Break with Lying in Your Relationship

Omitting the truth can be costly.

You can imagine how difficult a rupture is in a relationship. Just look at how the separations are painful and leave deep scars on spouses and on children. Many of these spousal separations are fruits of the sin: lying situations, unruliness, separation from God, aggressiveness, disrespect; words of one offense to another and so on

It is necessary to break with sin and not to break with the relationship. The sin needs to be extirpated from the relationship.  All the corrupts what God created through love cannot be made part of our lives anymore. I see that the sin most subtle is the one that most destroys relationships which is lying. Lying fools the other or even omits something and can be costly, because it hurts the dignity of the other person and risks confidence and faithfulness. Choosing the road of not speaking the truth, even it may be in small things, is to choose betrayal of confidence that the spouse puts in you. The lie is already betrayal!

Jesus says: “The truth will set you free” (Jn 8:32). And it is in this perspective that our relationship can mature and become fertile: when the person can trust in the other, certain of that the other is always speaking the truth, that nothing remains hidden, for that is not good.

Therefore, the first step is to decide for the truth and for your truth. It is in this that God can act and that thing are taking the certain route of building a happy life.

A tip for today: Break with the sin of lying in your relationship. Decide to speak and live always in the truth, in the light, in the grace of God.

That the Lord bless you in this work!

Deacon Paulo Lourenço

translated from Portuguese