When the Truth Is Gone, What’s Left of Love?

0:00This is Rick Burgess from The Rick Burgess Show. If you're still auto renewing your car insurance without shopping around, you are probably throwing money away. I'm telling you, go check out Insurify. In about two minutes, totally free, you can compare quotes from over 100 companies all in one place. Now, here's what I love. Insurify actually monitors your rates and alerts you when prices drop. So you never miss out on a better deal. Millions of people have used it to stop overpaying. And there's no reason you shouldn't do. Do yourself a favor. See what you can say right now at insurify.com. This is Matt Rogers from Lost Culture East. It's with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang. This is Bowen Yang from Lost Culture East. It's with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang. You know when people try a new food and suddenly it's like, OK, hold on. I got a new favorite food. That's the reaction a lot of people are having when they first try Cupid Mayon. Yeah, it's the one with the red cap and the little baby on the bottle. You've probably seen it at the grocery store. And this mayo is different. Most mayonnaise uses whole eggs. Cupid only uses egg yolks, which gives it this rich umami flavor. It's smoother, deeper, almost buttery.

1:01Once people try it, they start putting it on everything. Egg sandwiches, fries, burgers, chefs use it, restaurants use it, people who really care about flavor use it, put it on just about anything. Then you'll understand. Cupid, the original Japanese mayonnaise. Hi, everyone. Welcome back to Words of Wisdom. Thank you so much for being here. When the truth is gone, what's left of love? Honesty is not just part of a relationship. Honesty is the ground the relationship stands on. You can love someone deeply and still destroy what you have with them if you refuse to tell the truth. Because a lie rarely stays one lie. A lie changes the reality another person is living in. When you lie to someone who trusts you, you are making decisions for them without their knowledge. You are deciding what they are allowed to know. You are deciding what version of reality they get to live in.

2:01And then you are asking them to love you, to trust you, sleep beside you, build with you, and make choices about their life based on information you know is incomplete or false. That is why dishonesty cuts so deeply. The pain is not only you lied to me. The deeper pain is, while I was trusting you, you knew I did not have the truth. Think about that. Someone can forgive a mistake. They can forgive weakness. They can forgive a terrible decision. Sometimes they can even forget betrayal. But what becomes difficult to fix is the moment they begin questioning their own reality. Was that conversation real? Where were you actually? What else don't I know? Was I the only person in this relationship who believed what we were building was real? That is what repeated lying does. It doesn't simply make someone suspicious of you.

3:04It can make them suspicious of everything. And once trust has been damaged badly enough, even the truth starts sounding like a lie. That is the tragedy. You may finally become honest, but the person you love no longer knows when to believe you. So tell the truth before you're caught. Tell the truth when it's uncomfortable. Tell the truth when you know there may be consequences. Tell the truth when honesty might disappoint someone. Because if you only tell the truth when it benefits you, this is Rick Burgess from The Rick Burgess Show. If you're still auto renewing your car insurance without shopping around, you are probably throwing money away. I'm telling you, go check out InsureFile. In about two minutes, totally free, you can compare quotes from over 100 companies all in one place. Now here's what I love. InsureFile actually monitors your rates and alerts you when prices drop. So you never miss out on a better deal. Millions of people have used it to stop overpaying. And there's no reason you shouldn't too. Do yourself a favor. See what you can say right now at insurefile.com.

4:06This is Matt Rogers from Lost Culturista with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang. This is Bowen Yang from Lost Culturista with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang. You know when people try new food and suddenly it's like, wait. That's the reaction. A lot of people are having when they first try QB Mayo. It's the one with the red cap and the little baby on the bottle. You've probably seen it in the grocery store before. And if you've ever just walked past it, some people would say that's a huge mistake. Because this mayo is different. Most mayonnaise uses whole eggs. QB only uses egg yolks, which gives it this rich umami flavor. It's smoother, deeper, and almost buttery. Once people try it, they start putting it on everything. Examances, fries, burgers, some fans even swear by dipping pizza crust in it. And once you notice it, you start seeing it everywhere. Chefs use it, restaurants use it. People who really care about flavor use it. Never try it, grab the bottle with the red cap next time you're at the store. Put it on just about anything, then you'll understand. QB, the original Japanese mayonnaise. That is not integrity.

5:08Integrity is telling the truth when the truth costs you something. And understand this. Honesty does not guarantee that someone will stay. Sometimes the truth may end a relationship, but a person deserves the right to decide whether they want to stay after knowing the truth. Don't take that choice away from them with a lie. If the truth causes them to leave, then let them leave knowing who you really are. Because keeping someone through deception is not the same thing as being chosen. Okay? Keeping someone through deception is not the same thing as being chosen. If someone would make a different decision about you, if they knew the truth, hiding the truth is not preserving the relationship. You are preserving your access to that person. There's a difference. Real love requires freedom, and people cannot freely choose you when they don't know what they are choosing.

6:11So if you love someone, give them something rare. A place where they don't have to investigate. A place where they don't have to decode your words. A place where your phone doesn't tell a different story than your mouth. A place where they don't have to become a detective just to feel emotionally safe. Give them the peace of knowing that when you say something, you mean it. And if you make a mistake, own it. Don't manipulate. Don't minimize. Don't tell half the story. Don't confess only the part you think they can prove. Don't make them drag the truth out of you. This is Rick Burgess from The Rick Burgess Show. If you're still auto renewing your car insurance without shopping around, you are probably throwing money away. I'm telling you, go check out Insurefah. In about two minutes, totally free, you can compare quotes from over a hundred companies all in one place. Now here's what I love. Insurefah actually monitors your rates and alerts you when prices drop. So you never miss out on a better deal.

7:11Millions of people have used it to stop overpaying and there's no reason you shouldn't too. Do yourself a favor. See what you can say right now at insurefah.com. This is Matt Rogers from Los Cultures. That's with Matt Rogers and Boan Yang. This is Boan Yang from Los Cultures. This is Matt Rogers and Boan Yang. You know when people try new food and suddenly it's like, wait. That's the reaction. A lot of people are having when they first try QB mayo. It's the one with the red cap and the little baby on the bottle. You've probably seen it in the grocery store before. And if you've ever just walked past it, some people would say that's a huge mistake. Because this mayo is different. Most mayonnaise uses whole eggs. QB only uses egg yolks, which gives it this rich umami flavor. It's smoother, deeper, and almost buttery. Once people try it, they start putting it on everything. Egg sandwiches, fries, burgers, some fans even swear by dipping pizza crust in it. And once you notice it, you start seeing it everywhere. Chefs use it, restaurants use it. People who really care about flavor use it. Never try it. Grab the bottle with the red cap next time you're at the store.

8:13Put it on just about anything. Then you'll understand. QB, the original Japanese mayonnaise. Just by piece, say, this is what I did. This is the truth. I know it may hurt you, and I know there may be consequences. But I respect you too much to continue lying to you. That is accountability. Because trust is not built by being perfect. Trust is built by being truthful when being truthful is difficult. At the end of the day, relationships don't survive because two people never heard each other. They survive because two people create a place where truth is safer than deception. Accountability is stronger than ego. And love is mature enough to face reality. So tell the truth. Not because you're afraid of getting caught. Not because someone is questioning you. Not because evidence has appeared. Tell the truth because the person who gives you their heart should never have to sacrifice their peace.

9:15Just to figure out whether your words are real. Love without truth eventually becomes confusion. Trust without truth becomes an illusion. A relationship without truth may continue for years, but eventually, someone will realize they were not standing on solid ground. They were standing on a story. And stories built on lies eventually collapse. Tell the truth while there is still something beautiful left to protect. Okay? All right, guys, I've got to go. If you enjoyed this message, hit that like button. Definitely share this with someone who needs to hear it and subscribe. It would absolutely mean the world to me. I love you and God bless.

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