Life As I Know It

Trust is everything in a relationship. It’s what keeps hope alive. It’s what helps you keep holding on to ideals like that it’s okay to put it all on the line. It helps you find this unexplained comfort among you and a person. It’s what helps make sense of things, that voice of reason. It’s this invisible bridge that has to be built, maintained, taken care of, but most of all never taken for granted. Like any bridge, it can take blows. You can hit the median many times but it won’t break to pieces just because. It takes a certain amount of pressure to find its point of weakness before it ever feels like you’ll fall off the edge. A relationship is no different. Most of us are good at taking blows. We don’t fall off our hinges at the sight of a blow. But even when it happens we are quick to re-enforce, re-build, re-structure. We have to. It’s the only thing that keeps us going. That’s not to say that it’s easy, it’s not. It’s work. At times we must put up our “Work ahead” si...