Questions

Trust is the belief in the reliability and truth of another person. It’s how we subjectively measure the integrity and honesty of others — those who can be counted on to do what is right. However, sometimes we aren’t certain who to trust, how much to trust, and when not to trust.

When someone has trust issues, they have an extremely difficult time trusting others — and often because someone has betrayed their trust in the past.

The most painful relationships (both romantic and not) to me is when somebody who once thought very highly of you later changed their opinion. Their reasons may or may not have been justified.

But I think seeing someone who once thought a lot of you change their opinion hurts the most. It usually happens when somebody has an initial false image of who they really think you are.

It’s one thing if you put on a front but quite another if you were being yourself and they had this positive image of you. Sometimes people get very good first impressions if they met you at an ideal moment.