Comments on: Improve Trust in Your Relationship with 5 steps. https://thyblackman.com/2018/01/14/improve-trust-in-your-relationship-with-5-steps/ Black News 24/7 Online for the Black Community. Fri, 26 Jan 2018 19:57:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: M Anthony https://thyblackman.com/2018/01/14/improve-trust-in-your-relationship-with-5-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-278145 Fri, 26 Jan 2018 19:57:58 +0000 http://thyblackman.com/?p=73590#comment-278145 As a marriage, family and relationship counselor, I must comment. Before you can improve trust, you must obviously find out why there is distrust. Is the distrust warranted and legitimate or is it because the distrusting partner has paranoia, phobias and trust issues from the past but unrelated to his/her current partner?

That is what the distrusting partner has to answer up front. It the other person doing things that would make a normal, reasonable person distrust him or her? Some things are personal, even in a marriage. However there is a difference between what is personal and what is kept secret and why.

Any wife or husband should be able to look through their spouses cell phone, text messages and emails. However that does not mean they have to. The spouse should have no problem with it if he/she is not hiding anything. And the spouse wanting to look should recognize and respect privacy. No this is not a contradiction.

Some people lack trust because they have been betrayed by others in the past. Or even because they have seen their parents, other relatives and friends be betrayed. None of these are good reasons to distrust your partner.

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