You can mess up in a second and spend a month fixing it. That’s not unfair. That’s just how trust works.

Trust is built slowly and spent quickly, and that lopsidedness is not a punishment. It takes many occasions to show somebody what you are reliably like and one occasion to show them something different, so the repair has to run about as long as the building did. Understanding the arithmetic makes the month feel less like injustice.

If you are in one of those months, keep doing small reliable things without asking for credit. Turn up, follow through, and do not push for the conversation that declares it fixed. The month is the apology that actually counts.