A Minute to Myself (193)

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How does someone earn your trust? For you, what does "earn your trust" mean?

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[Geo]

A person earns my trust by being honest, truthful, responsible, and accountable for their own actions. Sounds pretty mundane, I suppose, but it isn't as easy as one might expect. For someone I would potentially be romantically involved with (ha! sorry, that just struck me as suddenly very funny...) I would also look for an openness and a willingness to clearly communicate without playing manipulative games and for an appreciation of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Yes. I said it.

[Liz A.]

Minus the Buffy, Geo summed up my opinion pretty well.

I'll go opposite. I don't trust my mother because she tries to take advantage of everyone, granted sometimes it's subconsciously. Oh, and she treats me like a child, not her child an actual child.

And I don't trust consistently tardy people. It shows a disregard for another person's time and it just sticks in my craw. She does that, too. There may be a correlation...

[Laura of Rebellious Thoughts of a Woman]

Someone earns my trust over time. I guess I'm a quantity person. And only if they consistently show that they respect me and believe in me. And the same I hope I do back to them.

Men, I'm not even going to go there.
Mothers, mine, fortunately, has stood by me.
Tardy people, so true.

[Ricardo]

Someone that is not going to run away hen things get rough for me. too many people have done that in my life and enough of it already.