What is your reaction to the
Cupid And Psyche myth's proclamation
about "trust" within relationships? Please comment with quotations
and/or references from the myth. This blog response should be completed
by 3:40p.m. on Thursday, September 27th, 2018.
6 comments:
After learning about the story of Cupid and Psyche I think trust in very important in relationships. After seeing how distrust (can also be seen as dishonesty) ruined their relationship. It started off not being a huge deal, but over time it wore down Psyche. Trust is an interesting thing in life, because it takes time for trust to be built. It is built through bonding and vulnerability. But the tricky thing with trust is it can be destroyed in a matter of seconds. I believe that once trust is damaged it can never be fully repaired. Yes there can be forgiveness and the damage can be "band aided" but in the long run there will always be a sense of doubt. While Cupid and Psyche ended up together and were happy I still believe there was doubt between them.
What is your reaction to the Cupid And Psyche myth's proclamation about "trust" within relationships? Please comment with quotations and/or references from the myth.
The way that Cupid and Psyche betrayed trust completely. Although cupid forgave her after her betraying the only promise he made her keep. After she obeyed his trust, he just left her and she tried so hard to find him and have him forgive her. Although he forgave her after what she had done to obey him, she proved to him that she was sorry about betraying his trust. My reaction to all of this, is just mind blown because normally when someone breaks trust then they don't forgive them. It is a sign of disrespect and being trustful is a big deal. But the fact that cupid came back and forgave her just left me mind blown in the end of the story and after he forgave her they got married and soon enough they had a kid.
My reaction to the Cupid and Psyche myth's proclamation about trust within relationships is, that the amount of trust Psyche was given became to be too much for her to handle alone without anyone knowing either which eventually drove them apart from each other. Cupid trusting that Psyche would follow the one rule he had within the marriage that she wouldn't look at his face so she wouldn't know who he was. I'm surprised Psyche was okay with this at first because of how deeply in love she had fallen after one conversation. While they were apart, Psyche did everything in her will power to re-gain the love of Cupid once again. I feel that we don't value the amount of trust that we are given until it is taken away and makes us feel we would do anything to re-gain it once again.
I think that the proclamation in the Cupid myth about trust and love was very reasonable. Without trust you cannot love someone fully because you can't rely on them and you can never know their true intentions. But with trust, you are able to build a stronger bond. Although, I will say that if you have lost ones trust, it may be hard, but you can earn their trust back
I think the Cupid and Psyche myth kind of bends trust, of course trust is important in love. But trusting Psyche to not want to see Cupid was to far I think, Cupid knows that humans have that childlike thing were when we are told we can't do something we want to do it more, its why Psyche was so easy to convince to see him by her sisters. I think that Cupid actually broke the relationships trust by trying to control Psyche, saying she couldn't see him and couldn't see her sisters.
I was surprised That cupid told psyche that love could not live without trust but he himself did not trust her enough to show her his face. In my opinion trust should come first then love can live.
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