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The Vicious Cycle of Trauma Bonded Relationships
When we hear about relationship bonding, we often think about relating to another human in a safe and healthy kind of way. The opposite of that is trauma bonding, where we end up bonding to our person for all the wrong reasons. We end up feeling incredibly attached to someone who ends up harming us.
In these trauma bonds, the victim often feels a strong sense of loyalty to the person who is actually abusing them. They mistake the abuser’s behavior for love. These can be heavy words to reconcile with, but the more we’re able to call out these patterns of abuse, the more the stigma of feeling…
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