As soon as we trust someone, a conditioned response arises.

Trusting may evoke unconscious fears, hand-me-downs from the past when we had trusted someone but then were deceived.

A trust issue always lurks beneath a communication difficulty.

The ability to hear someone is really about trust, not simply about communication.

Trust is the assured reliance on another's integrity.

People with a long history of betrayals of trust tend not to be trustworthy.

Trust then can be defined as what happens in us in response to evidence that a commitment has been made to us.

Our motivation for wanting a relationship of mutual trust is the cultivation of a more intimate bond between us.

We trust his or her good intentions, though we know we might be hurt by the way circumstances play out between us.

Trust in someone means that we no longer have to protect ourselves.