Posted by Honore on April 6, 2007, at 20:10:18
In reply to Re: How do I know when to trust someone?, posted by Cynthia_Greene on April 2, 2007, at 11:47:38
If you think that he was "completely honest" with you and "had nothing to hide"-- you've answered your own question.
Your intuition seems pretty clearly to me to be telling you to trust the guy.
What do you doubt? or why?
What would be his motive for telling you things that aren't true? how could you feel so comfortable with him, unless your intuition (which is basically your gut reaction, not any special faculty) told you that he was trustworthy. Comfortableness and trust are very close together.
Could he change his mind?; could you change your mind? could something happen that would cause things not to work out? yeah-- it could.
Can you know that in advance? Basically you have to let things evolve, without being able to control or even necessarily foresee how they'll unfold.
You pretty much have to go with what you feel and what makes sense now.
If something doesn't make sense, then I guess all you can do is try to make sense of what it might signify (sometimes nothing, sometimes something).
Life is awfully hard to predict, which is good and bad-- both. Sometimes that makes it harder, though-- when you really really wish you knew what to expect.
Honore
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