"There was only a kiss!": When the lies come in a relationship
say or not say? This is the problem .... It is a dilemma worthy of the best Shakespearean tragedy, but do it is fair to say the truth to the partner? Hiding can preserve the couple from possible earthquakes?
So, first I should point that, unfortunately, or fortunately, the lies we can not help it; They are, in fact, that allow us to "survive" in particularly difficult or embarrassing. "Lies are the foundation of all social groups, so that not only men but also animals use them," says Luigi Anolli, docente di Psicologia della comunicazione all'Università Cattolica di Milano e direttore del Centro studi e ricerche in Psicologia della comunicazione dello stesso ateneo. "Le femmine di scimmia, per esempio, approfittano dell'assenza del loro compagno "ufficiale" per accoppiarsi con un altro maschio. E i gregari, cioè i membri non dominanti del gruppo, nascondono le banane al capobranco, per poterle mangiare in pace anziché consegnargliele. La bugia ha insomma a che fare con la gestione di risorse scarse, come possono essere il cibo o le femmine".
Tra gli esseri umani, però, le cose si complicano e assumono sfumature e motivazioni differenti e molteplici. Vi sono infatti diversi tipi di bugia: quella "bianca", sociale, che si dice per educazione e per non ferire la sensibilità altrui ("Come stai bene con quel vestito!” - quando in realtà non è così-); c'è poi la bugia pedagogica, da raccontare ai bambini per gratificarli ("Mamma, ti piace il mio disegno?", "Certo, è meraviglioso"). La bugia utilitaristica, usata spesso sul lavoro o in situazioni scomode per evitare un incarico difficile o noioso ("Ti accompagnerei volentieri ma purtroppo, devo accompagnare mia sorella dal medico!”"). Segue poi la bugia di autopresentazione, ovvero una "piccola" forzatura della realtà per apparire più interessanti o attraenti ("Ho scalato l'Everest senza ossigeno"); la bugia protettiva, classica "Torque", which is used so as not to uncover a betrayal to the partner ("Yesterday I felt at home because I've stayed at a friend"). Yet the omission, which is not a real lie, but an unspoken truth, and finally the noble lie for a good purpose, which aims to save a sorrow to another person ("I have not met my ex! ") and is typical of someone who is assigned the tasks of management and control within a relationship.
However, it is necessary to refer to the culture they belong: on its basis in fact telling the truth or lie have different values. If you think, tell the truth in China is considered a stupid behavior, because is to discover, a little 'how to go about naked, while for Muslims, the deception is doomed from the Koran and are widely omissions, or things that are silent out of shame. "But here? How do you deal with front of the lie, especially as a couple? Considering that in our society, truth and moral values \u200b\u200bare considered maximum aperture (and Christians), it is obviously false refuge any attitude, especially within the couple. However, as in all things, there are considerable individual differences: some like to know the bitter truth and who, for a quiet life, make the best of a bad game shuffles inside a relationship that ends up being fictitious and void. What to do? Telling the truth or lie for the sake of the couple? If you remember in the movie "The Last Kiss" tells Stefano Accorsi Giovanna Mezzogiorno, who plays his wife, the girl there was only a kiss, nothing more .. when in fact there was much, much more ... At first try to lie but then seeing the narrow confesses the betrayal but tries to resize it. What was done then? Unfortunately this is not a recipe: recent research has shown that if the escapade is an isolated incident does not go to confession because it undermines the foundations of the relationship, and given even more significantly, almost il 60% preferisce non sapere. Questo significa che, se così fosse, quasi nessuno confesserebbe un tradimento e ben pochi lo vorrebbero sapere: ma allora su cosa si reggerebbe la coppia? Se consideriamo la lealtà e la fiducia come capisaldi del rapporto, ovviamente questi, in un contesto di menzogna reciproca verrebbero meno, e allora immancabilmente la coppia scoppia! Come diceva l'antropologo e psicologo statunitense Gregory Bateson "esiste sempre un valore ottimale oltre il quale ogni cosa diviene tossica: l'ossigeno, il sonno, la psicoterapia e la filosofia. Qualsiasi variabile biologica ha bisogno di equilibrio". Lo stesso vale per la sincerità e l'inganno. In qualche punto tra i due poli di comportamento - vivere una vita di bugie e dire always the truth - is the right path that leads to individual well-being and torque. This which means that for two, with the various points of no return (Francesco Alberoni, sex and love), it is tacitly agreed if the lie is part of these causes, and whether or not a rupture of the relationship. On the basis of the discourses, and behaviors to the accounts made by both partners about their previous experiences, it is established whether the truth is a prerequisite for the couple's relationship, or the "close one eye at times" may be tolerable.
Obviously the relationship in both cases take two very different folds along its unfolding, and then you will be aware the inevitable consequences which we will encounter as individuals and as couples