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Testing People in Relationships and the Death of Trust

Beloved of God, one of the silent casualties of testing people in relationships is trust. When you constantly test your lover or people around you, your mind becomes a courtroom instead of a place of rest. You begin to relate from suspicion, not faith. Even genuine actions are filtered through doubt, and love is reduced to evidence gathering instead of mutual surrender.

Testing people trains your mind to expect failure. You start watching for mistakes instead of noticing growth. Over time, your heart closes itself, not because people are untrustworthy, but because your attitude has been conditioned to distrust. This mindset does not only affect how you see others, it reshapes how others experience you. People feel examined, not embraced.

On the other side, those being tested unconsciously respond with fear or defensiveness. When someone senses they are always being evaluated, they stop being free. Their attitude shifts from openness to self protection. Trust cannot grow in an atmosphere where love is constantly on trial.

God never designed relationships to thrive on tests. He designed them to grow through truth, communication, and grace. When trust is killed, intimacy dies with it. Love becomes survival, not partnership. “Love believes all things” according to 1 Corinthians 13:7, and belief is impossible where testing has replaced trust.

Assessment
Ask yourself honestly, am I relating to people from faith or from fear?

Prince Victor Matthew 

Hope Expression Values You 

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