Why do people Lie so much? Telling false stories about people. I got hurt in the process. She has issues?

We bought this house, using what would be our new neighbor across the street. She did the loan. My husband is a very upfront and honest person. He has been sober since 2003. He made a mistake by telling her anything at all. Trust me! We all have a past. However, his was a little more than most people. Anyway, She decided that before we moved in she would go share all of what my husband told her with all the neighbors. She told every one that he was a convicted drug dealer that was coming out of retirement to go back to his old ways. You must understand he was NEVER arrested or convicted of drugs. He did get a couple of DUI'S Now he is sober for over five years. He talks to kids/adults about the effects of drugs and drinking. So there was a red flag about my husband in our neighborhood. It did seem to backfire on her because everyone knows about his past and that he is a loving, caring, and hard working dedicated to his marriage and kids. We do so much for the other neighbors. Help!!Why do people Lie so much? Telling false stories about people. I got hurt in the process. She has issues?
That is the thing about lies- they all come back to haunt the liar one way or another. Invite your neighbors over to dinner, or around the holidays (July 4th is coming up!), or go to the next HOA meeting. Have your husband talk about his past, and maybe he can even do a presentation for the neighborhood's children (with parent's permission, of course) about how drinking and doing drugs is negative, and how it has really torn his life apart.


As to the person spreading the lies...that is up to you. Where I do not think that we should turn our backs on people just because they did something against us, I also feel that we should distance ourselves from people that only want to destroy our lives.


Hope everything works out for your family!Why do people Lie so much? Telling false stories about people. I got hurt in the process. She has issues?
You're going to need to counter-attack. She's going around saying bad things about you and your husband, maybe you need to go say some things (whether they're true or not) about her. She had no right to do and do what she did, and she deserves anything that's coming to her.
Becuase they have low self-esteem.