What was the lie someone told you that upset you the most once you found out the truth?

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1. This is fucking dumb, but we took in a stray cat when I was a child, and after a few weeks my parents told me they’d found its owner who wanted it back. What happened was that they took it to the vet to euthanise it because it was old and suffered from severe health issues. I was incredibly upset over this when I found out the truth many years later, and though my father is a wonderful man, I still have this event in the back of my head that have created a life-long fear that he might lie to me about anything if he wants to spare me the upsetting truth. Again, I know it’s stupid, but it really stuck with me and I still feel some level of offended and sad that they didn’t think I understood the concept of death, and that I was robbed of saying a proper goodbye to my pet friend.

2. That when people grow up, they will be nicer.

   Lol. When I talk with my kids about how it is at school, I do remind them that not *all* people grow up to be actual adults.

3. Friend in college kept telling us her boyfriend “Wasn’t abusive he just comes off that way”

   She kept telling us that he was just an asshole but he wasn’t abusive, and that he was the “nicest man on earth” when they were alone

   Then we saw him hit her, and it turns out he had been hitting her a lot and she was just fucking delusional.

4. My ex-husband confessed he had a drug addiction and got us into credit card debt pretty deep. Part of me died that day and I’ll never get it back.