Betrayal Is Violence By Way of Unreality
When we have been betrayed, one of our first reactions is to lash out in blame. We create a story of good and bad and aim our anger at the one who has caused us pain. With deep resentment, we build a case against them, often with enough evidence to prove we should eliminate them from our life altogether. The word resentment means “to feel again.”
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What happens in the body when someone you trust turns away?
Betrayal is not only about broken promises; it is a nervous system event. The body scrambles to reconcile love and harm arriving in the same breath. Muscles tighten, breath shortens, shame slips in where safety once lived.
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instagram.comThere’s a ghost that haunts you after betrayal…not just their absence, but the loss of the person you were before the blindside.
That version of you who trusted openly, who believed in the safety they created, who built a future on promises that seemed unshakable.
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ginagomez.coinstagram.comShe was open.
Hopeful.
And he taught her again why that’s dangerous.
She wasn’t always like this.
But the moment she let herself feel again, he made her regret it.
So she went numb.
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