Trust grows when your partner knows their feelings and well-being matter to you.

Honesty and follow-through help your partner to feel safe counting on you.

Small, everyday gestures of care can matter more than grand romantic displays.

Repair builds trust through empathy, accountability, and meaningful changes in behavior.

What is trust, really?

As a couples therapist, I'd define it as the feeling that your well-being matters to another person, and that this care shows up in their actions.

We can fully trust someone else only when we know, deep down in our core, that how we feel matters to them — that what we need and want matters and will be prioritized by another.

Breaches of trust, such as infidelity, are so damaging because they shake the foundation we stand on. To feel safe, we need to feel that our partner considers us in their actions and takes the impact of their choices on us seriously. When we get the........

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