Betrayal is definitely a difficult thing to deal with, and yet it is almost impossible for someone to walk through life without being betrayed, multiple times.

The really difficult depressive state to snap out of comes when you find yourself on the receiving end of a series of betrayals by different people and you start thinking that it must be you that are doing something "wrong* and are actively attracting people who will betray you; being the "sucker" or "the gullible one" or simply not having a ""suspicious enough" nature.

And sometimes it is you... in the sense that perhaps you grew up in a difficult family so the underlying psychological dynamic that goes with betrayal feels *familiar,"... not "right" by any means, but familiar, and we often choose things we are familiar with because untested territory is a little frightening.

Thank you for another thoughtful post!

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