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Originally Posted by pwd72s
Not just women, guys...I know a man in Portland, a Porsche nut, who fits that bill...why is it that so many liars are also arrogant? Any shrinks reading this thread?
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I tried to understand the phenomenon a few years ago with no success. I also heard a really good show about it on NPR. And I learned that men who are pathological liars take on similar forms. The stories are just slightly different. Men, it seems, tend to lie about career success, wealth, advanced degrees and education, and (especially) military service - leaving out the victimization and abuse stories. Do you recall the story of Mark Hacking?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/08/10/national/main635151.shtml
The couple's crisis started on July 16 when Lori Hacking called the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to inquire about financial aid for her husband, who had told her and everyone else that he would be going to medical school there.
The couple had been planning to move there a few days later. But the 27-year-old woman was told there was no record of him even applying to the medical school. It has since been learned that he had not even graduated from the University of Utah, contrary to what he had led everyone to believe.
The guy shot his wife a few days later. The story was all over the national news for a while.