Trust issues

Let's face it... the last 10 years.... I have had a lot of people make a lot of assumptions of what they thought was going on in my life and how things happened and nothing could be further from the truth.  This last week I had someone that I thought maybe, just maybe a relationship could be "rehabilitated".  It never would be the same, but perhaps it could be redefined.  BUT THEN.....  A statement was made that made everything so clear.  What had been said, what had been assumed, what lies had been told and people had chosen to believe.  

This is a person, or people, that I had done a lot for.  It’s not that I was keeping score, and anyone that really knows me knows that I do not keep score.  I did these things out of love.  The kind of love that a grandmother has for a grandchild, a stepmother has for a stepson(s) or and HIS wife.  Maybe these things were said because they knew that I knew the truth.  I knew their background story because they had lived with me.  They had made my life a living hell while living me and undermining my authority in my own home.   

The thing I have to work on is trusting again.  That is what I am most angry about.  I trusted.  I trusted a lot of people.  I trusted that these people would be there when we needed them and they were not.  It was a hard lesson.  You cannot put your trust in man.  CANNOT.  Not even those that you would call family, they are the first to turn.  God alone.