I had to tell a white lie and i feel bad for beeing dishonest. How to cope with this?

I once worked as a caregiver. White lies happened often where I could not explain the full truth or the patient could not understand it. I began to look at the difference between a white lie due to the truth not being explainable, and one with the truth being explainable. So now if I need to keep something something myself for safety, I try to give enough of the truth without hurting myself. I'm focusing on the point I want to get across while speaking as much truth as I know how.

Thanks for sharing your story. My situation is like this. My partner doesnt want to know everything about my solo sex life. Like when and how i masturbate for example. One day i had to say a white lie about a thing to protect her from knowing more about my sex life. Which is what she wanted because she didnt want to know. But still i feel dishonest telling white lie even though she doesnt want to hear the full truth because that is part o my private sex life. Hope that makes sense. :-)

For example if you miss removing all items from masturbation. Like it could happen we are all human. And then partner accidentaly might see something. I would say a white lie to not tell what was going on because she have said that she doesnt want to know. So i am beeing kind not telling and confessing but still beeing forced to feel dishonest.

White lies happen all the time. I wouldn’t feel too bad about it if it’s a rare occurrence.