Do you think you have any “trust issues” in your relationships? Explain.
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Do you think you have any “trust issues” in your relationships? Explain.
i think if you look up “trust issues” my picture is right there. although i’m also realizing there are a lot of ways i *do* trust w (i am about 90% certain she would never be abusive, and about 99.9% certain she wouldn’t cheat on me, for instance).
i guess i both do and don’t trust her. it’s like i’m always waiting for her to suddenly stop being all nice and i figure she has some kind of ulterior motives for treating me well, so i’m suspicious of it.
that said, i do trust her more than i trust anyone else. definitely more than i trust my therapist because when it comes down to it, my therapist is seeing me for her job, and w is with me for some reason i don’t fully understand, but i can grasp that she’s in it for the long haul. 30 years from now, w will probably still be in my life, and my therapist probably will not be in my life. so i’ve worked way harder at trusting w, because it’ll give better returns in the long run.
Ha! I like your first line Jigsaw. And I agree that with my partner in particular, I trust him in some ways – and in other ways I don’t.
I think at the bottom of it, I don’t believe anyone can be fully trusted, including myself. It’s the truth – everyone will let me down at some point. I will let all my loved ones down at some point too.
Maybe it’s about trusting something else – this whole idea of a “trust issue”. Maybe it’s about what I’m trusting in, or who, or how. ???
Maybe I’m not making any sense at all here! I might have to think about this some more. But maybe what I think trust is, isn’t what it really is. Maybe it’s something different. Cuz trusting someone can’t be about them never hurting me ever in any way. That’s impossible! And would mean everyone has a “trust issue”. ….. it must mean something else.