{"id":446,"date":"2010-05-20T04:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T04:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/verastic.com.s96953.gridserver.com\/site\/?p=446"},"modified":"2024-02-27T21:55:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T04:39:00","slug":"lies-men-told-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/social\/lies-men-told-me.html","title":{"rendered":"Lies Men Told Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think every woman must have her list of lies that men told her. Whether she believed them or not is a totally different issue. Men, I know, must have their own lies that were told to them by women, but I’m a female blogger, so what do I care about the lies that were not told to me (or my  specie)? <\/span><\/p>\n


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Lies I Believed<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Lies I Did Not Believe<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\u201cYou\u2019re my one and only\u201d –><\/b> I wasn\u2019t. He was actually engaged. It\u2019s a long story. Technically, however, he was not cheating on me. We\u2019re now very good friends.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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\u201cI\u2019ll trek to Africa for you\u201d –><\/b> Of course, you would. Start trekking.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\u201cI swear on my mother\u2019s life, I did not get any woman pregnant.\u201d –><\/b> He lied. But his mother is still alive.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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\u201cI\u2019m going to take you to the promised land\u201d –><\/b> I still don\u2019t know if he meant it literally or figuratively.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\u201cThat was my last cigarette. I quit smoking for you.\u201d –><\/b> Oh, the good ol\u2019 days when I used to think I could change a man.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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\u201cYou know you\u2019re actually lucky that I\u2019m into you.\u201d –><\/b> Lucky?? I was insulted that he was into me.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\u201cI\u2019m 33. I\u2019ll be 34 next year.\u201d –><\/b> Yeah, more like, I\u2019m 39. I\u2019ll be 40 <\/span>this<\/span><\/i> year.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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\u201cI told my aunt about you. She cannot wait to meet you!\u201d –><\/b> Heck, if I care about you and your aunt. Screw you both.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\u201cI wish I could spoil you.\u201d –><\/b> As I\u2019ve come to find out, \u2018spoil\u2019 is relative.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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\u201cI\u2019m not going to let it go in all the way. I just want the head to go in, that\u2019s all\u2026.and I\u2019ll be there for only two seconds.\u201d –><\/b> Do I really need to tell you what this conversation was about?<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\u201cWe\u2019re just friends.\u201d –><\/b> \u2026 that occasionally bone each other.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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\u201cSo many girls like me, but you\u2019re the only one I love.\u201d –><\/b> I don\u2019t know which part I doubted more: the part about so many girls liking him, or the part about him loving only me.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\u201cYou\u2019re like a sister to me.\u201d –><\/b> I was treated like anything but a sister.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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\u201cI\u2019ve never felt about anyone the way I feel about you.\u201d –><\/b> That\u2019s what I said to the snail before I cut off its eyes.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\u201cI\u2019m sorry. I\u2019m a changed man now. Please forgive me.\u201d –><\/b> Well, he did change — for about 48 hours.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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\u201cI\u2019m not saying I want to date you. I really just want to be friends.\u201d –><\/b> But I said I don\u2019t want to be friends.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\u201cI\u2019m jealous because I love you.\u201d –><\/b> More like I\u2019m envious, bitter, and angry because I am obsessed with you — and I have a low self esteem to boot.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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\u201cI don\u2019t want to have sex with you. I want to make love to you.\u201d –><\/b> Oh! Is this the one where you don\u2019t have to enter me at all?<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\u201cI love you.\u201d –><\/b> I\u2019ve fallen for this more times than I care to count.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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\u201cI love you.\u201d –><\/b> But there are those times I just knew they were lies.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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I chose to blog about this now because on Saturday, May 22nd 2010, the topic for discussion on the Verastically Speakin’ Talk Radio<\/a><\/b> is <\/span>“In The Name Of All Things Men.”<\/span><\/a><\/b>  You thought I was going to say, <\/span>Lies Men Told Me<\/span><\/i>, huh?  Well, we’ll be talking about issues related to men, and as you can imagine, lies they have told fall right under there.  I’ll be co-hosting with <\/span><\/b> and <\/span>Bdon<\/span><\/a><\/b>, and according to <\/span><\/b>, he’ll be coming to face the “firing squad.”<\/span><\/div>\n

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This may be hard to believe, but there are actually positive things to discuss when we talk about men.  Naturally, none of these positive things come to mind right now, but I’m almost completely certain that they do exist J<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Join me on Saturday morning (at 10am U.S. Eastern Time\/ 3pm Nigerian Time). Let’s iron these issues out. Listen <\/span><\/span>here<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/b> | Call in <\/span><\/span>1.646.929.1905<\/span><\/span><\/b> | E-mail thoughts,questions, and ideas about this show to <\/span><\/span>radio@verastic.com<\/span><\/span><\/b> | Call\/text me if you have questions <\/span><\/span>1.443.934.9039<\/span><\/span><\/b> | Follow me on <\/span><\/span>Twitter<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/b> | Connect on <\/span><\/span>Facebook<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/b>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
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