Word of Wisdom: Overcoming betrayal
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
When someone we trust betrays us, the feelings can be corrosive and long-lasting. Nini, from Myanmar, found out a year ago that her husband of 20 years had been cheating on her for a decade and had a child with another woman. They are now divorced. He has moved on with his life, but Nini finds it difficult to let go of a deep resentment. She speaks to writer and teacher Gary Zukav, who suggests that feeling her emotional pain in terms of physical sensations could help her let these feelings go.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC World Service. |
| 0:02.2 | I'm Sanasathi and welcome to World of Wisdom, |
| 0:05.7 | where we explore some of the personal issues that life turns up. |
| 0:19.5 | Have you ever been betrayed? |
| 0:21.5 | Seriously betrayed by someone you trusted and loved. |
| 0:25.9 | The feelings aroused can be deeply corrosive on long-lasting. |
| 0:30.9 | You just can't seem to shake them off. |
| 0:34.3 | They seem to color everything you think and everything you do. |
| 0:38.6 | Niini from Myanmar wrote to us about experiencing something like that |
| 0:44.0 | and told us of a situation which we can all feel sympathy for. |
| 0:49.3 | She had a long conversation with Gary Zoukov, |
| 0:52.4 | author of the Universal Human. |
| 0:54.7 | This is a shortened version of a chat that I found to be very meaningful. |
| 0:59.7 | Around a year and a half ago, I found out that my husband, |
| 1:04.1 | of 20 years I've been cheating on for the last 10 years. |
| 1:08.3 | He even had a child with the other woman. |
| 1:11.5 | We divorced now and while he has moved on, |
| 1:16.1 | I find it so difficult to accept the abandonment and the deceit. |
| 1:22.1 | I try to look at the brightest side of things |
| 1:24.9 | where the feeling of resentment and hatred is kind of annoying me from the inside. |
| 1:30.7 | It's like I just can't help ruminate about the past. |
| 1:35.3 | Niini, are you open to looking at your situation from a different perspective? |
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