hw d u deal wth those?

Never break your own.

what kind of broken promise?

like, a promise to be faithful where they invite over another person late at night and have sex with tem

or a promise to see you at a certain time and their kid gets sick causing them to miss the appointment?


some 'broken promises' are much more understandable and out of a persons control than others,,

I make it a rule not to make promises I can't keep; unless and accident or sickness occurs. When someone breaks a promise to me and doesn't have a damn good reason why they broke it; I will never trust them or respect them again.

Some people throw compliments and promises around like confetti. You just have to learn each person you deal with, and know how much faith to put in them and their promises.
Typically, it's not the end of the world when someone breaks a promise, so just know in the back of your mind that their promises may not come to fruition. C'est la vie. If the promise was THAT important to you, and they knew it, and STILL broke it, then you need to move on and not trust that person to that same extent. You have different levels of trust, and that person is now demoted a rung or three on your ladder of trust. Make no apologies for demoting them, because they won't know. And it wouldn't matter to them if they knew anyway, if they callously broke a promise. Now if they apologize all over the place and ask for forgiveness......................

Trust is something that is accumulative with me. In the beginning of a relationship if someone is chronically throwing around promises and more importantly breaking them I am not going to put a lot of faith in anything they say.

I make very few promises to people, commit to anything and if I do I really take it serious so the people who need to believe in me usually do. Which is kind of cool.

so there r no excuses 4 broken promises??

Broken promises my last ex promised me she would never cheat them she turned and had sex with my 18 year old brother

for some people there isn't

for others, the reality that no one has control over ever perceivable possibility makes 'promise' not as absolute,,,,

Sure there are. A woman makes a date with me and I'm on a "promise", as they call it here. Now, she may phone to cancel because she isn't feeling well; some emergency comes up; a friend of hers comes round unexpectedly; she has some sort of mental illness and has an "episode". I've heard all of these and others. Some people are just more reliable than others. In cases where people let you down and don't keep a promise they can try to make it up to you in some way and that's worth more than any excuse. I may be a bit miffed when a friend says that she will be round at six and doesn't show up until ten, saying how something came up, or how she had lost track of the time and was chatting with some other friend and didn't want to be rude to them but it would be rather churlish of me to not just forgive the broken promise, especially if she's sorry and explains to me what happened. If someone has a track record where they consistently let you down and don't do what they say that they are going to do you can even accept that and put up with it. You are going to tend to take their promises with a pinch of salt in future if they are like that though.

They say that to err is human but to forgive is divine. My mother has this expression about people that could "try the patience of a saint". Nobody wants to be f**ked about when it comes to romantic relationships but it happens and it really is a matter of how much you are prepared to put up with.

For me personally; unless its an emergency, sickness, etc; no there is no excuse to break a promise.

Actually, i think when there is an emergency and even that, u can contact the person that u will arrive late or won't be able to make it...

Whenever I make a promise, I make sure that it is something that i will be able to do and if I know that i can't for sure or at least 80% sure then I just don't make the promise.

when others promise me they will do something or not do something I ask them if they are sure they can live up to it, and if they have doubt then to simply use a different word. If a promise means a lot to you then you have to make the steps necessary to insure that it does not get damaged, even if that means telling someone not to promise you unless they fallow through

Yeh..i agree wth u..

Neva break a promise..especially to kids.