“Love, I have a headache!”, The 5 most used lies in love (according to Felicia Kingsley)

Let’s get started right away with the mandatory disclaimer, just for those who this morning had forgotten the sense of irony on the bedside table and took this article too seriously: telling lies is wrong, telling them in a love affair is the best way to sabotage it and what you will read is not aimed at instigating lies. I come in peace. In conclusion, don’t try this at home. Don’t do it at home.

Having said that, like it or not, it must be admitted that some white lie, some so-called “innocent” lie escapes, some are really inflated and this handbook collects the most widespread.

It may be useful to read it like this, in case you want to exploit it, at least let’s put some imagination and creativity into it.

1. Love, I have a headache
This is so overused that I don’t think we need to explain it. There is, it is perfectly legitimate to have a bad day, in which we would like to do everything except throw ourselves into acrobatic embraces at the Cirque du Soleil: maybe at work we collided with boss or colleagues; we got a fine; we do not like each other, or we are simply sleepy. Not to mention this year of lockdown and a hiccuping yellow / orange / red zone that has tested many couples and their intimacy pushing them towards a sexoressia collateral (refusal of sexual intimacy due to an excess of domestic intimacy; having one’s own space, even for just one hour a day, also serves this, to be desired). Headache is the most practical and fastest excuse, but if the reasons are not fatigue and the like; my advice is to spend two minutes talking about why we don’t want to make love. We are with an intelligent partner, he will understand.

2. Nothing
We know well that behind these six letters all the evils of creation are hidden. A word that equates to Pandora’s box. Usually, when you respond with “Nothing” to the question “What have you got?”, It is nothing more than a mild attempt to contain an impending outburst of anger in the style of “This is Spartaaa!”. There is almost always something, only sometimes it is difficult to make it emerge from the depths of the unconscious, give it a name and introduce it to the partner.

3. It’s not you, it’s me
Highly rated in case of termination of the relationship, as the partner will want the reasons for the breakup to be listed and explained. Generally it is the phrase most used by those who are leaving due to tiredness, monotony of the couple or the end of the sexual relationship or, what I call “Henry VIII Syndrome”, which catches certain people during a relationship, on an almost regular basis, which it leads them to get tired of their partner and to look around. And so, to avoid the figure of superficial bitches, we think of gilding the pill (or the suppository, if we look at it from the point of view of those who are left), blaming themselves. Anyway, whoever hears this sentence addressed, underneath, knows that there is something else. More often someone else.

4. Do you really bunjee jump / play golf / listen to jazz? Me too!
These are the teleshopping lies. Usually they say on the first dates with a person that they want to conquer at all costs and then they end up selling a version of themselves that they can 100% like. This includes posing as true passionate about partner activities. Example: we are teetotalers, while he / she has a sommelier diploma and every year goes a week in the Langhe to taste Barolo and Barbera. It is a tactic that can work, at first, because the other party will think: “I have finally found a soul mate”; the problem is that sooner or later the truth will come out (usually with outbursts like: “I don’t give a damn if for hole 18 it’s better a drive or a putt! ” or “I’m not feeling tannic aftertaste, I’m fine with a Tavernello drunk from the Carton”) and at that point we have to deal with the differences that, if stated before, could have been dealt with in a softer way. I myself have been the victim of teleshopping-lies several times and when the truth came out I felt like those “When you order it on the internet – when it gets home” memes.

5. Of course, love, that I have come
You all remember Meg Ryan’s scene at the coffee shop in Harry, meet Sally? I do and I feel like Meg is right across the board. At least once in their life it has happened to all of them to pretend. There will be a tiny percentage of women who never, really never May fake orgasm? (it is said that men also pretend, but that is an easily exposed lie), but I think it is an infinitesimal percentage. Sometimes it happens with partners with whom you are not yet in tune, other times the head is busy with other thoughts; in other cases the act is taking far too long. It can happen, but it must not become a habit, also because it would mean giving up pleasure altogether. Are we really willing to do so? Again, if you go further, perhaps it is appropriate to overcome the embarrassments and talk about it.

So, in summary, lies are not told otherwise you go to hell, also because they always have unpleasant side effects that come back like a boomerang.

I I enjoyed telling about these side effects in You become a liar (now in bookstores for Newton Compton Editori), but in a relationship it is good to remember that communication is the basis of everything. Look at Romeo and Juliet: for a communication error they both lost their feathers (Shakespearean purists, don’t be indignant, it’s just a joke).

* Felicia Kinglsey was born in 1987, lives in the province of Modena and works as an architect. Marriage of Convenience, his first novel initially self-published, met with great success in bookstores with Newton Compton and became the second most read ebook of 2017. Bitches Are Born, A Cinderella in Manhattan and Two Hearts for Rent were in the bestseller list. for weeks. Newton Compton also published The truth is that I don’t hate you enough, First rule: don’t fall in love, you become a Liar and, in the ebook, My unexpected gift and Appointment on the terrace, the proceeds of which will be donated to the Policlinico Hospital of Modena.

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