On my media website I wrote about a radio executive who was fired by his best friend since first grade – the godfather to his son and executor of his will.

And the firing was done in an unnecessarily cruel way.

In our quest to be successful and self-fulfilled, we are often making compromises that hurt the ones we love.

It has happened to me, perhaps to you as well.

The feeling of being betrayed by someone so close to you is more than an empty feeling, it is a raw rejection that seemingly never goes away.

I once heard a psychiatrist say that people who have had their heart broken should stop glorifying the person who broke their heart.  It just makes things worse and keeps the pain front and center.

She suggested instead of saying “no one will ever love me like that again” to substitute “he wasn’t that good looking anyway”.

Which prompts the thought that when we are betrayed by a friend, instead of obsessing over the ingratitude of it all, think constantly of someone else in your life who could be called a friend and for whom you are truly grateful.

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