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These 23 People Are Living Shocking Lies

11.

In 2012, my sex partner fell on me while we were having sex and his hand (and body weight) landed between my shoulder blade and my neck, causing a partial tear to my rotator cuff and a bulging disc at my C6 vertebra. Of course, I didn’t know this at the time, I thought it was just a minor thing, and I live with my parents, so I told them that I hurt myself tripping and falling into my car. I didn’t want to tell them that I was injured during sex. So it got worse and worse, and I had to get MRIs and found out what was wrong, and I had physical therapy for 3 months and that healed it, but then in 2014 I reinjured it doing laundry and had to have physical therapy again, and in March of this year I hurt it AGAIN doing laundry and so now it’s 2017 and my orthopedist has decided to do surgery on it, so Tuesday I am having surgery to repair the rotator cuff and also shave a bone spur that has popped up in my shoulder. The other day my Mom asked me again, “Is this all from falling into the car 5 years ago?” and I had to lie AGAIN and say yes, it was from tripping into the car, and I can never tell them the truth and it’s been the longest lie I’ve ever kept up.

12.

That I got my bachelor’s degree when in reality I dropped out due to mental illness/trying to kill myself.

13.

I suffer from awful anxiety. I feel like I’m the verge of a breakdown at any given moment, but I’ve become a professional at hiding it so nobody suspects anything is wrong.

14.

For the last three months I have been homeless. I live in Austin, TX working a middle management job and have been priced out of the rental market. I had a really beautiful home that was $900 dollars a month. When time to renew my lease came, the owner wanted $1700 a month. The area had recently grown and he knew he could get more money. I was promoted to my current level of management by a huge fortune 500 company making $10,000 a year less than external hires. So being underpaid and priced out, the only option I could come up with is to trade my car in for a commercial van and live in it until I can save up enough to figure out my next steps.

15.

Married man, nearing 40, with a respectable job, nice house and stability. I’m bored as hell. I’d really rather just be drinking, drugging, and being a degenerate fucknut most of the time.

Written by Laura McNairy

Laura is a freelance writer for TFLN. She likes to write about what she knows best — dating, sex, and being awkward, but usually in the opposite order. She is the Assistant Editor and videographer for Peach Fuzz, a sex-positive nudie magazine in ATX.