Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
Betrayal does so many different things to people.
Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families.
You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.
There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.
Love is a game in which one always cheats.
To love without criticism is to be betrayed.
People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end - whether we've had direct experience or not - there's part of you that knows there's absolutely no more piercing betrayal. People are undone by it.
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
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