How to trust someone again?

How to trust someone again: It might sound counterintuitive, but the healing process begins with your actions. It hardly depends on how the person who hurt you apologizes for their betrayal. The real healing begins when you decide not to be limited by the pain of their betrayal, and you take another chance. In this article, we will share a few tips that will help you to trust someone again.

How to trust someone again:

If someone has gained your trust and then broken it, you might doubt if it is even possible to rebuild a trusting relationship with them. The short answer to such a question is, it depends. 

It is true that with some people, choosing to trust them again is just putting yourself up for disappointment.

Give yourself time to grieve and express your emotions

Everyone requires time to grieve what they thought they had someone who abandoned them. Don’t try to skip the grieving process, even if you think you do not know how to grieve and you would rather just walk away without looking back. Do not fool yourself of the chance to grieve.

Even if you tend to save the relationship, you need to acknowledge what the disloyalty did to you. Admit it to or the buried pain will damage whatever you try to create on the ruins.

Trust your intuitions

If someone broke your trust does not mean you failed to see it coming or that you should start having self-doubts about your intuitions. It is too effortless to brush off those warnings, but that does not mean you should accuse yourself. You are not the one who fooled yourself. When you give yourself time to recollect memories of the relationship, you are likely to see signs you dismissed before.

Forgive yourself and the other person

In any way, this does not mean letting people hurt you again; it means letting their thoughts go off your mind and the pain they have caused, so you can cure and move beyond it.

To move on, you need to forgive those who have hurt you and forgive yourself. But you do not have to be friends or in a relationship with them again. Even if you forgive the one who cheated on you, the relationship does not automatically reset to its initial settings. You don’t need to forget what happened or act as if nothing has changed. Forgiveness simply means you want healing for both of you.

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Communicate with each other

Have open communication and be honest with each other about the words or actions that have broken your trust. Someone who loves and appreciates you will want to know what you are thinking.

Commit to a plan 

Decide on whether and how you will both work to restart the relationship. If the commitment is not mutual, don’t force the relationship to endure.

Do not rush

Do not rush anything. Take your time and do one interaction at a time. Listen to your inner voice, and do not engage in something you are not comfortable with.

Are you ready to trust again?

Learning to trust again is an essential element of your personal growth.

Even if you never use the word, it is too comfortable to identify yourself as the target of the one who hurt you. But victims don’t move on. They stay stuck in the betrayal and keep reminding themselves of it, as though it were the one determining event of their lives.

But remember, you are so much more than that. Being a victim allows you to keep accusing the other person of what you are suffering. But eventually, that tenderness to blame does nothing but hold you back and keep you sad. So, forgive yourself and the other person for the sake of your peace.