While bed-bound with COVID a few months ago, I binged The Trust on Netflix. (I’m an easy target for reality TV.) And a thought-provoking question came out of it: Are you one who believes that trust must be earned or that trust is only lost?
In other words, do you instinctively begin relationships in doubt or in trust?
One contestant claims that we’re all one or the other, which affects (in a big way) our relationships. I hadn’t before thought of categorizing ourselves as trusters or doubters, but thinking about this dichotomy in the context of making friends intrigues me.
My 11-year-old son, for instance, most definitely begins relationships with trust. His pure instinct that kids are inherently good and kind and worth befriending is one of the things I admire most about him. (It’s also why I’m still slightly concerned that he’d trust a perfect stranger promising puppies, trading cards or video games… but, I digress.)
He recently joined a travel baseball team, which he’s loving. But as I'…
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