Honesty...HONESTLY?

Years ago while I was in my earlier twenties a girl once told me that, "Girls just want a guy to be honest."  I still chuckle to this day at the absurdity of the comment.  I've always considered my self to be an honest guy.  The truth behind that statement is that I'm 'honest enough'.  That means I am honest enough to keep myself out of trouble while doing nothing wrong in the first place.  Girls think that they want to know the truth, but they don't.  You couldn't handle it, nor could any successful relationship.  There is a whole part of the male psyche, which makes up about 95% of how we operate, that you can't, nay, mustn't know the details of.  Hiding the full truth of what goes on in our brains is the only way to maintain anything of substance.  She is not prettier than you, you are not being bat-shit crazy, and that does not make your ass look fat...or does it?  Do you want it to make your ass look fat?  Then it does, it definitely does.  You want honesty, but you don't, because that is when we end a relationship.

"I need to be HONEST with you...."

Even after we say that, there is a good chance that that the next thing you hear will be a lie.  Sometimes we do tell the truth because you aren't asking the right questions.  I girl I was "seeing" back in the day asked me if I had slept with anyone else while we had been "together".  I told her the truth.  The answer was no.  100% honestly, EN - OH, NO.  She just wasn't asking the right question.  She didn't ask if I had been trying to...I was just unsuccessfully up to that point.

The first few months of any good relationship is all of us (men & women) lying about how messed up we all are.  We stick with as many simple little facts about ourselves and then we eventually run out of small talk.  Then, and only then do we delve into who we really are.  Below are two examples of how many first dates would go if everyone would just cut the shit and be honest from the get go.