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A Friend's Betrayal, also released as Stolen Youth, is a 1996 television drama film directed by Christopher Leitch. The film starred Brian Austin Green, Sharon Lawrence, Harley Jane Kozak, and John Getz. The reviewers were mostly positive about Sharon Lawrence's performance.
- Christopher Leitch
- Hal Sitowitz, J. B. White
- Drama
- Overview
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- Go easy on yoursel
- Vent to someone you trus
- Reframe the situatio
- Get some physical activit
- Ask yourself if it was a misunderstandin
- Avoid retaliatin
- Reconsider your standards for friendshi
- Consider forgiving your frien
For many of us, friendship is one of the things that makes life meaningful, which is why it hurts so badly to be betrayed by a friend. It can be hard to make sense of a falling out with someone you trusted: why did they do it? Should you give them a second chance? How can you heal and move beyond what happened? You may be mulling over these questions and more right now, but believe us when we say that finding peace and moving forward is possible. We’ll walk you through how to get over a friend’s betrayal, below.
Take some space away from your friend to heal and collect your thoughts. Engage in hobbies and try talking to trusted loved ones about the situation.
If you decide to try to repair the relationship, let them know they did something that hurt you, and set strong boundaries for the future.
Whether you decide to stay friends or cut them off, try to forgive them—not for their sake, but for your own. It may make it easier to move forward and heal.
Get some distance from your friend and the situation.
If you’re not sure what to do about your friend’s betrayal, take some space from them and do things you enjoy to take your mind off of everything: read, shop, meditate, dance, or play your favorite game. You are more likely to find a worthwhile solution to your problem while doing something you enjoy or having fun. It sounds counter-intuitive, but creative solutions often come out of doing something fun even if is not related to the task at hand.
Whether you played any role in their betrayal or not, it’s not your fault they betrayed you, and you didn’t deserve it. Still, try not to overgeneralize with statements like, “This always happens to me.” Even if it
true, it’s not, and thinking this way can end up making you feel worse.
Talk to someone to get a fresh perspective.
Choose a person whom you trust to talk to about the betrayal. You may want to choose a person who is far removed from the situation to avoid bias or any further conflicts among friends. Venting can help you release your negative emotions about the situation and maybe get some outside perspective.
Consider talking to another friend or a trusted family member, journaling about the situation, or maybe even
about what you’re going through.
Thinking about the incident from another angle may help you heal from it.
You may be swimming in self-doubt or self-blame, or you might be dwelling in negative thoughts about your friend or your worth. This is understandable. Trying to reframe the incident can help you accept what happened and alleviate any guilt or shame you feel about it. Reframing may also help you work toward healing.
For instance, instead of thinking that it's all your fault that your friend betrayed you, try to
maybe you made a mistake, or maybe you trusted the wrong person. You made the best decision that you could at the time, and if you could choose again, you would do it differently.
Exercise can help you process difficult emotions.
Venting isn’t the only way to feel better: go on a walk or a run to release some of those negative feelings and maybe even come to some sort of decision about how to move forward. Exercise can help improve emotional regulation as well as make you feel calmer.
Consider if they didn’t mean to betray you.
It's easy to get upset when you think that someone close to you has betrayed your trust. That being said, it may be worth it to pause and reflect on what happened to be sure that a betrayal has actually taken place. Maybe it was an accident, or your friend didn't realize they had done something wrong.
It’s not easy to do, but ask yourself if you could have made an assumption that led to a misunderstanding.
If you don’t have all the details, try to get a full picture by asking third parties who may know more about what happened for information.
Consider all the information, including your own. If your friend really has done something wrong, have they admitted wrongdoing? Not all guilty people confess, so consider all the evidence, and make a decision about what to do next if a betrayal has occurred.
Consider how your friend feels
Getting revenge may be tempting, but it won't help you heal.
After being hurt by your friend, your impulse might be to hurt them back, maybe by gossiping about them to others or hurling insults at them. Try to pause and take some space to cool down: retaliation may feel good in the moment, but it'll likely make you feel worse in the long run. Even if it doesn't, it's likely to keep you stuck in a cycle of drama with this friend that's sure to make you both miserable.
Think about what you look for and expect from your friends.
Now is a good time to assess what true friendship looks like to you, both in your current friendships and moving forward. What do you look for in your friends? What do you value in your current relationships? This may help you become more discerning in future friendships.
You may value specific traits, like trustworthiness, honesty, or kindness, as well as specific characteristics, like a sense of humor or a shared taste in music.
As you heal from and reflect on what happened with this particular friend, dedicate time to your other relationships. They may help you move forward and remind you you deserve friends you can rely on.
Even if you don’t stay friends, forgiveness may help you heal.
You may or may not receive an apology from the person who has betrayed you. Either way,
may make it easier to move on.
Consider forgiving your friend as a gift to yourself, not as a gift to the friend who betrayed you.
If you forgive, you can let the incident go and move on, even if you and your friend don’t patch things up. Without forgiving, it’s easier to hold a grudge, and months or years later you might still be mad as if the incident just occurred.
Ideally, the friend who betrayed you should offer an apology. However, many times there is no apology, or there’s an insincere apology. So, you may have to work through the forgiveness stage on your own.
This absorbing t.v. movie recounts how an eighteen year old high-school student, and a woman old enough to be his Mum (in fact, his mother's divorced best friend),come to fall in love, and the affair's effect on their friends and family.
A Friend's Betrayal (TV Movie 1996) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Currently you are able to watch "A Friend's Betrayal" streaming on The Roku Channel, Redbox for free with ads. Synopsis Old feelings of betrayal resurface, renewing a bitter rift between two girlfriends when one learns that the other seduced her son
- Paul; Nina Talbert; Gulliver
- Christopher Leitch
- 1996
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Home for her mother's funeral, a New York designer (Sharon Lawrence) begins sleeping with her best friend's (Harley Jane Kozak) 18-year-old son (Brian Austin Green).
- Drama
