🔼: # Trauma-Bond The bond that is often between victim and abuser: a profound loyalty towards the abuser despite the fact that the relationship is detrimental to the victim. It is enforced through the alternation of reward and punishment; its typical consequences are chronic isolation, mistrust of potential rescuers, and support of the abuser’s reasons and behaviors. A conditioned pattern of relating to others in a way that mirrors or reenacts our earliest [[💡 Attachment Theory|Attachments]] with parent-figures. Trauma bonds typically contain dynamics of emotional abandonment, lack of boundaries, enmeshment, or avoidance and can happen in both [[💡 Romantic Relationships]] and platonic relationships. ###### Related [^1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traumatic_bonding