Funny the things men lie about…
IT’S funny the things men lie about — a man will tell you that his “meds mash up”, he’s depressed and is going through a lot, and you may be there commiserating with him about his problems, only to find out that it’s something that he created himself. In fact, women who have been burned will tell you, whenever a man fixes his mouth to tell you that he is going through a lot, many times it involves another woman, a baby on the way, a con, or some other trouble.
What’s the worst experience you’ve had with such a man?
Alaina, 27:
Met this man at work and we hit it off, and he warned me immediately that he wasn’t emotionally available, and that I would hear ‘rumours’ about him, but I shouldn’t believe them. He said he had a “little thing” bothering him, but not to worry my head over stuff. One rumour that refused to die was about him and one of the managers, and I later found out the extent — she had gotten pregnant, had their baby, and he refused to acknowledge the baby and there was a lot of problems with family court and DNA tests and all kinds of embarrassment. When I asked him he said I should have minded my business like he told me to.
Kris, 40:
My ex had his own business while I was employed in corporate, so I had more access to credit than he did. I had a credit card, so I added him as a supplementary user, so he would have credit and feel more independent. He got his visa and travelled, and was using the card to shop. He didn’t know I got alerts for every purchase. He shopped at one particular kids store that I thought he had no business in, as we had no kids together, and he had no nieces or nephews. Yet he spent over US$200 there. I thought it was fraud at first, so I called him and he confirmed. Anyway, at first he tried to say the stuff was for a co-worker’s kid, then he came clean and said he had “accidentally” become a father, and asked if I could just look past the baby, because it was a one-time link.
April, 32:
He came home from work with bad belly pain, headache and diarrhoea, and I nursed him back to health with tea and soup. He said he felt like someone had “scienced” him, and nothing was going right. Of course I was there for him, and even took the next day off to stay with my sick man. Couple weeks after, I saw one of his colleagues in the supermarket and we started small talk. That’s when I learned that he was suspended and had to go before the disciplinary committee at work for sexually harassing not one, but three women at the company, and they had all reported him. That’s why he had ‘body come down’.
