Deception In Relationships

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According to Guerrero, Anderson, and Afifi (2012), people use deception to highlight positive qualities over negative qualities (p. 332). Despite positive qualities being healthy for a relationship, I do not ever think it is okay to deceive a friend or relational partner in a serious manner. Sometimes as humans we joke around and every now and then partners may play a prank on one another. However, if the deceiving is intentional this can be very detrimental and could cause a partner or friend to look at you from a different perspective. This type of scenario could lead to a lack of trust and could potentially have unfavorable consequences.

There are times when my partner lies to me if he wants to surprise me but sometimes he is not always