My parents used to lie and keep secrets from me. They once took my sister on a vacation. I found out when I found the photos. They countered with you were in camp. It still hurt and started a pattern of lies and deception throughout my childhood. Never trusted my parents after that.

the lies I've told myself have hurt most i think.

Does cause my poetic juices to stir, well at least it is some reaction anyway.

I think betrayal lies at the heart of it. Good old Dante put betrayers in the lowest circle of Hell.

Yes. Beyond words. Destroyed.

Being lied to always sucks.
The most devastating lies are told to us by the people we trust the most.

The problem is....it's easy to lie to an honest person, because we never really expect it/see it coming. The difficult part is NOT letting it color your next relationship. Good luck! You'll see this through and be wiser for it.

Yes I have been destroyed by erroneous reveals. I'm too, especially in a professional workplace, nice to adequately defend myself. Long story long I moved to a new city, bought a pricey home, lost my girl and my job. Keep fighting.

I can’t really think of finding out any devastating lie. I can understand your outrage though! I hope you are getting over the hurt....just tell yourself it’s better you found out when you did and now you can forget him and move on to better things! Chin up ??

It was that very feeling that made me into an atheist.

I once puched someone for lying to me. Not because he lied, but because he thought I was stupid enough to believe the lie. That was the only time I ever struck someone not in self-defense