Betrayal

We live our lives with a set of assumptions. It’s absolutely necessary for our physical and emotional well-being. These assumptions are also fragile. For some, their core assumptions are broad and delicate. For others, there assumptions are narrow and rigidly defined, but literally everyone has them.

For some people the violation of their assumptions has moved them to end their lives but not everyone self-destructs in the face of betrayal. For those who do not, how is it they recover? What allows recovery from betrayal is learning to avoid broad generalization.

“One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though … betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.” Steven Deitz (American Playwright and Dramatist, b.1958)

“Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.” Arthur Miller (American Playwright, 1915-2005)