If you have ever known a chronic/habitual liar, how did you deal with it?

Yup, He was an old coworker we were cross shifts ,started to be friends but he wouldn’t know the truth if it bit him on the ass, caught him in lies when there was absolutely no need to lie

After trying to resolve the issues, i removed myself from their life.

Yes, a couple, usually also passive aggressive and highly manipulative types. As soon as I identified them for what they really were, I divorced one ( my ex husband ) and dumped another ( a friend of 8 years.) I have the radar of a Fruit Bat and the nose of a Bloodhound these days when it comes to toxic people. haha

I stay away from them, exclude them from my life. What good is a human being whom you can’t trust what they say? I can’t think of a greater waste of time. See Sociapathic Liar

Yes, myself, you know how i dealt with it, you just don’r believe it works.

I’ve only known one person who lied constantly. It was a friend of my exboyfriend. It was so odd to me. Lied all the time about nothing and everything. He didn’t stay in our circle too long.

Having said that, my ex, used to lie a lot. He was a cheater, so he had to lie at times. It still was completely different than the chronic liar.

I began a business relationship 7–1-15, based largely on my respect for ½ of the partnership in the start-up. It dissolved as of 8–26-15 because the other ½ of the partnership snookered the rest of us. Seems he has only a passing acquaintance with truth. I had begun to see this recently, but not the extent.

The whole idea of lying for lies sake is so foreign to me, I struggle to understand. How do those people maintain any sort of relationship, business or personal?

At an ad agency years ago, a young woman, the worst and most compulsive I’ve ever encountered. The top guys fawned all over her because she was so cutie and pretty, and all the time she was lying about her skills, her clirnets and her co-workers (one of whom was me). If I recall correctly, she wound up getting fired, but not before she had done a LOT of damage.

I have cut off almost all ties to this male relative who lies whenever his lips are moving. It infuriates me to listen to his BS and I’m actually insulted to think he believes he’s fooling me. It’s a horrible habit and I can see how he’s losing friends.
I think a good percentage of habitual liars steal, also. I know he does. So I love him very much but he is not the person I used to know. It has broken my heart but it really upsets me when he gets going. Why doesn’t he understand that , if a lie about , say, my daughter is big enough and traumatic enough it could cause me to become sick and even have to fly in to visit her?

@Aster it’s because it’s all about him, so your problems are not his concern. Makes sense to him, anyway.