My teenage daughter has been sneaking out at night and lying about where she's been, and my wife wants to install tracking apps and search her room while I think we should talk to her directly first. We're so focused on catching her in lies that we've stopped asking why she feels like she needs to lie to us in the first place.
More people experience this than they realize.
The impulse to control deception often deepens the very disconnection that made deception feel necessary.
“Where Are You with Trust and Fidelity?”
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