Sonnet 138

I think in a lot of immature relationships, people who don’t tell the truth sometimes expect their partner to figure out that they are lying. However, some people just seem to be more content with not knowing the truth, because if they were to know the truth then it would mean that the perfect picture that they painted of the person they were with would completely fall apart. As for the speaker and his mistress, I think that they do not speak of the lies they tell each other because they are both getting something out of their relationship, and the truth would just complicate the seemingly perfect arrangement they had already established.