Trust is the confidence which makes a person to rely on what has been promised by another person.

Trust is believing that the person who is trusted will do what is expected.

Trust always starts in the family and grows to others. 
 

To believe that what one has been said to be true, to have faith and confidence that the one who has promised will do or fulfil what he promised.

: Belief that someone or something is reliable, good, honest, effective, etc.
: an arrangement in which someone’s property or money is legally held or managed by someone else or by an organization (such as a bank) for usually a set period of time.
 

2: a :  assured reliance on the character, ability, strength, or truth of someone or something.
b :  one in which confidence is placed, the emotional act which could lead to the organised act of cooperating.

“He has learnt how to trust because he grew up in a family with a father and mother that reflected an institutional marriage which practiced the principles of mutual respect, team work, tolerance, honest and the love of God”.

On a psychological level:

Trust is an emotional status which is nurtured and cultivated by positive experiences which have occurred in one’s life. 

People who have grown up in environments where morality, being the good moral values of (integrity, mutual respect, honest, fairness, unity, collaboration, team work) are practised, such people are likely to find it easy to trust.

But the contrary is also true; 

Those people who have grown up in societies where immorality (violence, deception, hate, antisemitism, jealousy, abuse, drag addiction, competition, sexual immorality, love of money, human trafficking, prostitution, etc) is taking place, such people will find it hard to trust, because of the negative influence of fearing to be victimised by the weaknesses of their surrounding.

There is a hidden expectation (an expectation that is not obvious), which is always expected of the person who is trusted or being tested through the process of trust.

The trusted person; The person must posses the capacity of being able to cooperate, to handle the trust given unto him/her with an attitude of mutual respect, and transparency.

Things to avoid: A void the negative influence of attention seeking, love of money, and love of power from turning one’s heart into someone who is unfaithful. 

The trusted person must also be able to return the honour back to the one who is doing the act of giving through the attribute of trust.

 
Article written by Ap Ngabo Alex Flimpoman.