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trust is believing in the honesty, integrity, and reliability of someone else. and one can have different levels of trust for different people.. you might trust one person completely and totally, another in one capacity but not another, someone else you might not trust at all. it's a judgement call.

I dont see anything complex about it at all.

Every person has thier own 'definition' of trust. Some people will trust just about anyone. Others take years before you can earn thier trust. Some people forgive easily. Some take a while to earn thier trust back. Others still, once trust is broken, it is never forgiven. SOmetimes trust is a simple matter, other times it's a very complex mechanism.

Trust is in a respect faith. Faith in another person to do something. It is opitomized in the trust of another with your life like a Dr. However it dose not neccisarly have to be about positive curcumstances. I have faith that some people i know will do certain things like cheat at games. I trust that it is what they will do.

The definition of trust is the same to everyone. But how someone earns your trust and how you develop trust for someone is a totally different story.


For me, trust is tied in with hope. It's not that you know that someone will do or not do something, it's that you hope and expect someone to do or not do something.

For example: I have a person I'm involved with exclusively; a boyfriend. I don't assume he won't cheat. I expect him not to because I wouldn't do that to him.

If someone were to ask me, do you think your bf would cheat on you.. I would say, I sure hope not!

I guess to me, trusting isn't saying that you would be gullible and believe anything a person you trust says, or assume that just because you believe in them, that there isn't a possibility. But you would hope they wouldn't do something that they wouldn't want done to themselves.

Trust has a lot to do with confidence in another person's morals and beliefs of what's right. Knowing who they are, how they think, and what they believe. Also it's confidence in how well they know you and how things affect you. And the ultimate factor in trust is having hope that the person is true to what they say, do, and has respect for you and how you feel.

If someone doesn't respect you or how you feel, there can't be trust.

No matter how simple you make it, trust is a complex thing. If it's not earned, you're gullible. You're more likely to get hurt. And even if you do at one time, you will eventually stop trusting easily because of that. It's complex because not everyone is nice, people can be cruel.

1 a: assured reliance on the character, ability, strength, or truth of someone or something b: one in which confidence is placed2 a: dependence on something future or contingent : hope
(from www.m-w.com)

I think trust is an extremely complex concept and that there are many different levels of trust. I trust the person who sits next to me at work to do her job so I can do mine, but I wouldn't trust her with my deepest secrets.

For me, the ultimate level of trust is being able to tell someone everything about yourself and knowing that that person's opinion of you will not change, no matter what you tell him/her. It's a very intimate and powerful feeling to trust someone implicitly, and it takes a lot of hard work and patience to earn and maintain that kind of trust--at least, it does for me.

Some people are more intuitive than I am (in fact, most people are more intuitive than I am), and I have seen that they find it easier to trust people than I do. I think part of the reason is that, if you trust yourself, it is easier to trust others.

Because trust is a word that means one thing, it is easily defined, and not hard to define at that, I assumed that what KamikazeSkies meant by asking us what trust is to us, that he meant how we give trust, how we deal with trust, and how we trust in general. Define what kind of person is someone you trust. Which is why I said what I feel about trust, and how I feel about it, and how I judge who I do or do not give my trust to.

But I totally agree. Trust is something earned, and very easily tarnished. Those who trust too easily, are easily hurt. As any living organism would, we do whatever it takes to keep from being hurt whether it's emotional or physical and to me, trust ties into those basic instincts.