After you break someone’s trust, even your truth has to show ID for a while.

Trust works as a shortcut: it lets someone accept what you say without checking. Once it breaks, the shortcut is gone, and every statement, including the entirely honest ones, has to be verified. That period is exhausting and it is not punishment. It is what happens when the shortcut has to be rebuilt from evidence again.

Do not argue that you should be believed, since that argument cannot work from inside. Be boringly consistent about small things instead, for longer than feels necessary. Trust comes back on its own schedule, and pushing it resets the clock.