Self-Abandonment - The Betrayal Nobody Talks About Because You Are Doing It to Yourself

Everyone talks about being betrayed by others. The partner who cheated. The friend who lied. The parent who failed to protect.

Everyone talks about being betrayed by others. The partner who cheated. The friend who lied. The parent who failed to protect.

And those betrayals are real - they wound deeply and they deserve to be named.

But there is a betrayal happening simultaneously that nobody names because it is too close, too constant, and too embarrassing to admit: the betrayal of yourself by yourself.

The moment-by-moment abandonment of your own needs, your own truth, your own knowing - in exchange for acceptance, approval, or the simple avoidance of conflict. Self-abandonment is not dramatic.