Look...

I'm not trying to drive anyone off.

But the fact is this: at some point in my life, I have been hurt by someone very much like you. I have been betrayed by my entire family, people I considered my very close friends, and people who I cared for more than anything.

My ability to trust or to extend the benefit of the doubt without a very good reasons has been, literally, destroyed.

That's the way I am, and it's not the sort of thing that repairs itself in three years, or even ten.

I'm not attacking you, or trying to drive you off, or have anything against you personally. I just can't trust you -- not because of you, but because trust has always equalled suffering for me.