SEC S15W4: "Broken Trust"

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Greetings and welcome to my blog. Today am talking on trust. Everyday we all meet people and have different transactions with them which involves us trusting them in one way or the other. The truth is that we can’t even comfortably relate with people if we don’t trust them.

In my own definition, Trust is that firm believe in someone’s ability to deliver in an aspect of our dealings with them. To trust someone is us saying that someone can be relied on not to fail or disappoint.

Presently in my country is difficult to trust people because of the diverse disappointments people have faced in their business dealings with fellow individuals. Not withstanding all the fraud going on in the country, we all cannot do without trusting. A lot of people don’t trust again in my country but nevertheless to ensure a limit to the losses people have due to insincerity of people in business and relationships, it’s better to ask questions about people before going into any form of partnership with them.

I have had many situations where my trust was broke and I have also had countless of my friends encounter this same situation. Mine was actually a very touching story as the person I looked up to so much and had so much respect for betrayed my trust and said all manner of bad things against me. We were supposed to be friends but this one became a back stabber.

I also had a situation where I went into business with someone I supposed that I trusted. The person scammed me of my money and it was indeed a fatal blow.

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When trust is broken, it can be mended in some ways even though most times this is difficult. There are a couple of things the person who is at fault could do to try and mend the trust which he or she broke and they include;

• Acknowledging that you are wrong sincerely and showing real remorse. Genuinely asking for forgiveness could be a way forward to mending broken trust.

• Taking active and conscious steps to right the wrongs you caused. Let the person know that you are committed to rebuilding the trust you broke through your sincere actions.

• Avoid incidents that would cause a repeat of the actions that led to you betraying the trust bestowed on you.

• Forgiveness on the part of the person who was hurt can help.

• Give a second chance to the airing party is you noticed that he or she is sincerely genuine.

Trust is a very important part of our relationship and we should do all within our capacity not to break the trust we have in our relationship and if we eventually do, we should be genuinely remorseful and seek ways to mend the broken trust.

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