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[quote=Anonymous]Walked away.  I knew she could only change if she wanted to and at the time, she wasn't admitting to lying.  I didn't want to play a game of catch her in a lie, or pretend to believe her as she lied to my face.  I think the big thing was that her lies were manipulative, always to make herself look good, and bonus if you felt like crap.  She would also be the person that would always answer the phone, always make the plans etc, and only years later I realized everything was self serving.  Say she emailed you while you were studying abroad.  You respond back.  That gets spun to your group of friends as you choosing to only write to her, and she spins your information so she stays the center of attention.  You meet a guy out and he calls while you aren't home.  All of a sudden, they are "dating" and he is so in love with her etc. and you are left thinking you must be dog chow because the guy seemed interested in you and in a week can't live without your roomate.    Say you can't find a job and you are lamenting to your group of friends and everyone is trying to cheer you up.  She will give an insincere, oh that's tough and proceed to tell you how she tripped over a rainbow and landed in this awesome job where her boss thinks she should go to law school.  We would be trying to cheer up a friend having guy problems and each person is telling a dating war story ... Hair twirl when it gets to her, "well gee that sucks, I've don't know what it's like to be dumped, at the moment I have two boys chasing me and it is hard to decide who I want...".  I look back and can't believe how long it took to catch on.  Other people in the group felt that she thought she was so much smarter and was laughing at our gullibility.   In the end, I knew there was probably some story, but I didn't know what it was, she wasn't even admitting to lying much less at the stage to get help, and it was frankly hard to have a friendship with someone that lies.  How can you pour your heart out to someone knowing they will use that information to make themselves the center of attention.  They may tell a truth you give in confidence or even make up something about you, and in return tell you how their life is perfect and they ride a unicorn to work so their commute is only five minutes from Burke to DC.[/quote]

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