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Consider betrayal by an intimate — the sting and shock and stabbing hurt of it can easily convince us that we’ve been abandoned. We’re so overwhelmed with pain that we permit ourselves to be governed by the thoughts that arise from and reinforce it, thereby losing ourselves in the darkly compelling dramatics of betrayal. However, given that betrayal is often inevitable — and perhaps even necessary, in ways usually not obvious at the time — we would be wise not to attempt to minimize the possibility of its occurrence through avoiding real intimacy. We can use the very wound of betrayal, the cut and burn and violence of it, to widen and deepen our receptivity to that which can never abandon us.

-- Robert Augustus Masters