I had a nightmare again last night. The theme this night centered around betrayal.

How do you deal with feeling betrayed?

Moving on seems the only sane thing to do. It's hard though, because you want to feel, at least, that the person who betrayed you knows that they have hurt you. You want it to matter to them. But if you focus on that, if you spend energy dwelling on what they have done that was unjust or unkind, wishing they noticed or cared, then you never move on. You get caught up in your own little personal hell. Worse, it becomes more of your own making than theirs. They carry on as they would anyhow, seemingly impervious.

Brutus and Judas Iscariot both showed guilt, compassion, and sorrow after their crimes of betrayal, but these are highly dramatized characters painted in an ideal light. I cannot assume that they have any real bearing on the smaller interactions of people like you and I. It is unfounded for me to presume that, for simply having hurt me, anyone would feel the same sort of guilt and sorrow.