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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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how to stand up to a narcissist

The best way to stand up to a narcissist is to walk away, the only things they say are untrue and if they use the “nice game” to lure you back ignore that too. 

The only way a narcissist can win is if you react to anything they say so they’ll try to be ultra nice but just remember this is the game they play to be nasty to you again. 

Narcissists are a nasty piece of work and nobody needs these people in their lives, let other people deal with them not you. 

You are a better person and deserve to be around nice people. 

All my love Vx 
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