Since last issue of your favorite Lovelines’s edition entitled ‘Common fictions in a relationship’ which revealed few among the common lies some ladies or married women usually blow to their spouse, many calls have been received saying ‘Oh Love Dr, you revealed some of our secrets’ While some men says ‘…you are very right this is what some of them do say especially when they are not interested in you or know that you love them too much.’

Anyway my answer to some of the calls both from men and women is ‘well it is vice versa, because this week is for women to know little about some men’s lies to their girlfriend or wife also. Writing or discussing about this common fictions in a relationship does not mean everyone is a liar or engage in lying to their spouse or partners neither does it mean that partners are just out there to suck each other and throw  away like a waterless orange. But it is for us to adjust and try to be faithful to each other in our relationship. Whatever, love is in the air!

Since it is a matter of refreshing our minds, let us look at it this way; because one common attribute most people share is telling lies. Lies as we all know are an untrue state to deceive and create a false impression. Most men use lies to paint false pictures of themselves before their women.

Anyway, some of the following could be true, check them out.

I love you: These three words are commonly said. Men always say I love you to each woman they are attracted to be it at first sight or so. It can be the easiest way to a woman’s heart or a direct entry visa to win a woman from her partner. To create a vacuum in a woman’s heart could be the reason for the use of the words by men as well. It could also be an easier way to get a woman when a man wants her in bed. Trying to be saint the lust for a woman’s love is a better option for such males. Be careful when it is a man saying ‘I love you with my body and soul’ because it might turn other way round.

You are the only girl/woman in my life: It is also very funny that most women when they heard this from their men, they are yet to realize or think that these men might have other women out there. Just watch it, hearing this could just be an indication that a rival might be on the way. Because some men say this to pin down their girlfriends and make them feel unique and as well paint themselves to be saint and honest lover.  

The last time I kiss/made love was two years ago or so:Would anyone believe that a man who said this made love just yesterday night with his wife or another girlfriend somewhere? The man wants to paint himself a saint. As this will make the woman think she is the only one in his life without any rival. So also when some women heard this from a man they love they think it is a sign of discipline. The reverse might actually be the case, flirting around!

I love you more than my mother/wife/life itself: It is okay for a man to claim that he loves his girlfriend or wife, but when he have to compare with mother/wife/life itself or otherwise, you need to rethink. If a man claims he love you more than life, just ask him to spare one of his kidneys or eyes for you and watch him become The Gambia “best or fastest runner of the year.”

My whole heart belongs to you: Just be careful when these words are spoken. Operate his heart in your mind and you will see it segmented. As his whole heart belong to you, just give him some minutes you will hear his phone ringing and see him strutting as he is looking at you and try to walk a distance from you to receive the call.

I’m broke: As women always say ‘I’m strand these days’ so also do men say ‘I’m broke.’ I do not know if you ever noticed how easy men go broke even when they are just been paid yesterday or last week. Though some men might be broke especially the low-income earner. However, most men evade spending money on their women, pretending to be in a financial mess. Tease him about thousands of dalasis worth of business and watch money roll out. Although some will quickly tell you that I can borrow money from pal to finance the business.

Pay me a visit, my mother will surely like you: Most men always present their mums as pictures of epitomes of niceness when they are able to catch a first class lady. They say this to proof to such lady that they owe them in high esteem, wait and see after the bed eruption – story, story… “Hmm…I regret the day I met you.”

Please, my parents cause this: Oh, spare me! This is common among young lovers that court for some years still cannot marry each other just because of another lady in the village or in Europe. Men will say it is my parents that say I should marry her or else they will disown me. Leave everything to God because there might be no iota of truth in this!

You are the best thing that has ever happened to me: He has said exactly the same statement to over a dozen women and is still ready to say the same thing to half a dozen more if not today but later tomorrow.

Sorry I will be late, I have a board meeting/’am in a board meeting: This one applies to married men, it will amaze you that some men have board meetings on Sundays and some spend three days at a board meeting. While some board meetings last till about 3.00am in the mornings. And as they are coming back from the meeting watch them, they are fully exhausted and with lipstick bed pass on their shirts with essential commodity-condom in their pockets. Mornings to morning or noon to midnight meetings are uncountable. May Almighty Allah save both men and women from this, amen.

I am on trek: The most common language now among the civil workers is to tell their wives that they are on trek. And when they come back home to avoid their wives asking for money they will quickly say ‘hey, this people are bad, they can’t even provide good accommodation talk less of transport refund.’ Hmm…God is great!

I will do anything for you: Five minutes after some men say this and get what he want ask him to sign a blank cheque and hell will be set loose. After just promising you heaven on earth.

Believe me she is nothing to me or she is just a co worker/niece/neighbor: Open your eyes that co-worker, niece or neighbor might be your rival. She is patiently waiting for you to give way because she wants to enjoy what you too are enjoying. Some men are clever enough to quickly say she is my niece/co worker/ neighbor in a wavy style that will give no room for suspicion. It is left for you to know if it is yes or no, because women too are used to ‘it is my cousin/uncle.’

The list could go on and on if women are to list the different lies that their men have told them or always tell them. Why say what you cannot do and may God help the women folk to detect their men’s lies.