Dating Lies

A Comical Guide to the Tricks We Use

By: J.R. LaJoie

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Everyone lies for love.
Some people just lie better.

You’ve done it.
So has everyone you’ve ever dated.

The résumé-padding.
The “emotionally upgraded” backstory.
The casual mention of hobbies you absolutely do not have.

Dating Lies is a fast, brutally honest, laugh-out-loud look at the ridiculous things men and women say when attraction enters the room. These aren’t cruel lies. They’re hopeful ones. The kind people tell when they want to seem more confident, more interesting, or just slightly cooler than they really are.

Drawing from teenage disasters, adult reinventions, and middle-aged “strategic embellishments,” J.R. LaJoie breaks down the performances, panic, bravado, and quiet desperation behind modern dating—with sharp humor and zero judgment.

People lie because they want to be wanted.
Because hope makes them brave.
Because insecurity can be charming… right up until someone claims they “almost made it into the NFL.”

This book doesn’t shame anyone.
It doesn’t offer rules.
And it definitely doesn’t pretend people are honest when romance is on the line.

It just tells the truth about the lies—clearly, hilariously, and uncomfortably accurately.

Read this if you enjoy:

• Comedy that recognizes you a little too well
• Dating stories that feel painfully familiar
• Humor that cuts clean but never cruel
• Laughing first… then realizing you’ve said half of these things
• The universal truth that we all try a little too hard to be wanted

Dating Lies is for anyone who’s ever flirted, panicked, exaggerated, reinvented themselves, or told a story that got better every time they repeated it.

Which is to say—everyone.