You used to trust easy. Someone broke it, and now there's a quiet vetting running on everyone — they just can't see it.
There was a version of you that handed out trust like candy. Then someone took it, used it, and you've been quietly auditing everyone since. You're not closed — you want to trust again, badly — but there's a quiet vetting running in the background of every relationship, and the other person almost never knows they're under it. One late reply, one half-truth, one thing that rhymes with the old betrayal, and the gates slam. The cruel part is that the people most likely to fail your screening are the ones who'd never have hurt you — they just got punished for someone else's crime.
Get your read — free on iPhoneyou used to trust like candy, then someone cashed it in. now there's a quiet vetting running on everyone — and the good ones keep getting sentenced for a stranger's crime.