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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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Never just up your rate without asking your clients first as this may cause you to loose clients overnight!

Have a figure in mind and sit down with one of your best clients and negotiate between your new rate and the old rate your charging them currently. 

Never get too greedy either as this will look like your taking advantage and they’ll be looking for someone else before you know it. 

The truth of the matter is if your adding value to their business and saving them time they’ll be more than happy to raise your rate so all I can say is

Negotiate, negotiate, negotiate and add more value every day and you’ll be on your road to riches 

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