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Okay, here's a big subject: TRUST

Posted by jo on June 10, 2003 at 22:32:55

A common thread for many exers seems to be lack of trust. (and reasonably so.) I know that I have been on better terms with some before being more forthright with how I believe or live as compared to the perspectives that seem to be the "default" at this board. I have come to terms in many ways with the past compared to where I was at when I first came to post here. I guess the question for me is, once a person becomes somewhat estranged, is there a resistance to fitting in as an exer amongst other exers because of the differences that are actually healthy for people to have?
And do labels stick like they did in the family where a "problem case" was someone that resisted the family default? Or where there are levels of trust like the inner circles of the fam?
I haven't really had anything at all negative said to me recently, but just feel more like a stranger here now. When I was dealing with some of the hard parts of the past, I needed to vent and felt a lot of support here, and then had a hard time to realize the overall categorizations of some groups against others (as far as being exers go). That is much more clear to me now. And comments I took very personally were not meant for me. I would guess that we are all a pretty sensitive lot. I know I am.
I am wondering how others here feel about trusting other exers and making judgements about others based on the limited communications of the written words, sans body language or really knowing the other person. Have others here gone thru similar stages of recovery after the fam?
Anyway, I am glad this site is back up.