Love stripped of possession and control, revealing how attachment to outcomes creates the conditions for betrayal and broken trust.
Prema, divine love in the bhakti tradition, teaches that true love must release claims of ownership and certainty. Mirabai's poetry reveals how the deepest betrayals occur when we bind love to expectations—demanding reciprocity, loyalty, exclusivity. By examining prema, we see that affairs and broken trust often stem from loving the idea of the other rather than accepting their full humanity and freedom. When we surrender the fantasy of perfect fidelity, we create space for honest reckoning with desire, disappointment, and the actual complexity of intimate bonds. This doesn't excuse betrayal; rather, it reframes trust as something built on acceptance rather than control, allowing for genuine accountability and repair.
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