TRUST BREAKER IN YOUR MARRIAGE

What exactly is trust in your marriage?
Trust is built upon the knowledge and belief that your spouse loves you and that he or she is concerned over your total well-being and that he or she will always act with your best interest at heart. It also means that you can trust your spouse to keep his or her promises and will meet your expectations of each other as best as humanly possible. Trust must be the foundation of your marriage that makes you feel safe and secure and that will also allow spouses to be totally honest and vulnerable with each other. Your marriage must be the ultimate "safe place" for spouses to be totally honest and vulnerable.

Big trust breakers are:

• untruthfulness
• unfaithfulness
• unlawfulness
• failure to communicate

These are the "big" things that will break the trust and will immediately create a crisis in your marriage that you will need to deal with it immediately to save your marriage

But today I am looking at some "smaller" things that will break the trust. Trust is one of the core values in your marriage. There are some spouses that think if they can avoid the "big trust breakers" that their marriage will be fine. This is not true. Every husband and wife makes mistakes and if this continues by doing the same "small trust breakers" over and over the marriage will slowly erode with time.

Small trust breakers are:

1. When You are always late:
   To be on time let your spouse know that he or she can rely on you. This knowledge is an essential part of building trust. While this aspect can be very challenging for some people as it may be part of a more laid-back personality, it is something that you can work on. If you are never on time, not sending messages or call when you promised, you are slowly but surely undermining the trust in your marriage.

2. When You lack self-awareness
   You don't really know yourself. You may say, I am a very nice person but in fact, you are short tempered. You can say; I am a really motived person but it takes you days to start a task that you decide on doing. People saying these things often believed it, but their spouses see it as lying and it makes it hard to trust such a person. Make sure what you think and say of yourself is reflected in your actions. If not admit it and you can set upon a mission to get to know yourself better and work on your weaknesses.

3. When You do not express your feelings.
   If your spouse shares his or her deepest feelings and thoughts with you and you don't it creates an imbalance of trust. It shows that your spouse really trust you but your failure to do the same say to your spouse I don't trust you in the same way. To learn to share your feelings can take time and work but you can do it and it is not really negotiable. You cant just say that I am not that kind of person. If you keep on hiding your true feelings and thoughts your marriage will not do well and can end up in divorce.

4. When You are over critical and negative
   Critical and negative people are not easy to confide in and you will have to get rid of this very damaging character trait if you want to have a successful and loving marriage. If you are constantly critising and being negative your spouse will stop telling you things because he or she will be afraid to be judged by you. So it will lead to a breakdown in communication.

5. When You have a bad temperament
   If you are a person with a bad temper, you are breaking the trust in your marriage. Your spouse will start keeping secrets from you and avoiding doing things that he or she might think will set off your temper. This is very bad for your spouse as your temper force your spouse to not be totally honest in order to protect and keep her or him safe from your anger. It also has a very negative impact on conflict resolution in your marriage as conflict is avoided because your spouse is afraid that you will get angry. This is not a healthy situation when all conflicts are just buried and no resolutions is find.

These are the few "little trust breaker" I will be sharing with you. I will be here again next week.