Still, the truth with all its potential for causing pain is real and enduring — it won’t go away. Unlike the confusing and ephemeral lie, the truth informs, clarifies, and teaches. The truth feels right because it is right.
Even if the particular relationship they were in didn’t have a happy ending, the women who were told the truth were given a powerful gift. They finally had a chance to understand what was really happening. They had won another chance to build their future on more solid ground. Although they had feared the truth, it was the lie and all it represented that had caused them and their partnerships the most grievous damage and robbed them of choice.
— Dory Hollander, PhD, 101 Lies Men Tell Women: And Why Women Believe Them, p. 270-271