Establishing trust with your partner is vital for every healthy relationship. That’s because trust intertwines with all the essential components of a relationship, such as honesty, openness, vulnerability, and respect – making it of paramount importance.
Repairing trust is equally demanding, requiring time and dedication from both parties, and can be a lengthy and frustrating journey.
Whether you’re too distrusting, overly trusting, or are afraid to trust, our couples counselling in Newcastle can help you and your partner to build up honesty, trust, and transparency in your relationship.
In this blog, we’ve created a list of ways that may help you to build up trust in your relationship.
Master Effective Communication
The breakdown of a relationship is often traced back to poor communication, where clarity and agreement are lacking.
Good communication includes being clear about what you have or have not committed to and what has been agreed upon – which effectively proves trustworthiness to your partner.
Be Open and Honest
Honesty is the foundation of trust. It’s important to make sure that the messages you convey are truthful, which includes expressing your emotions openly.
Acknowledging your feelings and learning from them will help you to avoid denying reality, and can strengthen the bond of trust.
Practise Reflective Listening
A simple yet powerful technique to build trust is sharing one vulnerable thing with your partner each day. This practice will help you become more comfortable with openness over time, deepening the trust between you.
Additionally, the art of reflective listening plays a vital role in ensuring your partner feels seen and understood. Our couples counselling in Newcastle can help you to learn these vital skills.
Do Things That Require Collaboration
Trust is not a one way street – it should flow both ways. This means that an individual must both be trustworthy in their outward behaviour whilst also working on their inner trust issues.
Collaborative activities and joint efforts create opportunities to build trust, enhancing your connection.
Understand that Trust Can be Regained
When trust is broken within a relationship, it can be difficult to start the rebuilding process – but it is important to remember that it can be done.
Starting with a genuine apology should also be followed up with changed behaviour, giving your partner as much space and time as they need, following their cues and respecting boundaries.
Remember That it Takes Time to Build & Earn Trust
Trust is not something that happens overnight, and building trust is a daily commitment. Start by taking small steps and commitments to grow trust, before making and accepting bigger commitments.
Seek Relationship Counselling
If you are looking for professional help with repairing or building trust, our relationship counselling at Newcastle Psychologist & Counselling can help couples to move forwards together with honesty and transparency.
To access our empathetic services, contact one of our relationship counsellors in Newcastle today by calling call 07966645198, or message us using the form below.
Best wishes,
Dr Stuart Sadler
Lead Clinical Psychologist
