Do you lie to your signifigant other if he or she gets you a present that you hate?

Question

but they won't let you avoid the question and they keep asking until you answer?

Answer 1

I have, yes. Is a present, what can you say?....

Answer 2

No, I tell her the truth in a nice way. If you prentend to like it, you will continue to get those type of gifts.

Answer 3

I don't lie. I make sure she KNOWS what I would like for a gift, if she doesnt show interest in the first place. That way I dont end up getting gifts that collect dust in drawers.

The rule works the other way too. I make it a point to know what she likes.

Answer 4

Actually I have lied to my boyfriend when he got me something I didn't like. I like to think that the happiness I showed wasn't all lie becasue I WAS happy that he got me something.

Answer 5

Why lie?  But why hurt his feelings either?  Why not say that you love him for thinking so much of you.  Isn't that what really matters?

Answer 6

No. If you can't be honest about something as small as that you might want to look at the health of your relationship.

Answer 7

My girlfriend died, but I loved everything she ever got me. She new me so well.

Answer 8

Yes, I wouldn't want to hurt his feelings.

Answer 9

h**l must have frozen over.  I actually agree with Mrs. Proud Stepford Wife.

Life is too short to make a good man feel bad about anything he did for me in a sincere effort to make me happy.  I'll wear the perfume, the sweater, the jewelry, whatever, use or display whatever.  I no longer have anything to prove.

Answer 10

I would always lie if she gave me a present I hated, when I was at my ex g/f's house at Christmas though her mum(who is evil) would open a gift and say "well that's going back" without even saying thank you, I couldn't believe it. I was always told it's the thought that counts.

Answer 11

My current significant other buys me great gifts, so I've never had to lie. Digital camera (for my birthday), a thumb drive (for Mother's Day), a new laptop (for Christmas), an iPod the Christmas before.

My previous boyfriend bought me girlie cr@p: perfume, scarves...and I always thanked him for them, but they collect dust in a drawer. I like to choose my own perfume, and I don't wear scarves.

Answer 12

Sometimes I lie and say I love it(PHL Eagles underwear?)

Others I tell him he didn't hit the nail on the head but usually in a joking manner(wrinkle cream for mothers day?I'm in my 20s and have great skin)

I prefer if he tells me when he really doesn't like something so I don't buy similar items later.

Answer 13

Of course....my husband's happiness comes before my own. I wouldn't ever want him to feel bad for getting me something I didn't like.

Answer 14

No, I dont lie. My husband would be mad if I did. One Christmas he bought me the worlds ugliest necklace. I didnt tell him I didnt like it till like a year and a half later when he asked about it. He was pist cause he said he would have rather returned it then me keep it in my jewery box for the rest of my life. But the funny thing is after he looked at it after a year and a half he asked me "what was I thinking? This thing is ugly!" LOL...

Answer 15

i have never lied to any girl who has brought me a gift. the black eye will be enough to tell her i dont like it!

only joking (im ready for a violation notice). im honest. if i dont like something i'll say it. its like food. if its cooked c**p i wont eat it.

Answer 16

I guess I'm lucky, my boyfriend is pretty spot on with my gifts, but his memory is pretty awesome too.  I would have mentioned something I like 6 months before, and he will remember, and buy it for me as a present.  

He's the best!

But, if I truly didn't like something he got me, yeah, I guess I would tell him, but I would be even more inclined to tell him if it was something I knew cost more than $50 - considering we share expenses, and I wouldn't want our money wasted on something I didn't like and would never use.

Answer 17

You bet I lie.  I lie like a rug.  I lye like sodium hydroxide.   I swear repeatedly that I have never, ever wanted anything more than I wanted [whatever gawdawful thing it is she got me].

They pout if you don't express gleeful gratitude.  

In fact, she hasn't laid an egg but once or twice, so I don't mind the occasional exercise in method acting.  I pretended she gave me something I really would have liked, like a radial arm saw, or a chair that's actually comfortable to sit in, instead of another of those stylish torture racks she orders.

Don't avoid the question.  Hesitation puts her on alert.  Lie quickly, and have done with it.