Trust

Trust feels like something that happens to you. It is more useful to treat it as a grounded assessment with parts you can actually work on: competence (can they do it?), sincerity (do they mean what they say?), and care (are they oriented to my concerns, not only their own?).

When trust breaks, naming which part broke is the whole game. A competence breach is repaired very differently from a sincerity breach. You do not "rebuild trust" in the abstract; you repair the specific pillar that gave way.