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I hate that I can't believe a single thing that comes out of difficult child's mouth
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<blockquote data-quote="aninom" data-source="post: 323635" data-attributes="member: 8513"><p>Must be going around like the swine flu, I think I recognize these symptoms!</p><p> </p><p>Our difficult child has taken that one extra step and will sometimes try and convince the person accusing her of a lie of lying themselves, being so hypnotically convincing you almost start thinking you really DID do X, or actually DIDN'T see difficult child do Y and Z.</p><p> </p><p>For a very long time she had me believe I'd witnessed dad "smashing her head against the floor while everybody just sat watching". I was very young, but even so, it SEEMED to be A) unbelievable, because that is just not who he is, and B) an inconsistent story. She's just that good - I was scared for YEARS of my nerdy and introvert dad being a secret psycho. </p><p> </p><p>And this was after I knew just how habitual difficult child's lying was. To this day I'm scared of even listening to her: I hate not knowing what to trust, I hate KNOWING that I can't trust her, I feel bad because what if she tells the truth - and I feel bad because the huge tangles of lies she weaves herself into always become so big, that if the lid were to be blown off, she'd be in for some MAJOR trouble. I'm scared of the student loan agency coming after her for fraud, I'm scared of her school kicking her out because she keeps lying about missed assignments, I'm scared one day she'll have no friends left and become truly crazy.</p><p> </p><p>There is also that good old lying-about-why-she-needs-you-to-lie-for-her trick. Last month she was "desperate" and told me I needed to lie to her school about being a CEO that'd hired her, because the real boss at the job she'd gotten was travelling and couldn't be reached (in difficult child-World, cell phones exist only when it is convenient). And if I didn't, she'd miss a super-duper-important deadline and all would be lost forever.</p><p> </p><p>There was no job. </p><p> </p><p>I'm so tired of this, I have no energy left to feel surprised.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aninom, post: 323635, member: 8513"] Must be going around like the swine flu, I think I recognize these symptoms! Our difficult child has taken that one extra step and will sometimes try and convince the person accusing her of a lie of lying themselves, being so hypnotically convincing you almost start thinking you really DID do X, or actually DIDN'T see difficult child do Y and Z. For a very long time she had me believe I'd witnessed dad "smashing her head against the floor while everybody just sat watching". I was very young, but even so, it SEEMED to be A) unbelievable, because that is just not who he is, and B) an inconsistent story. She's just that good - I was scared for YEARS of my nerdy and introvert dad being a secret psycho. And this was after I knew just how habitual difficult child's lying was. To this day I'm scared of even listening to her: I hate not knowing what to trust, I hate KNOWING that I can't trust her, I feel bad because what if she tells the truth - and I feel bad because the huge tangles of lies she weaves herself into always become so big, that if the lid were to be blown off, she'd be in for some MAJOR trouble. I'm scared of the student loan agency coming after her for fraud, I'm scared of her school kicking her out because she keeps lying about missed assignments, I'm scared one day she'll have no friends left and become truly crazy. There is also that good old lying-about-why-she-needs-you-to-lie-for-her trick. Last month she was "desperate" and told me I needed to lie to her school about being a CEO that'd hired her, because the real boss at the job she'd gotten was travelling and couldn't be reached (in difficult child-World, cell phones exist only when it is convenient). And if I didn't, she'd miss a super-duper-important deadline and all would be lost forever. There was no job. I'm so tired of this, I have no energy left to feel surprised. [/QUOTE]
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