Betrayal Requires Expectation

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50 Cent identifies a clean psychological mechanism: you can only feel betrayal when you believed someone owed you something, and you can only feel resentment when you expected assistance. Strip the expectation and the negative emotions lose their fuel entirely. This makes emotional freedom a function of what you expect, not what you actually receive.

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