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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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Is what you’re doing, or who you surround yourself with an asset or liability? 

Are you hanging out with alcoholics? That’s a liability 

Are you hanging out with successful people? That’s an asset

Are you spending your money on processed unhealthy food? That’s a liability 

Are you filling your body with nutritious food? That’s an asset

Everything you do is either an asset or a liability to your life! Think carefully before you do anything and make sure it benefits you rather than destroys you. 

Become the better person, not the looser. You may lose 95% of your friends but you’ll  become a better person and have an incredible life… 


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