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When trauma survivors recreate familiar dysfunction in new relationships

My roommate and I both have C-PTSD and thought living together would be supportive but we're accidentally recreating toxic family dynamics — they're people-pleasing while I'm hypercontrolling and we can't seem to just be normal housemates.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people seeking safety together discover they are unconsciously rebuilding the very patterns they hoped to escape.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Complex trauma — C-PTSD?”

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