Lies - okay? not okay?

[Freya]

This is a topic I'm really interested in.

You can skip the next paragraph if you're not interested in my reasons for making this thread:
I made this thread because I talked to my boyfriend a few minutes ago about a party we want to go to on Saturday. I told him that I probably wouldn't go there because I can't stand everyone getting drunk and acting like a fool. (Especially as I won't drink any alcohol....... and I would've to drive those drunken fools home <_<")
So my boyfriend said that we have to tell our friends my decision. The thing is: He didn't want to tell them I don't like drunk people - he wanted to tell them a lie. He just didn't want to tell them the truth.

Read on HERE if you skipped the first paragraph. ^^

Do you think that's okay? Lying to other people KNOWING that you're lying?
I know, it's not THAT dramatic. It could be way worse. (Like telling someone a person died although that certain person is still alive... such things...)
And: Do YOU lie sometimes? Or do you tell the truth all the time?


I can't stand lies, actually. It's not that I'll get angry and want to lose that friend if he/she ever lied to me. It's just that I tend to tell the truth all the time, just because I don't want to lie to people I like. (If I don't like the person or don't know the person then it's actually pretty easy to lie ^^" Like: "Are you feeling okay?" A person I don't like or know doesn't need to know that I'm actually feeling TERRIBLE. I'd tell my friends so, though.)
So I got a bit angry when my boyfriend wanted to lie to our friends. And as I always tell him the truth, I told him that I don't like it. <_<"
Nevertheless, sometimes I try to... kind of cover the truth. If I don't want someone to know the REAL truth, I cover it up so that the statement IS true, but the person I talk to still doesn't know the truth. (Gosh, I'm so bad at explaining what I'm thinking x..x")
Oh, and I don't tell the truth all the time, of course. Sometimes I lie, but only when it doesn't really matter. At least I TRY to do that. Dunno if I'm good at it. Probably not.

Besides, I think a thread like this already exists... somewhere. I didn't find a newer thread, so I hope it's okay to have created this one.