Have you ever noticed that Lorelai Gilmore encouraged Rory to lie a lot?

Lorelai Gilmore has been positioned as the perfect mom on Gilmore girls. Over the show’s seven seasons, Lorelai has encouraged and guided her daughter, Rory Gilmore, while maintaining a strong friendship with teenage boys Rory and Rory as adults. On closer inspection, Lorelai wasn’t exactly a perfect mother. She encouraged Rory to lie a lot, and in doing so, injected her own dysfunction into her daughter’s life.

Lorelai encouraged Rory to lie to Dean

Lorelai wasn’t great at dating, so it’s no surprise that she didn’t offer her daughter some great dating advice either. After Rory and her first boyfriend, Dean Forrester break up, she sends Rory to a party in Hartford. During this evening, Rory kisses Tristan Dugray, his sworn enemy. A few weeks later, Dean and Rory get back together.

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Rory wanted to clear the air with Dean and tell him that she had kissed Tristan, but Lorelai advised her not to. Instead, she figured it was better for Rory to omit the kiss and never mention it to Dean. The advice could have ruined the relationship again if Tristan had mentioned the kiss in front of Dean.

Lorelai told Rory to lie to her friend too

Several years later, Rory faced a serious problem. A Yale student she had befriended was dating her ex-boyfriend Marty. Marty made it pretty weird by pretending he didn’t know Rory. When Rory informed Lorelai of the situation, she advised Rory to follow Marty’s lie.

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It was perhaps one of the worst advice Lorelai had ever given to her daughter. Not only did she not recognize how strange the situation was, but she advised Rory to keep something from someone who obviously was a nice person. Logan Huntzberger finally told Lucy that Rory and Marty were friends. While some fans think Logan was mean by exposing Marty, he was actually doing the right thing.

Lorelai seemed determined enough to teach Rory to lie. Gilmore girls

Lorelai herself didn’t look like a huge liar. She often told the truth when it would have been in her best interests to lie. For example, she told Luke Danes that she slept with Christopher Hayden when she really didn’t need to inform him. Yet Lorelai often insisted that Rory would never lie, while advising her to do so.

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So why did Lorelai advise Rory to lie so often? It’s hard to say, but Lorelai certainly saw it as an easier option, even though she didn’t often take it on her own. Rory’s lies never seemed to work for her. Yet when fans reconnected with her Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, she was still lying.