Trust has been the talk of our house­hold lately. It’s not the first, nor the last time it’ll come up. Trust level’s change and those involved change.

J and I have been mar­ried for almost 15 years and we’re deal­ing with trust issues that are not marriage-breaking but still some­thing that needs to be addressed. I’m a firm believer in “fine tun­ing” a mar­riage as you go along. How else do you know you’re meet­ing the needs of your part­ner? You have to take those moments…drown out the busy life you’ve created…look into each oth­ers eyes and ask, “How are we doing?” It’s healthy.

Grem­lin is learn­ing about trust with friends. He’s had the same best bud since 1st grade. Inseparable…until a cute lit­tle 4th grader entered the pic­ture. Grem­lin came home destroyed…“He broke up our friendship…OVER A GIRL!” It was hard not to smile. I explained to him that it was a typ­i­cal thing that both boys and girls go through and his bud will come back. I also explained it wouldn’t be the last time and it might be him next time.

Old­man has turned 13 and is learning…again…the deceit­ful­ness of cer­tain ads online. The adult indus­try is work­ing very hard to make the clean mind very much dirty. As much as we, as par­ents, try hard to pro­tect and edu­cate, God made our boys with rag­ing hor­mones and we’re fight­ing against strong forces. Teens always want more priv­i­leges, and we’re teach­ing Old­man that it only comes with more respon­si­bil­i­ties. And trust.

Trust is a lot like love. We are made to give and receive both. Why let oth­ers who have dis­ap­pointed you steal your abil­ity to con­nect to those that won’t?

“The best way to find out if you can trust some­body is to trust them.” ~Earnest Hemingway

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