| Why would you lie about your age?
Posted: 2/10/2009 11:13:28 AM | | Be honest in your profile since there are people looking for someone exactly like you, with all of your "little" imperfections, likes, dislikes and everything else that makes you an individual. Be truthful when writing your profile. You will benefit significantly more by being honest up front, creating a strong foundation for a relationship not built on deceit. Deception ultimately could be disastrous in the end! | |
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| Why would you lie about your age?
Posted: 2/10/2009 3:43:21 PM | | When a person lies about her age in her profile she is actually wasting her time as well as the men who contact her. Why do they do it? I do not know. | |
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| Why would you lie about your age?
Posted: 2/10/2009 3:57:57 PM | I like your answer Wholehearted5
I am as honest as I can be,its the little imperfections that make us all different,and special, I dont want a guy to think hes meeting a 30 year old super model,and then I show up. I want him to meet me, the person I claim to be. Thats why I dont keep the same picture up for 1-2 etc years. We change,be who you are,someone will think you are the world. | |
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| Why would you lie about your age?
Posted: 2/10/2009 5:42:32 PM | It's interesting to see the different takes on whether lying about one's age is acceptable. Some think it's not such a big deal and others think it 's a definite deal breaker. I fall in the latter category. Many men I've met on POF have lied about their age. The first one who did that ended up becoming my boyfriend. I overlooked the lie, but only because his true age made him closer to my own and I REALLY liked him. That relationship is over and I realize that had I taken his lie into consideration, I would have saved myself a whole lot of trouble... people who deceive on little things will deceive on bigger things as well. Now, When I find out someone has lied on his profile, I beg off... and I say the exact reason why.
One last thing - when you meet someone in person, the response you want is..."Wow! He/She's even better than I expected!" Why would you want to spend time on your date explaining to someone with raised eyebrows why you were deceptive (over age, weight, height, etc.) and how you should be given another chance... yikes! | |
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| Why would you lie about your age?
Posted: 2/26/2009 8:15:49 PM | | On another dating site just before we were to meet I heard from another woman who lied about her age by 5 years. I told her she was a liar, had misrepresented a material fact and that I wanted nothing to do with her. She professed her "friends" had "forced" her to lie about her age. What a wacko! She lied about why she lied about her age! | |
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| Why would you lie about your age?
Posted: 7/13/2009 1:28:33 PM | Not to many great reasons to lie about anything!~ But if you go through all the profiles, women seem to stop there age limits before 50?? Even if there In! There high 40''s! I know I feel better now then I ever did when i was 40+// So that puts you in a place with hardly any choices! where when someone gives you that chance to show what your really about deep down...Why would Age matter even if you fib a little?  | |
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| Why would you lie about your age?
Posted: 7/13/2009 2:42:58 PM | It would be very unusual to get the truth from a lawyer about anything,sorry still smarting from my divorce.
Vanity is probably the main reason,54,57,what's the differce?
But if he lied to you right off,he'll have many more in the wings! | |
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| Why would you lie about your age?
Posted: 7/13/2009 2:57:28 PM | I'm sure everyone should be very wary of someone who lies. In fact someone who lies about their age about a couple of years must be dastardly. We must condemn them. Why it is despicable. If they lie about one thing or mislead on something as important as that what else would they do?
Why they might use that ability to thwart the truth to wrongfully influence children too.
I'll bet they are the same despicable, insidious bastedous that told their children to believe in the Easter Bunny.
Maybe even lied to them and said there was a Santa Claus.
Lied, were dishonest and told them a fat guy in a red suit climbed down their chimney.
Yes, we are right! We must condemn those SOB liers! If they would lie about anything at all, they will lie about everything.
Trust no one. Except the person who has never in their life told a lie.
Someone please let me know when you find that person.
What you found a person who never uttered one word of falsehood?
Really?
Oh, you didn't tell me they were born mute.
I believe in honesty, however I have realistic goals and do not expect the impossible from others. To those that condemn the liar of their age, think. Have you ever thought of the person who dyed their hair as lying? What about the person who drives a car that is well over their means but has a large loan they struggle with to compensate thus project an image of financial success that is false.
Ever tell someone they looked fine in that dress when you thought it was ugly?
What woman thinks of herself as lying when she puts on makeup to hide the natural looks and features of her face?
Ahhh, the falsehoods abound. Just let us hope while judging others no one casts that stone at our own walls. | |
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| Why would you lie about your age?
Posted: 7/13/2009 4:43:21 PM | | I don't lie about my age...no reason to. If you lie, you will be found out eventually an could lose someone you really care for. One I met on here told me he was 10 years younger, and when the lie came out when he had to get a driver's license transferred, he insisted lying about his age, height, etc. was not a lie. Of course, I disagreed. A lie is a lie. He is still on here under a different profile name...this time giving his age as five years younger and the height is still several inches taller than he is. Some people will never learn. | |
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| Why would you lie about your age?
Posted: 7/13/2009 5:03:58 PM | I am 50. I list myself as 48. Why?
I feel younger (One night a 28 year old girl in a bar told me she thought I was 35. I don't think I look that young but I do look in my early 40s and I am in better shape.
I do believe a white lie to get an intro is ok. People who are appalled by a white lie are just kidding themselves. It is the substanial lies that bother me. Like liying about your weight and how you look, whether you smoke or not etc. | |
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| Why would you lie about your age?
Posted: 7/13/2009 5:05:43 PM | | I have no problem telling my age, in fact my birthday is coming up this week. I work in the healthfield and am constantly asking the patients their date of birth, majority have no problem telling me but then there are a few that whisper it to me. I thought it was mainly women but there are more and more men that are afraid to tell their age. We all are getting older................. | |
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| Why would you lie about your age?
Posted: 7/13/2009 6:48:21 PM | | to answer that question would take a fifth of scotch a camp fire and most of the night and i'm sure we still could not find that answer but as long as it didn't rain and the fire wood didn't run out it would be a good time. | |
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| Why would you lie about your age?
Posted: 7/14/2009 8:44:09 AM | I see lots of profiles with ages that are pretty suspect to me. Remember, as you get older, hands and necks are always a giveaway. Either some of these people have smoked like fiends since they were seven, or have been crack addicts for the last 10 years. It's too bad there wasn't some sort of online registry to confirm someones age. None of this "29 for the last 10 years" I never understood that, ESPECIALLY because the people trying to pass it off, are usually the last ones who should try.
They are selling it, but I'm just not buying it. | |
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| Why would you lie about your age?
Posted: 7/14/2009 10:44:01 AM |
People think that if they fudge details to get past your criteria and you spend time with them, you'll forgive them for what they lied for because they were so wonderful.
Strange concept to me, because what it does is show you they have no regard for what you want, and they're deceptive to get what they want.
It never works, and strangely enough - on top of it all many of them are shocked by it.
Yep. Exactly. The same concept with the dreaded head shots and their attempting to convince you they're "atheltic" only to meet them and find they are 70 pounds heavier than what they lead to you believe. | |
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| Why would you lie about your age?
Posted: 7/14/2009 10:59:14 AM | I am 50. I list myself as 48. Why?
I feel younger (One night a 28 year old girl in a bar told me she thought I was 35. I don't think I look that young but I do look in my early 40s and I am in better shape.
I do believe a white lie to get an intro is ok. People who are appalled by a white lie are just kidding themselves. It is the substanial lies that bother me. Like liying about your weight and how you look, whether you smoke or not etc.
so you only swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth during your working hours?
;)
I suppose we don't take an oath on a bible when we create our profiles.
Getting older does kinda suck. It really does. But it happens to every single one of us, except Dick Clark (is he still alive?) just be who you are. Embrace it. It's funny how things change.
When I was a kid, the saying was always "don't trust anyone over 30"
Now it's "don't trust anyone under 25"
and STAY OFF MY LAWN!!!
LOL I can't wait to be old and cantankerous!!!!
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| Why would you lie about your age?
Posted: 7/14/2009 11:06:00 AM | I think its funny that Mr. Aspiretoexcel thinks lying about your age is okei, but
lying about your weight, height, how you look or whether or not you smoke is not
okei.
hehehehehehehe!
I mean seriously...if someone just was looking for an intro and then hoped to charm
someone with their personality...what difference does it make WHAT they lie about?
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| Why would you lie about your age?
Posted: 7/14/2009 11:15:42 AM |
The same concept with the dreaded head shots and their attempting to convince you they're "atheltic" only to meet them and find they are 70 pounds heavier than what they lead to you believe.
So what if they are thin, but have absolutely no muscle definition? Chunky does not equal non-athletic, nor does thin equal someone who enjoys participating in sports.
Many, many lies are subjective both to the person who tells them, and to the person who hears them. | |
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| Why would you lie about your age?
Posted: 7/14/2009 11:56:58 AM | I started talking with this guy on another site whose profile said he was 32. But there is just no way that he was that age. Someone that age with his "essay" and written details would have no problem getting replies, but this guy sounded desperate and his appearance was NOT that of anyone close to 32. Everything else about him seemed ok, but he "swore" very hard that he was that age, and why would anyone need to do that?? I never had "proof" but I didnt want to get involved, so I stopped talking to him.
I dont lie about anything, including my age. I'm proud of my age, and what I can do at it. | |
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| Why would you lie about your age?
Posted: 7/14/2009 5:16:27 PM | | I never lie about my age . Why ? cause fortunately i don't look it !!!! im not being arrogant its the genes - godbless mum haha | |
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| Why would you lie about your age?
Posted: 7/14/2009 5:47:16 PM |
I am 50. I list myself as 48. Why?
I feel younger (One night a 28 year old girl in a bar told me she thought I was 35. I don't think I look that young but I do look in my early 40s and I am in better shape.
I do believe a white lie to get an intro is ok. People who are appalled by a white lie are just kidding themselves. It is the substanial lies that bother me. Like liying about your weight and how you look, whether you smoke or not etc.
That sounds like the guy I broke up with because he lied to me. He used the same excuse to tell me he was ten years younger and about 6 inches taller than he was. Lying is lying. Lying about age is no better than lying about how you look. Both are the same...lies. | |
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| Why would you lie about your age?
Posted: 7/14/2009 5:52:12 PM | A lie about anything factual is just such a waste of time. If you can't trust someone to be truthful about something as insignificant as your age, then what else (MORE substantial) are you holding back on? Criminal record, STD, 3 ex-wives, little....oh never mind.
The lie "I'm SUCH a nice guy" that takes time to decipher and it IS subjective. Your age, body type, whether you smoke, have children or MARITAL status....shit I forgot HEIGHT. Seems to be the biggie with men. I think I should change mine to 5'11" based on the guys I've met (not all but most) I swear honest I didn't know I was that tall!  | |
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| Why would you lie about your age?
Posted: 7/14/2009 6:37:29 PM | The question was why would you lie about your age?
I am not condoning lying but this situation might make people understand but not condone why people lie about their age/
I was talking to a young lady in a bar this saturday she was 26 I am 42. We were discussing going out at some later time. We exchanged numbers and she then proceeded to ask me how old I am . told her 42. She politely said she thinks we have too big of a difference in age .
I understood where she was coming from{her parents were both under 50}.
Now if I lied about my age on a short term basis I would have got a better result.
I still wont lie and when you do you eventualkly get caught , but damn sometimes you say to yourself why tell the truth | |
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