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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s a petty obvious lie and store bought desserts suk and are loaded with sugar. [/quote]

Homemade desserts also can suck and be loaded with sugar. If someone knows they can’t cook, I’ll take the one from the bakery and smile politely when they pass it off as their own.[/quote]

[b]I think culturally supporting lying in any form is an issue of a bigger societal challenge. Normalizing it can be toxic and damaging[/b]. Not saying yell at someone, but being a truth teller is what keeps our fabric woven and not frayed.[/quote]

I can’t take this response seriously. Her mom said she made a dessert that she didn’t make. Ffs.[/quote]

OP says her mom has started lying about a lot of small things. In that case, the issue is the repeated lies, not what they are about.

It is disconcerting and frustrating to have someone in your life who lies to you often, about anything. I had a friend like this once and eventually I bailed even though her lies were not serious at all (about at the level of claiming to have baked a store bought dessert). But they were frequent and obvious, and when I was call them out, usually by just being genuinely confused at the many small contradictions in things she'd tell me, she'd double down and be adamant that she was telling the truth even when I knew for certain she was not.

It makes it impossible to have a mutually respectful and trusting relationship. Frequent lying, even about tiny things, is very corrosive.[/quote]

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