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[pipi_k]

8. Well, yes...

that's always an option too.

Refusing to discuss it, I mean. Especially if it's going to bother you big time to lie.

Like you, I'm not a very good liar, and I don't like doing it. Except when it comes to very very personal things.

I wish my first reaction could be, "I'd rather not discuss it, thanks" and then leave it at that.

Unfortunately, it's one of those things I never think of until later. Way later.

In any event, even though you don't feel so great about what you did, in the big scheme of things, you didn't do it in order to profit from it, or in order to hurt someone else. No need to beat yourself over the head or anything. And if it's ever uncovered, you do have the right to say you lied because you didn't want to discuss it but couldn't think of any other way to handle it.