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What Pathological Liars Teach Us About Boundaries

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Jowita Bydlowska
Dec 14, 2025
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Most of my behaviour in active addiction depended on my ability to lie and live in a delusion. Because I couldn’t be honest with myself about the extent of it, I had to also try to convince those around me that what they were experiencing or observing was not the truth – admitting the truth would mean that I would have to admit to so many things which I…

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