The Mental Emotional Health Blog

Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone. At least, I hope it’s happy for you. If not, then I’ll say Happy Middle-of-February.

 Trust is so important in relationships. When it’s there, relationships have a better chance of being enjoyable and lasting. When trust is not there, or has been betrayed or damaged, the enjoyment and likelihood of a long-term relationship are decreased.

With that in mind, I have developed a series of questions to help you assess and start to repair trust if it has been broken in a relationship you have.

1. How was trust first established in the relationship?
2. How was trust broken or decreased?
3. How did/do past relationships of yours decrease or limit trust in your current relationship?
4. Are both of you willing to re-establish trust in this relationship?
5. What are specific ways or situations that could help to rebuild trust (name 5)?

I hope to provide a separate sheet within the next week that can be downloaded if you wish.

Take care!