Forgiveness and trust

United States
October 18, 2008 1:05pm CST
What do you think the differance is between trust and forgiveness? How long after you forgive someone do you start to trust them.
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4 responses
@joy4you (641)
• India
22 Oct 08
Trust is your belief in someone and forgiveness is deciding to forget an event a person might have done to break your trust. If I do forgive someone, it is very difficult to start trusting them again, a lot depends on what they have done but what is even more important is what they do after I forgive them. Sometimes people think that when they are forgiven everything is fine and back to normal then they go back to doing the same mistakes all over again, they do not realize that it now requires even more effort to rebuild the trust in the relationship.
• Philippines
19 Oct 08
Forgiveness will not work or be recognizable as such without trust. Trust will not work or be recognizable as such if it is limited by rationality....if the only times you can trust are times when you have a reason or justification.Therefore, forgiveness will not work if the only times I can forgive (myself or others) are times when there is a reason or justification to do so.. I believe that forgiveness is a choice.Trust is also something that you decide you either will or wont trust them again.It will took a very long time to earn a trust again.. the trust is shattered so he has to earn it back...
@shell94 (990)
• Canada
19 Oct 08
Trust is an expected part of a relationship. There are situations where errrors on either part occur. Forgiveness is the easy part..forgetting is not near as easy. After numerous situations ..it can kill a relationship...but if you maintain an open line of communication..things might be ok.
@oderog (731)
• Kenya
18 Oct 08
This is a very interesting question, to me trust is where you believe and have faith in somebody, such that whatever this person does you do question. You can only trust somebody that you his or her own characters, and more the people you can trust most are your friends who always believes in you in everything you do. Forgiveness on the other hand is whereby you are ready to let go of somebody mistake on you, to forgive do not mean that you trust that person, you can forgive somebody you do not trust at all.