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TRUST

301--3rd period

Today we're bringing in the role of trust in the S/M/R paradigm. Why is it important/ How does one gain or lose it? And what happens when it's broken? Discuss.

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401--5th period

Last term we did trust and confronted personal space issues and secrets. Now we're moving on to marketing and public relations...how does a business engender trust? To what end? How do trust and layalty go hand in hand? Discuss.

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Re: 301

[wraithbaitjohn.livejournal.com]

Shep comes in and hands in his pass from last week, asking if there's any work he needs to make up.

During discussion he pipes up with, "Trust is lost when the sender assures the receiver that certain conditions will be met and they aren't. When they say they can/will do something and they don't deliver. It can also be lost when there is an understood message that they will/won't do something. Like sleep with your S.O. or something. They may not have said in so many words, "I'll never sleep with Suzie or Billy," or whoever, but when your friend knows who you're seeing it's kind of expected that they'll respect what that means. You lose your trust in them if they do something they shouldn't have under those circumstances."

"When it's broken, the person has to work far harder to earn it back - if they can - than they did to have to earn it in the first place. Most people are conditioned to trust people until given a good reason not to. But, once trust has been broken, it can never be repaired to like-new condition."