do you have faith/trust in your lover/partner ?

January 7, 2007 5:13pm CST
hi everyone do you have faith in your partner do you trust them and believe they will not hurt you, or is it hard for you to trust. me and my partner have a very trusting relationship and thats whats kept us strong it was hard to gain her trust for a very long time as she suffered alot of pain when she was younger after she realised i loved her to bits she slowly gained my trust and for that i would never hurt her ever. personally i think trust does take a very long time to build up in a relationship, some people never trust there partner no matter what you do, it could be because people have very low confidence in themselves or have been hurt in the past, what like to hear your views.
27 responses
@thekiwi (588)
• United States
8 Jan 07
I use to have faith and trust in my fiance' but since he cheated on my 2 years ago, i am just now starting to give him that trust again, but hes been working hard to get it back. I just have no respect for cheaters and think they deserve not to have trust from their partner/lover...
• United States
8 Jan 07
trust is important in any relation otherwise its meaningless and will fail and if no trust from either side no need for this relation
@lauczi (962)
• Poland
8 Jan 07
i dont know what is my situation, my partner hurted me few times as well as i did but none of that was deliberately, and when he does i tell him it is wrong and he stops. sometimes i feel hurt although he didnt hurt me. but i always believe what he says, always trust him even after a lie in 1 minute again i feel i trust him. and that is great. even if he goes with his friends have some fun i know that he's not gonna cheat on me.
• India
8 Jan 07
yes it indeed takes alot of time to develop trust.infact some years altogether.i havebeen in a relationship for almost 3years now and trust built gradually among us.now we trust each other blindly.i have full faith in her.she too have.there are instances of betrayal from others in past but i trust her fully now.yes i was very casual regarding my trust on her but its everything for me because we live apart in different cities and we meet after long times.so trust matters and its just like money which grows with time.thanks
@umavarma1 (926)
• India
8 Jan 07
ofcourse i do trust my lover a lot.afterall trust is the basic n basis for a relationship.what do u say?
@kefkaix (33)
• United States
8 Jan 07
I personally find it very hard to trust people, I feel that everyone really has a motive, but the thing is that I trust my girlfriend more than anyone else. I also really think very negatively of it too, my heart and mind struggle very frequently with this issue. But in the end my heart wins, I love her more than anything else, so I must trust her its just as simple as that.
@ezzrssi (11187)
• Italy
8 Jan 07
yes i do
@Marie2473 (8512)
• Sweden
8 Jan 07
I was badly hurt in a past relation that consisted of abuse, cheating and basically alot of heartbreak so when I met the guy I am with now I had a hard time trusting him and he had a hard time gaining my trust. he worked hard for it , and today, a year late the trust is there and I am happy that he didnĀ“t gave up on me =)
@UcoksBaBa (800)
• Indonesia
8 Jan 07
When I gave the confidant then I will say to him to not treason, if I trusted the sweetheart or my wife then I will say to him "when you betrayed then broken relations that for a long time have been developed by us this" and this natural happened because of many factors that caused him.
8 Jan 07
I have learned to trust my partner. At the moment i trust him completely and know that everything he does is for my benefit. But i didn't always see it that way. It took a pretty big row and the threat of breaking up to get me to see that he is doing all that he can. It's hard to admit to yourself that you are the only problem. But i had been hurt in the past. I'll never use that as an excuse again. I have the most wonderful guy and now, i know it.
• India
8 Jan 07
yes i have full faith on my fiance. he is blindly in love with me! he is just so caring,understanding and loving and i can feel his love in each and every moment! he has made me understand the meaning of true love and the importance of life. he has taught me how to be happy and make others happy. he has filled my life with joy and colours. he has made me feel special. he pampers me like anything! he treats me like a baby. i love him alot.
@coldmoon (1088)
• France
8 Jan 07
When you're in love, you'll never be in full possession. So it's too silly to have all your faith in your partner. Sometime you have to check out if you're cheated or not. However, I don't think of the faith as high as the forgiveness. If I love someone by all my heart, I don't care if he (or she) hurts me or play tricks on me cos "love means never saying that you're sorry".
• Philippines
8 Jan 07
trust is one of the main factor in order to have a steady or good relationship its true that its really hard to gained specially when its gone but if you love the person i think it will regain not at fast as superman but in time depends on the situation
• United States
8 Jan 07
I think that a lot of people who have trust issues in relationships have jumped into relationships too fast that have failed or not met their expectations. I have always had a lot of male friends. I would date them every so often, just go out, but nothing serious, I liked where I was at. I never felt the need to be with someone constantly or belong to someone. Then finally I met a guy, we became really really good friends, and eventually it lead to a serious dating. There was never a moment I didn't trust him, because we had already built so much from our friendship where we weren't worried about impressing each other. We did break up because we were young and our lives took us in different paths, but it taught me a lot. I then had a lot of friends for awhile, and just went with the flow. I moved back to my hometown after living somewhere else for 2 1/2 yrs and I met a guy at work. We hung out all the time, and talked almost every day. At first he had a girlfriend so it wasn't even a very big attraction between us... we just liked each others personalities. We became the best of friends, and eventually started dating. Now we are married (going on a year next weekend), and I couldn't be happier. I trust my husband 100%. He isn't perfect, and he has messed up here and there, and even lied once or twice, but he can't keep it a lie, and always comes out and tells me, and they are never anything serious. But I think that if you don't have a friendship first it can really hinder the trust part of the relationship, because you don't really know what is driving you to be together, and what is true or what is just being said to make the relationship last. I think if you can build a very solid friendship with someone first and learn to trust others (as well as yourself! you can't be lying to them and expecting them to be honest with you!) then you should have no problems having a very fulfilling relationship complete with trust and everything else!
@jewel76 (2305)
• Canada
8 Jan 07
I do, although sometimes my mind tends to wander...like if he chats on the internet for too long, i get worried it's with some woman (it's already happened in the past, that's why) but most of the time i trust him completely. He never goes out without me, so why would i not trust him?
@kittu007 (946)
• United States
8 Jan 07
What you told is absolutely correct buddy.I agree with you.I have complete trust in my friend.So I usually take his decision before doing anything
@dawnee (8)
• United States
8 Jan 07
Trust is a big part of the relationship
@MissGia (955)
• United States
8 Jan 07
I have trust issues from my last serious relationship..i was cheated on so it still kind of stays with me. I am dating a man who is older than me..he has children and he wants to settle down. It's been three months and he still treats me the way he does when we started dating and says that he loves me very much, and i feel the same. I made it clear to him when we first started dating is that if he ever doesnt wanna be with me anymore, just leave me..break it off..dont cheat on me. He knows i was cheated on and that hurt me very much... but at this point i trust him totally, he has given me no reason not to trust him or love him any less.
@flickz (626)
• Malaysia
8 Jan 07
formely... maybe i love some people... i love so much this person.. but one day.. i fight with her person..the big problem what reason..i don't know.. what i knoe i so agrry with her.. sometime i think i want beat him.. but i don't like to do this .. now...i'm ok.. but i don't trust women now..
@zakhir (50)
• Mauritius
8 Jan 07
I think trust in an inseparable part of love. Love cannot exist without trust. My case is a bit like yours!