Trusting People After What You Have Been Through

A lot of people struggle with trusting others after coming out of a narcissistic or unhealthy relationship. When leaving these relationships, you may experience anxiety, stress, and low self esteem, because you have dealt with abuse for a period of time and it’s hindering you from having a healthy view of yourself.

Prior to entering into this relationship, you probably didn’t have the healthiest view of yourself to begin with, so this person really just reinforced the things you were already carrying around with you before this relationship.

When a relationship ends, there are things that have happened that we keep within ourselves and never heal. We bring these things into our next relationship with us. One thing most people struggle with coming out of their relationships is trusting other people.

This relationship wasn’t healthy and chances are there was some verbal abuse, gaslighting, betrayal or maybe abandonment that caused red flags to come up. You learned through example that people cannot be trusted. When you go through unhealthy relationships, you go through trauma. You will have post traumatic stress disorder and it will stay with you unless you heal that wound.

Something to remember is that one of the biggest things that happened in this unhealthy relationship is that you…