created equal.

I hate breaking promise.thats actully heartable.i hate all promise breakers.