Jaylon McKnight
English Composition I
Dr. Swartz
Definition Essay

Trust Issues

It takes one person to break a trust barrier for everyone else in your lifetime. For someone to keep breaking your trust over and over make you not want to trust anyone else. It’s a hard thing trying to overcome trust issues, because you just scared of being hurt again. In this essay I will tell you the definition of trust issues, how it come about, and how it effects people’s lives Trust—the act of placing confidence in someone or something else—is a fundamental human experience, necessary for society to function and for any person to be relatively happy. Without it, fear rules. Trust is not an either/or proposition, but a matter of degree, and certain life experiences can impact a person's ability to trust others. Everyone has uncertainty about whom to trust, how much to trust, when not to trust, and so forth at one time or another. In fact, every day we make choices about whom and how much to trust, and sometimes we are more willing to trust than at other times. That’s a good thing; a total lack of mistrust would indicate a serious psychological problem. Judgments about when and whom to trust help keep us safe and alive! Next how trust issues come about, often, issues with trust arise based on experiences and interactions in the early phases of life, primarily childhood. A person who did not receive adequate nurturing, affection, and acceptance or who was abused, violated, or mistreated as a child will often find difficulty in establishing trust as an adult. Being in relationships and having the other member of the relationship break your barriers of trust over and over. They can start off by lying, sneaking around, being treated wrong. Some people be in bad relationships that they don’t want to go through anything like it again so they don’t trust anyone else, because it’s hard. Trust issues can affect peoples lives. You have lots or situations like this for example, from an article. Elizabeth, 38, continually accuses her