Money. Babies. STDs. Premeditation. Carelessness. Shame. Self-doubt. Gossip and judgment. The particular person, gender, time, place, social context. If this brief compendium of love’s horror stories shows us anything, it is that while every act of betrayal shares common features, every experience of betrayal is unique. We do no one a service when we reduce affairs to sex and lies, leaving out the many other constitutive elements that create the nuances of the torment and inform the path to healing.
