what can you do to get a liar to stop lying??

Answer 1

Make the consequences of their lying more severe and don't protect them if they get in trouble.

Answer 2

Well, liars are forgetful, you can try to remember what they told you and wait for a while and then ask questions in regard to what they said. See if they remember or they don’t if they didn’t just tell them straight out loud..” ohhh but that’s not what you said a few weeks back!” Try this tragedy couple of times until the person realizes and hopefully they would stop. However if it backfires, then really you can’t do anything just ignorance for a while or you could just give back the taste of their own medicine. Now I know no one loves to lie and no one loves a liar, so if you are worried that you don’t want to lie, only lie to her/him!

Answer 3

I wound up marrying a compulsive liar, and our marriage is good, so far. I found out that he had been lying to me, to his exwife, his father, pretty much everybody. So after I broke up with him, and we were talking reconciliation, I told him that I knew he had lied to me about so many things.. even trivial things. And told him that I didn't know him, and I didn't like the person he was pretending to be. But that I wanted to get to know him. And I made him a deal, because he admitted he was a compulsive liar. The deal was he couldn't lie to anybody, tell the truth, no matter the consequences. And if he lied to me out of habit, and knew he had just lied to me, then tell me, before I find out the truth, and I wouldn't be angry at him. I told him I couldn't respect a liar. I told him that if I noticed him lying, that I was going to call him on it, not to embarass him, but to help him stop. And made him sign a paper saying that he could not get mad at me for not believing something he said... I did call him out a few times, and most of the time, he wasn't lying. And the times he was, he admitted it. But he wanted to change, for himself, and for our relationship. My suggestion to you is to be gentle, and try to talk to the person about it knowing that he or she is probably very embarassed about it, and probably has little self confidence.

Answer 4

I was crazy about this guy when I 1st met him, but he was such a pathalogical liar, I could not take it anymore and dumped him outright. I never could tell him it was because he would lie about the stupid things. His stories got bigger and bigger and I just became totally disqusted.
You cannot stop a liar from lying, but you can just move on.

Answer 5

You NEVER EVER let them get away with it. Always confront..always make it known that you KNOW they're lying. If you don't do this, they will think they are getting away with it. But a word of warning...some people are in relationships because they feel they are able to con. Once they know you are for sure on to them, the relationship may fade and fast.

Answer 6

There is nothing to do but to leave!

I am divorced twice because liars are good at lying but they can NEVER change...

Wishing hard, prayer, etc. cannot make anyone change and it's not your fault for being lied to....

Answer 7

Catch them in a lie in public. Embarress the heck out of him. That's the only thing that worked to get my little brother to stop lying.

Answer 8

You don't. You are not the puppet master that can automatically make others do as you want them to do

If someone is lying to you, then accept that person is a liar. Move on.

Answer 9

Nothing. You can't change other people. You can only change the way you respond to them.

I wouldn't spend one second of my time with a liar. I can't stand them.

Answer 10

You can't make anyone stoop doing any thing they don't want too...

lying,, drinking.. drugging.. smoking..

that is up to them...

u could set them up to get caught.. and hope to embarrass them enough to stop