I'm sure you know someone like this...

I really hate chronic liars. I know a couple people who are like this, and I always verify what they say with other people, because I have a feeling, they are not telling the truth, all the time. If there's any truth to what they're saying, perhaps only 10% of it.

Pathological liars are crafty aren't they? The best rule is to ignore these type of people, take nothing they say seriously and don't trust them. It does get tiring. It like the old cry wolf thing. THey sometime they will really need to be believe and no one will.

I am afraid I will have to hold my hands up to this, but I have good reason and I am sure once you have read my side of the story, you will understand why. I have been bullied most of my life, people find out stuff about me and use it against me, especially my ex, my ex had a crafty way of throwing stuff up at me, stuff they knew would hurt me. I am paranoid, I am extremely wary of people and I think people are out to get me, so I am guarded what I say, I would push people away and if they asked me anything I would lie, it's a defense mechanism I have built up over the time. I would even tell them a different name, tell them lies about what I do for a living, how old I am, all this to put them off, because I don't want anyone to get close to me or find out the real me, the sensitive me, the vulnerable me, the child in me. So by lieing or inventing stuff about me it throws them off. I hope that all makes sense.

People lie because they want to be more interesting. They're insecure with their lives and think people will like them better if they lie about things. I used to be like that in high school. I did a lot of stupid things to get attention. I faked pregnancies (I went to an inner city school where a lot of girls were pregnant). Once I went a week with bandages on my wrists and people thought I'd tried to slit my wrists.. but I hadn't done anything at all. One time I acted like I'd been abused.. anytime someone touched my back I acted like it hurt.. until a teacher sent me to the nurse and there were no marks at all. I also told everyone in school I was dating a professional baseball player.. and most people believed me because I was going to the games all the time. Eventually I grew up and stopped. Eventually my life was interesting enough that I didn't need to lie and didn't need the attention. Actually until you brought this up I'd totally forgotten that I'd done things like that.. it's weird, because today I'm like the most honest person on the planet. I feel weird trying to lie about anything.

Wow you know my brother in law!

I know some people who are just like that. And it gets irritating. I mean, this kids thinks he could get away with all those lies. I do not now if he is dumb not to think that the people involved with his "story" could be talking at each other somehow and "compare notes". I was actually dealing with him last weekend. And what made me really furious was when he got caught because of his lying, he pointed his finger at my son and made new "stories" which irked my in laws!

I'm thinking it likely does get hard to keep track of all the lies.. I can barely remember the day of the week sometimes, if I had to remember every little thing I said.. oh wow. Cheer up, old age will catch up to that person and they will be somewhat of a babbling idiot.. more so than now that is!

One of my exes was a terrible liar. It wasn't all the time, just every now and then he would say something untrue. Like we saw a guy at the library once who looked like a TV celebrity. It wasn't him of course but when he spoke to his son on the phone that night, he says..."we saw (name of celeb) today". When I asked him why he said it he just shrugged. It was soooo stupid. Yes, and annoying too. I noticed he started lying about other things too after that and I wondered how long he'd been lying to me. What a weirdo!

I made a note in a response I made here recently about seeing some parts in the movie "Just go with it". Jennifer Anniston (or was it Adam Sandler?) made reference to having index cards to write down all the lies she made up just to keep up. I think pathological liars wouldn't even consider index cards. And I don't think they even mind when they are caught lying. It's best to stay away from these kind of people.

I've met a lot of people like that and it's really frustrating to talk to them everyday so i tried to avoid them as much as i can. Just this morning I told a friend of mine that I just realized how much of a big liar a former friend is. I'm so glad she's no longer in my life.

Hi Loving. I would think that it would be an exhausting job to have to make up lies to support the lies you told previously, you know? How do those kinds of liars actually keep up with the lies they tell. My forgetter is so good I can't even keep up with the events of my boring life. I can't imagine to have to lie about everything. I'd have to keep a notebook just to keep up.

It is really funny how other people could be immune in telling lies. Eventually these people will reap what they sowed. They are just ruining their reputation. No one will believe in this kind of person in the coarse of time. I dont want eitheir to deal with a liar.

Yeah I know one like that and worst is she is my friend or I thought she is I did not expect it of her because amongst us her friends she is the oldest and so she's supposed to be the most mature and open minded, but it's the other way around. I'm not sure when it exactly started but lately she's been behaving a little weird, she's in her late 50s but now dresses and acts like she thinks she's 20 years old. When I read your post it's almost as if you're descrbiing this friend of mine, she is exactly like that now, and I have this very strong feeling that when I'm not around she's lying and gossiping about me too Now I stay away as much as possible from her, it's a little hard to do because there are activities that we should be together as a group

I stay away from those pathological liars as far away as possible. I don't have friends who are liars and keep a healthy distance from them. So, I don't them bother me.

My ex-boyfriend was a pathological liar and I never understood why he lied all the time. Some people lie because they don't want to hurt the other person or because they want to hide something or gain something, but the some of things that my ex-boyfriend lied about were small things that didn't matter at all. He also made up stories about things that never happened. It got to a point where I didn't believe anything he said. When he called me and told that he had been admitted to hospital I didn't get worried because I wasn't sure if it was true or just another story and I was so used to his lies. Another time I visited him in Copenhagen and he took me took "his" new apartment. At first he said "It is my apartment and a friend is staying with me", when I met his friend he revealed that it was his apartment, so my ex-boyfriend changed his story and said: "I own the apartment and my friend rents it" but that wasn't the truth either and his friend actually owned the apartment and he stayed there for free. I think that he lied because he didn't want to admit that he didn't have his own apartment, but I still found his lies very annoying and I simply couldn't trust the things that he said.

I do know someone that is just like what you are talking about, that person is my sister-in-law. The biggest thing for her is that she will constantly claim that she is sick so that she can stay home from work. However, when it comes down to any of her three daughters being sick, she will try to get someone else to watch the kids so that she doesn't have to miss work. She really does drive me nuts. And, yes, there has been a couple of times that I can think of where she has forgotten about the lies that she's told. One example of that is that she once told me that she was allergic to fish. However, she now eats fish all the time.

So far, I know one person. She's my mom's aunt. I don't know what's going on in her mind, but it seems like lying has already become a habit for her. It's her daily life. It's her. I used to tell my mom that when she says something, just consider the other way around. Like when it's A, assume the B. That's the correct answer. At first my mom said I was silly. But my mom knows that this aunt is a liar, but still finds a hard time to find out which one is the truth. Until one day when she called another relative to tell her about what this aunt had said, this relative said that it wasn't like that. And she explained the other way around. So that made my mom believed I was right. So since that time, my mom always assumes the other message behind everything that her aunt says. And it always ends up the right answer.

some people ca not finish a senrence without a lie....so i think its because lies are part of their convesations