I had a friend with non-abusive parents as a kid and whenever we were Up To Some Shit, the agreement was that she had to let me do the talking because she’d sweat guilt from every pore while I just looked at people dead in the eye and just fucking lied.
“You just lied to your mother??” what, like it’s hard?
“WE TAUGHT YOU VALUES” yeah the value of not getting caught. Not sure that’s what you were going for man.
