I
can remember one specific situation where I completely lost trust in one of my
good high school friends. I trusted him with a very important secret and he
ended up telling everyone. It wasn’t a big deal now looking back, but at the
time it was really important to me. I was really mad at him for the longest
time because I really felt like I could tell him anything and he would keep it
a secret. After a while of frustration and resentment I finally realized that
the secret was really not that big of a deal. We talked about it and he apologized
which was important to me. It took a little bit of time for him to get my trust
back but eventually I forgot about it and we became good friends again. I
realized that holding the grudge was not getting us anywhere and I wanted to be
friends again. I am glad we worked it out and my trust with him has definitely
been restored.
Hello D. Slaton 20,
ReplyDeleteI sort of had the same situation as you did. I had a friend from high school say bad things about me behind my back to people. The things he was saying were totally false and I could not understand why he was spreading rumors. I was extremely hurt because I felt so betrayed because I considered this person to be a really good friend of mine. After a while of not talking to each other he called me and apologized for spreading rumors. Just like you, it was difficult for him to gain my full trust, but after a while I let it go and we were really good friends again. We put everything in the past and our relationship is better than it was before. Overall, I thought this was a very good post that you wrote. We had a similar story so it was interesting to see what you did and how you delt with a trust issue.