Okay, here’s a great example of lying by ‘omission’ that I just recently experienced with a needy neighbor/friend.
This person constantly minimizes what her true agenda is, until…they have you roped in and caught off guard.
They are a master of the old ‘bait & switch’ routine.
This person asked me if I would take them to a doctors appt. and to the grocery store, they JUST needed dinner items.
Once we were out they convienantly ‘forgot’ they had to make another stop which involved an extra 30 minutes of driving and 30 something miles, added to an already 50 mile round trip!
THEN, when we got to the grocery store instead of JUST getting dinner items they did an entires WEEKS worth of shopping on my time and did a bang up job of screwing up my plans for the day!
This little white lie of omission caused me to do waaay more than I had agreed to and had me running the rest of MY errands that I intended to do that same day when said person very stealthily managed to manipulate my ‘favor’ into all about their agenda.
Needless to say I was mad enough to confront them and of course, they put on an academy award winning ‘who me’ victim performance! lol
Now that I have set a boundary as to what type of ‘favors’ I am willing to do for them, and insisted on clear, direct, HONEST communication which includes not altering an agreement without ASKING me first, well…they are no longer speaking to me. haha
Good for me! ;-)