Trust is important in all relationships. A trusting relationship empowers you to be more open and forgiving during difficult times.
Trust in your relationship bond provides a sense of safety and security and encompasses a couple’s integrity and inner strength. When trust is broken in a relationship for whatever reason, the stability of the relationship bond is challenged and recovery can be difficult and painful to repair.
In many relationships, the loss of trust can impact the road to recovery. That is when I advise you to seek professional help to support you during the recovery process.
In the meantime… here are 3 indicators you can look out for when determining if the other person or your partner’s behaviour is worthy of your trust.
Are they?
Considerate:
Is your partner considerate of your thoughts, feelings, wants/needs or wishes?
Or, do they primarily focus on themselves and show little or no interest in your feelings and needs? If this is the case, then this is a danger sign.
Reliable:
Is your partner reliable? Do they follow through on the things they commit to?
Are they consistent with open communication and congruent with their words, actions and behaviours? Do they consistently follow through with their intentions or promises they make to you? And finally, can you trust that when life gets challenging, they are reliably there.
Responsible:
Does your partner take responsibility for their behaviours or actions and own up to accepting the part they play in any misunderstandings, screw-ups or things they say? Do they take accountability for their mistakes and apologise?
These are general indicators that will give you some guidance as to the qualities of trust, and what is needed for all of us to feel comfortable, safe and secure in our relationship. Without trust, our relationship will suffer from a lack of emotional connection and stability.
Take a look at this list and ask yourself… ‘am I honouring myself through my values around trust and am I supporting my relationship with these values or am I sabotaging it’?
