What are your thoughts on trust? Do you tend to be one who trusts people easily? Do you go about your life in trust mode when dealing with folk until someone does something to cause you not to trust them? How do you go into relationships? Are you more on the cautious side or more of a open, whatever happens happens type of person when it comes to new relationships?
I tend to be quite trusting almost to the point of Naïveté. Not because I'm naive, but only because I tend to hold people in high regard until they show me another side of them. Perfect example of that is when I first came on this forum and thought highly of some posters until subsequent behavior showed me otherwise. I tend to approach people thinking the best of them. I'm not a cynic and generally try to be friendly, open and helpful to people just because that's just my nature. It takes a lot to rile me and stuff builds but once riled, once trust is broken, disrespect shown, my relationship with that person is irrevocably damaged and things will never be the same. "Once bitten twice shy". Basically I'm like an open gate. People are welcome until they abuse my trust, good will, good nature and then the gate slams shut and will never fully open again. This would be that person's loss. Anyone who really knows me, realizes that mine is a friendship worth nurturing and keeping because it's reciprocal and gives back tenfold and I say that because it's the truth.
I'm beginning to seriously feel as if nobody outside of your own flesh and blood parents and siblings, no matter how close they get to you can be 100% guaranteed not to do something at some point that polks holes in the cloth of trust. What do you think?
I think people are "people' and therefore fallible . I don't expect perfection, just decency for the most part. That said, because I set such store in my character and how I treat people, my standards for how I expect to be treated by the people I call my friends are the same as what I hold for myself. I have different levels of friends: acquaintences, associates, buddies, good friends, close friends, life long friends and ... my older sister.
Is 100% trust possible in the world we live in today?
I don't think there is a such thing as 100% trust. I say trust depends on the situation. Depending on what's at stake there are some people I trust more than others. There is no one blanket trust for everything.
Who do you trust 110% in this world? How would you feel if you found out that trust was broken and that they really weren't worthy of your trust?
I trust my sister 110% in this world however again it depends on the situation. There are some things I'll tell my closest friends that I wouldn't tell my sister. Mainly because I wouldn't want to worry her and I wouldn't want her to change her regard for me. She probably wouldn't so this has more to do with my own ego and lack of trust in her than her capacity for being trustworthy.
Have you ever been betrayed?
Yes I've been betrayed in my intimate relationship with a SO and through a person I considered a friend. (not a close one), but close enough that I was shocked when she let me down in a big way with money, betrayal hurts.
Oh... and you can trust me... I won't tell anyone.
Can I really?
