Chapter Six: Post One

1). After reading Chapter 6 in its entirety, answer the following question:  When have you ever lost trust in someone?  How did you react to the loss of trust?  How was the trust restored?

I’m sure that in the past I have lost trust in many people for a number of different reasons. However, I never acquired any emotional residues from these breaches of trust (at least for very long) because I was always told by my mother that the only person that I could ever truly trust was her. I’m guessing that this advice probably came from her own experiences with loyalty surrounding other people in her life. Until my mother betrayed my trust, I would have trusted her with anything. I don’t exactly want to get into the semantics of what happened because it was very personal. However, I will say that there was an obvious breach of trust which presented itself in the form of a lie. I felt very betrayed when I realized what had happened and I felt that protecting herself outweighed her commitment to me to be someone that I could always trust. My trust in her has never been fully restored. While she is still my mother and there are things that I am forced to entrust to her, I am often worried that she will break what little trust I have left, again.