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Subject: Rebuilding Trust
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bruefer User is Offline
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02/14/2007 8:38 PM Alert 
 

Through my years attending Al-Anon meetings I learned what detachment meant. 

But I don't recall anyone talking about how any of us regain or re-establish trust!  I have worked all 12 steps a couple of times, thought I was cured, and only to find that I wasn't any closer to trsusting anyone not even MYSELF.

How do we rebuild trust?

 

Carol User is Offline
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02/14/2007 8:39 PM Alert 
 

Hi Bruefer --

I'm an alcoholic, and I hurt my husband deeply when I hit bottom -- in my delusional state, I accused him of being part of a conspiracy to prove I was crasy, told him I didn't love him, etc., etc.  It took some time for him to learn to trust me again, and to stop worrying that I would go off the deep end again.  It also took time for me to trust myself again -- but after being in stituations where I had the opportunity to drink but didn't, I learned that I could survive.

Sometimes the only way to regain others' trust is just to stay sober, and live the Steps.

Trusting other people in my life works much the same way -- it takes time, and I rely heavily on my HP.  When something or someone feels "wrong", it probably is.  I also have to take a look at myself and determine what in me is causing this feeling -- is it because of a prior experience that I had with this person or someone like them?  Am I judging?  Are they simply showing my character defects?  Am I expecting too much of them?

Don't know if this helps, just my experience.

 


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02/14/2007 8:41 PM Alert 

 

I think trust showed up in my life when I learned to forgive. 

Starting with me. Letting myself off the hook for all I had done, real or imagined to myself first, then anyone else.  If I can forgive Me, I can trust you, because you are one of God's kids too.  Not always making the right choises, I get to "live and let live" today.

I get to "understand, rather than being understood".  What I do undertand today is if you show me I cannot trust you, where am I not feeling trustworthy in me?

It's an inside job!  My world is the outpicturing of my own thoughts. 

lovlee


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02/14/2007 8:43 PM Alert 
 

good question and good replies.

my family slowly learned to trust me again when I just did what I was supossed to do and kept doing it.It took time.It can be destroyed easy.

To leart to trust others I just had to start trusting them,and let the results speak for themselves

tks, Have a good day

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