Have you ever professed love when it wasn't true?

People lie in all kinds of ways, but it seems to me that pretending love when it isn’t true must come from a very desolate place. I’ve never known anyone who did it (at least as far as I can tell). It doesn’t make sense to me that anyone would lie about good feelings. Bad feelings, yes, but good ones?

So I thought I’d ask. Have you ever said you loved someone when you didn’t? What was the situation? Why did you pretend to love someone you didn’t? What did you hope to get out of it?

And if you haven’t done it yourself, but you know someone who did, tell what you know of their story.