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 in class By Mon., Sep. 13th.
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I think that trust is needed in relationships because need to trust that each other's secrets will be kept, you need to trust that they won't go breaking promises, and you need to trust that you both truly love each other. An example in Cupid and Psyche is when she so badly wants to see what he looks like and she decides to find out after he deliberately told her not to.
Ellen H
I think all relationships need trust because when there is no trust, there is always someone wondering if their partner is being honest. Having trust also has it where you are not afraid to show someone who you truly are. In Cupid and Psyche, Psyche breaks Cupid's trust by seeing what he looks like but after that, they learn to trust each other and they realize that they don't need to hide from one another.
My reaction to cupid and psyches myth proclamation about trust is that I agree. I think in a relationship you need trust and faith to even come close to having a good relationship. cupid tells psyche not to look at him even though she desperately wants to and her not doing it for the longest time was a show of trust.
Overall, I agree with the idea in Cupid and Psyche that trust is very important in a relationship. If the other person in the relationship has no trust in you they will constantly search for the worst and end up destroying the relationship. This same idea was illustrated in the story when Cupid leaves Psyche because she did not trust his word.
I think that the story shows how if you can't trust your spouse, then your relationship won't last. You need trust to build the foundation for a good relationship, and without it, you can never truly love them. This is shown in the story when Psyche gets a look at Cupid because she couldn't trust him, and Cupid acts like their love is basically ruined.
Nikola D
My thing is love cannot live without trust so when that trust isn't there then the love isn't there. An example is when psyches sister convinces psyche to see what cupid looked like even though she promised to not wonder about that.
I think that trust in relationships is good and bad. When it comes to trust people either trust someone or are trusted by someone. In Cupid and Psyche, Cupid trusts Psyche but she doesn't trust him. She was told to trust him that he loved her and that she doesn't need to see what he looks like, but she still didn't trust him enough to not look. Because of Psyches lack of trust she had to go through trail to receive Cupids love back.
- Josh Kelley
I think that trust in a relationship is vital to it going well. The relationship is always going to go downhill and eventually fail if there isn't any trust in place. However, I think over an extended period of time, trust can slowly be gained back. It may not be as great as it once was but some trust can be gained back if the person works hard enough for it. Just like in cupid and psyche, she went through all of these tasks to show cupid that she could be trusted and that she would go to great lengths in order to get him back.
Trust is a vital part of a relationship. Without that foundation, everything else crumbles. When Phyche broke Cupid's trust and found out who he was, they had nothing else to build off of. They relationship as it stood was shallow, based on what he could gives her and her trusting that she would receive whatever she wanted as long as she obeyed what Cupid wanted. When the trust was betrayed, everything else went with it. This lack of understanding between the two lead the ultimate betrayal of their relationship and all things good things with it.
Trust is something developed in every single kind of relationship. Family, friendship, and with partners. You need to have trust in the other person in order to be able to have a functional relationship with each other. You can't tell someone's intentions if you don't trust them first.
Psyche had every right to look at Cupid's face, not only was he suspicious with it but also demanding that she and no one else saw him, although making that decision is a personal matter, not one that should include her siblings and mean ones at that. There cant be committed love to a relationship with no trust.
I think that trust is a big part of a relationship because if one person doesn't trust the other then it goes into making things up and believing any bad thing someone tells you about your partner so the relationship will not thrive. Just like in the myth where psyche didn't trust that cupid was a good person so she does something that destroyed the relashonship. Trust is also a big part of a relationship because you have to trust your partner that they have the best interest for you and want the best for you.
I think that trust is the most, if not one of the most, important things in a relationship. You can't have a true relationship if there is no trust. Psyche and Cupid's relationship was great because they had trust until Psyche broke Cupid trust and tried to see what he looked like at night. As it said in the book, "He started awake: he saw the light and knew her faithless, and without a word he fled from her" (Pg 172). There can never be a relationship in which party can't trust the other to do the right thing for the relationship.
Austin- I was sick so I don't know it really well but i see that it shows there cant be love when there is no trust in a relationship and this shows in the story when psyche had to see cupid even thought he told her if you love me you wont care what i look like and you don't need to see me.
Cupid and Psyche seems to very heavily focus on the fact that love cannot exist where trust doesn't either. This is highlighted when Cupid tells his wife she must not disclose his true form to her sisters or gaze upon him in the light because if she does, then she'll be unable to see him ever again. After Psyche brings the oil lamp to Cupid to look at him, Cupid flees, just as he said he would. This is because Psyche couldn't trust him or take his word that he was who he was, without looking at him for herself.
I agree that there needs to be a lot of trust in a relationship for it to work, but being told to blindly trust like Cupid has Psyche do, can be a mistake in a lot of cases.
I feel like trust is something that is very vital in a relationship. Trust means knowing that they truly love you and aren't secretly using you. Trust means keeping promises, and especially in a relationship, trust means a commitment to that person. In Cupid and Psyche, instead of trusting in Cupid, Psyche decides to reveal his physical form that was once obscured from the dark because she doubted who he was. She didn't have trust.
I believe that the idea of trust in this story is not met at the double standard. Cupid wants Psyche to trust him and show him this trust by not looking at him, but this also could mean to Psyche that he does not trust her to know who he is. They both loved each other despite having this faulty system of uncertainty and dishonesty. In the story, Cupid says, "Do you think you might be able to love me someday?" he did even know her feelings for him that is how under wraps this relationship was. But generally, I believe trust and being open about the truth is one of the most important things to have in a relationship.
-Skye C.
I think that while trust is essential to relationships, equality is as well. In Cupid and Psyche's myth Cupid and Psyche's relationship was extremely uneven. Cupid refused to show or tell Psyche who he was, but still expected her to follow him blindly. When faced with a hardship in the relationship,(ie.Psyche swing and burning Cupid), Cupid fled. Psyche was left along to fight for the relation by herself. Only once she had completed the tasks that his mother had given her did he come back and claim to love her. If he had truly loved and valued their relationship he never would have abandoned her to begin with.
I agree with Cupid and Psyche myth's proclamation about trust. I believe that you can not have a stable and healthy relationship without trust. It isn't real love if you don't trust one another. How Cupid left Psyche because she did not trust him was a good example of this. It will not work out if the trust is not 100% there.
trust is vital in any relationship, it allows for ease and relaxation involving the movements of your partner emotionally, without it a relationship can become on edge and irritated as a whole which is no good for anyone. Disregard for a relationships trust can result in a compromise of some sort whether through an inability to gain that trust back or the end of the relationship even. However, in the myth of cupid and psyche playing the devils advocate of sorts, cupid was not TRUSTING psyche to see him, and his saying that its technically wrong and it would've been fine if she didn't see him is flawed because she was still married to him and getting everything but the vision and even if hes oh so handsome that's not really gonna define a relationship and he should've known that as a god of love. a lack of knowledge wouldn't and didn't save her at all, he should've been honest from the get go.
I believe trust is very important in relationships. And yes Psyche should definitely trust cupid but what she did in my opinion is not wrong. She did prove herself to him by doing impossible tasks for him even though she did break his trust at first she gained it back. Also just because she wants to see what he looks like shouldn't have ruined their relationship or broken their trust.
-Ellie T
I think that love and trust are connected and if you don't have one you can't have the other you may feel like you have it but you don't truly. Like when Pysche sneaks up on Cupid to see his true form she doesn't trust him. "One thing was clear she would see him"(Hamilton 127) this shows that without full trust you can't have full love.
Noah W
My reaction to cupid and Psyche is you cant have a relationship without trust. You cant have a relationship without trust because without trust you will never be able to get comfortable in the relationship and there will be no stability. Trust lets us talk about something bothering us or something that you might not just tell anyone. You want to be able to tell you s/o without them telling others, therefore a need of trust. Cupid could not trust Psyche but because there was a lack of trust there was a lack of communication and therefore they lost some time together and Psyche was almost killed trying to get that back.
I think that It speaks a lot about how you can show trust. To be honest, cupid not letting psyche see her at first is a pretty unique and unfair demand. How is she to have any trust or love this man if she can't even see him. if there is no trust to begin with, then of course the relationship is going to fail.
Trust [or lack of] is deeply rooted in all of or relationships, whether we realize it or not. The balance of trust can make or break a connection. One who trusts too much will be disappointed, one who doesn't trust enough will push people away, and a relationship completely devoid of trust is just walking on eggshells, waiting for something to happen. Cupid and Psyche didn't have much trust in the beginning, even before Psyche had disobeyed Cupid, it was only a matter of time before something went wrong.
Gab
I think that within the Cupid & Psyche myth it becomes apparent that trust is necessary within relationships. We can see that Psyche did not trust Cupid, which is shown when she tries using light to see who Cupid really is. This resulted in the harm of Cupid, the hot oil being spilled on him. This also angered Venus. There was a domino effect of consequences because Psyche did not trust Cupid in who he really was. I think Psyche had been kept in the dark, therefore, she had a right to be concerned about who she was loving. There must be a line that must not be crossed. Trust is very important, but trusting too much or too little will result in consequences.
I believe that every relationship is built and strengthen by the trust. This myth of Cupid and psyche falls apart when psyche goes behind his back and uses the light to see who her love is even though cupid asked her to trust him it was better to not be seen. I also feel that on the other hand how can love exist when secrets are in place, Psyche does not even know who this husband of hers is. I believe this distrust and secrets are going to cause any relationship to fail.
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