Anyone ever stretch the truth a little bit when asking a question?

Have any of you ever stretched the truth just a little bit to make a question more interesting? I know that I have, just a tad... in one of my other questions I said I was in love with another woman, because I was looking for advice about divorcing my wife because we are miserable. Actually, I WANTED to be in love with someone else, so I would have more of a reason to be out... some people gave some good answers, and many avoided the controversy that I engendered. I want to be in the position where there is someone else. Because now my wife has committed physical abuse against me, and I now have a reason to leave... basically, I do not trust her, although she says the cycle of abuse has been broken. This was the icing on the cake, the last thing to break what I had felt...

Anyway... now I want to leave her because I no longer feel safe. But I did stretch the truth just a tad. I apologize. But it created the feedback I needed.