Anonymous thoughts about trust.
Not extended consciously — built slowly through evidence.
What it means when that evidence is wrong.
The slow project of rebuilding it, especially in yourself.
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Trust is not something you extend consciously. You don't decide, in most cases, to trust someone — it develops slowly, through evidence. Which means when it breaks, it takes more than the relationship down with it. It takes the evidence. The version of events you believed in. The confidence that your read on people was accurate.
Rebuilding trust — in a specific person, in people in general, in yourself — is one of the slower projects. There's no shortcut. And there's very little space to be honest about how hard it is.
Anonymous thoughts about trust posted here are the honest account of where you actually are — not where you're supposed to be in the recovery narrative.