Secrets are better than lies?
Sometimes, before we even realize it, we have caught ourselves in a lie. The smart thing to do at this point would be to admit to it and move on but we as humans have the need to be right and sometimes this contradicts itself with the need to come clean. When we trick ourselves into the notion that our lie is okay is when we also trick ourselves into believing the lie, at least a little and therefore open ourselves to conflict. Both within our own selves and the parties to which we have lied.