My idea of "brutally honest" is just being completely honest.

"Babe, that was way too much salt." "Maybe you should ask your mom for her recipes." Etc.

Ugh, the word "babe" makes me throw up in my mouth a little bit every time I hear it.

See, to me that's just honest - nothing brutal about it.

I always have to be honest, and decent, and whatever the hell else. Because I am a good person? No. Because I place great value on being able to sleep at night. If you act the [censored], and your life is worse due to guilt, remorse, or even just people knowing what you are really like, then it's time to stop acting the [censored] for your own sake, simple as that.

Me too. It's absolutely awful. It's like being called Babe the pig.

If you're just having a fling, then who cares if you lie or not? It's a fling. As long as you both have a good time then it doesn't really matter.

A serious relationship should have both people (or more, if it's a polyamorous thing) being really honest with one another. Little white lies are okay here and there as long as you know when to use them and how to not have them come back and bite you. Better to just exaggerate the truth a tiny bit, and I mean a tiny bit, not a complete turn around of the truth.

If both people (or more) aren't honest and open with each other, then I just don't see how a serious relationship like that could work. As a matter of fact, I know it can't. Even if those people got married and had kids, they'd never really be happy together.

I totally know what you're talking about, pumpkin. I would never call a girl "babe", I mean, have you ever heard me call a chick something like that, cupcake? Anyway, I think it should stop. Don't you, honeybear?

xoxo