Perhaps I should not answer to your post, because I think I'm the most untrusting person in the planet. To the point I'm risking becoming a "ruminating misanthrope", or something like that.

But maybe I can offer you this: people who betrayed me in the past, they belong to my past. It still hurts and I just can't let it go, but I try not to shift the distrust I feel for the ones who done me wrong onto people who didn't.

Also, I have learned not to expect too much from people, in the first place. The more chips you put into play, the more you risk to lose. We're all human and we're all gonna let someone down at some point.