Episode 47 | The Biggest Lie You Tell Yourself Every Day — And It's Not What You Think

Your Effin’ Love Story · Jul 13, 2026 · 15m

I lied my ass off as a kid.

Not because I was a bad person. Because I was trying not to get beaten. When the truth was going to get you hurt, you learned fast that whatever kept you safe was worth saying — evidence be damned.

That's where it started. But it didn't stay there.

By the time I was dating, I was telling a woman I was thinking about becoming a vegetarian. I was not thinking about becoming a vegetarian. I was thinking about getting in her underwear. But the lie came out before I could stop it because somewhere in my self-concept was a belief that who I actually was — a steak-eating…