Sarah+Keiser

Trust is important in many relationships such as friendships, dating, marriage, business and family. To maintain these relationships, trust I often needed. Anytime someone doesn’t believe you or a certain situation, it’s because you don’t have all of their trust, or you lost their trust. You can always build trust in relationships by being honest and improving your social skills and the way you act. I believe trust is important in relationships, family and leadership, because it can bring out the best in people. Having trust in relationships is also important because when you’re dating someone you want to be honest, respectful and faithful towards you mate. Personally when someone lies to me and I find out, they lose a little bit of my trust towards them. In that case I feel like that person should earn my trust back and just be honest. I don’t think it’s possible to have a relationship without trust, because it causes arguments and problems with couples. Family always comes first, even before friends. It’s really important to be able to trust your family and have your family trust you. As a teenager, having your parents trust you is the key to survive in the teenager world. To be able to go out and have fun with your friends your parents have to trust you and respect you. In return if they don’t want you going out, it’s probably for the best to keep you safe and or out of trouble. I remember one time I lied to my mom about going shopping around town. Instead I was driving to Midland with 2 friends knowing I was breaking two of her rules. One, having more than one person in the car. Two, driving out of town. I was almost there, then out of nowhere a wire from one of the electric poles had come off and hit my car and then car next to me, and also caused a fire on the side of road. Once the police came and called my mom, I had already known that I lost her trust, and some driving privileges. But I also respected her choice in punishment and knew I had to build my trust back up. Leadership impacts others with credibility, leverage and trust. Having credibility and leverage are good characteristics of a leader, because it shows leadership, and shows how reliable you can be as a leader. It is also important to trust a leader, or a follower. Leadership in my eyes is a democracy. In order to have a good relationship with the leader, you need to be able to trust the followers. Although the leader or followers may not choose to trust each other for certain reasons; could cause a conflict. Maria Razumich-zec once said “your reputation and integrity are everything. Follow through on what you say you’re going to do. Your credibility can only be built over time, and it is build from the history of your words and actions. “ That being said, I feel like having trust and being able to trust the ones you love is the key factor to maintain the relationships people have in life. I believe trusting the people around me are important and having the people that love and care about me be able to trust me is also important. Without trust, what kind of relationship is healthy?