Trust isn’t blind. It’s eyes open and choosing to believe anyway.

Trust is not ignorance about the risk. You can know exactly how somebody might let you down, have the evidence of what people are capable of, and still decide to believe them, and that decision is the whole act. Certainty would make it unnecessary. Anybody who tells you trust means not looking has it backwards, because the looking is what makes it worth something.

Pick one small thing to trust somebody with this week, clear-eyed about what could go wrong. Say what you are counting on instead of hoping they work it out. Then let them do it their way, which is the part that separates trust from supervision.