By Dennis Jaffe — 2018
“To earn trust, money and power aren’t enough; you have to show some concern for others. You can’t buy trust in the supermarket." – His Holiness the Dalai Lama
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It’s become more and more difficult to remain vulnerable, trusting, and open to life in this era of uncertainty, global upheaval, divorce, and disrupted family life.
Research shows that people tend to default to trusting others over distrusting them, believing them over doubting them and going along with someone’s self-presentation rather than embarrassing them by calling them out.
We learned early on that we had no control over her moods or our own rewards or punishment. She was entirely unpredictable.
Have you ever had a gut feeling that told you something was off? Maybe it didn’t make sense and you couldn’t explain it, but you knew within your core that something wasn’t right.
“To thine own self be true.” ~ William Shakespeare
Trust can help bring us closer to other people. Trusting others, such as family members and friends, can reassure us that we’ll be helped when we need it. It’s the foundation of any healthy relationship — including the relationship you have with yourself.
After an unprecedented year of global pain, loss and uncertainty, a new report finds that 2020 marked “an epidemic of misinformation and widespread mistrust of societal institutions and leaders around the world.”
“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” ~ Ernest Hemingway
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If you’re fresh out of a relationship that ended badly, it can feel like your whole dating philosophy needs to be re-vamped if you’re going to try again.
Four steps to restore trust and repair a damaged relationship.