Walking on broken glass

what do you do with shattered trust?

When someone breaks our trust, does it ever get put back together? My wife and I have discussed this a lot in recent weeks. She is naturally gifted at discerning others’ motives, while I tend to trust more easily.

If you’re reading this, someone has broken your trust. It’s unavoidable. It could be a significant other, a classmate, a coworker, a business partner, a boss—the list goes on. Broken trust spawns strong emotions, doesn’t it? Even with events that happened long ago, I can get mad again without much effort.

So, how do you live with broken trust? I’ve been deceived before, and I will again. However, I don’t want to be like an egg that hardens as the waters of life boil around me.

Frank Crane said,

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough.

I won’t trust someone once they’ve shown me who they really are. That would be foolish. I could trust in myself. But that’s a lonely place to be. It would feel much like a prison.

I believe we need a few people in our circle of trust. It brings oxygen to our lives. If you don’t have that circle today, I have one idea for you. Become a real friend to others. A friend who listens without expecting anything in return. A friend who makes others feel genuinely seen and heard. I’d rather risk getting burned and living a life of connection than in a hard-boiled shell.

If you took this approach, could your life look different a week, a month, or a year from now? I believe it can.

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