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Surviving Betrayal Helps You Grow - 4 Ways to Cope
But it still hurts
Academy awards season is upon us — Oppenheimer was nominated for 13 awards, so we decided to stream it the other night on Amazon.
It’s a remarkable story about the birth of the atomic age, but the real backstory within Oppenheimer was about betrayal.
Betrayal sounds like an archaic term, but most of us have experienced the pain that comes with an unexpected attack to our psyche from someone close.
The act of betrayal may come from a spouse, a lover, sibling, relative, co-worker or a friend. It’s the knife in the back and the venom in the sting.
“To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.” ― Malcolm X
My experience with betrayal happened years ago and it was one of the more excruciating times in my life I have ever encountered.
A group of three friends and I decided to form a company. This company has its ups and downs for about three years, and at the end of those three years things were pretty unstable. The project we had invested those years of our lives into was not well received by our customer base.
Tensions were high and it was time for the yearly employee reviews — we had a…
