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Anyone else dealing with a pathological/compulsive liar?
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<blockquote data-quote="AnnieO" data-source="post: 429124" data-attributes="member: 6705"><p>Something we have always stressed in our household - do something wrong, there are consequences. Lie about it, and the consequences get a LOT worse.</p><p> </p><p>For instance... A couple years ago, Onyxx stole her brother's Concerta from my bedroom. Swore up and down she hadn't... But this was about 3 days after she had taken all my body jewelry and then admitted to part of it (never found the rest). So we searched her room. And found the empty bottle in her beanbag chair. She SWORE that it was planted there, crying the whole time. We also found several other items the same day. She now has a felony drug theft on her record. She cannot get a job.</p><p> </p><p>And shortly before that? She broke a black eyeshadow on the beige rug. I heard the vacuum... Then she came to get me, told me what had happened, that she tried to clean it up and it got worse. So her consequence? To look up how to clean it, then clean it. The black spot took a while, but that was her consequence. And I made sure she knew that because she told me about it without trying to cover it up, that I wasn't angry. (I don't consider vacuuming trying to cover it up, more clean it up.)</p><p> </p><p>Jett had frozen bread and put it in the microwave for 6 minutes. When I got home, everyone expected me to explode... I asked what happened, and when he told me? I lost it laughing. And we spent about a week trying to make the smell and color go away. But still - no lie, minor consequence.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AnnieO, post: 429124, member: 6705"] Something we have always stressed in our household - do something wrong, there are consequences. Lie about it, and the consequences get a LOT worse. For instance... A couple years ago, Onyxx stole her brother's Concerta from my bedroom. Swore up and down she hadn't... But this was about 3 days after she had taken all my body jewelry and then admitted to part of it (never found the rest). So we searched her room. And found the empty bottle in her beanbag chair. She SWORE that it was planted there, crying the whole time. We also found several other items the same day. She now has a felony drug theft on her record. She cannot get a job. And shortly before that? She broke a black eyeshadow on the beige rug. I heard the vacuum... Then she came to get me, told me what had happened, that she tried to clean it up and it got worse. So her consequence? To look up how to clean it, then clean it. The black spot took a while, but that was her consequence. And I made sure she knew that because she told me about it without trying to cover it up, that I wasn't angry. (I don't consider vacuuming trying to cover it up, more clean it up.) Jett had frozen bread and put it in the microwave for 6 minutes. When I got home, everyone expected me to explode... I asked what happened, and when he told me? I lost it laughing. And we spent about a week trying to make the smell and color go away. But still - no lie, minor consequence. [/QUOTE]
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