{"id":239698,"date":"2023-10-29T12:19:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T12:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/?p=239698"},"modified":"2023-10-29T12:19:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T12:19:24","slug":"im-a-female-solo-traveller-here-are-3-lies-i-always-tell-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/lifestyle\/im-a-female-solo-traveller-here-are-3-lies-i-always-tell-men\/","title":{"rendered":"I&apos;m a female solo traveller &#8211; here are 3 LIES I always tell men"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>I&#8217;m a female solo traveller &#8211; here are three LIES I tell men wanting to chat<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A travel influencer revealed the three lies she uses as a solo female backpacker<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>READ MORE: I&#8217;m a travel lover &#8211; here&#8217;s how I got over my fear of solo backpacking<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Travelling alone as a woman can often be a daunting experience, and sometimes you have to think carefully about how to keep yourself safe.<\/p>\n<p>An American travel influencer has revealed the three lies she uses as a solo female backpacker that she advises others should be using too.<\/p>\n<p>The TikTok\u00a0by @monicaroams has been seen by over 376,000 people and saved by an additional 4,000.<\/p>\n<p>The influencer explained &#8216;You should never lie, but as a solo female traveller you kind of have to. It&#8217;s actually crazy how often I have to use these lies, so these will help.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/23\/12\/76884795-12661373-An_American_travel_influencer_has_revealed_the_three_lies_she_us-a-30_1698059621563.jpg\" height=\"1069\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>An American travel influencer has revealed the three lies she uses as a solo female backpacker that she advises others should be using too<\/p>\n<h2>Always say you have a boyfriend&#8230; no matter what\u00a0\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>The first tip from Monica is to always say you have a boyfriend, even if you don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>She explained &#8216;Number one, if people ask whether you have a boyfriend, you do, no matter what. Unless, it&#8217;s someone that you&#8217;re actually interested in.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If you&#8217;re lesbian, literally say that you gave a boyfriend too, because I feel like men will always think that being a lesbian is like hot so that will just make them more attracted to you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;So no matter what, just say that you&#8217;ve got a boyfriend or a husband, even better.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>She added: &#8216;Let&#8217;s be real, they&#8217;re usually old men that are asking you this question, just seeing if you&#8217;re single so they can probably hit on you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;ve made the mistake of being truthful and saying no I don&#8217;t have a boyfriend, but then it makes the interaction so much more creepy because now they&#8217;re trying to get with me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This also works if someone asks for your number and you don&#8217;t wanna give it to them, just be like I have a boyfriend.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Always say your friend is waiting for you&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>Next, she advises that you should always lie if you&#8217;re alone:<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If anybody ever asks if you are alone, you&#8217;re never alone baby, even if you are alone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You never know what their plan is or who they are so it&#8217;s just best not to give information like that to random people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Random older men have asked me this question while I&#8217;m just sitting and eating by myself. I&#8217;m like oh no, my friends at the hostel, she&#8217;s just waiting for me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;No matter what, you&#8217;ve got a friend somewhere, okay?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/23\/12\/76884793-12661373-She_explained_If_anybody_ever_asks_if_you_are_alone_you_re_never-a-31_1698059630938.jpg\" height=\"1088\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>She explained &#8216;If anybody ever asks if you are alone, you&#8217;re never alone baby, even if you are alone. You never know what their plan is or who they are so it&#8217;s just best not to give information like that to random people&#8217;<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE: I&#8217;m a female solo traveller and I would never visit Egypt alone after terrifying incident in the Cairo Bazar<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/23\/10\/76416979-12661373-image-a-36_1698054776095.jpg\" height=\"489\" width=\"274\"><\/p>\n<h2>And&#8230; you DON&#8217;T know where you&#8217;re staying\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>Finally, even if it&#8217;s not believable, the traveller says you should never give away where you&#8217;re staying.<\/p>\n<p>She advised &#8216;Never tell anybody where you&#8217;re staying because usually they&#8217;ll be like &#8216;oh my gosh, are you travelling by yourself?&#8217; Or like &#8216;oh my gosh, where are you staying?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I get it&#8217;s part of conversation but also you don&#8217;t know what their intentions are, so you gotta just stay low-key and not give out too much information.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;So, especially when I&#8217;m feeling a weird vibe and it&#8217;s someone that I don&#8217;t want to be talking to me, I&#8217;m like oh I forgot, I don&#8217;t know where my hostel is, it&#8217;s probably that way.<\/p>\n<p>The influencer added &#8216;an alternative answer is &#8216;I&#8217;m actually travelling with my parents right now and we&#8217;re on vacation&#8217;.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Don&#8217;t be afraid to be creative, this is your time to build a whole character story.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Concluding the clip, she told her viewers\u00a0&#8216;those are definitely three lies that you need to be telling all the time when you&#8217;re a solo female traveller because let&#8217;s be honest, when you&#8217;re a young solo female traveller there are a bunch of older men who just randomly come up to you and start talking to you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I love conversation but sometimes it can be very creepy so these are lies that will help you in your endeavours&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Commenters joined the conversation by sharing their own tips &#8211; one user wrote &#8216;I used to wear a very cheap \u201cwedding\u201d ring when travelling alone&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Another added &#8216;better to say husband, they can still persist if it\u2019s a \u2018boyfriend\u2019. I made the mistake of saying where I was staying and got stalked in India&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Someone else advised\u00a0&#8216;Get a fake wedding ring. It helps with the language barrier, just need to point at your finger,&#8217; to which Monica replied &#8216;Ooo I love this&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Others that swear by the advice said &#8216;i have used all. not even all my friends know where i live, let alone someone i meet during a trip&#8217; and &#8216;done all this instinctively!&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/travel\/article-12661373\/Im-female-solo-traveller-three-LIES-tell-men-wanting-chat.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a female solo traveller &#8211; here are three LIES I tell men wanting to chat A travel influencer revealed the three lies she uses as a solo female backpacker&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>I&amp;apos;m a female solo traveller - here are 3 LIES I always tell men - lovemainstream.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/lifestyle\/im-a-female-solo-traveller-here-are-3-lies-i-always-tell-men\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I&amp;apos;m a female solo traveller - here are 3 LIES I always tell men - lovemainstream.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#8217;m a female solo traveller &#8211; 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