One don't feel emotionally exhausted or drained out when a stranger or foe betrays, but when its someone you believed to be a close and trusted person, partner, or spouse, it is especially like dagger hitting your inner soul. It might feel like you were taken advantage of, deceived, humiliated, despised, cheated, or stabbed in the back. Oftentimes it comes with a surprise and becomes painful. We do not expect someone we trust will hurt so badly. So left us with disbelief and unbelievable pain.
 
Love is the basic need of human nature, without it life is disrupted emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and physically. 

Relationships damaged by betrayal affect our lives forever. Anyone who has experienced betrayal in a relationship knows how difficult it is to recover from such an experience. The person you thought you could trust and count on is no longer the person you believed them to be. So you wonder what happened. Were you just wrong about them all along or did something change? Maybe your relationship changed and so did their loyalty to you. Maybe something in either or both of your lives has changed and they became insensitive to you. Or, maybe you both grew apart and in different directions.
 
It is said that there are many reasons for betrayal. But for me it is always considered as BETRAY. Sometimes they are deliberate and intended to hurt others. And at times they are consequences of unintentional choices to harm anyone. Looking out for one’s best interests can cause some people to disregard relationships they once valued. They may feel the relationship is in the way to end and no value attached. Feelings change. With change in feelings it has effect on one’s actions and choices. An individual who feels their needs are not met in a relationship, can simultaneously feel that the relationship is no longer important or worth interesting. Therefore, they might seek to get their needs met elsewhere. This changes commitment towards the relationship. Eventually, it grows apart and opportunities for betrayal emerge.
 
Betrayal is a destructive force that ruins many life. Betrayal changes everything. Relationships and all those affected will never be the same again. The damage done can be irreparable. Lost is Trust and once it was love. Wounds run deep and deeper into the nerves. Anger persists, irritation assists and heart breaks. Self-protective walls are erected. Pain, sorrow, regret is long lasting companion.

Question arises can trust ever be restored?  Wounds would ever heal? Will anger cease or exist? Can hearts be healed? Will this self-protective walls erected ever come down? When this pain will go away?

Betrayal not only changes relationships, it changes individual. Something changes their whole central nervous system. They might find it difficult to trust again. They are more guarded and protective about themselves for fear of being vulnerable again. They might learn to be more discerning and less naïve. Their expectations of others may change. They may reflect on their own role and responsibility in the relationship and what went wrong. They might try to understand, empathize, and forgive and try to grow from the experience and lesson learned from past and from others.
 
The pain of betrayal is very real and has a significant impact on lives of those who experienced it. It is one of those painful experiences in life which teaches its lesson after experience. It has the power to change people’s hearts and lives forever. If one ever faced betrayal, cannot change what happened or the pain go apart. It need time to give away the grief and feel anger. Lots of time required to comfort and encourage soul to be normal and to restore faith. Betrayal hurts and there is no fast and easy way to heal from its aftermaths. It takes a commitment to believe in others again. Relationships do change as a result of betrayal; but ultimately, how it you change matters most.