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Attachment Weaponisation: The Bond Was Never an Accident

Attachment Weaponisation: The Bond Was Never an Accident I never noticed the closeness being built. I just assumed it was love, and assumed what I owed because of it, without either of us ever saying it out loud. Short version: Trauma bonding is usually described as something that happens to you, almost by accident, through unpredictable reward. A 2025 Cambridge study, interviewing eighteen women with sustained attachment to abusive partners, found something sharper underneath that: the closeness itself is often deliberately constructed early on, specifically so it can be exploited later. Researchers call this attachment weaponisation. The unsettling part is that it isn't always obvious while it's happening. It can feel completely organic, right up until you realise how much invisible obligation got built into it along the way. What is attachment weaponisation? A 2025 study led by researchers at the University of Cambridge, published in the journal Violence Aga...
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Family Budgeting Calculator

 A simple family budgeting calculator that you can do quickly and easily, simply follow my steps below on a spread sheet or Pen & paper. 


Income - per month
£3,000 Total 

Expenses - per month
£500 rent
£150 electricity 
£20 water
£154 council tax 
£600 20% SA tax (self employed only) put this into savings account so you have it to pay your tax bill at the end of the year
£400 groceries
£100 fuel
£1,924 Total

Profit £1,076 - this is the money you should have left over 

See if you can cut costs or earn more to increase your profit

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