Do you promise, but meant to be broken?

To be in better side most times, I rarely make promises. I never want to break someone heart unnecessarily. It happens rarely to break promise. If it happens I feel for it much.

Why make promises in the first place? Why bound ourselves like that? It depends how important that promise is for the other person, it can be a scratch as it can be an emotional bomb, it all depends.

It is always bad to break a promise. I don't think I have ever broken one. I'm sure that there may be reasons why some promises might be broken. I would never make any promise if I thought I couldn't keep it. The people who have been promised something will be upset about it. I know with my children especially, if I say they can have/do something, I always say "I'm not promising" because that way they will understand and be pleased if they get what they want but not disappointed that I have broken a promise.

Usually when I promise something, I do not plan to break it. Sometimes thought things are out of my hands. Like for Christmas, I ordered a tablet for my daughter and it did not come. If there is a chance that a promise of mine will not happen I will tell them maybe. Like when the promise is being made by someone other than myself.

If you get into the habit of braking promises, people will stop trusting you.

When I make a promise I intend to keep it at the time I made the promise. Often things happen (life) and we don't get to keep the promises we made. I promised my daughter that we would never move again back in 2004. I had meant to keep that promise, and she was five years old at the time, but we have moved several times, been in and out of shelters, living with family members, etc.. It broke my heart to break that promise. I don't make promises like that anymore unless I can keep them. She was only five at the time, so she might not remember the promise, but I sure do.

Sometimes we have to break promises for one reason or another, we are human after all and sometimes things happen where we have no choice to break a promise, but of course it depends on the situation as to why the promise has to be broken. Things that are out of our control or something urgent comes up that gives us no alternative but to let someone down. I hate breaking promises, because I know what it is like for someone to break their promise to me.

Breaking a promise is so wrong. Thankfully my hubby makes a promise to anyone he keeps it and thats the way its been for the 24 years we have been together. He feels if you are not a man of your word you are nothing. My ex the father of my two daughters would always promise to take the kids here or there and would not show up. So today years later on Christmas day he is by himself even though he has seven kids. Karma always gets you.

hi, actually i did promise but some of them not happen or been granted,i know the feeling of that because there were people who promised to me but they didn't do,so now i always avoid to say promise to someone if i am not really sure or no assurance for that.

I try not to promise things because there could be so many things that could get in the way of you actually following through.

Yeah but due to some valid reasons, and mostly caused by nature. I am a person of my word and I really do make my promises come true.

whatever that was meant to happen will eventually happen naturally. We can't change the mind set of other people nor can we change ours freely. But this bible verses will have a chance to do so. Proverbs 6! Cheers!

I can always do that to my hubby, its no big for him, its okay. I always promise not to buy so many things, and when it comes with the bills, he'll just smile,hehe.. but for the other people, I can't do it. I need to have a word of honor.

If anyone fails to keep his promise, it is very obvious that for whom the promise was made would be disheartened and would have a bad impression about the person who made that promise. So it is wise not to promise anything which might be difficult to keep.

When I make a promise, I fully intend to keep it, but sometimes I forget or something prevents me from doing what I said I would. The reaction of the one to whom I made the promise depends on the nature of the promise. It can be that the other person forgot, too, or it can be a friendship breaker.

I never promise what I can't deliver...there are times in life when a promise can't be kept so that is why I never promise any thing where I Am today may not be the same tomorrow but I think if you make a promise you should live up to it even if it kills you after all a promise is a promise otherwise[like me] don't promise any thing.

sometimes i do that I do that just for sweet words you know people in east love to heard a sweet word and it becomes our tradition too for that kind of promises, we never hope that they meant it

I believe that it happens all too often that promises end up being broken and because of that fact, I definitely try to not make promises that I'm not sure if I will be able to keep. With that said, most of the time when someone has made a promise to me that ends up being broken, I am just able to brush it off. However, in situations where I've accidentally broken promises, my children are the ones that really get upset with me over the promises that are broken.

It makes other feel bad when we make promises and not be able to make it happen. If I have broken a promise, it is not because I wanted to break it, but something just happened along the way that it is really impossible to make the promise happen. I feel sorry of course. And I try to make it up.

Hi Shavkat, There is no point in making a promise which you cannot fulfill. It breaks our trust and belief in the other person's heart. It happened with me many a times when people broke their promise with me and not vice versa (maybe less times) and it hurt me a lot. People should really understand what a 'Promise' actually means before giving one..