Does trust = love?

If you trust someone does that automatically mean you love them? Or in other words, if you don't trust someone can you love them? Personally, I can love someone I trust, and I can trust someone I love, but is it possible to love someone you don't trust? What about trust someone you don't love?





Is it possible to divorce trust from love? Can you picture loving someone but not trusting them? Is this what happens to victims of abuse (spousal abuse or child abuse) where the victim knows they will be beaten, but they stay with the abuser? What about trusting someone, but not loving them? Is that possible?

Does trust = love?
The only problem with that is if someone you love betrays your trust, if you truly love them, you will give them a chance to redeem themself.
Reply:Trust is a building block of love, but it is not totally dependant on trust, but it helps tremendously. Without at least a degree of trust, love will eventually fade and die. In the case of spousal abuse, I believe, that the abuser doesn't really love the person they are abusing. How can you love someone and then purposely cause them harm? Also just because you trust a person doesn't mean that you love them. I trust my co-workers to do their job, but that doesn't mean I love them for it.
Reply:Trust is more akin to faith. YAHOSHUA is the way, the truth, and the life, and He is love. All these things are connected, but not identical.
Reply:It is hard to love someone you don't trust. But you can still care about that person. You can also trust people that you are not in love with, but caring about someone is a type of love.
Reply:No, they do not equate. You can have either without the other.
Reply:Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. (1 Corinthians 13:4-8)
Reply:To truly trust someone is to love them. I think you are right. Whether it's friend, family, or significant other - the moment you are able to fully trust them then love will exsist.





Without trust you have nothing. How can you respect them if you don't trust them? There is nothing of value in a relationship if there is no trust.





In spousal abuse cases I think there was trust once, maybe in the beginning, but then the trust was broken. They are either too weak, afraid, or naive to realize they will never get this trust back. With child abuse I believe that they are too young to realize the extent of the situation, but later learn to hate their abuser when the reality sinks in. Most children later fight back, and never trust their abusers again. That is the difference. Where spouse's seem to want to remain hopeful that their abuser will eventually change for the better.





So, then yes... trust = love!





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Reply:yes both are possible-they are not mutually exclusive.
Reply:Without trust there is no true love. False love.





yes you can trust someone without love, the kind your talking about .





I trust a few but I love them in a different way .
Reply:Love suffers long, and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.


So I believe you can love someone you don't trust we been doing it for years.