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22 May 2015

Friday question from the Book of Questions What does it take for you to trust someone?

post by: bearwife at: 12:43 | 11 comments

Time.

posted by amro 22 May | 15:58

Good credentials (i.e. someone I trust trusts them) initially, then good experience with them. Trust deepens with time, but it always is interesting to me how one crack shatters it.

posted by bearwife 22 May | 18:18

Stupidly no time at all, I'm pretty gullible in general.

posted by octothorpe 22 May | 19:59

Trust them for what? I don't have a blanket answer to this. I calibrate what people I trust with what, and how much.

posted by Miko 22 May | 21:23

Gut feeling.

posted by brujita 23 May | 00:24

Honesty.

posted by Hugh Janus 23 May | 04:19

I am always giving people the benefit of doubt and trying to see things from their perspective, which has lead me wrong many times. I don't seem to protect my "outer" world.

But that's not been true with my heart which I seem to guard - the only person I truly trusted with my innermost feelings was my husband. And he was the only person I knew who celebrated me for who I am.

posted by mightshould 23 May | 04:54

I tend to trust people until I have a reason not to. Then they're dead to me.

posted by dg 23 May | 17:00

Yes, dg, 'Zackly. That's what I mean when I say one crack shatters.

posted by bearwife 24 May | 23:56

I'll let you know.

posted by Pips 26 May | 12:38

Depends what I'm trusting them with.

posted by Obscure Reference 28 May | 07:58

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