A perspective on love and betrayal using emotional maturity to not suffer additional emotional embezzlement from self-depreciation speculating on fairytales which may have been a wreck avoided.

1. Emotional Embezzlement
The term embezzlement indicates something of a monetary value has been stolen. However,
think of it in terms of something of real value, much greater value, which has been taken or
swindled. Restitution often accompanies a punishment as the penalty but what if what was
embezzled cannot be recovered. What if it was hope, innocence, opportunity, belief, trust, love,
or you fill in the intrinsic blank. The misappropriation in this case would be more of a betrayal of
stipulated or projected expectations which genuine characteristics might be forever diminished
even if recovered.
In the vacuum of time, once violated it is forever lost to that capsule of time. The best that can
thereafter be restored occupies a different time, space, or emotional state even if in the same
period which is an expansion of separation. This larceny is judged by the degree and manner of
execution whether the Brutus or smooth criminal method was employed. Still, is the actual
damage any lesser? We like to pretend it is especially if we are the perpetrators of the larceny. It
somehow makes us feel better in a narcissistic sort of way. Yet still, who among us has not felt
the sting of emotional larceny or hasn’t committed it?
The victimization is always harsher than the commission or we selflessly tell ourselves.
Physically nothing is damaged but the psychological devastation can be unbearable to a
physically sickening degree. This makes it a fraudulent act against our psychological wellbeing
thereby being a thought or perspective of damage. Others may trigger it but we should control
it and not surrender it. So we chase someone down the street to inflict or recover our
victimization eliciting the outrage of everyone who has ever felt the same bitter sting. Everyone
condemns the emotional double cross while we overlook the duality of the triple cross.
The emotional triple cross starts before the cake of emotional immaturity hits the floor or the
guilty verdict is read. Regardless, a comprehensive emotional audit is mandatory to conduct a
systems analysis to prevent a reoccurrence or earlier detection. Not within them but within
ourselves. What about disappointment is so devastating that even revenge will not satisfy the
brokenness of a humpty dumpty fragility to not express or accept the truth either spoken or
demonstrated. The negation of any good or beneficial interaction is replaced by a spectrum
from indignation to revenge.
Inability to accept the truth makes it easier for the truth to be withheld. Be careful not to cheat
your expectations in the process of not cheating someone else’s. That is the issue to be resolved
because that is cruel to them as well as to yourself. Is it better to have loved and lost than never
to have loved at all? Is it better to linger in oblivious bliss than the fairytale spell to have been
broken? Reality is a cold shower only if you prefer to not shower in reality. Could it be there are
times when what someone does may be a result of what we are not doing or refuse to do?
What if what we receive is what we are not doing which negates our complaint of what they are
doing? It is a critical balance where perhaps we would be more accommodating if we were
more accommodated. So, if circumstances doesn’t allow for the truth why would they allow for
a lie? If the lie is unbecoming the truth must be welcomed whether telling it or receiving it. The
inability of either is not an emotional embezzlement. It is an emotional bankruptcy of an
insolvent understanding where the villain or superhero may be hard to distinguish. Lying is a
bad choice but so is refusing the truth whether either to yourself or someone else.