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LIFE after BETRAYAL

BEEN LET DOWN?

‘Betrayal in a friendship can take many forms, but it usually involves a breach of trust,’ says positive psychology coach Elle Mace*. Common signs could be:

✢ Sharing confidential information ✢ Breaking a promise ✢ Lying ✢ Stealing or damaging property ✢ Disloyalty ✢ Not being there when needed ✢ Spreading rumours

When you hear the word ‘betrayal’, is infidelity the first thought that comes to mind? That punch-in-the-gut emotional blow when life as you know it changes forever. It’s no wonder – affairs are a lot more common than most of us would like to think. One in five British adults admit to infidelity, while one in three say they have considered it**.

Yet these feelings of betrayal are not always caused by just one catastrophically painful event

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