Hello again and welcome back to the savvy psychologist. I'm Dr. Ellen Hendrickson and every week I'll help you meet life's challenges with evidence-based research, a sympathetic ear, and zero judgment.

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Trust is so frequently lost and broken,

you'd think some insurance company would have made billions of it by now.

But trust can't be guaranteed.

And once it's gone, especially in a relationship,

it takes lots of time and effort to rebuild.

So listener Kate wrote in and asked how to rebuild trust in a relationship, but she specified that broken trust goes beyond cheating.

And she is right. There are many ways partners betray our trust besides an affair.

It may be relapsing on drugs or alcohol after a promise to stay sober.

It may be letting us down at a time when we were seriously ill, grieving, postpartum, or otherwise vulnerable.

It may be lying about where they're going or who they're with, or it may be hurting us

when they were supposed to protect us. No matter the specifics, but trails of trust shift

your world. As your relationship has grown, the two of you have gotten good at predicting each

other's behavior. You've made mutual plans and goals like

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