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Hi, everyone. It is my pleasure to speak with you about something that I think affects almost everyone,

if not everyone. And I'm going to be talking about this issue of trust in two different sections.

This first part is going to be about what trust is and how you can discern, how you can

decipher, how you can tell if a situation isn't one that deserves your trust. and if a person isn't one who deserves your trust.

Now, what makes me qualified to talk about this is for the last 30-some-odd years,

I've been working with people who have gotten ensnared in cults in groups that were deceptive,

that promised them things, and they never had any intention of delivering on those promises.

They just needed to get people to be devoted to make sacrifices, to just sort of build their

member base, and just be counted as a number and be someone who just

fed the ego of the person in charge or helped to do free labor for them. I also work with people

who have been involved in relationships where the person was a manipulator, the person was a malignant narcissist, the person pretended to be something that they weren't, and that people in those relationships often deal with so much gaslighting.

They deal with so many things that make them wonder why they ever trusted this person or if they could ever trust someone again.

So let's start with this. And then the second part is going to be about what is trustworthy in another person, what you can look for to see if you can trust someone and what you can do to make

sure that you trust yourself. A lot of people don't necessarily trust themselves to be trustworthy.

They don't trust themselves in a relationship. They don't trust themselves to be honest.

They also don't trust themselves to be honest. They also don't trust themselves

to make a good judgment call about somebody else and about a situation. So they feel that

they've been possibly duped before they've been lied to. They've been deceived. And it took

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