14 People Who Faced Betrayals When They Were Not Prepared at All

Betrayal can happen at any moment in life. Sometimes it’s small, like a broken promise, and we move on quickly. But other times, it cuts deep, devastating us and leaving scars that stay with us for a long time. Trust can be fragile, and when it’s broken, it can hurt more than we expect.

• My best friend got pregnant and invited me to her baby shower. I came, but it turned out that my name wasn’t on the guest list. Later, she screamed at me for being a terrible friend who only got her a $90 stroller. That was almost ten years ago. I stopped talking to her, but 5 years ago she sent me an email. It was sent to the trash bin without being opened. © DSC-Fate / Reddit

• My girlfriend cheated on me a week after my grandpa had passed away. She admitted it to me by telling me she was scared that she was pregnant. © leclair63 / Reddit

• I keep trying to be nice to my roommate’s teenage daughter. She’s super awkward and seems lonely because of her parents’ late hours. But every time I reach out to her, she lies about me. I feel so stupid and naive.
  This has happened about 5 times in 3 years. I’m flabbergasted by the betrayal. Everyone thinks she’s super nice and innocent, but my friend Sanford says, “You’re the idiot to keep falling for it.” He’s right. © moonkittiecat / Reddit

• It’s my birthday tomorrow, and my parents have left to go watch my sister play softball in another state instead of celebrating it. © sachipyon / Reddit

• I had a very good friend of seven years tell me she needed help making rent because she lost her job. I lent her a fair amount of money, only to find out a month or two later that she was out partying on yachts in Spain (we live in the US) shortly after I gave her the money. I’m not on social media, but a friend of mine showed me her Instagram posts when I told him about the situation. © FrenchBowler / Reddit

• My girlfriend told me she’d never replace me with one of our mutual friends. I wasn’t sure about it, but it didn’t seem like she wanted to lose me, so I believed her. Even though I started to see that the only person I ever fell in love with and wanted to marry was losing interest in me.
  She broke up with me, saying she doesn’t feel that way anymore. My friend working with her said he couldn’t believe how carelessly she acted the same day she dumped me. © bartekbf10 / Reddit

• My wife spent 3.5 years sending naked pictures to her ex-boyfriend while also leaving encoded messages around the house, like password reminders, about how she loved this other dude from her past. All the while I was helping her through massive medical issues. © Unknown author / Reddit

• When I was 17, my dad died, and my stepmom put everything I owned in trash bags on the curb, changed the locks, and kept every picture I ever had of my dad and me. © faileybee / Reddit

• My best friend got sick, and several others and I dropped everything to help care for him. I’m talking, like, I left my dream to come home and help manage his recovery.
  As soon as he’s better, he throws all of us under the bus. Acts like we exist solely to prop him up and just expects us to do whatever he wants. He ended up ghosting the whole crew. © Unknown author / Reddit

• My ex fiancee cheated on me a lot, and I didn’t find out about it for a year after she dumped me for a guy she was cheating with. Even worse, apparently everyone knew about it, and no one told me. So betrayal all around. © Einteiler / Reddit

• Lied to and cheated on for 6 months. When I confronted her about my suspicions (more than once over those 6 months), she gaslighted me and kept saying I was overreacting. My heart and trust were broken for years over it. © Negation_ / Reddit

• I took my boyfriend to my friend’s wedding. He started cheating on me with a girl from the wedding who sat at our table. I didn’t find out for a couple of months. It turns out I was paying for his train tickets to visit her. © R**hampolicy / Reddit

• A new hire was brought into a former job. My supervisor (a close friend) and I were told she wasn’t replacing us but would assist in tackling the large workload. We were told to onboard her somewhat. Then more. And more.
  Still, we were told we were still slated to be employed. My friend saw his pay and responsibilities cut, and my pay was sometimes completely withheld. We realized that she was replacing us, and we bailed. © hunter15991 / Reddit

• Told my ex-gf that her dog got into her chocolate...5 min later the dog jumps up on the couch with us as we are snuggling watching Netflix and starts digging into the blanket that was on top of us. We lift the blanket and he goes straight into my pocket and pulls out 4 or 5 rochere chocolate wrappers in about half a second. To make things worse, he then jabs at my neck and starts licking chocolate that must’ve dropped onto my shirt collar...my best friend betrayed me that day. © J_Dubya_C / Reddit

Betrayal often hides in small actions that seem harmless at first, but later break our hearts. Like a bride whose groom mocked her on their wedding day, turning a moment of love into pain. Or family fights that start small, but lead to endings no one ever imagined. It’s the unexpected hurt that stays with us the longest.