Author: Jean Walbridge, ACSW, LCSW

Let’s say for purposes of this discussion that ‘trust’ is believing that somebody or something will meet your expectations. Reasonable trust is then based on realistic expectations. ‘Blind trust’ is a belief that somebody or something will meet your expectations, in the absence of any evidence or in spite of significant evidence to the contrary. An example of ‘blind trust’ would be a husband’s belief that his alcoholic wife will give up drinking based solely on her exhibition of remorse after her repeated binges. Such trust is ‘blind’ to the realities of the other person’s behavior and limitations. When...