A friend recently wrote to me and one thing she said struck me as true:

It was my mother’s belief that if you cared about someone, really loved them, then you didn’t ask unreasonable things of them, and you accepted their lives with good grace. Meaning that if you invited them to a party and they said no, you didn’t ask why, and you didn’t demand, and you didn’t hold a grudge. You didn’t make someone prove they cared about you too. That’s what trust is, isn’t it? I think that if you have to ask these questions, then you don’t have faith in that person, and if you have faith, you know that they have their reasons and they can still care about you too. That make any sense?

Yes, it does make sense. I only wish more people could understand this.