Trust

Relationships are something I've been thinking about a lot lately.

And I've come to a few realizations. I already knew these things, but now I can state them with the surety of experience.

Relationships are built on trust, either the presence or lack of it. Your real best friends are the ones you can trust explicitly.

What is trust built on? Honesty. You can only begin to trust someone after they have proven themselves to be honest with you. But true trust only comes after they have proven themselves to be honest with EVERYONE. Because if they can be dishonest with other people, what is stopping them from being dishonest with you?

A relationship can also be judged by the honesty it inspires in your other relationships. If you have to lie to others about the relationship, then not only is that relationship harming those relationships, but it is building a foundation of dishonesty.