DEAR JOHN: Special What Happened In Benghazi Edition!
Hard Core Advice From Hard Core's Hardest Core... John Leslie Dear John, My girlfriend and I are going through a very rough time after five years together, and we are now on an extended break. I am trying hard to address my own issues through counseling, and one of those issues is dealing with being lied to. I can't stand it. I am a rather honest person, but my girlfriend is far from it. After being exposed to her little white lies for so long, I have become aggressively suspicious and controlling, and borderline paranoid. I am hoping to address this and learn to "let go," since the snooping, spying, and obsessive grilling of her for the truth is destructive. I try to offer her opportunities to tell me the truth about things, but her first reaction is always to lie. It could be about something as innocuous as what she spent her time on in the evening, or it could be something ...