Trust is a strong concept that is extremely fragile. When we are young we trust our parents because we aren't able to do things for our selves. Over time that trust grows and gets stronger.
We need trust in order to live and work with others. When meeting new people, we tend to trust them until we learn otherwise. When we get hired, our new employer trust us to get our assignments done.
When trust is broken, it usually doesn't happen over time. Just as we nurtured and grew trust over time, when something betrays that trust, it doesn't collapse immediately. We want to believe that our trust was well placed and what happened was an abberation and if we just give trust another chance, it will come back. Eventually, the trust has been betrayed so many times, it can't recover and is finally broken.
Can it ever recover? For most of us it can but it takes time to be rebuilt. Just like it didn't die over night, it won't come back immediately.
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