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Trauma bonding

Trauma bonding creates the illusion of intimacy through cycles of crisis and relief, where you mistake intensity for depth and the temporary comfort of reconnection for genuine safety. Recognizing it for what it is requires seeing that real intimacy can only exist in consistent reliability, not in the intoxication of dramatic highs and lows.

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