How Trusting Are You?? Has Anything In Your Life Influenced This??

Question

Me, I trust everyone without question. You don't earn my trust, you lose it.

Elaborate if you will please. Thank you.

JIBBA JABBA...I know I shouldn't, but it's just how I am. I've always been that way, and it's never caused me any grief.

Jack D...what happened to the fish avatar? I liked it.

Answer 1

Spooky I have to agree with you. I trust people entirely, until they give me reason not to, and even then I try to understand that reasoning. Sometimes I get called nieve for this. BUt to me I would rather be open to love, and the experience of connecting with others, rather than being closed off. To me what's the point. of living if you dont allow yourself the experience.

Answer 2

Wow thats a little bit to nice of you. Trust everyone with out question. Wow. Well I'll tell ya I could really use some money, I'll pay ya back, I swear.
Some trust is given, most trust like respect is earned.
I am only so trusting, I mostly start someone out small with something that is not to big of a deal. If they brake that trust forget it. The things in my life I would say are mostly people that I thought I could trust, but couldnt: a boyfriend, cheated, a friend, lied or talked about me behind my back. Normal things. Plus hearing other people getting "deputed". Little old women who lose their money to some fake company that somebody told them to invest in. The world has a lot of nice open people, but it too has some very rotten apples. Good luck to you! Oh and dont worry about the cash I'll get it the right way by earning it too.

Answer 3

I trust People to be People. I think that for all the amount I need to trust in an individuals fidelity I'm satisfied with the results. I've seldom been disappointed in someone elses behavior because it invariably reflects their nature, some good; some not so much inclined that way. I would find it difficult to negotiate life the way I do with out continuing to trust in others to a degree, I've not given over to mooning about past transgressions; it colours the next relationship too much with the shadows left over from the past. Forgive, move on; and trust again!!

Answer 4

I think a person used to be able to trust alot more than you can trust today. Things have changed so no, I do not trust until it is proved. I am aware of how much I am tempted to do things I should not and I believe I have a pretty sound background so I think someone who was marginal in the morals department which covers alot of people now days, would not be a good candidate for trust.

Answer 5

I am mistrustful more often than not. I grew up in a small town where my choices of friends were limited. Unfortunately I got stuck with a sociopath. Over the course of our "friendship" she burglarized our home, broke my toys, and tried everything she could think of to humiliate me. All this between the ages of 8-13, mind you.

The up side to this is that I have one hell of a sense of when I'm being manipulated or taken for a ride. And related or not, I have an amazingly keen sense for when I'm in danger. This sense may have been somewhat honed by living in the hood as well.

It may depend on the circumstances, but I think that for the most part I'll give someone the benefit of the doubt but I'm prepared to be disappointed. And I watch carefully.

Answer 6

I have always have given my trust 100%. I get burned 99% of the time. But I still do it.
The only big difference now from when I was younger is that I don't get involved with alot of people now. I keep to myself(out of choice)
I have learned to make my own judgements about people based on what I expirence with them. I don't go by what everyone wlse says.
That works for good and bad but it's the way I chose to be. (one really bad example would be my first husband...he told me not to pay any attention to what other people said about him....in that instance I should have.....)
Current instance..I have recently moved in with my 89yo mother in law. There are 5 kids and I am married to the youngest. My husband adores her....the other kids.....let me tell you...I have had several earfuls about their mother from them......I have my own relationship with this woman.....I have no reason to think anything bad about her and won't unless there is good reason.
I tried to elaborate but I think my thoughts are kind jumbled today.:
I trust everyone without question until they give me reason not to.
But I think a big part of being able to trust everyone at this point in my life has to do with keeping myself isolated. Because I think if I were the type of person who was comfortable around people I don't think I would be able to trust everyone .Like I said my thoughts are jumbled today.

Answer 7

I would consider myself to be a very trusting person.I think it's what makes me a good friend and reliable employee.I've been through a series of depressive episodes(one in which I tried to take my life) and I think it was only because I was so honest that I was saved.I was able to confide in strangers when i felt myself get so low.I eventually went home where I was taken care of.While my family did not really want to tell anyone what happened, I knew I had to.I opened up to my friends and they handled it all very well.I've had these friends for17 years. I'm also trusted to death with a secret.I respect the people that confide in me.

Answer 8

I'd say I'm very trusting. I guess it's because I assume that people are as honest as I am and give them the benefit of the doubt. I am also a pretty good judge of character. ( I think that comes from being burned a few times as well) So I'm not gullible, but I am trusting. hope that made sense? Ive been sick this week and my head is still a little fuzzy :(

Answer 9

I have a hard time trusting anyone. I grew up in a home where emotional honesty/openness was sometimes welcomed, sometimes greeted with rage, and sometimes complete silence, so I completely stopped being open, and was dishonest whenever I felt like honesty would be make myself more vulnerable. I know in my head how harmful (to myself and to the relationships and friendships I am always struggling to have) it is to continue to act in this way is, especially since I am now blessed to have trustworthy people in my life, but it is a h*ll of a habit to get rid of. Whenever I am confronted with an opportunity to trust someone, I completely shut down - I can't think, I can't feel, and I am suddenly exhausted, like I can hardly keep my eyes open. It is hard to see my mother - the rageaholic - struggle with her own inablitity to trust, and it is hard to see my grandmother (my mother's rageaholic) struggle with her panic attacks when she meets strangers or has to leave her house. I am trying so hard to escape this pattern of angry, isolating behavior, but it is an upstream struggle. I don't trust my own emotions enough to feel certain that I will not fly off into a rage, panic attack, or silence so I clamp down on them, futher isolating myself.

It sometimes feels like a tragedy, but it something that I do have some control over - I can try to get better, and I may not suceeed, but I'll be damned if I don't give it my best shot.

Answer 10

I grew up as the bully punching bag in school. It's been hard for me to trust much of anyone espcially when it pertains to friendships.

Luckily, I found a community of geniune people. They've yet to really let me down and have surprised me with just how great freindship can be. They were at the hospital when my son was born, when my own brothers got bored and left. They even brough my wife and I meals for a week and half afterward to aid in our new situation. These are close friends from church.

I originally thought that they were just acting like good, church people, promoting the church, but they've went above and beyond. They've taught me much about love and friendship. We need more of this in our world.

Trust as you would be trusted. Love like you would be loved.