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The Lie Detection Expert

how much spite has this “expert” accrued, how many times has said “expert” been “wronged?” how many times have they been manipulated (that is, how many times does it take to propel them into “earning the proper credentials” to write a book & to base a life on promoting the self-help of others, who apparently can’t do it themselves)? when the passion is gone & the dust has cleared, when one party has become bored with the other (regardless of whether or not they see fit to show it, address it, etc.), then the game is over--- if s/he is “lying,” please remember, “expert,” that it is you & you alone that brought yourself into this mess, yes, it is you & you alone who lived in the fairytale naïveté that inevitably brought you to this place, it’s you who believed that you’d found the proverbial “one” & it’s you & you alone, who let your guard down. and when the hurt comes, it will burn you, stress you out to an extent never imagined before & it will break you up inside to a point that you will never be able to assemble yourself back together the same way as you had before you met said “liar”--- no matter how many books you write, no matter how many people you think you “save,” you cannot get beyond the pain remaining from a bad decision, unless you do so for yourself, preferably without pronouncing your discovery of some great “truth” which you alone hold & thus feel the need to spread out to the world (and in doing so, beef up your own deflated ego).

Copyright © | Year Posted 2012




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