Trust after trauma

• Card 1

  Trust is often described as a feeling, but it behaves more like a prediction: based on past experience, what is my nervous system expecting from this person? When trust was broken by people who were supposed to be safe, that prediction can tilt toward caution — sometimes for good reason, sometimes long after the original situation has changed.

• Card 2

  This can look like

  • Waiting for the other shoe to drop even when things are going well
  • Testing people, consciously or not, before letting your guard down
  • Trusting quickly and completely, then feeling betrayed by ordinary human imperfection
  • Assuming the worst interpretation of an ambiguous message or silence

• Card 3

  If you want to explore how these patterns tend to cluster and why, the Attachment Styles module looks at this in far more depth — this section focuses on relationships more broadly.

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