When someone we are close to breaks an agreement with us, it can feel as if our trust has completely crumbled – especially if it was hard for us to build that sense of trust in the first place. For example, it can be extremely difficult to build trust in a new relationship or friendship, but when our walls are finally down, we hope that our counterpart won’t do anything to make us regret our decision.

Inevitably, something will happen that causes us to doubt our trust. Sometimes, the incident is small, or in our heads. In other cases, our counterpart may do something rash that causes us to rethink our entire relationship. This is where our trust begins to falter.

If we truly feel like the relationship we’ve built with our counterpart is worthwhile, we will try to put aside what they have done to make us feel small. It is not reasonable to say we are going to forget, but if our counterpart is willing to put in the necessary effort to grow, then we must try to find it within ourselves to forgive.

All in all, trust is a valuable promise – we mustn’t break it, and we must be patient with one another.