How to Trust Again After Someone Demolished Your Faith in People

The betrayal did not just break your trust in one person. It broke your trust in the mechanism of trust itself.

The betrayal did not just break your trust in one person. It broke your trust in the mechanism of trust itself.

Before - whatever before means for you - you had the ability to extend yourself toward another human being without calculating the probability of destruction.

You could offer vulnerability without first scanning for exits. This is where it gets interesting.You could let someone close without maintaining a surveillance system in the background.

And then someone took that openness and used it against you. They found the tender place you showed them and they drove a knife into it. And now the openness is gone. Not damaged. Gone.