2. Finding out they’d been lying to you about something significant the entire time. Something that if you’d known the truth about, you’d never have agreed to be with them in the first place. Betrayal hurts. But what hurts even deeper is deliberate deception. Looking back at the history of your relationship and having to question every single moment, every interaction because now you know their persona, who they claimed to be, was a carefully constructed ruse to entrap you. The worst part? It feels impossible to decipher the many lies from the few truths in between.