The assumption that someone may betray you is especially hard to shed if it has ever happened to you. As an HSP you will be superbly cautious, doubting both others and your own judgment of whom to trust. What I am about to say may sound impossible to accept, but I think it is the goal: You cannot predict or stop the sort of eruptions in a partner’s unconscious that can cause even the seemingly nicest person to suddenly betray you, but to be fair, nor can you completely control your own. This is part of the unpredictability of life and of the human psyche. The worst part of the fear of betrayal
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