My best friend and I have been trauma bonding for so long - sharing our damage, analyzing our childhoods, supporting each other through crisis after crisis - that I think we've accidentally created a friendship that can only exist in dysfunction. When one of us is doing well, we don't know how to connect anymore.
More people experience this than they realize.
Bonds forged in pain can become threatened by healing when we mistake shared wounds for shared identity.
“Where Are You with Unintended legacy — what we leave without meaning to?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.