Definition Essay On Trust

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Kallie Stovall
Mrs. Pierce
English 1113
21 October 2014

Trust

Trust, what is trust? Why do we require trust in our lives today? Did trust come from nature or was it by nurture? As the Reviews in History tells its readers, “Trust is one of the most pervasive – and perhaps for that reason least noticed – aspects of social life. We need it in order to live at all.” (2) The definition of trust is to be able to depend on that person day-to-day, knowing that they will not let you down. Whoever you trust needs to be able to meet your needs sufficiently. That person also needs to be dependable. We need to trust people today so we can be able to have the courage to love people with the expectation of that love being reciprocated. Life without …show more content…

As Catherine Morris states in her article, Building Bridges to Healthy Relationships, “Trust means that you have placed your confidence and faith in you partner, and that you expect honesty, integrity, loyalty, and respect to be at the center of your relationship. You also expect you partner to keep promises and confidences, and stay with you when the going gets tough.”(1) Humans require trust in relationships like car needs gas to run on. A relationship, most of the time, is established by a trust affiliation. When a man and a woman come together and start confabulating, they most likely form a trust affiliation between each other before they officially start actually going steady. A trust affiliation in a relationship, whether it is a friendship or a relationship between a man and a woman, is there to have a standing ground point. Sometimes we do not trust our boyfriends or girlfriends because of the things that have happened in our past relationships. If something were to go wrong in the relationship like being deceitful or dishonest it would all come down to trust to work everything out. One would trust a person with their life and they threw it all away because they did something to break that trust affiliation between …show more content…

Trust begins at birth. An infant trust someone is going to feed it to survive. Nature say trust is enlightening oneself from self-experiences. If you leave an infant to depend on nature chances are that the infant will not form an affiliation with its caregiver. A person’s trust does not come from someone educating them how to trust a person; they just were informed to do it. Back in the past centuries if people did not have trust they would not have let anyone modify the rules of the country. For mankind to be able to modify the rules of the country people had to be on their side or nothing would be like it is today. We would not have our divergent states, our president, or the constitution we go by as of the present day we are in currently. So trust had to be a major thing back then or most establishments would not have come

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