Personally, I believe Joyce didn’t do anything too huge to call it betrayal, she only states the fact if Buffy can't make the hard decisions Angel has too. Which I thought it was actually positive and I personally believe Buffy would have forgiven her, Joyce has forgiven Buffy for killing Ted she was about to say sorry then suddenly Ted interrupted. She wasn’t being negative like the Mayor towards their relationships I honestly believed in her actions that she actually was helping, and its no evidence that she didn't tell Buffy or is there? Because if not we could assume she told her about the conversations and interaction...

Yeah, but with Buffy that connected to her own experiences and that I thought she mentioned that to shut Xander's hypocrite mouth, lol 


Yeah, I find Joyce gets a lot of negative and I defend her because being a single parent is really hard and I personally thought she did her best and was actually a good mother. The difference is that she was naive within the whole structures of the slayers mythology. How can she know anything about her daughter if the whole slayer mythology is based in secret? So I personally believe that Buffy and Joyce's relationship again was done in a realistic fashion considering the unique, distinctive circumstances.