Remember when we were little and we were always told to tell the truth, no matter what? Well, as it turns out, the rules change when you grow up, except no one ever really tells you thoese new rules, you are left to fill in the gaps all by yourself.
There are litle ones that come over time; things like, "If you call in sick to work, and you're not really sick, then shut up about it." That's a mistake you only make once. Then, as we get better at it we learn to tell little unturths that everyone knows are untruths, like, "I'll call you," "the cheque is in the mail," and these are accepted as part of out culture. But what about those truths that people don't want hear, like, "you need to step up your game," "your parenting skills suck," or "you drink too much." And we avoid these because often, the reciver does NOT want to hear them.
So when one is back into a corner and forced to talk about an untruth, even the most assertive of us has been known to back down until they are backed into a place where they have to come out swinging.
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