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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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The Easiest Way To Give Up Smoking

  1. Separate yourself from smokers
  2. Learn to hate the smell of smoke
  3. Make non smoker friends 
  4. Start a new healthy hobby
  5. Invest in yourself
  6. Start a cookery course (hello fresh is a great way to learn and get lessons and free meals! https://www.hellofresh.co.uk/
  7. Get up early and go for a run
  8. When you get the urge text or call a non smoker friend 
  9. Meet up for walks and breath in that fresh air
  10. Start putting the money aside and treat yourself to something you love 
  11. LAST OF ALL STOP KILLING YOURSELF...

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