{"id":8442,"date":"2025-01-14T00:58:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T00:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/772581487617998848-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T05:25:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:25:43","slug":"772581487617998848-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/772581487617998848-2\/","title":{"rendered":"772581487617998848"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><\/h1>\n<p class=\"npf_link\" data-npf='{\"type\":\"link\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/family\/archive\/2021\/11\/self-deception-honesty-lying\/620739\/\",\"display_url\":\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/family\/archive\/2021\/11\/self-deception-honesty-lying\/620739\/\",\"title\":\"Quit Lying to Yourself\",\"description\":\"Real happiness starts with telling yourself the truth, even when it hurts.\",\"site_name\":\"The Atlantic\",\"poster\":[{\"media_key\":\"5fec8590e7adbcc5f426dcc69ad6db3b:a93df74c0196264c-99\",\"type\":\"image\/jpeg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":625}]}'><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/family\/archive\/2021\/11\/self-deception-honesty-lying\/620739\/\" target=\"_blank\">Quit Lying to Yourself<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeceiving yourself shouldn\u2019t make logical sense. After all, lying involves telling someone something you know to be untrue. When you are both the liar and one lied to, this means you have to both know the truth and not know the truth. 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