There’s a very specific kind of imbalance we don’t talk about enough. It doesn’t look like betrayal. It doesn’t sound like conflict. It doesn’t even feel wrong… at first. It feels like closeness. You share more. You show up more. You invest more. And because nothing has technically gone wrong, you assume everything is right. Until one day, something small happens and suddenly it’s obvious. You weren’t in the same relationship. You were just… more committed to it. Chanakya didn’t warn us about broken trust. That’s easy to spot. He warned us about unequal trust - the kind that quietly shifts power without ever announcing it.
