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Keeping in mind that the idea of trust is it's definition, who do we trust? Our family, our best friend, our significant others? Or is it that there really is no such thing as trust, because once given trust, it is impossible to keep. One lie, one slip, and it's gone. Or does that outline the justice of trust? You trust until given reason not to?

My mother has always told me not to trust anyone. Her father had went as far as saying that you couldn't even trust your own mother. That coming from a man who frequently cheated on his wife. So in her declaration, one's spouse is never to be trusted but always under constant supervision. As my father has told me, you keep a man on a leash, let him wander, but always keep a firm grip and yank always as a reminder that though he has his manhood, it will always be under constant check. Then, while shuffling eggs onto his plate, he turned to my brother and claimed he was to do the same with his wife. As women cannot be trusted either.

So then, at what cost do you go about your life without any concept of trust? Because then everything anyone tells you is just as good a lie until you can justify otherwise. Every time your spouse walks out that front door to go to work you suspect that they are instead meeting someone to screw around with. After all, those that cheat claim that though they do it they don't love their wives or husbands any less. And then life, itself, is under scrutiny because you find it impossible to trust yourself, your instinct.

So upon the suggestion that we should give people trust until they give us reason not to trust them. My father just laughed at me stating that once you give a person an inch, they'll take that yard. So what happened to the short leash? Is it to be shorter than an inch?