Honesty the best policy?

Why is it so hard to be honest when someone asks you to do them a favour? Sometimes there are things we are compelled to do just because we cant break someone’s heart eventhough we know that’s not we want to do.But at the end of the day we still don’t feel good because we had to ignore something that we wanted. All this could be avoided with mere honesty when asked the favour..but then again how can we break the heart of someone that we care about.By right at the moment we were asked the favour we should’ve contemplated without hesitation if we honestly cared about the person…