My relationship with trust is… well, complicated, chaotic, and ever-changing! It is also affirming, inspiring, and reassuring! I suppose that takes us back to complicated.
I’ve spent my life vacillating between being too trusting and not trusting at all. Errors in judgment and taking the blame for other people’s actions led me to having less than zero trust in my own judgment. I walked around terrified that if I trusted someone that by definition made them untrustworthy, but if I couldn’t trust them then maybe I should trust them but if I trusted them…. Oh, what a tangled…
