The Importance Of Trust In Relationships

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It is crazy to think that an intangible object can almost define your relationship with someone. A relationship meaning your parents, a sibling, a family member, a good friend, a teacher, a spouse or significant other, or even someone you do not really know. There are a lot of components that go into a good healthy relationship; there is communication, respect, affection, responsibility, and transparency. But there is also something called trust, without it you might as well not have a relationship with that person. If you trust someone you are starting with a good foundation in the relationship. People who trust each other are more likely to have a better relationship than people who do not trust each other. Trust is having confidence in …show more content…
You should always be open and honest with people; you should never hide things that need to be said. Telling a lie is the fastest way to lose someone’s trust. It’s like your best friend sleeping with your boyfriend of two years when you first got together. You find out and it is like your whole world came crashing down at once; the last two years seem like one big lie to you. You do not know who your true friends are because; who you thought was your best friend is now a backstabbing slut, and the love of your life is a sleazing scumbag. Or finding out when you are eighteen that your parents are not your birthparents, you are not in fact biologically related to them. This explains why growing up you never looked like them. If it is not something they told you, and it is something you accidently discovered on your own, they were not honest and hid this huge thing from you for years. Your whole foundation of trust has now been shattered because you were lied to by people who meant the most to you. You trusted that everything these people told you was the truth, if they lied about one thing they could have lied about many things. Lies are not usually things that we mean to reveille and uncover; and with time the truth almost always comes out. And even though you might be afraid to tell someone the truth right then and there because you are afraid of hurting them they will hurt worse in the end knowing that you lied to them. So next time you think about telling a lie think twice about what that person means to

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