every once in a while I think about this Reddit post, where a woman discovers her boyfriend has been consistently lying to her to keep her feeling bad
and I wonder what other varieties of manipulative lies people deliberately tell, one-on-one (such as https://www.askamanager.org/2024/04/my-boss-says-my-work-is-bad-but-all-evidence-says-the-opposite.html ) and en masse
and whether the victims ever find out, and what scars are left behind