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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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Easy Healthy Chicken And Vegetable Meal For Kids

 

It may sound crazy but my kids love roasted tenderloin broccoli, beans, mangetout, mushrooms and chicken. 

I’ve come up with this simple healthy meal to save time and give my my kids their nutritional needs on a daily basis.

  1. Cook a whole chicken in advance and store in fridge
  2. Simply turn on the oven, medium to high.
  3. Cover roasting tin in foil (no washing up!)
  4. Spread the tenderloin broccoli, french beans, mangetout so their evenly spread out on the roasting tin
  5. Drizzle the veggies with Olive oil, and grind some salt and pepper 
  6. Meanwhile blanch the mushrooms in boiling water so they don’t soak up too much oil and cook for 2 minutes in the microwave 
  7. Drain and dry the mushrooms and add to the rest of the veggies 
  8. Roast for 12-20minutes 
  9. After 16 minutes add the required amount of chicken to the corner of the veggies 
  10. After 20 minutes serve as above (might need longer or less depending on your oven) 
  11. Enjoy 


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