You know you’re trusted when people start handing you things: keys, babies, playlists at a party.

Trust announces itself through objects before anyone says a word. Handing something over, especially something that matters or breaks, is a decision made almost unconsciously, and it means a person has concluded you will be careful with what is theirs. The small ones count as much as the large ones.

Watch what you get handed this month, since it is a more accurate reading than anything people tell you directly. Treat each one properly, including the trivial ones. And hand something over yourself occasionally, because trust extended is usually how trust gets started.